9th International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival

9th International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival

The International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC) will take place on 22-24 November 2019 in Ningbo, China. IMSC focuses mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking, mobile innovation and mobile creativity. 

Partners

MINA – Mobile Innovation Network & Association, 

Mobile Studies International (MSI) 

University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)

 

Investigators

Max Schleser

Alongside the International Mobile Storytelling Congress (IMSC), the 9th edition of MINA’s International Mobile Innovation Screening will take place on 22-24 November 2019 in Ningbo, China. IMSC focuses mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking, mobile innovation and mobile creativity. IMSC provides a forum for practitioners and scholars to showcase projects and discuss changes, challenges and chances of mobile storytelling. MINA (www.mina.pro) is the longest running film festival internationally dedicated to mobile & smartphone filmmaking with a focus on moving-image arts, documentary, community engaged film productions, experimental films and emerging film production forms and formats, such as MoJo, drone videos, AR and Mobile Cinematic VR. 

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#Nucleus

#NUCLEUS

This project focuses on ecology, sustainable smartphone filmmaking, travel films & eco-tourism. 

Partners

Goethe Institute (New Zealand)

Investigators

Max Schleser

This project focuses on ecology, sustainable smartphone filmmaking, travel films & eco-tourism. A story like a plant starts with a seed, an idea that grows organically. Nucleus, the Latin word for the seed inside a fruit, celebrates local nature through smartphone filmmaking. We understand ecology as a holistic and creative concept and as part of the film project we will explore indigenous approaches towards storytelling and hope to embrace novel connections to places & people. 

In November 2019 a collaborative short film will be produced during the three-day workshop in Wellington (New Zealand/Aotearoa) and will be presented at the Nucleus Screening. Selected filmmakers will be invited to explore eco-tourism as a theme for the collaborative short-film production.  We are inspired by Kaitiakitanga and innovative approaches to sustainable smartphone filmmaking. In order to kick-start the Nucleus film project, we launched a smartphone filmmaking competition. 

We hope to document local plants & local hero’s, community gardeners & gardens, zero wasters and people who live in sync with the environment. In order to create a community and collaborative film, the Goethe-Institut will fly the winning filmmakers to Wellington in November 2019 for the Nucleus Screening and a dedicated smartphone filmmaking workshop on the theme of sustainability, eco-tourism & travel films.

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60+ Online: Enhancing Social Inclusion through Digital Stories and Social Media Participation

60+ Online: Enhancing Social Inclusion through Digital Stories and Social Media Participation

Seniors are amongst the most digitally excluded in Australia. The 60+ Online project fostered digital inclusion amongst 22 Australian seniors (64-86 years), with varied digital skills, and socio-economic/cultural backgrounds.

Partners

Telstra Digital Inclusion Index

Boroondara City Council

Knox City Council

Investigators

Max Schleser (TMT)
Diana Bossio
Anthony McCosker
Hilary Davis

Seniors are amongst the most digitally excluded in Australia. The 60+ Online project fostered digital inclusion amongst 22 Australian seniors (64-86 years), with varied digital skills, and socio-economic/cultural backgrounds. 

Within workshops, seniors were encouraged to draw upon personal and community interests to inform storyboarding and digital story development. Digital stories were generated using iPads and smartphones, and edited using Adobe Premiere Clip. Social media sites Facebook and Instagram, facilitated shared digital skills development, supported by workshop participants and researchers. Regardless of skills at outset, every senior produced their own digital story. These were showcased at festivals, City Council events, and hosted on YouTube: 

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Imagining the Impossible: The Fantastic as Media Entertainment and Play

Imagining the Impossible: The Fantastic as Media Entertainment and Play

This is a Danish funded network of researchers (Danish, UK, US, Australia) working with media fictions. The network asks why the fantastic has exploded in contemporary entertainment, how we create, design, and engage with the fantastic, and why the fantastic is important for human existence.

Partners

Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond

The Danish Independent Research Fund

Investigators

Angela Ndalianis 

Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark)

Amanda Howell (Griffith University) 

Anita Nell Bech Albertsen (University of Southern Denmark)

Jakob Ion Wille (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)

Jesper Juul (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)

Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaii), Marc Malmdorf Andersen (Aarhus University)

 Margrethe Bruun Vaage (University of Kent)

Mathias Clasen (Aarhus University) 

Sara Mosberg Iversen (University of Southern Denmark)

Stephen Joyce (Aarhus University)

Stephanie Green (Griffith University)

 

Led by Associate Rikke Schubart (University of Southern Denmark) Imagining the Impossible This is a Danish funded network of researchers (Danish, UK, US, Australia) working with media fictions and production design in television, film, video games, and literature.

Investigators adopt an interdisciplinary approach and apply theories and methods from tradition media/film/TV/VR fields while also engaging in audience observation and biometric measuring (e.g. heart rate, eye-tracking), and theories of embodiment, particularly as applied to engagement with the experience of the fantastic in VR.

Today, the fantastic reigns supreme in entertainment. However, we lack research in why it appeals to a broad audience, why the genre exploded after the turn of the millennium, and – our key question – why and how the fantastic invites us into play.  

We ask why and how the fantastic appeals and if the fantastic is especially suited to ask questions about human existence, pressing questions in times of ecological crisis. Our aim is to establish an interdisciplinary task force that can create a shared theoretical platform for a study of the fantastic. 

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