Mieke is also the Head of Research at the Nederlandse Filmacademie, or ‘Academia de cine de los Países Bajos’ in Spanish. For their first Research Week open to students, they chose the subject of ‘Immersive Media’. Good stuff.
I couldn’t attend the workshops, but I witnessed its opening and closing days because I was behind the camera. The first one was a mind-blowing, seven-hour update on what’s going on both in the image and sound fields. On the last day they presented the outcomes of their experiments. Exciting, yes, very much.
To me it was a marvelous reminder of how many new possibilities will come for flat 2-D cinema in the future, just because new people will jump to the medium and will take it somewhere else, and other new people will take into account what the other ones have done and they will take it elsewhere. And so on, as it has happened for about five generations now. Good. Stuff.
The second reminder was about that particular feeling of being behind the camera, and how it temporally conditions the way social rules apply to you. Power and influence constantly shift and drop, depending on many things. The camera is quite a subject.
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