SFMF: Youth Forum
September 3, 2020 | 3:00 PM PST | Online
Youth + Videos x the Internet = ??? The SFMF Youth Forum seeks to find out!
Please join us online .
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The First Annual Small File Media Festival celebrates low-bandwidth movies that stream with no damage to the planet! Streaming video has an alarmingly high carbon footprint: it鈥檚 the cause of about .* But these movies at under 5 megabytes each 鈥� about the size of a small PDF file 鈥� show that great cinema doesn鈥檛 have to mean great big files.
We received over 100 submissions from around the world. Artists found many ways to work with the small-file constraint. Animation! GIFs! Low frame rates! Datamoshing! Still images with sound! Movies made with 鈥渙bsolete鈥� technologies! Websites! Executable files! Very short movies! And movies creatively compressed into small files. We鈥檝e got narrative, documentary, and experimental movies. We鈥檝e got cat videos! And we鈥檝e got porn鈥攂ecause streaming porn is responsible for 0.3% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Our programming committee: Festival co-organizers Sophia Biedka and Joey Malbon, artist Faune Ybarra, media scholar Radek Przedpe艂ski, IT engineer Alejandro Rodriguez-Silva, and Festival founder Laura U. Marks.
Contact us: info@smallfile.ca
The Small File Media Festival grows out of the School for the Contemporary Arts at 911吃瓜, Vancouver, Canada, on unceded Coast Salish territory of the 鈥揝岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh (Squamish), St贸:l艒 and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) nations. We are grateful for funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.