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Last year, Carlton M. Evans and Eric Slatkin solicited films made with Flip cams, Web cams, cellphone cameras and still cameras. The result was the Disposable Film Fest,...As people see what others have done with ephemeral video, they build upon it... "When we finish the screening," Mr. Evans said, "everyone feels empowered that they, too, can make a film." ///NEW YORK TIMES 11.4.08
San Francisco filmmakers Eric Slatkin, 25, and Carlton Evans, 37, started the Disposable Film Festival last year to collect and screen the best of these short films. With the increasing accessibility of nonprofessional "video capturing devices," as Slatkin calls them, the two believe a new moving image aesthetic has developed. /// SF Chronicle 8.9.08
"The Disposable Film Festival responds to the fast and easy media that dominate our social lives; camera-phone party snaps clog Facebook profiles and viral videos burn out on YouTube before they fully flare up. If Marshall McCluhan's famous maxim "the medium is the message" still holds, then this media landscape must hold a pixelated mirror to a vapid, impatient culture...The resulting work offers commentary that's anything but superficial on the ephemeral nature of art in the age of YouTube." ///Flavorpill.
"Saturday night's Disposable Film Fest '08 is a direct response to our viral video-loving culture, and, according to festival organizers Eric Slatkin and Carlton Evans, seeks to demonstrate how these new technologies can be used for artistic purposes..." ///Genart