September 25, 2008
CELEBRATE NATIONAL DIGITAL MEDIA DAY!
By
Katherine Dodds
Celebrate National Digital Media Day
Part of the Vancouver International Film Festival Goings On
Sept 25, 2008
There’s an event tonight, for those of you in Vancouver that includes a screening of our own Feminist Heritage Minute animation (created for Inter Pares a Social Justice organization based in Ottawa), our cohort Naomi Klein’s viral short film to promote The Shock Doctrine, our GNN pal Stephen Marshall’s "Channel Surfing the Apocalypse", and more!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
FREE EVENT
5:30 -8 pm: NEW MEDIA BC Networking sessions (and I hear there is free beer if you get there early)
8-9:30pm “Politube” -- the aforementioned short political online films
Location: Radical Entertainment 8th floor - 369 Terminal avenue
More info at NewFormsFestival.com.
What Curator Franklin Lopez sez:
Politube - in 1993 the National Center for Supercomputing Applications released "Mosaic" the first internet browser and thus, the World Wide Web was born. Mosaic was slow and clunky, but it paved the way for the millions of websites that populate what we now know as the web. For most Canadians, it’s almost hard to imagine a world without the web. On the web, we read the news, make friends, find chili recipes and now more than ever, we watch videos.
When acclaimed Canadian author Naomi Klein wanted to promote her book ‘The Shock Doctrine’ she released a politically charged video on Youtube. Despite the fact that the most popular videos on Youtube feature skate boarding dogs and crying Britney Spears fans, Klein’s short film gathered half a million views in a matter of weeks. Her book soared to the New York Times best seller list, and a new generation was exposed to Klein’s smart analysis of the world we live in.
Klein’s story is not unique. Where the evening news and the op ed pages once were the staples of political media, now activists, political candidates, video artists and regular citizens can promote their views through videos online. The potential to reach large audiences or to pinpoint to specific communities with small or no budgets is immense.
Politube features the highlights of the short history of political videos online. From Canadian filmmaker Stephen Marshall’s "Channel Surfing the Apocalypse" to Jonathan McCintosh’s TV commercial mash-ups, the diverse world of Politbe lives up to the name of the first web browser.
I’ll be there!
Xo Kat
PS. NEXT WEEK VIFF LAUNCHES:
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action
(Canada, 2008, 97 mins)
World Premiere Wed, Oct 1st 7:00pm
Thu, Oct 2nd 1:00pm/Thu, Oct 9th 10:30am
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
(2008, 94 mins)
World Premiere
Thu, Oct 9th 7:15pm (SOLD OUT EXCEPT FOR AT-THE-DOOR RUSH TICKETS) Fri, Oct 10th 1:00pm
TICKETS AND INFORMATION: WWW.VIFF.ORG (604) 685-0260
(I’m going to write more about them in the next few days…)
see you there…
Tag(s):
Technology,
Video
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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