Small File Media Festival Kicks Off in Vancouver

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The Small File Media Festival – which bills itself as an eco-friendly alternative to giant media –  will hold its third iteration this year, both online and in person.

The festival, which runs Aug. 9 to Aug. 14 at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in Greater Vancouver, offers screenings, workshops, musical performances and a dance party to celebrate earth-cooling small-file media. 

"We're going to immerse in tiny movies on the huge screen," say festival organizers.

The festival exists to counteract the reality that streaming media is overheating the planet. Networks, data centres and various digital devices create about four per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

"The whole category is busting out of control as people worldwide, intoxicated by corporate media's siren songs, stream all kinds of media in high definition, video chat, video conference and play high-resolution online games, not to mention invest in crypto and get hooked on artificial intelligence apps."

For information, go to www.smallfile.ca.  

Source: Small File Media Festival