Desktop movie

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Desktop film ( Screenmovie ) is the name for a film genre that emerged in the 2010s. The entire film story is told on a computer screen or smartphone screen. The type of film is often compared to the found footage genre .

Aspects

The director and producer Timur Bekmambetow wrote a manifesto on the genre in which he explains three aspects that must be fulfilled for such a film:

  1. Unit of place: the place of the action should be a specific computer screen that can be assigned to a person. The action never moves away from the screen, everything takes place on it. The camera work should simulate the behavior of digital, smartphone or computer cameras.
  2. Unit of time: The whole film should take place in real time. There are no transitions, rather it should look as if the entire film was shot in one take . This means that film editing has the highest priority in the entire production.
  3. Unity of sound: All sounds and music that can be heard in the film come from the computer and the origin can always be explained rationally for the viewer. The viewer should always be aware of where the sounds are coming from.

Everything shown in the film is shown on a screen under the conditions and possibilities of the operating system and programs. The computer programs generate tones, videos, screen telephony and chats advance the action, music from programs or websites creates the mood. The handling of the hardware can also be heard in the film, for example clicks or keystrokes.

According to the film analysis manual , editing is a kind of affect montage or, more precisely, a screen montage . E.g. show the short film Noah how the protagonist Skyps with his girlfriend , then hacking her Facebook account out of jealousy and chatting with others at the same time.

According to film critic Tilman Baumgärtel , by the 2010s people were already socialized with computers to such an extent that a mouse movement can reach us emotionally. This new narrative style says a lot about life at that time.

history

The beginning of the genre is considered to be the short film Noah (2013, Walter Woodman & Patrick Cederberg), the video Grosse Fatigue (2013) by artist Camille Henrot , the video essay Apple Computers (2013, Nick Briz) and Transformers: The Premake (2014, Kevin B. Lee) and the feature films The Den (2013, Zachary Donohue ), Open Windows (2014, Nacho Vigalondo ) and Unknown User ( Unfriended , 2014, Levan Gabriadze ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jan Distelmeyer: Desktop films: Help, there is no button! In: epd film . July 9, 2018, accessed August 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Chris Evangelista: Timur Bekmambetov Developing 14 Computer Screen Movies, Is This Format the Future of Cinema or Is He Nuts? In: Slash Film. August 17, 2018, accessed August 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Timur Bekmambetow: Rules of the Screenmovie: The Unfriended Manifesto for the Digital Age. In: MovieMaker. April 22, 2015, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  4. ↑ assembly . In: Malte Hagener, Volker Pantenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of film analysis . Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3-658-13339-9 , pp. 61 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Calendar entry in the trash: the mother is dead. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . September 21, 2018, accessed August 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Tilman Baumgärtel: New cinema trend Screen Movies: Psychogram in the browser history. In: taz.de . September 20, 2018, accessed August 19, 2020 .