Mob Film Manifesto (Stephen Soderbergh Loves $$ More Than Art)

international | arts and media | opinion/analysis Thursday April 06, 2006 20:25 by aaronrip

This Film Is A Mash-Up
All Contents Sourced Online In One 3 Hour Sitting

It lays out why the future of filmaking will be led by the 'mob' rather than the 'auteur'.
Thanks to Michael R. and Roger C. for feedback as it was being made.

It's here as a pretty high quality div-x: https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/314.shtml

do whatever you like with it

Source Materials As Follows:

wireframe webcam image : carnivore webcam sniffing
http://www.zumkuckuck.com/carnivore/

hitchcock loops : psycho trailer found online
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/

eye images: flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eye/

soderbergh text: found via www.boingboing.net
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/06/xeni_interviews_st....html

foucault text: found via www.ctheory.net
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=371

dotcommunist manifesto: eben moglen
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html

eben moglen audio
http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/moglen/

mob films text
http://mobfilms.allotherplaces.org

tv eye mash-up
http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk

whirring audio based on sample of hitachi hard drive crashing found at
http://www.gizmodo.com ('noriko' version)

'hand' shots from my own webcam

"P2P projects are characterized by holoptism. Holoptism is the
implied capacity and design of p 2 p processes that allows
participants free access to all the information about the other
participants; not in terms of privacy, but in terms of their
existence and contributions (i.e. horizontal information) and
access to the aims, metrics and documentation of the project
as a whole (i.e. the vertical dimension). This can be contrasted
to the panoptism which is characteristic of hierarchical projects:
processes are designed to reserve 'total' knowledge for an elite,
while participants only have access on a 'need to know' basis. "
Michel Bauwens
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499