What if you got home from space …
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“In 1973, the first Russian cosmonaut on the Moon is unable to make his way back and is declared missing in Space. However, through ghostly radio messages, he claims to have come back to Earth and found it empty, not a living soul. His unreal presence and voice will little by little destroy the world of his loved ones.”
If the quotes above look like clips from a sci-fi movie promo, that’s because because they are.
“Hello,” says an email from Pol Rodríguez. “I am writing you because, since P2P is about free information and media, I think you could be interested in the latest
project of the independent cinematographic company where I work, Riot Cinema
Collective.”
Interesting.
“A SCI-FI feature film produced by lots of people (like YOU) starting from 2€. Licenced as Creative Commons so that you can edit it, copy it, remix it and share it as your wish. For Free.
“Поехали!.”
So it says on the web site for The Cosmonaut.
In his email, Pol goes on »»»
Directors from everywhere in the world have been looking for years for alternative models of funding, exhibition and distribution that actually work in this new scene, and in some way our project, called “The Cosmonaut”, is our contribution to this debate. The Cosmonaut is a full length sci-fi film project financed with crowdfunding (the public itself produces the movie, amongst other sources ), and its premiere will be free, in HD, on the internet and under a Creative Commons License.
The film tells the story of the first Russian cosmonaut sent to the moon. He disappears, but eventually, radio messages from him are received. In them, he claims he has come back to earth, finding it empty.We already have the support from various institutions and personalities, such as *Sergey Volkov* (a Russian Cosmonaut) *J.L. Ruiz de Gopegui*(theformer director of NASA Programs in Spain),*Richard Stallman* (founder of the GNU and Free Software Foundation), or the *Laboratory for Experimentation in Space and Microgravity*, as well as lots of other people and entities, that can be seen in http://www.thecosmonaut.org.
(A funny fact: thanks to this collaborations, for example, everyone who contributes to the film participates in a prize draw for an authentic cosmonaut suit!)
From its beginning, the project seeks the creation of a closer relation withits audience and invites everyone to participate in the different stages of the film production. As said, it is mainly funded through crowdfunding and non-invasive publicity, and everyone who decides to get involved (from a minimum inversion of two euros) becomes a producer, being a member of ourcommunity “K Program” and always receiving something in exchange.
The premiere of the film (in spanish with english subtitles) will be in the internet, for everyone, for free, and in HD.
All the material created until now and everything there is to come is, andwill always be, under a Creative Commons License, so anyone can access it,copy it, remix it, and redistribute it, even commercially.
And – a very important point to us – we always keep a premise oftransparency.
We uploaded our site on the begining of this summer and we are surprisedwith the general response. We already have more than 1000 producers and the 65% of the funds we need and every day more and more producers and collaborators from all areas decide to join or work with us.
If you check it out you’ll find a short version of the script, a project dossier http://s268192870.mialojamiento.es/The_Cosmonaut.pdf, a press kitand some more information. There’s also a blog called Diario de abordo http://elcosmonauta.es/blog/(OnboardDiary).
We have not had the time to translate all the posts to the English version yet, but it’s very active.
There’s a short video about the project. BUT —- it’s in rapid-fire Spanish. ;p http://www.vimeo.com/4652176
Definitely stay tuned.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
October, 2009
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October 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I’ve been banging on about this for years – I have brick marks on my forehead to prove it.
Just because a manufacturer of copies can’t sell copies, that doesn’t mean a producer of movies can’t sell a movie to the audience who want to see it. They may no longer be able to sell it to a producer of copies, but who cares about that given people can make their own copies for nothing?
It should also serve as a warning to those demanding non-commercial file-sharing. It’s pointless demanding the liberty to share files if you still deny the producers of movies and other intellectual works the liberty to sell their labour to you. You need to legalise file-sharing full-stop, whether commercial or not.
Not every musician and movie-maker out there can afford to give their work away. Some of them would appreciate being paid for their work.
Remember, that’s ‘paid for their work‘, not ‘paid for every copy that anyone makes’. As copies cost nothing to make, sure, everyone is free to make their own and give ‘em away. But, work, now that takes time, skill and effort, so sometimes, those who produce it, might want to make its production contingent upon payment. It would be silly to legalise giving copies of work away for nothing, but for it to remain illegal to produce and distribute the work for money. Thankfully Pol astutely recognises this.
File-sharing is about the freedom to share, not about forcing forcing artists to work for free. Free as in speech, not as in beer.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
“You need to legalise file-sharing full-stop”.
who says filesharing is illegal?
i don’t know who you’re talking to. filesharing IS legal.
and where i live, copying and sharing for personal use IS legal.
it’s actually written into law.
i don’t say online where i live. that’s no one’s business but mine.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Firstly, http://www.enterpajge.com’s spam needs deleting, not least for the misattribution and plagiarism.
Secondly, catflap, my apologies for the unqualified use of the term ‘file-sharing’ and the insinuation that it wasn’t legal. I was referring to the petition to legalise the not-for-profit sharing of copyrighted media – even they fail to clarify that they mean ‘works subject to copyright irrespective of the copyright holder’s license or permission’. As we know, it’s still legal to file-share many works subject to copyright.