Free Culture
Spontaneous Digitalia
Update: We got on BoingBoing and Brooklyn Vegan!
This past January, Maggie and I decided to spontaneously film the Free Culture New York Regional Summit that had been organized on Columbia's campus. We collected some good material, and a few weeks later, sat down at the Penn editing labs to put together a short documentary.
While the conference covered a variety of details concerning copyright, digital rights, and technology we decided that it was better for us to focus the film on the idea of student activism on the Internet. In our blurb we write:
The film explores a new form of student activism, based primarily on and about the Internet. Beginning with the Free Culture demonstration at the Times Square Virgin Megastore, the documentary covers Free Culture members out to educate consumers on alternative forms of music distribution online (archive.org, ccmixter.org, blogs, etc). It continues the discussion with interviews featuring conference participants (Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, Free Culture students activists). Finally, using cc licenses for distribution and production, the film acts as an example for other young student filmmakers who are interested in alternative copyright licensing.
We've put the film up on Archive.org, an excellent site that hosts tons of media on the Internet. We've also been blogged by FreeCulture NYU. The short has been up for less than a day, and it already looks like we're getting a lot of positive feedback.
We're hoping to enter the film in a variety of student film festivals this spring, including the Ivy Film Festival and UPenn's Gregory House. While the camera work is somewhat improvised, we think it's important to promote the message of alternative licensing to young artists and filmmakers.
Anyway, if you're interested, feel free to download the film here. And thanks everyone for your support and participation!
Update: We got on BoingBoing and Brooklyn Vegan!
This past January, Maggie and I decided to spontaneously film the Free Culture New York Regional Summit that had been organized on Columbia's campus. We collected some good material, and a few weeks later, sat down at the Penn editing labs to put together a short documentary.
While the conference covered a variety of details concerning copyright, digital rights, and technology we decided that it was better for us to focus the film on the idea of student activism on the Internet. In our blurb we write:
The film explores a new form of student activism, based primarily on and about the Internet. Beginning with the Free Culture demonstration at the Times Square Virgin Megastore, the documentary covers Free Culture members out to educate consumers on alternative forms of music distribution online (archive.org, ccmixter.org, blogs, etc). It continues the discussion with interviews featuring conference participants (Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, Free Culture students activists). Finally, using cc licenses for distribution and production, the film acts as an example for other young student filmmakers who are interested in alternative copyright licensing. We've put the film up on Archive.org, an excellent site that hosts tons of media on the Internet. We've also been blogged by FreeCulture NYU. The short has been up for less than a day, and it already looks like we're getting a lot of positive feedback.
We're hoping to enter the film in a variety of student film festivals this spring, including the Ivy Film Festival and UPenn's Gregory House. While the camera work is somewhat improvised, we think it's important to promote the message of alternative licensing to young artists and filmmakers.
Anyway, if you're interested, feel free to download the film here. And thanks everyone for your support and participation!
posted by Thessaly | 6:09 PM
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So far our film has gotten 806 downloads. Maybe if we hit the thousand mark we will celebrate by posting edited out footage of me assaulting homeless woman.
haha, yes! we can have a collector's edition.
Congrats on reaching the 1000-download (in like 2 days) mark: force-feld is famous!!! I expect to see a behind-the-scenes documentary or an audio-commentary track to accompany the film (or at the very least the aforementioned deleted scenes)in the next days.
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