LECTURE SERIES
 

CELLULOID NO MORE | Lecture 2: Endless Possibilities: The New Frontier of Digital Cinema

 

MON 9 MARCH
Lumière Cinema, Bassin 88, Maastricht

Hugo Emmerzael
Film Critic & Journalist

 

Digital film technology is developing rapidly. Spectacular blockbuster franchises such as The Lord of the Rings and Transformers showcase the boundless possibilities of digital effects, making it possible to create entirely new worlds. At the same time, artistic filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola and Agnès Varda embrace digital cinema as an inexpensive, fast, and innovative medium for more experimental works that question our relationship with the world around us.

In short, digital cinema allows us to see the world differently. In this second lecture, we explore the relative freedom filmmakers gained with the use of digital cameras and effects. Drawing on a wide range of examples, we outline a digital playground that we can explore together in a critical way. How did this technology change the style of established auteurs? And which noteworthy film experiments over the past decades have pushed the medium into unknown territory?

 

The individual lectures:

1. The Digital Revolution: Attack of the Pixels (2 Mar)
2. Endless Possibilities: The New Frontier of Digital Cinema (9 Mar)
3. Unfriended: Cinema’s Tense Relationship with the Internet (16 Mar)
4. Framing Globalism and Capitalism through Cinema: TIME IS LUCK (23 Mar)

Cost of the whole series / individual lectures
UM students: €8 / €2.50
UM employees and students from other schools: €20 / €6.25
Others €40 / €12.50

In conjunction with this lecture series, we are presenting one screening of Miami Vice, on Wednesday 25 March, along with a video introduction by Hugo Emmerzael. Tickets for the screening are available through www.lumiere.nl. Those attending the lecture series get a reduction.