Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Short films eye the really small screen


Spruce has got a problem. He's a nervous hairdresser with a tendency to cut off the heads of his clients.

Temah Nelson's animated short "Friends on Crack" stars Spruce and his fellow petroglyphs (think cave drawings) in a series of brief episodes that could serve as a model for mobile films, or videos created with smart phones and handheld devices in mind. Panelists at the Cinequest Film Festival here Friday advised a group of aspiring filmmakers that mobile devices could allow short films that were never previously shown outside a festival setting to attract a wider audience.

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