RIP: REMIX MANIFESTO

Oct 17, 19:30 @ Cinéma Impérial.
10$. billets @ Admission.com.

After the screening, join EYESTEELFILM, Doc Québec & le Festival du Nouveau Cinéma for our extremely interactive FNC PARTY at the AGORA du Coeur des Sciences - 175 avenue du Président-Kennedy with KHIASMA and MOFOMATRONIX!!!

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Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor’s feature documentary, RiP: A remix manifesto, explores the concept of copyright in the era of Napster, Bit Torrent and peer-to-peer file sharing. Although pop culture giants such as Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones were able to build on past music to produce their own, the door is now closing behind them. RiP’s central protagonist is Gregg Gillis, the Pittsburgh biomedical engineer who moonlights as Girl Talk, a mash-up artist rearranging the pop charts’ DNA with his incongruous, entirely sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy?

Digital technology opens up an unprecedented global economy of ideas. RiP explores the robber barons and revolutionaries squaring off across this new frontier as the film journeys from the control rooms of Washington to the favelas of Brazil. Along the way, Gaylor interviews key figures about the complexities of intellectual property in the digital era, among them Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, culture critic Cory Doctorow, Brazilian musician and former Minister of Cultural Affairs Gilberto Gil, and Jammie Thomas, the single mom successfully sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for illegal downloading.

A mash-up in itself, RiP is the world’s first Open Source documentary, shattering the wall between users and producers, and challenging the thresholds of “fair use.” A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at , for anyone to remix. RiP’s movie-as-mash-up method allowed these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle. Which side of the ideas war are you on?

The Beta version screening of 'RIP: Remix Manifesto' is the beginning of a conversation that will continue around the world, with a film that depends on YOUR participation. We want everyone to keep on remixing!

RiP: A Remixer's Manifesto is produced by EyeSteelFilm in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada. Produced in association with Documentary and Canal D.