mobile-mentary

Mobile-mentary in production… Feature shot on a mobile-phone in Japan.

(Tokyo/London November 2006) The experimental documentary feature mobile-mentary is in production. The mobile-filmmaker, Max Schleser, has posted mobile video clips in almost real-time during the first month of the film production from his work in Tokyo on the vblog (www.mobile-mentary.co.uk/mobilementaryblog). Max, the video-craftsman who directed Imagekraft and other collaborative artistic documentaries, has planned to continue to provide an online update during the next weeks in which he will explore further Japanese cities through the lens of his mobile phone. Within the experimental approach to documentary filmmaking, Max is using only a European and Japanese mobile phone to produce the feature documentary. He is using the mobile phone video camera according to the parameters of the new medium, which he defined in the pre-production. During the mobile filmmaking production he will create a series of micro-movies that will be released for the small screen and mobile phone viewing early next year. The feature project will be made up of these thirty, one to three minute clips, which will be translated to the silver screen in the post-production. Each micro-movie can be dedicated to a dignified sponsor to celebrate this creative production. For further information please visit: www.mobile-mentary.co.uk. A sneak preview will be presented at the Design Fiesta in Tokyo, the biggest art event in Asia on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2006. (http://www.designfesta.com/02_en/00_df_e/vol24/program/)

"Max Schleser's exploration overcomes the media specific restrictions and limitations of mobile phone video. He is defining a new visual language specific for the small screen, which is a fundamental step; a breakthrough and new perspective to work with the new technology. His experiments have the potential to open up a new domain for mobile phone video footage, which is as significant as the Gutenberg's printing presses for mobile video productions in our times." Daniel Florencio (Brazilian director, who is working in documentary film and exploring the aspects of digital media)

"Max is creating something beautiful and intimate in the simple recording of his journey around Japan. With just a phone in his pocket, and his eyes open to the images around him, you feel that this personal diary can show us things we've never seen." Hope Dickson Leach (New York based director)

“This project has the potential to push the boundaries of contemporary filmmaking. Max is not only working with a medium open to anyone who picks up a mobile phone, he is braking down the mythology of what it means to make a film. With this truly fresh work we join Max on his journey, one he renders with vision and beauty.” Daniel Mulloy (British director, winner of three BAFTA Awards and more than 25 International Film Festivals)

The mobile-mentary project will further explore issues of user-generated content in the next year and implement mobile phone footage from a global audience in the feature film production in the second project phase. Max is working on providing the key thttp://www.nm-x.com/event/2007/06/future-film-screen-tello unlock the secret of user-generated content with the mobile-mentary project.

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Mobile-mentary www.mobile-mentary.co.uk