Is cinema dead?
What is cinema in the age of globalization?
Why can’t a greater public see the many films that play mainly in film festivals?
Like the music business, is the film business broken?
Where will movies play in the future? Do we need a new cinema?
Is the Internet the venue for a new kind of movie?
Many questions have steered me to create http:://www.camerawar.tv

On September 29th a new kind of documentary is launched on the Internet and for one year, every Monday, new film chapters of varying lengths, will be posted online.

Every film chapter, in and of itself, is a short documentary but when viewed together, whether chronologically or in arbitrary sequences, tell a story. They can be viewed in any order. These are not viral videos or news reports. This is a new cinema narrative technique and the Internet is the only way to tell this story. This presents a new way to watch a film.

This is a new kind of cinema in a new venue, a cinema free of television and corporate production restraints. It rips away the walls corporations have erected between the audience and artists, an experimental cinema, sorely lacking in the new world order, accessible outside of traditional venues and television.

Director Lech Kowalski blogs about each chapter and the audience can interact with comments or submit films and music of their own. Jerome Soudan from Mimetic is the musical composer for the documentary. Web designer Jerome Pidoux, known as Elephant has designed the site. Chapters can be viewed full screen, smaller image or with a black border. Headsets or external speakers connected to the computer will produce optimum sound quality.


Director Lech Kowalski is a cult figure in underground cinema. Renowned for his controversial award-winning documentaries a journalist once called him “a warrior battling with a camera to redefine the art of documentary” Born in London to Polish immigrants who fled Russian concentration camps, Kowalski grew up in nomadic displacement in the United States. He began his career in the 70’s in New York. His impressive array of documentaries have garnered critical praise and awards such as the Jury Award for East of Paradise at Venice film festival in 2005, the Special Jury Award for On Hitler's Highway at the 2002 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, and the Golden Gate Award for Rock Soup at the 1992 San Francisco International Film Festival. His seminal film, DOA (1980), is a punk escapade that follows the Sex Pistols tour of the USA.



camerawar.tv - A Capricci Films & Extinkt Films coproduction


Capricci Films is a French production and distribution company based in Nantes. It’s catalogue includes films by Pedro Costa, Albert Serra and Jean-Claude Rousseau.

Extinkt Films, created by Lech Kowalski and Odile Allard, produces and distributes Lech Kowalski’s films.

camerawar.tv is partially funded by CNAP, (French National Center for Visuals Arts), CNC-French National Cinema Center-(help for innovative documentary and DICRÉAM), and has a partnership with 104, where screenings of the film chapters are shown to the public.


Contacts : camerawar@gmail.com

http://www.camerawar.tv