From: graeme hogg (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 13:29:27 PST
I think film and cinema have native social components. They were born
in a social age within a social environment. They have evolved in social
networks both artistically and technologically. They are made socially.
They are distributed and watched socially. They are relived and celebrated
socially in the home and they are critisized and valued through the agency
of social mediation. Their most popular forms' subject is almost always
social.
The internet has received its most important artistic examination (in my
view anyway) by people who understood and interrogated its form and
politics, its uses and abuses, its function and its implicit structrual
limitations. Films touch none of these things, mostly.
People usually end up watching things on the internet after they've been
told about them. In my mind thats social.
The explosion in submissions is perhaps due to the desperate desire of
film makers for their films to be seen by a real, social audience.
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