Resolutionary TV: REDUX

RESOLUTIONARY TV: REDUX
A video essay about independent media and video activism
remixed by Tim Parish

Synopsis:
As global media control intensifies in the hands of multinational media conglomerates, the news we are presented with is increasingly one sided and influenced by prevailing corporate orthodoxies. However, as new technologies such as the internet and affordable digital cameras have increased network such as Indymedia have been able to proliferate and publish their own truths in information war of the 21st century. This video is a fast paced, cut'n'paste video essay sampling works from various documentaries and raw footage to illustrate these concepts.

Music by Enduser and Squarepusher

Background:
I cut this video together as an experiment in video essay structure while studying Media Arts at RMIT. At the time I had been volunteering with the Melbourne based community television show SKA TV's Access News, and had access to a great deal of interesting open source indymedia content..

The video was first screened as an introductory note for the 2003 Oceania Indymedia Newsreal which I created with Andrew Lowenthal and Anna Helme - who are now Engage Media (http://www.engagemedia.org/) for the Electrofringe Festival 2003.

Source Content:
resolution: verb
anamorph: wddg
we interrupt this empire -Video Activist Network
globalisation and the media - Undercurrents
Seeing Is Believing
Necessary illusions
'gilligans travels' and 'echelon' - Light Surgeons
'no frills' video zine

Director: Tim Parish
Producer: Tim Parish
Production Company: Undergrowth
Sponsor: www.undergrowth.org
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: indymedia; mash-up; remix; video essay
Contact Information: art@undergrowth.org

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Category:

Education

Tags:

• indymedia
• video activism
• remix
• resolution
• mashup
• video essay