One is an American tourist on vacation with his family, the other a local Chinese who steals the camera from him. With little investment capital at risk, directors are free to take chances on the material. Aguiluz is working on a five-minute documentary about aging Filipino immigrants who moved to San Francisco some 75 years ago. But Aguiluz liked the ghostly black and white images the oddball device creates when it records moving pictures on conventional audio-cassette tapes. It's a farewell to analog.
Animation abounds on the Web.
Of the 15 titles on the 8arts site, nearly half are animated works. That's because the simple files download faster and look better than live-action films. And since most animation is done on computers anyway these days, it's easy to transfer to the Internet. Many will be bedroom animators doing it for fun just to make a statement apart from the professionals. It becomes more vibrant and richer as a result.