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due to the fact that there were only a few submissions in the category
"demoshow" we felt impelled to cancel this years demo competition. We
are really sorry about how things turned out, as we use to hold a demo
competition for two years now. This cancellation will indeed be a
reduction of the festivals diversity, and more. Before this turns out to
be something like pathetic public-relations-blabla, I wanna get serious:
We DO WANT to show and broadcast demos on our festival and we WILL try
to make up another competition later again. Demo tends to be quite the
opposite mainstream film-making, for to me it is making a piece of work
in order to make a piece of work and not selling it afterwards, and
that's what art should be like.

Demo is something I still don't fully understand (and I am watching
demos and reading demo news for over three years now). Though I haven't
been on a single demo party yet and I often don't understand what you
guys are talking about (in technical terms) when I meet you, I don't
wanna miss demos on the coming festivals again, as I don't wanna miss
your presence there as well. The way we promote the festival now- within
the Bitfilm Club- is a way we always liked to go for a very long time
now, coz there always has been a loose community of digital film makers,
and we wanted to bring them together. We implemented the demo
competition to the Bitfilm Festival as an expansion of approach and
style. And even if we can't show demos as executables on our websites
but only as videos, we hope that you will handle that anachronism.

Some last words: I hope that even if there is no demo comp this year you
will stay with us, stay in the club and watch out for new challenges
under the Bitfilm sign, coz they will happen. Some of the demos could be
integrated elsewhere, e.g. in the 3d programme, unfortunately others
couldn't. If you are not under latter ones I beg your pardon and can
only say that it isn't the quality of your works that prevented us from
doing so but the quantity of space we could offer in other programmes.

Stay with us as we will stay with u

All the best

Tim Rittmann