We use cookies to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and for our marketing efforts. By accepting, you consent to our Privacy Policy You may change your settings at any time by clicking "Cookie Consent" at the bottom of every page.

Options
Essential

These technologies are required to activate the essential functions of our range of services.

Analytics

These cookies collect information about the use of the website so that its content and functionality can be improved in order to increase the attractiveness of the website. These cookies may be set by third party providers whose services our website uses. These cookies are only set and used with your express prior consent.

Marketing

These cookies are set by our advertising partners on our website and can be used to create a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertising on other websites (across websites).

Pixels in Focus

Film Screening + Panel Talk

Image of an avatar's face and the subtitle: It's always re-examining things.

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