Category: Films and Projects

Starwars Uncut

“Hello! You and 472 other people have the chance to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is the entire movie split up into 15 second clips. Click on one of the scenes to claim it, film it, and upload it. You can have up to three scenes! When we’re all done, we’ll stitch it […]

Collaborative filming, Films and Projects

TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT

“To shoot an elephant” by Alberto Arce/ Mohammad Rujailah is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians. The film is a […]

Collaborative filming, Films and Projects, News

Magic Lantern os firmware

(Probably old) News for owners of a Canon Eos 5d Mark II camera who want to use their still image camera as a videocamera, there is the open source firmware upgrade MagicLantern. Installing ML gives the choice to boot the camera into either the Canon factory software or the firmware.

Films and Projects, Hardware, News

Interview Raffaella Traniello

Raffaella Traniello is a Venice based videolover and teacher. She is an active member of the Cinelerra and Lumièra communities and worked on several handbooks that testify of her enthusiasm for working with free software. Following Q+A attempts to unfold some of her energetic activities.

Collaborative filming, Films and Projects, Further reading

Zimmermann + Latrive

Jeremie Zimmermann and Florent Latrive talked during the debate ‘Are we all pirates’, part of the Imaginary Property program in Cinema Nova, Brussels. “There is not a week going by without media attention for the dangers of “piracy”, which is depicted as an attack on creativity and innovation, an harassment of cultural heritage of authors […]

Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, News

Journées du libre 09

Find here a video registration of the conference ‘Free software in education’, which took place in the context of the yearly festival Journées du libre, on 9 may 2009 in the Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles in Brussels. In this framework, Constant invited teachers connected to various art and design schools to discuss the way […]

Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, Software

Kaleidoscope

Find here a short video-registration of the results of the Kaleidoscope workshop that took place in les Brigittines from 24-27th January. Info about the Kaleidoscope project can be found on the weblog Camera by Laurent Van Lancker, edited by Matthias Koole using Kino and Cinelerra. link to file: http://www.osvideo.constantvzw.org/wp-content/uploads/osn.ogg

Films and Projects

Psycho theora

Working with Ogg/theora encoded videofiles in Cinelerra does not always result in clean films, but sometimes produces errors in the coding. Based on this defect I am producing some clips that try to use the generated defects as a visual effect.

Films and Projects

Séance Vidéothèque Nomade Libre

Samedi 28 mars Barricade, centre culturel en résistance – 15/21 rue Pierreuse – Liège 19h30 – entrée libre Séance Vidéothèque Nomade La journée du libre commence à 14h et se poursuivra jusqu’à tard dans la nuit. Dans le cadre de cette journée l’asbl Barricade nous a proposé d’intervenir avec La Vidéothèque Nomade. Nous avons décidé […]

Films and Projects, News

2008: Man with a movie camera

Image left: Vertov, image right uploaded by Jerome Ming, Hanoi Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video-work to which people around the world are invited to contribute by capturing videos that interpret the original shots of Vertov’s film Man With A Movie Camera and upload them to the website. The […]

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