Film Spring Open - a virtual film studio
I was interviewed by Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza a few weeks ago.
While the article talks about some open source film projects (i used a crappy online translator to figure that out), its main focus is on a project called Film Spring Open which recently launched in Poland. Film Spring Open is a virtual film studio, which acts as a portal for filmmakers looking to collaborate with other people around the world, offering different levels of participation.
Taken from their website: “We want to create a VIRTUAL FILM STUDIO that can be used by filmmakers from various countries as an online platform where they can come together to make a film: work on the script together and then jointly organize the production and postproduction of the movie, also including the distribution of the finished film. We also want to create a community of filmmakers who are not prepared to wait but are ready to go ahead and change the existing system of making films.”
It seems like a great idea. I took a tour of the site and found quite a few filmmakers offering their equipment and services, one student in London even offered his apartment to accommodate a film crew in exchange for experience on set.
Film Spring Open plans to distribute the movies that are made in the following ways:
“We want to organize mini-festivals of our films in the countries our members come from. At the annual Film Spring Festival we will be screening and awarding films made by members of our community and via our platform. Our focus is not just on making movies. We plan to launch our Online Film Spring Cinema which will be showing our films and serving as a discussion forum where anybody can talk to the filmmakers. In the 21st century it is no longer enough to produce a good film - the film also needs to be effectively advertised.”
Cool.
I was also chuffed to find a blog entry on bellebyrd, which suggests Stray Cinema was an inspiration for this project. This is a coincidence, as the project founder - Slawomir Idziak - was heavily involved with the making of three colours red and blue - two of my favourite films - which i used as visual reference when shooting the Stray Cinema footage. The circle of life eh. ;)
new forum on straycinema.com
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our wonderous developer dan has just launched a forum on the site. we hope you find it helpful!
Creative Commons
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The stray cinema footage is licenced under a creative commons licence. We would like to change the type of licence we use next year so that people can use our footage for commercial purposes if they wish. Why not, right? We also want to make the high resolution footage available to everyone. What do you think?
Also just found this short animation, Creative Commons 101...
Jan Svamkmajer's Dimensions of Dialogue
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My friend simon pointed me to this vid, I thought it was amazing and slightly disturbing, enjoy.
Filmmakers That Think Outside the Film
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"a whirlwind tour of some of the ways filmmakers are thinking beyond the film."
Stray Cinema is mentioned, read the full article here. I liked this quote near the end:
"In a keynote speech delivered at the Cinema Militans in September 2003, Peter Greenaway described the Tulse Luper Suitcases (which I recently blogged about) as: “an attempt to make a gathering together of today’s languages, to place them alongside one another and get them to converse.” Creators of film, print, TV, radio, theatre, games, new media and painting are all moving into this new paradigm of creation. Indeed, the future will not be the domain of artists who adapt or extend from their primary medium, but the domain of people who are transmedia artists from the beginning. Filmmakers don't create films anymore, they create worlds."
There is also a new fandangle word they use - webler - which apparently means:
“A website constructed entirely from a film’s visual and aural elements that can be navigated and interacted with by a general audience. A webler should offer both an experience of the actual film as with a film trailer and an alternative expression of that experience.” (Digiscreen)
word of the day, webler.
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