Beyond tech: Int'l forum sheds light on future art, music and film

Speakers exchange views on the future of filmmaking. [Photo by Li Ping/chinadaily.com.cn]

Chen Qiufan, vice president of Beijing-based tech start-up Noitom, said during a panel about filmmaking that storytelling in the future will be science-fictional, multimedia driven and interactive. He quoted US science fiction thriller Strange Days as an example.

"In that movie written by James Cameron [and Jay Cocks] and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, people can record their memories and life experiences into a chip, and insert it into another person's (mind)," Chen said."Then they can feel and experience exactly what other people feel. I think that's the ultimate way of storytelling in the future."

Despite of the soaring development of new technologies, the speakers agreed that stories themselves should still be the core, instead of being overweighed by mind-blowing technologies.

"The story lines must be more important than anything else," Jesus Manuel Montane, Spanish writer and director, said.