The New Freedom

Monday, March 31st, 2008...7:59 pm

Your World

This week, CampusMovieFest, a pretty great organization that gives film equipment to kids to make short films in one week, came to BU. This year, their primary sponsor is AT&T, a company which is responsible for voluntarily and illegally assisting the NSA in one of the largest and most intrusive privacy violations in human history. They are currently being sued by the EFF for these violations.

Anyway, maybe it was because I had just gone to a screening and out for beers with Alan Toner, one the the film makers of Steal This Film, but I used the equipment they gave us to make a documentary about AT&T. Basically out of spite.

They have a special $10,000 prize for the best use of their phones in a film. I don’t think I will win it.

The music is by MonoCulture, an IDM artist who releases his work under open licenses. I found him through Gratisvibes, a sweet Creative Commons techno/idm/etc blog.

The song is quite a bit more chilled out than I wanted it to be, but that’s alright. I wanted to use 65daysofstatic’s song Goodbye, 2007 (intro track of that show, 3rd track on their new EP) but I couldn’t for copyright reasons. Grumble. Still, I think that MonoCulture track is quite fitting as well..

I learned the camera and ProTools and wrote/shot/edited the thing in just over a day. I’m fairly please with how it turned out, considering.

This film is Creative Commons-BY, Rich Jones, 2008. Email me if you’d like a higher-res version for editing or redistribution!

Njoi!
Rich!