Author: Brett Gaylor | @remixmanifesto
Date: 2008
Duration: 85 min. 25 sec.
Website: www.ripremix.com

This documentary was screened on March 23rd 2011 at Modern Art Oxford as part of the Bonus Tracks programme, a series of public events organised in the context of the Remix Cinema Workshop.

This post is part of the series What is remix?

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.

Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and new media director. He is the creator of opensourcecinema.org, a video remix community which supports the production of his feature documentary RiP: A remix manifesto.