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...What’s really revolutionary about new media is its accessibility,” Kuriyama says. “It doesn’t take a high level of training and expensive equipment to do remarkable things, and that’s the power of it.” Kuriyama believes that the short films currently in production truly are “new media”—perhaps even a new genre. Although the short films may overlap with movie-making techniques, they are often made without movie cameras and actual footage. They sometimes have narration...
Verchery was also inspired to create a film because of a class she took with Kuriyama, though she has more experience in filmmaking than many of the participants in the competition, as exhibited through her use of more advanced techniques such as stop animation...
Although Mazur, a self-labeled “techno-skeptic,” enjoyed participating in the festival, he doubts that the new media represents the revolution in scholarly communication that Kuriyama suggests...
Though Mazur may doubt the grand significance of short video projects, Kuriyama remains adamant that visual presentations will be more than a teaching tool...
...Kuriyama hopes to continue the festival next year, though there are currently no definitive plans...