All have portrait screens and no scrolling; the bulky Everybook has twin colour screens, mimicking a two-page spread.
"Zidane: A Twenty-first Century Portrait," screening at Anthology Film Archives and at BAM Oct. 24-30, is a documentary directed by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno and filmed by the great Darius Khondji.
That feature, along with the 640-by-480-pixel picture size and the self-portrait screen, makes the Sanyo the best digital camera that ever phoned home.
(Why doesn't it act as a self-portrait screen when you're using the camera, though?) And, of course, it's handy to be able to answer a call just by opening the hinge, and hang up by snapping it shut.
Now we get the joke of calling these portraits Screen Tests.
Another project, "Shroud," was a self-portrait, screen-printed in his own blood.
There is a documentary about Syria titled Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait screening out of competition, Snow in Paradise from the UK which deals with a man finding peace through Islam and a few little tidbits here and there.
Tonight the emergent digital art scene converges at Brooklyn's Transfer Gallery for Nargifsus, a special animated self-portrait screening that will close Carla Gannis' show A Subject Self-Defined.
In portrait, the screen's vertical viewing angles are average, but its horizontal viewing angles are decidedly mediocre, which will make sharing videos with others difficult and reading at an angle impossible.
