The Disposable Film Festival

I’m looking forward to checking out the The Disposable Film Festival at the end of this month. It’s a celebration of crappy video; the kind that’s produced by cell phones, point & shoots, webcams etc. Submissions are, unfortunately, closed. (Oops! I really should have written this sooner). I can’t wait to see what people have submitted.

One of the things that makes this kind of jerky, fuzzy, low quality video interesting is the editing and filtering. A few neat tricks, and a cool song can drastically change something from mundane to worthwhile. I often don’t know what to do with this kind of video since it’s only interesting to me or the few involved. I have a lot of footage of museum excursions and concerts. I also take lots of photos of random things I find on the ground. If I share it, it is off my hard drive, and we’re gathered around my computer. I believe there is a space for livejournal-like group filtering for video. Not everyone wants random strangers to view their videos; most just want to show their buddies the clip of when they lit their farts on fire (not that I’ve ever seen or shared such a clip…).

Here’s a video by the organizers of the festival that I particularly liked.

SCENE: San Francisco from Disposable Film Festival on Vimeo.

The brisk pace keeps it engaging, and they mitigated a lot of camera shake by slowing pieces down or speeding them up. Watching this was a bit of a game – How many places can you identify in the video?

Write yours down. No cheating! All the ones I saw after the cut.

Elbo Room
Arinell Pizza
500 Club
Zeigeist
Pancho Villa
16th & Mission
The Old Fashioned Way (not a place, a band. I work with one of the guitarists, Jake)

If I were to guess, the producers live in the Mission. Although, it just might be that the only things I could identify were in the Mission, ‘cuz that’s where I live.

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