Friday, September 2 - Venice Classics

CINEMA FUTURES

A film by Michael Palm

Austria / HD / 126'

 Documentary

Production: Mischief Film
in cooperation with
the Austrian Filmmuseum
World Sales: sixpackfilm

Venice Classics

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Screenings: 
02/09 - 11:15  Sala Volpi (Press, Industry)

02/09 -  17:00 Sala Casino Proiezione officiale

SYNOPSIS

CINEMA FUTURES

by Michael Palm

The “digital revolution” reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in an era where analog celluloid strips are disappearing, and given the diversity of digital moving picture formats, there is much more at stake: Are the world’s film archives on the brink of a dark age? Are we facing the massive loss of collective audiovisual memory? Is film dying, or just changing? CINEMA FUTURES travels to international locations and, together with renowned filmmakers, museum curators, historians and engineers, dramatizes the future of film and the cinema in the age of digital moving pictures. Initiated by the Austrian Film Museum on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2014.

With Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Tacita Dean, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, David Bordwell, Tom Gunning, Jacques Rancière, Margaret Bodde, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Nicole Brenez, Michael Friend, Greg Lukow, Mike Mashon, a.o.

Director, Script, Music & Editing: Michael Palm, DOP: Joerg Burger, Sound: Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Georg Misch, Production Management: Teresa-Saija Wieser, David
Bohun, Producer: Ralph Wieser, Georg Misch, Production: Mischief Films (in cooperation with
the Austrian Filmmuseum), World Sales: sixpackfilm