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Profile Generator'Flipside turns the world on its head and shoves a camera in its face!' The purpose of this site is to assist with the production of the 'Flipside International Film Festival' which will run from May 21st – 31st 2008, in Plymouth, UK. The Flipside Film Festival will showcase both feature-length and short films and is intended as a filmic celebration and exploration of alternate, unorthodox and under-represented views of our world. // The curated film programme and successful ‘Open Call’ film entries should explore one or more of the following thematic areas: 1) 'The View From Here': Films which provide the viewer / audience with the opportunity to literally 'see' our world from different and unfamiliar visual perspectives, achieved by manipulating 'the real' with various alchemic cinematic techniques & technological trickery! // 2) 'View Point': Films which celebrate non-mainstream / non-traditional and minority viewpoints and experiences of our world (especially political / spiritual / ideological viewpoints and experiences that are under-represented by mainstream broadcast media): A thematic celebration of the diversity of experience in our world and a challenge to the institutional shortcomings of ‘broad’ cast media. // 3) '4:3 ReView': Films which creatively embrace 'endangered' media practices, processes and technologies, featuring everything in the 4:3 aspect ratio, from Super8, Standard 8, & Standard 16mm film, to analogue & pixelvision 'toy' video. This is the thematic antidote to HDTV, where the focus is the celebration and exploration of the gloriously rarefied and obsolescent, rather than the aggressive product-profit driven 'technical redundancy & replacement' industry model!// In addition to programmed film screenings there will also be the opportunity to get involved in thematically relevant film workshops. The event will be anchored around a keynote screening and panel discussion event in which the work of a suitably iconoclastic and pioneering film artist will be explored and celebrated. Flipside’s guest of honour for this event to be announced shortly. More exciting news about Flipside (including a list of contributing artists, films and events & how to enter your own film) very soon// contact Dan Flipside for more details at:
[email protected]
