Man With A Movie Camera:The Global Remake

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Images on left are from Vertov's 1929 film. Images on right are user generated.To participate go to dziga.perrybard.net

A participatory video shot by people around the world who are uploading footage to dziga.perrybard.net to interpret Vertov's 1929 classic film Man With A Movie Camera for the 21st century. This short segment has 24 uploads from 18 countries.

Log onto dziga.perrybard.net where there is a list of SCENES. Click on any scene to see the shot list.Click see all uploads to see the uploads for each shot. Click upload to upload your interpretation. You can also participate by selecting SHOTS BY TAG.

Software developed for this project archives sequences and streams the submissions as a film.As the same shot can be uploaded more than once infinite versions of the film are possible. A new film is built daily and streams on the website. Click START to see today's version.

TO UPLOAD- ongoing
dziga.perrybard.net

Concept/Director: Perry Bard
Software Development: John Weir
Sound Design: Steven Baun
Participants: See list on intro page at dziga.perrybard.net

Fall News:
Fall news:
an essay on MWAMC here
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/FeldmanVertov/index.html

Toronto Film Festival September 9 - 19 2010 in the program Future Projections
http://tiff.net/

Wikitopia Hong Kong September 11-19 2010
http://videotage.org.hk/wikitopia/?p=608

International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women Ljubljana, 10- 19th of October 2006

Share Festival Torino November 2-7 2010 - where it is nominated for an award
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/08/torinos-share-festival-2010/

The work won Honorary Mention for the Liedts-Meesen FoundationTechnological Award - exhibition at Zebrastraat Ghent April 17 - June 20

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• web 2.0
• open source
• social media
• participatory
• democracy
• new media
• video art
• film history
• film
• Vertov
• community
• remake
• remix
• mashup
• activism
• global
• documentary
• performance
• net art

[teuffeu]

Branlette intellectuelle ...

[perrybard]

@teuffeu

par qui?

[roryrbk]

check out Unconsciously Aware by RJLS.

the video is on my page - roryrbk

It is another take on man with a movie camera.

[perrybard]

@roryrbk

great interpretation! thanx for sending me the link

[000mantika]

New original unofficial video of Trentemoller - Silver surfer, ghost rider go!

(Dziga Vertov's "The Man with a Movie Camera" (1929) rework)

youtube.com/watch?v=xbN0yPBYFm­4

[RoseFink]

@BlueSundew I agree, adding a modern version side by side does nothing but dilute and distract from the original.

[teuffeu]

@perrybard celui qui a fait le remake, bien entendu. Je ne critiquerai pas Vertov

[BlueSundew]

Liked the original, but not the remake :S

[WWFGreaterMekong]

Yay! The train in Vietnam.

[Mo3r3s]

wat ?!