Sew it yourself

Just today, I was able to get to know a project that fits perfectly to the scope of this blog:

The Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake

Quote from the site:

Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video shot by people around the world who are invited to record images interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera and upload them to this site. Software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. Anyone can upload footage. When the work streams your contribution becomes part of a worldwide montage, in Vertov’s terms the “decoding of life as it is”.

I found it on the Ars Elecronica site, just browsing around.

Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera - Internet Archive

Side note: Happy coincidence my wife makes handmade dolls besides her main work, restoration of pottery and paintings. Occasionally we have to work side-by-side but the connection was not evident to me.

Related articles: The Bigger Picture - Women Editors

Self Raising Cinema

One word: IndieGoGo

Basically, it is a tool for project funding, recruiting, and promotion; kind of "Self Raising Cinema".

Still looking for user reviews on this...
Spotted here.

Open, Collaborative Video Experiment

Some fresh news on collaborative media production is here.

It seems that Wikimedia Foundation is trying to add some tools to the mix, helping people produce collaborative rich media content.

Far from traditional cinema? Sure...But is probably closer to what some day might become cinema 2.0.

More on this soon.