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Columbia, Russia, Greece, Germany andJapan. The International Mobile InnovationScreening also features
5#Calls
, which is
screened for the rst time in Australasia afterits premier at the Festival De Cannes. MINA
also presents the three winning projects of
the Los Angeles based iPhone Film Festival,an experimental mobile lm, a mobile
stop-frame animation and a music video,
which are a great addition from MINA’spartner festival for the 2012 program. At thescreening lmmakers from New Zealand,
Germany and Columbia will introduce their
work. MINA’s 2012 special guest is Felipe
Cardona from Bogota, Columbia. He is a
lmmaker, whose mobile lms have beenscreened at Interlm’s Micromovie Award
(Berlin 2004) and the Mobifest Film Festivalin Toronto (2008) among numerous other
international events. Felipe is lmmakerworking with mobile devices and a
Lecturer at the Universidad Externado de
Colombia. This year’s MINA screenings atthe Film Archive include a number of public
premieres showcasing international mobile
lms for the rst time in New Zealand. Thescreening also includes the ofcial openingreception for MINA’s 2nd Mobile Innovation
and Mobile Creativity Symposium, which will
take place at Massey University on the 24th
and 25th November 2012 (http://mina2012.eventbrite.co.nz).This year the International Mobile Innovation
Screening 2012 edition expands the denitionof mobility, including works produced onsmartphones, iPads and other mobile
cameras. With the introduction of native
QuickTime video on smart phones that
capture in full HD quality even Hollywoodnow recognises the potential of mobile video
production. Several lmmaking tools, such
as tripods, dollies and drones, can transform
one’s smart phone into a professional video
camera including XLR mic connectors and
various lens adapters ranging from sh-eye
lenses to 35mm lenses. Focus, exposure andwhite balance can be manually adjusted
MINA [www.mina.pro], the Mobile InnovationNetwork Aotearoa, is an international network
that promotes cultural and research activitiesto expand the emerging possibilities of
mobile media. MINA aims to explore the
opportunities for interaction between people,content and the creative industries within
the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand and
internationally.For communities world-wide mobiletechnologies provide access to a vastamount of new services. Mobile media hasalso established new forms of connectivityand sociability within contemporary art anddesign practices. The current mediascapecan be described as a dynamic ecosystemthat has seen the emergence of newmedia aesthetics and formats, such as
iPhoneography and mobile-mentary (mobiledocumentary) lmmaking. The participatory
turn in media culture (collaboration, co-creation and crowd-sourcing) also createsnew opportunities and challenges for visualcommunication design. (Mobile phone)users (or rather pro-d-users), artists, designers,
lmmakers and independent creatives candene new modes of mobile media practices
transcending the realm of establisheddisciplines and transform the contemporarymediascape. Innovative business models
utilise mobile apps and redene the
distribution of media content. Mobile phoneshave evolved rapidly from a communicationdevice to a creative and educational tooland enable us to see the world from newviewpoints and angles.The second edition of the InternationalMobile Innovation Screening will be held at
the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington
on the 23rd November. The screeningprogram is curated by Max Schleser withadvise and assistance from BenjaminLenzner and Karen Curley, and includes
mobile lms and mobile-mentaries (mobiledocumentaries) from Brazil, the USA, Italy,Spain, Sweden, Turkey, New Zealand,