Good old Canadialand! Always at the forefront of digital democratization, their National Film Board has just put over 700 full-length films, trailers and clips online for free home viewing worldwide. From a 1969 documentary about Mohawk land disputes in rural Canada, to a heart-wrenching animation that follows the downward spiral of drug-addled Canadian animator Ryan … Continued
Time for a slow, high-art treat after yesterday’s machinima/live action hybrid snack. Animate Projects (one of our fav 10 curated video platforms) just released online a new film by the acclaimed visual artists duo Jane and Louise Wilson. ‘Unfolding the Aryan Papers‘ tells the story of Stanley Kubrick‘s abandoned film project about the Holocaust ‘Aryan … Continued
For the first time in the history of humanity, there are more people living in cities than in the countryside. Fact! And of those many billions of city-dwellers, every 1 in 3 is living in a slum. The Places We Live is an immersive online documentary produced by the celebrated agency Magnum Photos, which introduces … Continued
The UK Film Council has launched a film search engine that covers everything from A Barrel Full of Dollars (1971 spaghetti Western) to Zizek! (obscure cultural theory documentary). Part of a push to steer the masses away from peer-to-peer file-sharing and towards the legal alternatives, the website contains 30 000 films – that’s roughly 7 … Continued
Have you ever been gripped by the urge to watch an army of kilted, bagpiping Scotsmen circa 1899? How about some 1940s erotica seductively named The Apple-Knockers and the Coke? We’re guessing no on both counts, but with 70% of footage shot in the first fifty years of cinema now lost forever, this user-friendly collection … Continued
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.
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