Category: Media archives
TPC The Pirate Cinema
In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, “The Pirate Cinema” reveals the hidden activity and geography of Peer-to-Peer file sharing. The project is presented as a monitoring room, which shows Peer-to-Peer transfers happening in real time on networks using the BitTorrent protocol. The installation produces an arbitrary cut-up of the files currently being exchanged. Users […]
Films and Projects, Media archives, NewsAlÿs Reel-Unreel
Download the most recent video from Francis Alÿs here: http://www.francisalys.com/ All video’s (but some) are under Creative Commons / share alike / non commercial. Reel-Unreel, in collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi, was commissioned by Documenta 13. Kids role reels of film through the streets. “In 2001 the Taliban burned films from the Afghan […]
cc / fal / public domain, Films and Projects, Media archivesRadical Video Library
http://fuckcopyright.blogspot.com/ Radical Video Library is a non-profit D.I.Y. project, that has put as its goal to spread the word in form of “the video”. We will try to bring here various genres from different perspectives and subcultures. We try to focus especially on anarchy, protests, riots, ecology, animal liberation, peak oil, antifascist struggle, human rights […]
Films and Projects, Media archivesOpen Freely Available (and sometimes) Freely Usable Video
The EU screen website “aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe’s rich and diverse cultural history. It will create access to over 30,000 items of programme content and information, and it will prove valuable to the widest range of cultural, educational and recreational users.” All the video’s are posted under the […]
cc / fal / public domain, Media archives, NewsOpen Source Video ?
On 22 september, we showed some films in our freshly opened Libre Video Lab, which is part of Constant Variable, Constant’s new lab building dedicated to F/LOSS art, on Rue Gallait 80 in Schaarbeek, Brussels. We showed some video’s that were in their own way give meaning to the ‘open’ in ‘open source’ video. The […]
Films and Projects, Media archives, NewsReenacting The Liberation of Our People
From Archive.org: Artist Mark Tribe organised a public reenactment of a speech originally given by activist and Black Panther Party member Angela Davis at DeFremery Park in Oakland, California on November 12, 1969. Davis makes the case for a united movement that links imperialism abroad with domestic oppression. She calls for the withdrawal of U.S. […]
cc / fal / public domain, Films and Projects, Media archivesCode Rush
(1) wikipedia: Code Rush is a 1998 documentary following the lives of a group of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. It was shot during a time of flagging company fortunes, the initial release of the Mozilla code as an open source project, and the friction of an impending AOL-Netscape merger. The documentary depicts Netscape programmers […]
Collaborative filming, Films and Projects, Media archivesFor immediate redistribution
20 open source movies, that can immediately be re-edited and -distributed. (From http://soosck.wordpress.com/)
Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, Media archives, NewsOpen Images
Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to a selection of audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse.
Media archives, News2008: 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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