In the debate between vertical and horizontal filming, the most persuasive arguments are the movies. Frederic van Strydonck, a 28-year-old Belgian filmmaker currently based in London, adds to the discussion with “Spltch,” an experimental vertical video that won an honorable mention award in the 2018 FiLMiC Pro One World Film Contest. In the interview (below),…

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Metric’s latest music video—”Dark Saturday”—should give pause to mobile moviemakers who hate vertical videos. Here, director Justin Broadbent used an iPhone X to shoot separate portrait-oriented videos for each of the four band members. He then combined the footage to capture how each character dealt with late-night loneliness. The result—which should please those who favor traditional framing—is a landscape-oriented movie consisting…

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