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Remixing Cinema will be an exploration of the effects of remix culture on the moving image.

Remix culture is a term employed by Lawrence Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture is, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.

Remixing Cinema will chart the evolution of the remix from oral (storytelling), through text (cut-up & fold-in), visual arts (collage & appropriation) & music (mash-ups & mixtapes) and the moving image (found-footage filmmaking & remix filmmaking).