Article
(Kaleidoscope)
Looking for Internet active user for collaboration
HBO Voyageur / Bigspaceship
From user-generated or ‘crowsourced’ feature films, to intricately designed film/videogame hybrids and cheeky eurotrash dance music pop promos, websurfing has undoubtedly moved on from passive ‘content’ consumption to active and creative online collaboration.
Interview des créateurs
Collapsus / Tommy Pallotta / Submarine / USA 2010
An interactive story set in the near future, where the user chooses to follow one of 4 characters on a mission to solve the energy crisis. Part videogame with a political and environmental agenda, part feature film directed Tommy Pallotta a key collaborator on Richard Linklater’s ‘A Scanner Darkly’, Collapsus is an impressive production where multiple narratives attempt to actively engage the user’s resourcefulness and puzzle-solving abilities. A film which appeals to conspiracy theorists everywhere and winner of the coveted SXSW Interactive Awards 2011.
Collapsus : www.collapsus.com
Teaser
Life in a Day / Kevin Macdonald + Ridley Scott / UK 2011
Following an online call for submissions, over 80,000 people submitted video footage to YouTube of what they were doing on the 24th July 2010. Highly esteemed Scottish filmmaker MacDonald (The Last King of Scotland) and his team then painstakingly trawled through each entry to edit together a heartwarming feature film and web documentary about what life is like all over the world at one precise moment in time. The film, which claims to be ‘the largest user-generated feature film’, received its premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and is due for release this summer.
Life in a day : www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday
Be a star (swedish broadcasting) / Sweden 2010
A tongue-in-cheek sequel to the massively successful ‘Be A Hero’ viral campaign. In a slightly strange attempt to encourage viewers to pay their Swedish TV license fee, ‘Be A Star’ allows the user to be part of a cheesy dance music video by switching on their webcam and singing along to the cues as the Promo Director instructs you. The sillier and more outlandish your performance, the better. You can then send your personalized music video to friends or choose to keep it a pleasurably guilty secret.
Be A Star: blistjarna.se
Be a Hero: en.tackfilm.se
HBO voyeur / Big Spaceship / USA 2008
Despite its age (3 years in the online world can be a lifetime) Voyeur is still worth a close second look. A classic Webby Award winner and surprisingly with no TV show tie-in, this project plays on the voyeuristic tendencies of people living in high rise apartments in the centre of New York, with the user playing the role of nosey neighbour.
Twelve private narratives are hidden behind drawn curtains and closed doors, with the main action unfolding in the eight apartments of a tenement building. By clicking on each apartment, a story within a story is revealed, from domestic quarrelling over late-night decorating to near-naked dancing in one sitting room and a tenant being mugged on the stairs. ‘Friends’ this isn’t.
HBO Voyeur : http://archive.bigspaceship.com/hbovoyeur/
In the series
Dipping back in...
Atelier
Friday 5 April 2013 - Friday 26 April 2013
|
Rencontre
Tuesday 12 March 2013
|
Conférence
Tuesday 12 March 2013
|
Atelier
Friday 8 March 2013 - Friday 22 March 2013
|
