Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 61
Welcome the sixty first showcase in our Mobile Movies Column, curated and edited by Vanessa Vox and Giulia Baita. Every two weeks Vox and Baita will curate the movie uploads to our Flickr group MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer. They will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the ones selected.
Within this selection today, both Vox and Baita have curated the movies and Baita has written the commentary for this week, this will alternate (foreword by Joanne Carter).
All of the entries were either shot or created on mobile devices. Many congratulations to: Diana Nicholette Jeon, Lily in the rain, Karen Axelrad, Armineh Hovanesian and Dani Salvadori for being featured this week.
“Title Text Here” by Diana Nicholette Jeon
The images of a dream that began in a forest and continues on a beach. As in dreams even here the images are broken, fragmented, confused, repeated. Men and children walking on the beach, are in the water, they seem to float in space light. The atmosphere is surreal and dreamlike. The dream enchants us and keeps us glued to watch. The music is perfectly appropriate for the movie. Wonderful work!
“17h15 – Beirut, I remembered..” by nanou ghanem (Lily in the rain)
The music of the great Nino Rota, written for “La dolce vita” of Fellini, accompanies this wonderful movie. The images begin from a moving car on a city street and continue with the author of the movie that turns like a dance with her iPhone in hand. The atmosphere is surreal and nostalgic. A trip down memory full of poetry. Great movie!
“September 10, 2015” by Karen Axelrad
September 10 in Berlin. Some scenes of a day out in the city: the subway, the historic center, a park, Old Metropolitan Gallery, the exhibition Impressionism / Expressionism. A wonderful route to visit the sights of Berlin through the eyes of the author of the movie. Lovely music. Street work movie very interesting!
“One minute and thirty nine seconds” by Armineh Hovanesian
The observation of the sky fascinates the man from the moment he was born. Look at the sky, the clouds, the rain, the wind moves the clouds while they form strange figures (animals, objects, human faces): which appeal to us all! The effects of light and sound help to create a magical and dreamy. Wonderful mood!
“At home” by Dani Salvadori
“At home” it is not a real movie, but action photo. With this technique accompanied by background voices that continue throughout the movie, the result is a video in which images were stopped, slowed down, overlapped to tell us something. Scenes of daily life similar to those of many of us. This movie is very interesting!
Vanessa Vox and Giulia Baita
Vanessa Vox, born in Paris, studied Art History and Archaeology in Aix-en-Provence. During and after her studies she worked as a passionated dancer and choreographer. In Switzerland (2003) she began to explore the possibilities of digital art and video editing in collaboration with her husband, a swiss musician and artist. 2013 she moved to the south of France where she deepened the rich possibilities of mobile apps. It was the beginning of a new passion. Many of her short videos have been presented within our Mobile Movies Showcases. And two of them were exhibited in the first ISMA exhibition 'L'Arte è Mobile', Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rovereto (Italy). Giulia Baita. Italian iPhonographer. She lives in a beautiful island in the Mediterranean called "Sardinia". Passionate about painting and drawing, she obtained a degree in History of Contemporary Art. Studies and supports examination of the History of Cinema at the 'University of Cagliari'. She is a professor of Italian and History and whilst in high school continued to cultivate her passion for the Art. For several years she has been and continues to be in love with Mobile Photography and Mobile Art. Some of her photos have been shown in international exhibitions and she is currently highly interested in the Mobile Movies.
