Declaration of love shot on a smartphone. Victory of Natalia Gurkina

TORONTO. Tape Natalia Gurkina Confession - winner of the jury prize of the festival of short films TIFFxInstagram (продукт Meta Platforms Inc., компания признана экстремистской организацией, деятельность на территории РФ запрещена) Shorts Festival.

Nietzsche, a brilliant aphorist, considered the top of his skill to be able to say in a dozen sentences what the whole book needed for others. A minute-long film can hold a lifetime. Next-generation technology and the availability of platforms such as YouTube help to realize the most daring, spontaneously born ideas. A limited budget or its complete absence for talented people is now not a hindrance. Although the presence of a holder, a portable backlight, a special lens, a recorder that compensates for the insufficient microphone power in a mobile device is a great help for ambitious authors.

The appearance of short films created with smartphones or digital cameras with depth of field control and interchangeable lenses marked the birth of a new direction in cinema. Experiments in this area are not neglected by professionals. The first mobile cinema festival on the European continent was held in 2005 in the capital of France. A year earlier, the Siemens Micro Movie Award was established to encourage work in this area.

On September 7, the 42nd International Film Festival (Toronto International Film Festival / TIFF) opened in Toronto. The competition program also includes paintings from Russia: “Dislike” by Andrey Zvyagintsev, “Arrhythmia” by Boris Khlebnikov, “Suleiman Mountain” by Elizaveta Stishova. In the framework of TIFF-2017, the festival of short Instagram (продукт Meta Platforms Inc., компания признана экстремистской организацией, деятельность на территории РФ запрещена) films (with a timing of no more than a minute) TIFFxInstagram (продукт Meta Platforms Inc., компания признана экстремистской организацией, деятельность на территории РФ запрещена) Shorts Festival was held for the second time. Audience Award - Justin Wu Overtime. The favorite of the professional jury, one of whose members was the famous French actress Isabelle Huppert, turned out to be a black and white ribbon by Natalia Gurkina Confession. She won the main award - the Jury’s Choice Award.

This is not the first success of the picture. At the Mobile Motion Film Festival (MoMo), which took place on June 8 and 9 in Zurich, Confession won 2 awards at once. Winning the Best Fiction and Grand Jury Prizes. An interpreter was invited to participate in the film shot on the iPhone 5s. Natalia Gurkina is a graduate of the Moscow School of Cinema.

The public’s interest in the new direction of cinema is constantly growing, as well as its financial potential. A vivid example is the melodrama of Drake Doremus (Drake Doremus) "Like Crazy" (Like Crazy) in 2011, shot on a Canon EOS 7D digital camera. She won the British Empire Awards, the American Golden Trailer Awards. She won the Grand Prix and Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, an independent film festival, after which she was sold to Paramount Pictures for several million dollars. In der Kürze liegt die Würze. In short, all seasoning.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru