Flipside film festival

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Flipside is an alternative international film festival and is held annually in Plymouth, UK.

Running from May 21st – 31st 2008, in Plymouth, UK, The inaugural Flipside Film Festival will showcase both feature-length and short films and is intended as a filmic celebration and exploration of alternate, unorthodox and under-represented views of our world.

Film entries can be of any genre or film-making style, although should explore one or more of the following thematic areas:

1) The View From Here: Films which provide the viewer / audience with the opportunity to literally 'see' our world from different and unfamiliar visual perspectives, achieved by manipulating 'the real' with various alchemic cinematic techniques & technological trickery.

2) View Point: Films which celebrate non-mainstream / non-traditional and minority viewpoints and experiences of our world (especially political / spiritual / ideological viewpoints and experiences that are under-represented by mainstream broadcast media): A thematic celebration of the diversity of experience in our world and a challenge to the institutional shortcomings of 'broad' cast media.

3) 4:3 ReView: Films which creatively embrace 'endangered' media practices, processes and technologies, featuring everything in the 4:3 aspect ratio, from Super8, Standard 8, & Standard 16mm film, to analogue & pixelvision 'toy' video. This is the thematic antidote to HDTV, where the focus is the celebration and exploration of the gloriously rarefied and obsolescent, rather than the aggressive product-profit driven 'technical redundancy & replacement' industry model

In addition to programmed film screenings there will also be the opportunity to get involved in thematically relevant film workshops. The festival will be anchored around a keynote screening and panel discussion event in which the works of a suitably iconoclastic and pioneering film artist will be explored and celebrated.

Flipside is strictly non-hierarchical and both established and emerging film-makers will share the same platform for their works. The emphasis is very much on furthering cinematic debate and celebrating diversity of experience in film.