Sunday, May 3: “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” at UnionDocs at 7:30PM
Timely issues of copyright control, piracy, and fair use come to the forefront of Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A Remix Manifesto (2009), which focuses on the controversy surrounding the increasingly popular sample-based musical artist Girl Talk. Gaylor’s film goes above and beyond the bounds of most traditional documentaries and fully engages in the issue at hand: he has made his film “open source” and available online for anyone to “remix” themselves. Visit opensourcecinema.org for more info.
New York-based programmer Steve Holmgren has curated this event, and has invited Fred Benenson (co-founder of Free Culture @ NYU) for a conversation after the film.
