THE FESTIVAL
The Festival for experimental film art, home cinema, trash and classical independent film is experiencing its 10th edition. It's hard to believe if one winds back one more time the memories of the beginning.
„The ones reputed to be dead, live longer“ - under this slogan schmalfilmtage kicked off, a time when the first film festivals started to ban Super8 (later also 16mm) film from their programmes. The future seemed then to come along solely with the „big“ 35mm film or the new digital worlds.
10 Years of festival work show that the „small“ format is still setting the courses and that affirmation for the particular haptics of the film as carrier material by all means go along with the myriad possibilities of electronic processing. And not seldom yields the more convincing results...