Legend 3D, a Del Mar firm that produces many Hollywood 3-D movie projects, outgrew its first campus before construction was completed.
\nPlatt College, a premiere digital media design school in San Diego\u2019s Rolando area, graduates its kids at rates well above the national average at similar places.
\nSan Diego has five video game design schools. Big brother and world film capital Los Angeles has four.
\nAs the world digitizes itself before our eyes, and amid greater demand for spectacle among moviegoers, our region holds its own as an educational and commercial industry center. It was only a matter of time before a local resource picked up on the idea of a public film event that speaks to the changing tastes that accompany the digital revolution \u2014 and Thursday, April 24, marks its opening.
\nGive it up for the inaugural Filmatic Festival, a four-day excursion into the changing face of cinema, in which lines between artist and audience are far less distinct and thus encourage everyone\u2019s creativity. ArtPower!, an artistic development arm at UCSD, conceived and oversees the festival, which will center at the university\u2019s Qualcomm Institute through April 27 and features interactive screenings, karaoke jams, lectures and media workshops in charting the course. The festival is the first of its kind in the state.
\nIt\u2019s kind of a mini Comic-Con, an immersive object lesson that curator Rebecca Webb sees as a marker in film\u2019s next step. Audiences, she said, are looking beyond the divisions between patron and provider \u2014 standing on the sidelines isn\u2019t enough as technology drives the masses to movies playing on items as innocuous as their cell phones.
\n“I\u2019m really interested,” Webb said, “in creating a relationship between spectator and spectacle. It\u2019s this idea that the audience can be creative and artistic in the way they\u2019re participating with the end product. It makes them artists. It\u2019s collaborative. It\u2019s not isolationist. [Audiences are] taking advantage of what\u2019s going on in social media trends and bringing them to a theater space, a collective space. “There\u2019s also this idea of taking a passive traditional moviegoing experience, which is becoming antiquated on some level. Ticket sales have gone way down. I\u2019m really interested in creating this interactive experience.”
\nWebb said she plans to make the Filmatic Festival an annual event. By comparison, live theater seeks its own interaction with audiences \u2014 it\u2019s been said that anyone who\u2019s ever seen a play is as vital a participant as the cast. Why attend Filmatic when plays (which pepper the UCSD campus to boot and incorporate their own technological advances) are just as interactive?
\nWebb said Filmatic\u2019s stress on physical participation is designed to address that.
\n“Even just walking within these walls and being open to a variety of possibilities,” she explained, “leaves you open to the festival\u2019s intent. In a live theater, you\u2019re often not engaged with the person next to you. In the festival, you are. Both of you are manipulating and relating to the two-dimensional image in front of you.
\n“And the technical people who are orchestrating this behind the scenes are very present,” Webb continued. “They are participating with the audience as well as the two-dimensional [film]. It\u2019s a layered experience, even more so than live theater, because you\u2019re playing with all these various dimensions.”
\nThe schedule features gaming museum tours (games get a museum already?), technology that captures images at several thousand frames a second, a language invention seminar and media works by students, faculty and international artists. Meanwhile, no surprise that the festival\u2019s subtitle is “Movies of the Future.”
\nTickets range from single-event admission ($5-$25) to four-day passes ($50-$175). One-day passes are priced at $21 to $53. For more, call (858) 534-TIXS or see filmaticfestival.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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