Participatory cinema
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Participatory cinema tries to involve a film's community in the process of making movies, rather than interaction being left to cinema viewers at the end of the process. The organizers of participatory cinema open up cinema showings and the cinema production process for non professionals.
Where classic film production focuses on the final product, participatory cinema focuses on the process of making movies and its meaning on the participators.
Participatory documentaries include RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
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Participatory feature films include projects like A Swarm of Angels
, Iron Sky
or The Cosmonaut
.
Participatory film platforms and communities include A Swarm of Angels
, Open Source Cinema
, The Cosmonaut
, Wreck-A-Movie and Write Our Movie
Where classic film production focuses on the final product, participatory cinema focuses on the process of making movies and its meaning on the participators.
Participatory documentaries include RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright"directed by Brett Gaylor.Created over a period of six years, the documentary film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to the Open Source Cinema...
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Participatory feature films include projects like A Swarm of Angels
A Swarm of Angels
A Swarm of Angels is an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers , each contributing £25 to the production...
, Iron Sky
Iron Sky
Iron Sky is an upcoming Finnish science-fiction comedy film from the makers of the Star Wreck series Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. The film is directed by Timo Vuorensola and produced by Tero Kaukomaa of Blind Spot Pictures production company. The film stars Udo Kier and Tilo Prückner...
or The Cosmonaut
The Cosmonaut
The Cosmonaut is an upcoming Spanish science-fiction feature film directed by Nicolas Alcala and produced by Carola Rodriguez and Bruno Teixidor. The first feature-length project of Riot Cinema Collective, it is notable for its use of crowdfunding techniques and Creative Commons license in its...
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Participatory film platforms and communities include A Swarm of Angels
A Swarm of Angels
A Swarm of Angels is an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim is to make the world’s first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aims to attract 50,000 individual subscribers , each contributing £25 to the production...
, Open Source Cinema
Open Source Cinema
Open Source Cinema is a collaborative website created to produce the documentary film RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a co-production with Montreal's EyeSteelFilm and the National Film Board of Canada...
, The Cosmonaut
The Cosmonaut
The Cosmonaut is an upcoming Spanish science-fiction feature film directed by Nicolas Alcala and produced by Carola Rodriguez and Bruno Teixidor. The first feature-length project of Riot Cinema Collective, it is notable for its use of crowdfunding techniques and Creative Commons license in its...
, Wreck-A-Movie and Write Our Movie
See also
- Pro-amProfessional amateursAmateur professionalism or professional amateurism is a socioeconomic concept that describes a blurring of the distinction between professional and amateur within any endeavour or attainable skill that could be labelled professional, whether it is in the field of writing, computer...
- Not to be confused with: Interactive cinemaInteractive cinemaInteractive cinema tries to give the audience an active role in the showing of movies. The movie Kinoautomat by Czechoslovakian director Raduz Cincera presented in the Czech Pavilion in Expo '67 in Montreal is considered to be the first cinema-like interactive movie...
- Perpetual Art Machine Perpetual art machinePerpetual art machinePerpetual Art Machine was founded in New York in January 2006 by artists Chris Borkowski, Aaron M. Miller, Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells in collaboration with Alexis Hubshman, president of the Scope art fair...