the history of the 100 Second Film Festival

The 100 Second Festival was launched in January of 2005 through LTC, Lowell Telecommunications and the Revolving Museum. The initial goal was to create a community media and art event centered around around the shared experience of creating, sharing and watching videos that have one thing in common, they are all less than one minute and forty seconds in length.

At the time, an empahsis was placed on utlizing the medium of the Internet to help foster the sharing and exchange of works via the DigitalBicycle project. The web was viewed as possible repository for 100 second works and this archive would be accessible to anyone who wanted to take and use the works to make their own screening or DVD.

As the festival has grown over the past three years, the audience and the participants have exceeded expectation. While tapping into a rich cultural atmosphere in New England, works have been received from California, Oregon, Texas, Iowa, Florida, Ohio, New York and more. Beyond that submissions have arrived from as far as Paris, Dublin and Iran. Copies of the festival have been shown to audiences in Switzerland and Chile (2007) and Lithuania (2007).

In 2007, the festival found expanded toMedfield.TV, the public access station in Medfield, Massachusetts.

As we march on through 2008 the 100 Second Film Festival still continues to evolve and expand its reach across the region and the world.