The minuscule video is among the works on display at a film festival that opened Friday in this Japanese port town, featuring 48 movies — all shot on camera-equipped cell phones.

The works, streaming on monitors of cell phones strapped to tables, are filled with everyday shots, some literally taken on the run with streets and cars whizzing past in a blur.

They have a voyeuristic feel because the cell phone is so unobtrusive. Devoid of the typical grandeur of standard films, they offer grainy but patiently taken close-ups that don't rely on zooms and other fancy editing techniques.

Fujihata said he was particularly fond of the nine-minute "Walkers," whose main character is a pair of sneakers that takes a trip on a train.

"Passerby," a witty puzzle-like piece by Michiko Tsuda, 27, a graduate student, uses a split screen to show images taken on two cell phones — one held by a man in the men's room and the other by a woman in the women's room.