Codified space : cinematic recodings of urban reality / Justin Ascott. On conflict in short film storytelling / Richard Raskin -- Accelerated gestures : play time in Agnes Varda's Cleo de 5 a 7 / Peter Verstraten -- Lynch on the run : the proximity of trauma in the short film / Todd McGowan -- The ethics of repair : reanimating the archive / Sean Cubitt -- Long story short / Natalie Bookchin -- Skip intro? Short intro videos as a reflexive threshold in the interactive documentary / Tina M. Bastajian -- The viewser as curator : the online film festival platform / Geli Mademli -- The contingent spectator / Francesco Casetti -- Speed watching, efficiency, and the new temporalities of digital spectatorship / Neta Alexander -- Visual pleasure and GIFs / Anna McCarthy -- Solitary screens : on the recurrence and consumption of images / Pasi Valiaho -- Archaeology of mobile film : Blink, Bluevend and the pocket shorts / Kim Louise Walden -- Children's Little Thumb films or "Films-Poucets" / Alexandra Schneider, Wanda Strauven -- Of flipbooks and funny animals : Chris Ware's Quimby the mouse / Yasco Horsman -- Mobile cinematics / Maria Engberg, Jay David Bolter -- Screening smart cities : managing data, views, and vertigo / Gillian Rose -- Of compactness : life with media facʹade screens / Ulrik Ekman -- Codified space : cinematic recodings of urban reality / Justin Ascott.
Summary:
"Compact Cinematics challenges the dominant understanding of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its standardization in theatrical form, and in recent years have multiplied and proliferated, taking up an increasingly important part of our everyday multimedia environment. Short films or micro-narratives, cinematic pieces or units re-assembled into image archives and looping themes, challenge the concepts that have traditionally been used to understand cinematic experience, like linear causality, sequentiality, and closure, and call attention to complex and modular forms of cinematic expression and perception. Such forms, in turn, seem to meet the requirements of digital convergence, which has pushed the development of more compact and mobile hardware for the display and use of audiovisual content on laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Meanwhile, contemporary economies of digital content acquisition, filing, and sharing equally require the shrinking of cinematic content for it to be recorded, played, projected, distributed, and installed with ease and speed. In this process, cinematic experience is shortened and condensed as well, so as to fit the late-capitalist attention economy." -- Publisher's web site.
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