MINA X

10TH INTERNATIONAL
MOBILE INNOVATION SCREENING
AND SMARTPHONE FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 12 - 14 2021

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MINA X is our tenth year of the International Mobile Innovation Screening and
Smartphone Film Festival.
The MINA network started in 2011 in New Zealand, Aotearoa, and thus MINA was called Mobile Innovation Network
Aotearoa. After four great years in Aotearoa in Wellington (2011 and 2012) and Auckland (2013 and 2014) MINA moved
to Melbourne, Australia and became the Mobile Innovation Network Australasia.
After a short time, we decided to change MINA to Mobile Innovation Network and Association, so we could include more
diverse organization, such as NGOs and community groups and further develop links for professionals and rookie
smartphone filmmakers as we have done in the past.
At the same time, we were with our vision on the right track as we then had screenings in Ningbo, China in the following
years.
Even the COVID-19 pandemic could not press the pause button to MINA, and we are presenting this year's program online
and as a virtual event.The Containing COVID-19 screening program shows how mobile media and smartphone filmmaking
can get one through difficult times, build resilience and provides a positive outlook through creativity. During lockdowns
it is even more important to stay connected. MINA connects people across time zones and countries through storytelling.
The other pressing issue, of course, is the climate crisis. Our response, inspired by the #Nucleus transmedia project
(www.goethe.de/nucleus), which was conducted in collaboration with the Goethe Institute before the pandemic, was to
continue with the #EcoSmartphoneFilms program. The 2021 program is co-curated with Gerda Cammaer. The
#EcoSmartphoneFilms highlight how we can create a more holistic understanding with our environment and an innovative
planet. While smartphones might not be the most ecological tool, it is the most accessible camera and storytelling device.
This means every community member can participate in the conversations that are important to them.
This year we also present the New Voices program again, as in the last years, it is bold, creative, outstanding and pushes
the envelope of smartphone filmmaking.
And of course, the 10th International Mobile Innovation Screening program showcases the latest trends in creative mobile
media and experimental smartphone filmmaking.
While MINA took different forms and formats over the last 10 years. It started as a three-day long festival (see MINA 2011
program online www.mina.pro/screenings) and even screened mobile feature films in its premier edition, we decided to
focus to short films in the following years. In the last two years we introduced feature films with Blue Moon and this year
very honoured to have One Punch.
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Please enjoy at this outstanding program.
Very special thanks to Adrian Jeffs for the program design and the fantastic support by our Screening Committee.
Thanks to Tom Insole for a fantastic showreel and screening reel edits, Martin Koszolko for the ace music, Shuai
Li for the nice Instagram sharing of the spotlights, Felix Gyebi as co-producer and everyone that participated at
the Mobile Studies Conference.
The conference was co-organized with Xiaoge Xu, whose passion for mobile media has shaped the field for the
last 10 years. We are looking forward to announcing Mobile Story in an Age of Smartphones, published with
Palgrave MacMillan soon.
A massive thanks to our sponsors and supporters: Urban Screen TV, LumaFusion, Struman Optics, DreamGrip,
Moondog Labs , FiLMiC Pro, FilmConvert and Adobe.
And the Swinburne University of Technology student team: Callum Thomas, Michael Hollis, Ruairi Francis Walsh,
Madeleine Lively, Zinnia Vroland, Isabella Henry-Jerrett,Spencer Cameron, Leo Mitchell, Sam Cameron and Kat
Molony, as Conference team partner, supported by the New Colombo Plan – Connect to Australia’s future – study
in the region.
We are very honored to continue the great partnership and friendship with the Institute for Mobile Studies and
MSI, Mobile Studies International, and looking forward to the next 10 years.
We hope to meet you in person again next year.
Stay safe & stay creative.
Max Schleser
MINA Screening at Bunjil Place with MINA supporter Riley Jeffs, MINA producer Adrian Jeffs, MINA judge Daniel Schultheis, MINA
producer Felix Gyebi, UTV Content Manager Emma Shearman and MINA Founder Max Schleser.
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Mobile Studies Congress
The Go Mobile – Stay Sustainable initiative is organised by the:
Mobile Studies International
(https://www.msi.wiki)
Mobile Innovation Network & Association
(www.mina.pro)
hosted by
Institute for Mobile Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, AUS
Social Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, AUS
Smart Cities Research Institute > Future Urban Decision Making - Stream Citizen Capability and Habitat Futures,
Swinburne University of Technology, AUS
in collaboration with
IRIS – International Research Centre for Interactive Storytelling, Leeds Trinity University, UK
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, China
Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Contact: MSchleser@swin.edu.au
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Friday the 12 th of November
Conference Opening
Welcome Speeches
Xiaoge Xu, Founding chair of Mobile Studies Congress
Max Schleser, Co-chair of Mobile Studies Congress
KEYNOTE SESSION ONE
Melbourne, Australia: 12:10pm; Ningbo, China: 9:10am
Chair: Xin Pei, (China), Associate Director of Institute for Mobile Studies
Xiaoge Xu (China), Founder of Mobile Studies International
Go Mobile, Stay Sustainable
Ibrahim Sirkeci (UK), Professor/Director, International British Business School, UK
Human Mobility and Sustainability
Angus Cheong (Macao), Founder and CEO of ERS e-Research & Solutions
DiVoMiner and SDG Storytelling Studies
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATION ONE
Swinburne University iHub
Melbourne, Australia: 1:00pm; Ningbo, China: 10:00am
Panel Chair: Hilary Davis
Darren C Fisher (Melbourne) - Generative Drawing: Mobile Image Making for the 21st Century
Roanld James Baculo (Manila) - Re-Frame Your Mind: Telling Visual Stories of Mental Health Awareness through
Mobile Smartphone Filmmaking"
Farouk Abou Zeid (Egypt) - Primary Stage Kids'Adoption of Mobile Phones in Egypt
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION TWO
Swinburne University iHub
Melbourne, Australia: 2:00pm; Ningbo, China: 11:00am
Panel Chair: John McCormick
Dafydd Sills-Jones (NZ) - Y Trydydd Masg [The Third Mask] 360 MCVR
Augustus Raymond Segar (Sarawak) - XR Documentary
Max Schleser (Australia) - Memoryscapes
AFTERNOON TEA - LUNCH
Melbourne, Australia: 3:30pm; Ningbo, China: 12:30pm
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION THREE
Swinburne University iHub
Melbourne, Australia: 4:00pm; Ningbo, China: 1:00pm
Panel Chair: Darren C Fisher
Hilary Davis (Australia) - Mobile Storytelling Showcasing Sustainable Food Futures
Anna Wiehl (Germany) - When mindfulness, mobile media and artistic self expression meet.
Reflections on visual poetry, experiential experimental learning and on what connects eco media literacy
Martin Koszolko (Australia) - Documenting and manipulating the sound of local climates through
mobile music technologies
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BREAK
Melbourne, Australia: 5:00pm; Ningbo, China: 2:00pm
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION FOUR
Swinburne University iHub
Melbourne, Australia: 5:30pm; Ningbo, China: 2:30pm;
Panel Chair: Felix Gyebi
Aparna Sharma (LA) - Visual Inquiry and Cinematic Reflexivity in Mobile Filmmaking: A Case Study of Still Light
Gavin Wilson (UK) - Distributing Anti-professional Cinema: Negotiating the Circuits and Inter-circuits for Liminal Film
Festivals in Online Spaces’
Darcy Yuille (Australia) - Smartphone Filmmaking and Feature Films
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION FIVE
Swinburne University iHub
Melbourne, Australia: 6:30pm; Ningbo, China: 3:30pm;
Panel Chair: Diana Bossio
Milan Maric Markuza (NZ) - Vertical Video
Shuai Li (China) - The remediation on mobile video platform TikTok
Inger Knude Larsen & Steffen Damkjaer Moestrup (Denmark) - Live mobile video on closed platforms to subscribers
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION SIX
Swinburne University iHub
Melbourne, Australia: 7:30pm; Ningbo, China: 4:30pm;
Panel Chair: Shuai Li
Felix Amofa Gyebi (Ghana) - Collaborative Smartphone Filmmaking
Bhavna Pathak (India) - Media Dictionary a Tool for Media Literacy
Dominic Pink (NZ) - The Essay Film, Decolonial Practice and Questions of Authorship
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Saturday the 13 th of November
Swinburne University Innovation Precinct - Level 4 of the Innovation Precinct - FS401
Melbourne, Australia: 12:30pm; Ningbo, China: 9:30am; Sao Paulo, Brazil (Friday) 10:30pm
Chair: Augustus Raymond Segar
Paulo Hartman - Avant Garden / Sustainability Game
#Eco Smartphone Films
Melbourne, Australia: 1:00pm; Ningbo, China: 10:00am; Toronto, Canada (Friday) 9:00pm
Introduced by Dr Gerda Cammaer & Dr Max Schleser
SHOWCASE
Melbourne, Australia: 2:00pm; Ningbo, China: 11:00am; New York, USA (Friday) 10:00pm
Karl Bardosh NYU - 21 st Century Storytelling & Smartphone Filmmaking
Chair: Max Schleser
SHOWCASE
Melbourne, Australia: 4:00pm; Ningbo, China: 1:00pm; Istanbul, Turkey 8:00am
Chair: Dean Keep
Dan Schultheis - Cinespace (Australia) - Smartphone Stories
Zeynep Merve Uygun (Turkey) - A Showcase on SDG Mobilementaries
Miranda Wilson (New Zealand) - Letterbox Populi: documenting democracy during COVID-19
Smartphone Filmmakers Plenary Session
Melbourne, Australia: 5:00pm
Chair: Adrian Jeffs
Per invite for all selected filmmakers in the MINA International Mobile Innovation Screening
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SMARTPHONE FILM FESTIVALS
Melbourne, Australia: 6:00spm
Chair: Max Schleser
Michael Osheku (Africa) - African International Smartphone Film Festival
Angela Blake (Australia) - SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest
Robert Fitzhugh (Ireland) - Dublin Smartphone Film Festival
Krystof Safer (Czech Republic) - Vertifilms
INNOVATIVE PLANET PLENARY SESSION ONE
Melbourne, Australia: 7:00pm; Ningbo, China: 4:00pm; London, UK 8:00am
Polyphonic Documentary Storytelling & Sustainability
Dr Judith Aston - (Associate Professor of Interactive Media & Immersive Media at Bristol, UK)
Dr Stefano Odorico - (Reader in Contemporary Screen Media at Leeds Trinity University, UK)
INNOVATIVE PLANET PLENARY SESSION TWO
Melbourne, Australia: 8:00pm; Ningbo, China: 5:00pm; Nottingham, UK 9:00am; Koeln, Germany 10:00am
Chair: Dr Tim Breitbarth (Swinburne University of Technology, AUS)
Chair: Dr Anna Gerke (Audencia Business School, FRA)
Storytelling’s Role in Advancing Carbon Literacy: Racing to Zero
Dr Petra Molthan-Hill (Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development, Co-Chair of
the UN PRME Working Group on Climate Change and Environment, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Dr Riccardo Wagner (Professor for Professor of Corporate Communication and Marketing and Head of
Media School, Fresenius University of Applied Science, GER)
Dr Chamila Perera (Marketing Lecturer; Co-Chair UN PRME Community of Practice; Swinburne University of
Technology, AUS)
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Sunday the 14 th of November
Online all day workshop by Unfolding Aotearoa via Discord
Unfolding Media Aotearoa members: Associate Professor Dafydd Sills-Jones, Dr Anna Jackson, Dr Rufus McEwan,
Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa-NZ
Melbourne, Australia: 11:00am - 3:00pm; Ningbo, China: 8:00am - 12:00pm; Auckland, NZ 08:00am - 12:00pm
SCREENINGS & WORKSHOPS
Swinburne University AMDC 301 or Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Zoom
Melbourne, Australia: 2:00pm; Ningbo, China: 11:00am
Max Schleser - MINA Smartphone Filmmaking
Rob Layton - Smartphone Filmmaker
Andrew Robb - Smartphone Filmmaker
Martin Koszolko - Mobile Music
MINA NEW VOICES SCREENING
30min Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Xerb
Melbourne, Australia: 3:00pm; Ningbo, China: 12:00pm
MC : Zinna & Bella
MINA CONTAINING COVID-19 SCREENING
60min Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Xerb
Melbourne, Australia: 3:30pm; Ningbo, China: 12:30pm
MC : Michael & Ruari
AFTERNOON TEA
Melbourne, Australia: 4:30pm; Ningbo, China: 1:30 pm
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SPONSORS WORKSHOP
40min Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Zoom
Melbourne, Australia: 5:00pm; Ningbo, China: 2:00pm
John Parker - FilmConvert
Eliot Fitzroy - Filmic Pro
SMARTPHONE WORKSHOP
60min Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Zoom
Melbourne, Australia: 6:00pm; Ningbo, China: 3:00pm
Stephen Quinn (Norway) - iPhone Film
Nico Piro (Italy) - MoJo Crises Production
Kev Lavery (Australia) - Adobe Rush
Dafydd Sills-Jones (Italy) - Transmedia Time Challenge
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63min Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Xerb
Melbourne, Australia: 7:00pm; Ningbo, China: 4:00pm
MC : Max Schleser
MINA FEATURE SCREENING OF ONE PUNCH
73min Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Xerb
Melbourne, Australia: 8:00pm; Ningbo, China: 5:00pm
Introduction by: Darcy Yuille - Director of ONE PUNCH
Q&A WITH DARCY YUILLE OF ONE PUNCH
17min Swinburne Studio at ACMI and via Xerb
Melbourne, Australia: 9:13pm; Ningbo, China: 6:13pm
AUDIENCE NETWORKING SESSION
30min
Melbourne, Australia: 9:30pm; Ningbo, China: 6:30pm
Event ends at 10:00pm Melbourne, Australia
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THE SHAPE OF AIR
Created by: Rob Layton
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone
Willy Nicholls is one of the few surfboard airbrush artists left in Australia. With his
dog Ruby constantly at his side, Willy continues a craft that started in the 1970s when
psychedelia and surf culture merged for a unique - and now dying - art form.
STILL LIGHT
Created by: Aparna Sharma
Country: INDIA
Device: iPhone
Still Light is an experimental short made of photographic stills. The film explores the
relation of light to perception. It is entirely shot and edited on a mobile phone.
The film is in Hindi with English subtitles.
NEXT STOP
Created by: Florence Weyne Robert
Country: BRAZIL
Device: Samsung S8
In the heart of Lisbon, a small abandoned district, wedged between the Tagus and the
railway, passes through two parallel movements. The end of the lives of a few lonely
old people living there and the new luxury buildings growing up overlooking the
Tagus. Old women used to come to a small café in this district and tell me some
discreet fragments of their lives.
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PUNTA ALLEN
Created by: Simon Keller
Country: SWITZERLAND
Device: iPhone XS
Punta Allen is a small Mayan fishing village in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in
the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The village has a population of 469 inhabitants,
has only 4-5 blocks of sandy streets and is only about 6-7 streets wide.
A WINDOW’S ST. LOUIS
Created by: Yedan Li
Country: USA
Device: iPhone 11
"A window reflect the moonlight, make it even lighter; a window stay the raindrop,
keep world into tiny balls, a window see through the sky from day to night, using its
clear eyes to capture everything close to it, this is a window's story, a window's life, a
window's st.louis. So, why not try to be a window for a while into another world?"
ODD ONE OUT
Created by: Andrew Robb
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: Samsung Galaxy S10
Struggling to fit in to a new community a lonely doll goes on a journey of discovery.
A 7 minute family film, shot on a smartphone during lockdown in our home in
Sunshine, Melbourne.
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ALMA
Created by: Elizabeth Marlo
Country: MEXICO
Device: iPhone X
The day to day life of a woman who only yearns to live.
NEED A LIFT?
Created by: Max Simonson
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone 11
It’s a day like any other. Kevin zooms down the street in his roaring blue convertible,
blasting his favourite funky music from the stereo. With the wind rushing through his
hair and the world flashing by, Kevin can’t help but feel like the coolest guy around.
HOCKEY
Created by: Bjørn Erik Pihlmann Sørensen
Country: NORWAY
Device: iPhone X
On the ice-skating court an eleven-year-old boy is practicing hockey. In order to not
be discovered by the bullies he tries to make himself as invisible as possible.
Nevertheless the older hockey players find out he's there. At his weakest, and with
great force he catches enough courage to stand up for himself.
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REVERIE
Created by: Vincenzo De Caro
Country: ITALY
Device: Xiaomi Mi 11
A director tormented by his next film catches the eye he's been waiting for.
WAR IS NOT A GAME
Created by: Arthur Mikheev
Country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Device: iPhone 11 Pro
The story of why only children should play war.
TODAY I WILL LIVE
Created by: Nico Piro
Country: ITALY
Device: iPhone XS
The biggest lie about modern conflicts is that they are fought on battle fields. People
who can't flee live in the middle of wars. This story is about them
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I AM A BLACK HOLE
Created by: Ronald James Baculo
Country: PHILIPPINES
Device: iPhone 8 Plus
An anxious young man becomes obsessed with black holes. The question is: will he
let his obsession and anxiety define him and consume him... just like a black hole? Or
can he escape the "event horizon" of his troubled life and be more than just his
mental illness?
THE OBSERVER
Created by: Dmitry Semenov
Country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Device: iPhone 11 Plus
This is a story about an astronomer in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkariya Republic
in the South of Russia. Amyr Aliev, an astronomer, argues about the sun, space, galaxy,
and roles of distance and solitude in the life of stars and humans.
DUSTRIA
Created by: Allison Tanenhaus
Country: USA
Device: iPhone
Dustria is a candy-colored, slightly sinister, otherworldly meditation on industrial
waste and atmospheric decay. Presented in the form of a hypnotic music video for
Boston electronic synth duo The Square Root of Negative Two.
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MINA NEW VOICES SCREENING
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AN EXISTENTIAL EPIPHANY
Created by: Phoebe Sinclair
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone XS Plus
'An Existential Epiphany' is an abstract experimental short film with science fictional
and existential themes. The film centres around a young woman struggling with
depression, and the epiphany she experiences whilst having a bath.
HAIKU
Created by: Shaun Wong
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone 11
We exist in a liquid state, our minds ebbing and flowing between deep experience
and peaceful reflection. Haiku is a visit to the shores of our own consciousness,
transported by chants and bells and rhythm, and the circular interplay between light
and shadow in a meditation inspired by Scott Barley’s Sleep Has Her House.
CYCLE
Created by: Jordan Blanch
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: Xiaomi Mi5
There is an innate rhythm that accompanies anything with a cycle. A journey that
begins at the same place it ends, while moving forward in time and space. Cycles
permeate every part of human life and take many forms.The waking hours of a person
is determined by the day/night cycle where light is given and taken away, along with
our state of consciousness.
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AWE AND DECADENCE
Created by: Carly Sol Kurrajong
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Pro
You enter a palindromic montage; where colour and light juxtapose as you cross the
centre threshold. With a euphoric and visceral score, you are taken on a ride through
the world of awe and decadence or what you perceive it as.What does it mean to you?
Or what does it do for you? The pleasure of excitement: you release more dopamine
from anticipation of the reward than from the reward itself.
PATERNITY
Created by: Kali Doran
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone XS Max
“Paternity” is an experimental short film following the thoughts of Verloren, a
depressed adolescent who has a tense relationship with her father, as he is a constant
source of pressure in her life. This short film explores the struggles of finding a
purpose in life, with the added pressure of a loss of control and dwindling mental
health.
AM I LISTENING ENOUGH
Created by: Michael de Lange
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone 8
Am I Listening Enough explores the framing of humanitarian issues in the
contemporary media landscape particularly following the resurgence of the Black
Lives Matter movement.
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LIGHTNESS
Created by: Gaia Mitting
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: Samsung S8
An exploration of the unseen and the stifling power of the isolated mind as it
becomes overwhelmed by its own thoughts and tumbles into a state of unrest.
In Lightless, an isolated woman is confronted by strange apparitions and becomes
overwhelmed by her own thoughts, which soon begin to colour her existence.
THE DRAWER
Created by: Katerina Zafiris
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone 11
The Drawer encapsulates the experience of what happens to objects when they are
in a strange limbo stage- too old to be used but perhaps still slightly working,
therefore cannot be thrown away. It is a chaotic congregation of objects that
transcends time and space.
NONSENSE BREAKFAST
Created by: Elleni Yates
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone
What would it feel like to eat sound? This experimental film revolves around a
nonsensical breakfast of sound, as a human experiences this sensorial, psychological
phenomenon
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TRIBUTE
Created by: Katia Sophia Ditzler
Country: GERMANY
Device: iPhone XS
A performative poetry film about pecunia, passports, paradises and privilege.
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Created by: Marcus Bacarella
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: Samsung Galaxy S10
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN follows a hopeless wandering character who spies on, and
repeatedly attempts to invade a family’s property. The family is his own, and the
character feels so much shame and detachment from them that he has exiled himself,
out of sheer compulsion.
FLIGHTLESS
Created by: Bella Henry
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone XS
'Flightless' explores human longing and loneliness.Through the use of repetition and
reoccurring motifs the experimental short film transposes a visual experience of
humanity, touching on the discomforts of human isolation.
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MINA CONTAINING COVID-19 SCREENING
NO COMMENT
Created by: Vanessa Vox
Country: FRANCE
Device: iPhone SE
2020 is all about a tiny, for our eyes invisible virus that has gotten the center of
attention. Our social life is severely restricted while this virus can hardly be stopped.
It is rocking, shocking and rolling all over the world, day by day, moving forward from
country to country, accompanied by a huge wave of news and statistics.
EASTERN EGOIST
Created by: Martin Koszolko
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPhone 5s
In February 2021 Poland and Australia have been in various stages of Covid-19
lockdowns. During this time, I was based in Australia and my mum was living alone
in Poland. While the Australian summer was nearing its end, Poland had one of the
biggest snowfalls this decade.
SMILE OF THE MASK
Created by: Abbas Ghazali
Country: IRAN, ISLAMIC REPLUBLIC OF
Device: iPhone 11
Now I can be like others
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FABULOUS PHOEBE
Created by: Cassius Rayner
Country: UK
Device: iPhone 11 Pro Max
Fabulous Phoebe is a short film telling the story of a shielded cancer survivor locked
in with her abusive husband during Covid. She eventually goes outside and makes a
decision to leave him. Greek myth references turn Phoebe's story into plea for Mother
Earth. Being a piece of original poetry, it is entirely written in verse.
DURGA’S LOCKDOWN
Created by: Mitesh Take
Country: INDIA
Device: OPPO RealME 1
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, a married middle class Indian couple is in a
lockdown situation. The wife stands against the domestic violence and becomes a
DURGA - the goddess of war.
CORONA BLESSINGS
Created by: Sandra Gaudenzi
Country: UK
Device: iPhone 6
Corona Blessings is a reflective smartphone film about how the Corona lockdown
ended up being a time of internal expansion and important discoveries. Just when the
world was shrinking, starting a collaborative project online allowed me to stay
connected, stimulated and creative throughout the full ten weeks of London’s
lockdown. While spring was unfolding outdoors, the unexpected happened indoors.
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LOCKDOWN
Created by: Paul London & Tracey Moberly
Country: USA
Device: Various
The film LOCKDOWN was conceived as a way to embrace the globally enforced home
confinement during the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Public Health Emergency of 2020.
Filmmakers Paul London and Tracey Moberly invited friends and family to contribute
to the film project using mobile devices only. Thirty six contributors globally
submitted their visions of the safety enforced LOCKDOWN and confinement to the
boundaries of their gardens and homes.
LOCKDOWN (STAGE THREE)
Created by: Liz Baulch, Liz Burke, Catherine Gough-Brady, Kim Munro and
Christine Rogers
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: Various
Liz Baulch, Liz Burke, Catherine Gough-Brady, Kim Munro and Christine Rogers
collaborated on this short experimental film about their experience of the monotony
of lockdown.
SHIFTED
Created by: Ben Treston
Country: UK
Device: iPhone 11 Pro
Shot and edited entirely on a smartphone, and filmed during lockdown in the United
Kingdom, the film examines the themes of loss and isolation in this unfamiliar new
world that a pandemic has created.
The film is a reflective and experimental piece created using only the limited
resources available during the lockdown period.
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MINA CONTAINING COVID-19 SCREENING
PARIS LOCKDOWN
Created by: Beraat Gokkus
Country: FRANCE
Device: iPhone 6s & iPhone 11 Pro
As a director and journalist, I am walking around Paris during coronavirus days. The
city is under lockdown and I don't know till when. But I have hope, there is always
hope.
LOCK TOWN
Created by: Antonio Benedetto
Country: ITALY
Device: Unknown
At the beginning of the lockdown declared to cope with the coronavirus emergency
Achille is sheltering at his friend Gloria’s house.
QUARANTINE (I KEEP YOU COMPANY)
Created by: Massimiliano Nocco
Country: ITALY
Device: fotocamera
A man alone at home finds a way to have some company but unfortunately the
dependence on social networks and smartphones makes the attempt in vain.
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#ECOSMARTPHONE FILM SCREENING
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it is the
only thing that ever has.“ (Margaret Mead)
The tenth edition of MINA is presenting a special program titled #EcoSmartphoneFilms, a showcase of contemporary
mobile film production about environmental protection and ecology in all its aspects. It is an eclectic collection of short
international environmentally themed films from all over the world made on smartphones, pocket cameras, laptops and
Instagram.
The films show the planet’s beauty as well as the various local, regional and global environmental challenges we are
facing. By using a variety of creative solutions that illustrate the power of mobile film, they help to raise awareness
about environmental topics from around the globe and make us aware of the role mobile media can play in this.
In the spirit of Margaret Mead’s statement that we should “never doubt that a small group pf thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world” with this special #EcoSmartphoneFilms program we hope inspire a deeper critical
understanding of ecological issues and strengthen our commitment as both filmmakers and curators to inspire future
generations to go mobile and stay sustainable.
Gerda Cammaer and Max Schleser.
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SAVE ME
Created by: Michael Coppola
Country: UK
Device: iPhone 11 Pro Max
SAVE ME is an experimental sci-fi drama short film about the fragmentation of the
human psyche, manmade planetary destruction and the possible end of the
subjective and objective world, told through the experiences of a lost girl stranded
on a deserted beach, accompanied by an epic orchestral score and futuristic sound
design with the use of CGI.
IUMBAR PROJECT - THE FIRST ONE
Created by: Martin K. Koszolko
Country: AUSTRALIA
Device: iPad Pro
This music video documents human intervention into environment. The footage
shows the fate of trees and other plants disposed of by human inhabitants of the
land. This short film raises questions about our relationship with the natural
environment and highlights the beauty of the shapes and forms of trees. This beauty
is evident even if the plants have been cut down and are no longer alive.
THE ALMEDA FIRE
Created by: David Scott Leibowitz
Country: USA
Device: iPhone 11 Pro
My Mobile movies took a swift turn from art to ENG when the Almeda fire swept
through this part of the Rogue Valley.
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AFTER THE FLOOD
Created by: Alexandra Guillossou
Country: USA
Device: iPhone XR
An observational piece on two seemingly dissimilar St. Louis events that took place
in June 2019. Man and nature can be equally explosive and yet only one has the
option of choice.
TREE TIME
Created by: Alexandra Lerman
Country: USA
Device: iPhone 7 & iPhone X
Tree Time imagines a relationship between nature and technology unmediated by
human presence. The video was shot in the Amazon rainforest with a drone enacting
a disembodied point of view that floats through the densely compressed forest
canopy, taking off, hovering above the ground, and occasionally returning to it.
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KAMINDA
Created by: David van Delden
Country: NL
Device: iPhone X & iPhone 11 Pro
A visual poem of a 3-year-old boy's journey of self-discovery. Kaminda revisits David’s
childhood adventures narrated by a young voice in spoken words written by Juan-
Carlos Goilo. From the dry northern plains to the atmospheric damp caves, Kaminda
takes you through the rustic landscapes of Curaçao with stunningly captured scenes.
Hear the primitive sounds of Curaçao's "Muzik di Zumbi" accompanied by scenes shot
under water, on land and in the air.
LITTLE BEINGS
Created by: DiAminda Ordaz
Country: MEXICO
Device: iPhone 8
I tended my senses and they were there,
I stopped to contemplate and they were there,
I opened my eyes and they were there,
I woke up and they were there,
I paid attention and they were there.
So I wanted to take off my sandals,
as not to hurt them with my walk.
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MICRO AR / 360 SCREENING
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MICRO AR / 360 SCREENING
FULL CIRCLE
Created by: Naomi Condo
Country: CANADA
Device: Unknown
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Mikmaw filmmaker Naomi Condo, member of Gesgapegiag First Nation used the
circular frame as a device to connect the past and the present. Her collaborator Craig
Commanda, an Anishnabe musician and filmmaker from Kitigan Zibi First Nation,
composed original music for the piece. In their finished film, a young woman begins
her day with a smudging ceremony to honour her great grandparents and then asks
a series of questions about what might have been different if her ancestors had been
allowed to perform these ceremonies rather than have them suppressed.
METAPEROTIN
Created by: Mélina Quittich Niquay
Country: CANADA
Device: Unknown
A filmmaker, photographer and makeup artist, Mélina Quitich Niquay was born and
raised in Manawan and is now continuing her studies in Trois-Rivières. Winner of the
2016 Young Atikamekw Artist Prize, she uses her first incursion into immersive media
to bring spectators into an urban woodland, where she explores the process of
adaptation to her new urban environment.
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THE THIRD MASK
Created by: Dafydd Sills- Jones
Country: NEW ZEALAND
Device: Insta 360 EVO
This 360 documentary essay tells of the complex effect on identity of immigration
from one colonised country - Wales - to another - Aotearoa. I was indigenous to one,
and now where do I stand?
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USING VR HEADSET
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PLONGEONS
Created by: Stefan Buridans
Country: CANADA
Device: Apple ARKit
PLONGEONS is an augmented reality project designed from historic situations
deflected from their real context. At first glance, isolated characters seem to plunge
willingly in an environment not quite reassuring yet not specifically hostile, only
totally empty. Solid, pure and intact, the monochrome backgrounds echo the blue and
green screens used for cinematographic special effects inlay.
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DONDE ESTA MI CUCHARITA
Created by: Felipe Cardona
Country: COLUMBIA
Device: iPhone 6S Plus
Short made with a smart phone and apps about the mystery of the loss of a spoon.
Animation, AR and FX with Assemblr.
This short was used as material for Platzi's mobile cinema course.
Washington D.C., Arlington, VA. September 2020.
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WALKING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC
Created by: Andrew Martyn Sugars
Country: UK
Device: Various iPhone’s
Screencast of an interactive documentary. the content is from contributions from a
community of walkers brought together by the COVID-19 pandemic. many sited
walking as a solace during the early months of the pandemic and lockdown.
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