Max Schleser

Mobile-mentaries (mobile documentaries)

Max Schleser

CoCA, Massey University

 

Ekaterinburg

Ekaterinburg is a short mobile-mentary about the Heartbeat Festival in

the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. Max Schleser participated in the

festival and tells a personal, behind-the-scenes story about it –

discovering the hidden Ekaterinburg through a series of unexpected

developments. The documentary features an interview with the

internationally renowned artist Vitaly Volovich, who preserves images of

the disappearing city. The Heartbeat Festival, as much as the

mobile-mentary itself, explores the sociability of mobile media. The

soundtrack includes Irina Gerulaitis’ ‘May Raven’ and EK Playaz’s

‘Glamour’.

 

Max with a Keitai

This film was shot entirely on two mobile phones in Japan in 2006.

Max with a Keitai captures Max Schleser’s everyday life and the

Japanese megalopolis known as the Taiheiyo Belt.

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