"Little Movies" is a lyrical and theoretical project about the aesthetics of digital cinema, and a eulogy to its earliest form--Quicktime. Beginning with the well-known idea that each new medium first relies on the contents of the previous media, "Little Movies" take the key moments in the history of cinema as their logical subject.

As the time passes, "the medium becomes the message," that is, the "look," more than the content of any media technology of the past is what lingers on. "Little Movies" reads digital media of the early 1990s from a hypothetical future, foregrounding its basic properties: the pixel, the computer screen, the scanlines.

In the early 1890s the public patronized Kinescope parlors where peep-hole machines presented them with the latest marvel--tiny moving photographs arranged in short loops. Exactly a hundred years later, we are equally fascinated with tiny Quicktime movies--the precursor of digital cinema still to come. Drawing a parallel between these two historical moments, "Little Movies" are explicitly modeled after Kinetoscope films: they are also short loops.