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Let’s be frank: these days a trip to the movies often ends in more disappointment than intellectual stimulation and wonder. Last night, however, my film-watching experience blew me away. I attended the Disposable Film Festival in San Francisco, an event which showcases movies that all have one amazing thing in common: none were shot on a traditional video camera. Smart phones, web-cams, DSLR cams, wearable recorders, and screen capture software were all used to create short films that are as incredible in their diversity and story-telling, as they are in their cinematography. Of over 2000 submissions to this year’s festival, DFF selected just 18 to appear at their opening night. It is with great relish that I offer those videos, in their entirety, and in the order in which they were presented, for you to watch at the end of this post. Most are short (less than 3 minutes), many are quirky, but all are great examples of how cinema is leaving Hollywood and coming to live in each of our hands.