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RIP: A Remix Manifesto is a radical open source documentary film that addresses the Great Copyright Debate in the age of mass piracy. The Montreal-based director Brett Gaylor, a veteran of digital democracy, shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org and invites the public to remix it, pioneering a new mash-up movie genre as he goes.
Guiding viewers through the maze of concert footage, animation, video collages and interviews that draw the lines of this copyright versus “copyfight” movie, is cult mash-up musician – and Gaylor’s main source of inspiration – Girl Talk. After 6 years in the making, a “beta” version was premiered at Montreal’s Festival Nouveau Cinema. But, says Gaylor, this film is an ongoing experiment in participary evolution – and you are cordially invited to become a
