RIP! A REMIX MANIFESTO

Canada 2008 (HD, 80', col.)

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regia, soggetto/
director, story
Brett Gaylor
fotografia,
assistente regista/
cinematography,
associate director
Mark Ellam
montaggio/film editing
Tony Asimakopoulos,
Brett Gaylor
musica/music
Olivier Alary
interpreti/cast
Gregg Gillis,
Cory Doctorow,
Lawrence Lessig,
Gilberto Gil,
Jammie Thomas,
Mary Beth Peters,
Dan O’Neill,
The Gillis Family,
Mark Hosler,
Charlie Angus,
David Greubel,
Elisa Greubel,
RaeJ Schwartz,
Patti Santangelo,
Don Smith,
Robert Crane,
Amp Live,
Bruce Lehman,
Sany Pitbull,
DJ Marlboro
suono/sound
Richard Aylsworth,
Kyle Stanfield,
Pablo Villegas,
Mila Aung-Thwin,
Brett Gaylor
produttori/producers
Kat Baulu,
Germaine Ying Gee Wong,
Mila Aung-Thwin
produzione/production
Eyestillfilm, National
Filmboard of Canada
vendita all’estero/
world sales
National Filmboard
of Canada

RIP - A REMIX MANIFESTO
Starting with the case of the DJ Girl Talk, who became famous for
his mash ups – the remixing of pre-existing musical samples – and is
persecuted by copyright lawyers, various people such as the founder
of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, the musician Gilberto Gil,
the critic Cory Doctorow and Jammie Thomas, who was recently
ordered to pay a two million dollar fine for illegal downloading,
discuss the complex problem of intellectual property in the digital era.

“Pop culture never asked our permission to be placed in our lives.
The mass media machine gets to put it everywhere. The idea that
we’re supposed to ask permission to sample that work, to critique and
recontextualize it, that is the core statement I was trying to make.
We live in this universe where we’re constantly being pushed to buy
something, or vote for someone. I think it’s the ultimate literacy to
be able to take that and recontextualize it – to say, I won’t be sold this;
I won’t vote for that. I have my own statement to make.”

Brett Gaylor

Brett Gaylor (1977) is a documentary
filmmaker, videoblogger, web activist,
who has already many followers across
the net. He is the creator of
OpenSourceCinema.org, a video remix
community that supports the
productions in which he has involved.
He is also the web producer of the
Homeless Nation.org, a project
dedicated to allowing everyone to
participate in online culture. Brett is one
of Canada’s first videobloggers and has
been, and is a founding instructor of the
Gulf Islands Film and Television School.

FILMOGRAPHY
(Updated to the last partecipation to TFF)
Rip - A Remix Manifesto (doc., 2009).