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RiP: A Remix
Manifesto
Directed by Brett Gaylor
 85
min - 2009 - Canada - English - Color
In RiP: A Remix Manifesto,
web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues
of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media
landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall
between users and producers.
The film’s central protagonist
is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with
his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of
people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons
founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture
Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are
also along for the ride.
A participatory media experiment,
from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org,
for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows
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.
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