Last weeks San Francisco Film Festival had 20 movies entered that where made specifically for mobile devices and the "Pocket Cinema Program."

The films are, naturally, short but contain explosive and even political issues like Katherin McInnis' spookspeak, a four-minute film parodying the National Security Agency's Echelon electronic eavesdropping program ( perfect subject matter for a cell phone film).

McInnis' movie blends text and audio of about 300 watchwords that, when used in e-mails or cell-phone conversations, allegedly trigger further scrutiny by the NSA's spy systems.

"The idea behind spookspeak is to warn people that their conversations might not be private," said McInnis, a San Francisco-based visual artist and documentary filmmaker. "I find it really disturbing that I have to worry about what I say when e-mailing friends in Iran."

Another film of big interest was Suprematist Kapital (.mov), by San Francisco filmmakers James T. Hong and Yin-Ju Chen, which tells a five-minute history of Western capitalism.

More on the explosive growth of Mobile Cinema can be read at Wired.

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