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DeFore in Toronto: The Movie Studio in Your Pocket
All week long, Motorola has had little sponsorship trailers before Toronto films, touting the filmmaking capabilities of the cameras on their phones. Looking at the crummy, lo-res images they chose to highlight with the boast “so-and-so made this movie on his Motorola phone” I’ve wondered why anybody would think this tool is one a filmmaker would want.
Shows what I know. In the last movie of my festival experience, Wayne Wang’s “The Princess of Nebraska,” phone-cam shots pop up quite a few
times.
It’s a touch that’s meant to be experimental — in this low-budget, handheld indie, a cut to the protagonist’s low-tech point-of-view is appropriate. But there it is. So, while I don’t want to see a ninety- =minute cell-phone feature any time soon, I guess I owe Moto an apology.
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