Digital revolution hits the 60th Locarno film festival

The Locarno film festival opened on Wednesday, August 1st, with 'Vexille', a film composed of computer-generated images, by Japanese Fumihiko Sori. "In any festival, the opening film, colours, sets the tone of the whole event. 'Vexille''s tone is clear : Frédéric Maire, the artistic director of the festival, wanted to mark the turning point that will see celluloid give way to digital material", writes Thierry Jobin. "It took some courage for Frédéric Maire and his team to look towards tomorrow rather than back on yesterday. In no more than ten years, film will have virtually disappeared, replaced by digital cinema, from the recording of images through to their projection. It may not seem like such a big thing, but Locarno highlights quite the contrary: no art before the seventh ever had to integrate a technological revolution of this scope in such a short time."

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