Mobile Movie of the Week

Mixed Media Music Video Offers Non-stop Visual Surprises

Filmmaker/musician Sigfrido Giammona famously takes creative chances with his musical compositions and his short movies.. Giammona’s artistic daring is on fully display in “Favignana Sunset,” a mixed media music video. The five-minute production cleverly combines original cinematic shots with stock footage. About the Filmmaker Sigfrigo Giammona’s mobile-shot movies  include the prize-winning music video “From My…

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iPhone 15 Brings Manga Thriller to Life

The manga genre is by its nature dazzling. Capturing that visual intensity was the challenge facing Japanese director Takashi Miike in bringing Osamu Tezuka’s manga “Midnight” to the screen. Shooting with an iPhone 15 Pro, Miike used an amazing collection of cinematic techniques to create a 19-minute thriller. In a form of breaking the fourth…

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Creating the Usher Super Bowl Halftime Show

More than a hundred million people watched Usher’s Super Bowl halftime performance. Now, director Mike Carson pulls back the curtain in a mini-doc that captures the creative process—and hard work—that made the show possible. Interviews with Usher connect Usher’s philosophy of entertainment to what took place on stage. The editors of MobileMovieMaking have chose “Usher”…

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Dentist Commercial Made with an iPhone

With “Comercial a Dentistas con un iPhone,” Florida-based Jose Javy Ferrer packs three videos into one. First comes a 30-second commercial promoting a dental office. Second, there’s a BTS that shows how the commercial was made. And finally, you get a commercial for Ferrer’s Creative Film Academy. The pitch for the Creative Film Academy is…

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Sci-fi Drama Explores the Implications of Immortality

In Sigfrido Giammona’s mobile-shot feature film, immortality has been achieved. But this amazing breakthrough brings with it unexpected consequences. The movie is available on Amazon. Here’s the trailer. About the Director Italian filmmaker Sigfrido Giammona has made a number of short mobile movies. These include the prize-winning music video “From My Heart” and a touching…

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Pipe Dream that Isn’t a Pipe Dream

Groundbreaking mobile journalist Philip Bromwell shot “Pipe Dreams” in 2015 using an iPhone 6+. By today’s standards that phone is ancient technology.  Nevertheless, Bromwell filled the 2-minute RTÉ News report about the making of Uilleann Pipes with more than a score of cinematic images. This classic mobile video demonstrates that the filmmaker is more important…

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