Remediating Vertov: Man with a movie camera phone. Issue 1 (1st October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Keep, Dean; Berry, Marsha
• Is Part Of: Ubiquity. Volume 2:Issue 1/2(2013)
• Page Start: 164
• Page End: 179
• Publication Date: 2013-10-01
• Subjects: Mass media -- Periodicals; 302.2305
• DOI: 10.1386/ubiq.2.1-2.164_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-4193

Abstract

Using Džiga Vertov's seminal experimental film Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929), as the central text for this practice-led research, the authors have produced short experimental video works that explore cities through the lens of the mobile phone-camera. In this article the authors investigate the creative possibilities of camera-phone technology, and how in turn these technologies may extend or give rise to new modes of experimental and/or hybrid cinematic forms. With particular reference to the authors' mobile videos (Spatial Threshold and Lifts), this article discusses the aesthetics, constraints and opportunities presented by camera-phone technologies and how these factors may influence the production of experimental mobile video.