A long-time fan of using digital cameras to shoot his films, and author of the book Digital Film Making, Mike Figgis, director of Leaving Las Vegas, will be holding court at the ICA on February 16 to give a talk on the highs and the lows of using digital film and the aesthetic possibilities it presents. He will also be discussing how digital film will change the role of the filmmaker and how it can effect the perspective of the audience.
The director, who has likened the experience of digital filmmaking to being more like painting or novel writing than working within the movie industry, has even found time to create a steering wheel-like rig called the Fig Rig for small video cameras.
Figgis’s first steps into digital film culminated in the conception and realisation of Timecode. He used four cameras to shoot the simultaneous stories of the characters. In the finished film, the screen is split into 4 so the viewer can see all the stories running at the same time in ‘real-time’. Timecode was the beginning of Figgis’s love affair with the digital camera and his work since has been all but dominated by the use of creative digital filmmaking.
To see the man himself, get yourself down to the ICA on Monday February 16 at 7pm. This event is running as part of the Feedback festival which looks at how technology has changed we read see and think,
Tickets are available here.
£10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members.
