The Disposable Film Festival; Competitive Shorts Program: “The Pope’s Toilet,” and “Wendy and Lucy”Peter Wongbyline‚ Feb. 04‚ 2009Films created via point and shoot digital cameras, webcams, and even cell phone cameras plus computer editing suites were the media of choice showcased at the 2009 edition of The Disposable Film Festival. The results screened at the festival’s Competitive Shorts Program showed promise at best. It didn’t herald the arrival of the 21st century equivalent of the Lumieres. The Competitive Shorts Program consisted of 26 shorts boasting running times ranging from a mere six seconds to over nine and a half minutes. The styles and genres tapped ranged from abstractions to mini-narratives to documentary to even poetry video. The artistic challenge was discovering whether the creators of these narratives could rise above mere novelty. |