[okfn-discuss] Documentary film(s)?

Mon Jun 4 15:20:11 UTC 2012

I don't recall Kirby Ferguson's most excellent "Everything Is a Remix" mentioned.

http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/

Did I say it was most excellent? Well, it is.

On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Jamie M Folsom wrote:

> I've heard SECRECY by Rob Moss and Peter Gallison is a great film. May be a WIP, but it comes highly recommended.
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> On May 31, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Kat Braybrooke wrote:
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> A big +1 to Becky and David's suggestions of "Us Now" - really great film re: community-sourced collaborative projects.
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> Also, "Rip It: A Remix Manifesto"[1] is at least tangentially related (focused on copyright laws around mashup medias, and existing public campaigns for the open redistribution of cultural archives) and is available online for free. In a similar vein, "Steal This Film" is a (quite biased, yet still interesting) discussion about the "battles between old and new forms of distribution" and re-use, especially in the case of the Pirate Bay [2].
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> Lastly, a shorter film making a case for "Open Data in Transit" by some folks from OpenPlans in the US [3].
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> Hope this helps!
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> Kat
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> [1] http://ripremix.com/
> [2] http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/
> [3] http://www.streetfilms.org/a-case-for-open-data-in-transit/
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> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:57 AM, david osimo <david.osimo at gmail.com<mailto:david.osimo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 2 things:
> - Us Now, the movie http://watch.usnowfilm.com/
> - Open Gov Partnership video http://daa.ec.europa.eu/inspiring_videos/display/24770
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> On 30 May 2012, at 10:47, Javier Creus wrote:
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> hello,
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> only thing I can think about is a short 6 minute video included in  http://farmsubsidy.org/
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> an open data journalism project about subsidies to agriculture in the ue
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> thanks,
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> javier
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> 2012/5/29 Alex Averbuch <alex.averbuch at gmail.com<mailto:alex.averbuch at gmail.com>>
> Hi,
> I'm a member of the Stockholm Cinema Politica group (http://www.cinemapolitica.org/stockholm) - we organize free screenings of independent political films to the student body of Stockholm University, as well as the greater Stockholm community.
> For an upcoming screening we'd like to show a documentary about "Open (transparent) Government", or "Open Data" in general, but we haven't been able to find anything yet.
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> Can anyone recommend any documentaries that address these topics?
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> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
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