Pixels in Focus
Film Screening + Panel Talk
Virtual photography and cinematography
Pixels in Focus is a short film program that reflects on the ways photography and video games intersect. In recent years, as video games have become increasingly more cinematic, practices like virtual photography and cinematography have become much more prominent, with many developers now allowing users to take photos or make films in-game. What kind of aesthetic boundaries and new sensibilities are introduced when these mediums collide?
To explore these questions, the screening will be followed by a talk with a panel of media researchers, including Thomas Spies, a professor at the University of Cologne and Macromedia University and a practitioner of virtual photography. This discussion will pay special attention to hyper-realism, especially in the context of artificial intelligence.
Film program
Le Moment Fabrique
by Alan Butler
Ireland, 2017, 4 min
The Grannies
by Marie Foulston
UK, Australia, 2019, 15 min
End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors
by Edwin Lo Yun Ting
Hong Kong, 2017, 4 min
GeoMarkr
by Chloé Galibert-Laîné
France, Switzerland, 2023, 22 min