POPCORN TAXI PRESENTS
May 16th 2009 07:15
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
a documentary about copyright and remix culture
Who calls the shots on what is and isn't art?
Fresh from the 2009 SXSW Film Festival comes the controversial documentary that's got many a feather ruffled!
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th Century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power, or indeed the Pied Piper of piracy?
Examining the ambiguity of copyright law throughout the entertainment industry from Walt Disney through the brazen 'borrowing' of the blues via The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, the Napster Vs Metallica watershed legal feud, The Verve not getting a cent for their biggest single ever, right through the lesser known acts such as Negativeland who've felt the legal wrath of those with more power and money than themselves.
Ultimately pondering the question - when is art not legally classified as art. Which side of the ideas war are you on?
This kinetic, visceral and wildly entertaining and enlightening mixed- media documentary was recently the talk of the SXSW Film Festival and is ruffling corporate feathers the globe over.
Join us for what's sure to be a heated and engaging debate between morality and commercial reality - a night not to be missed.
More on Brett Gaylor:
Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and new media director. He is the creator of opensourcecinema.org, a video remix community which supports the production of his feature documentary RiP: A remix manifesto.
He is also the web producer of the Homeless Nation.org, a web project dedicated to bridging the digital divide - allowing everyone to participate in online culture.
Brett is one of Canada’s first videobloggers and has been working with youth and media for over 10 years, and is a founding instructor of the Gulf Islands Film and Television School.
www.popcorntaxi.com.au
a documentary about copyright and remix culture
Wednesday May 13 - 7pm
Greater Union, Bondi Junction
PLUS: an audience Q&A after
the movie with director and web activist
Brett Gaylor
Live from Poland (of all places!)
Hosted by
Lindsay McDougall
("The Doctor" JTV, Frenzal Rhomb)
Greater Union, Bondi Junction
PLUS: an audience Q&A after
the movie with director and web activist
Brett Gaylor
Live from Poland (of all places!)
Hosted by
Lindsay McDougall
("The Doctor" JTV, Frenzal Rhomb)
Who calls the shots on what is and isn't art?
Fresh from the 2009 SXSW Film Festival comes the controversial documentary that's got many a feather ruffled!
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th Century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power, or indeed the Pied Piper of piracy?
Examining the ambiguity of copyright law throughout the entertainment industry from Walt Disney through the brazen 'borrowing' of the blues via The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, the Napster Vs Metallica watershed legal feud, The Verve not getting a cent for their biggest single ever, right through the lesser known acts such as Negativeland who've felt the legal wrath of those with more power and money than themselves.
Ultimately pondering the question - when is art not legally classified as art. Which side of the ideas war are you on?
This kinetic, visceral and wildly entertaining and enlightening mixed- media documentary was recently the talk of the SXSW Film Festival and is ruffling corporate feathers the globe over.
Join us for what's sure to be a heated and engaging debate between morality and commercial reality - a night not to be missed.
More on Brett Gaylor:
Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and new media director. He is the creator of opensourcecinema.org, a video remix community which supports the production of his feature documentary RiP: A remix manifesto.
He is also the web producer of the Homeless Nation.org, a web project dedicated to bridging the digital divide - allowing everyone to participate in online culture.
Brett is one of Canada’s first videobloggers and has been working with youth and media for over 10 years, and is a founding instructor of the Gulf Islands Film and Television School.
www.popcorntaxi.com.au
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