After viewing a few of Jack Daniel Stanley's short Internet films, I can see how the style of his films may transcend into the future of moving making, but I do not think that short films will become a norm in theaters around the U.S. The Internet is the perfect medium for short films like this because people have a very limited attention span, especially when surfing the web, so a six minute film is about all a viewer will want to spend time on viewing. Anything longer than that, I think, will remain on a DVD or in a theater.
If anything, I think these videos represent Internet filmmakers aspiring to be feature length film filmmakers. These videos remind me of the videos my friends in film school have to create for school projects, in hopes of one day getting the opportunity to make larger scale films. They're impressive, but nowadays, that doesn't make just anyone famous.
Though some of these filmmakers may be able to show screenings of their films, that does not necessarily designate them as renown filmmakers. I have a friend who created a movie, and with the help of donations from her family, was able to show a screening of her film in a theatre she rented out, but that's all it was. She's still a college graduate with no job.
Overall, though I think it is possible for these filmmakers to become prevalent in the future, they won't be known by these works, but by longer and more established films that will be seen in theaters and cost money to see. These films are perfect to broadcast via the Internet, but for it to mesh into the future of film, creators will have to create films meant for theater consumption, not the Internet.
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