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Documentary Group

Emerging out of the Open Cinema project at Open School East, an enthusiastic self organised Documentary Film Group (DFG) has coalesced.

At the first meeting we introduced ourselves, shared our skillbase, and some of us pitched ideas and made proposals.

If Community Was...

The second in Open Cinema's workshops was developed and lead by Ed Webb-Ingall.

Ed's research looks to recover, reactivate and revive the history and practice of community video. Ed gave a brief  account, from 1968 to 1981 of the development of a medium and moving image style that continued the tradition of direct cinema (cinema verité) although with radically different in form and content—that of community video making.

Supported by public funding, the community video movement enabled groups and individuals to use a media that was often used to misrepresent them - through broadcast television, to  engage in new forms of collective self-representation.  Video’s DIY possibilities was often a technology to encourage community organization.

Open Cinema: Home

Open Cinema

OPEN CINEMA: HOME

A screening festival celebrating digital filmmaking and Hackney Including world premiere of 24 hour Hackney: A City Symphony

Saturday 21 November, 4-8pm
Open School East
The Rose Lipman Building
43 De Beauvoir Rd
London N1 5SQ

Open Cinema is an 8-month digital film project led by artist Neil Cummings.

Working with a pool of film professionals and enthusiasts, Open Cinema collectively researched, found and made digital films. In the spirit of collaborative learning, we explored the role of film in representing and reactivating people and places, especially Hackney. It's been amazing.

 

Order of events:

16.00pm Refreshments and cakes provided by OSE associate Michael Whitby, with activities.
16.30pm Screening programme starts
18.30pm Dinner, and world premier of 24Hour Hackney
19.30pm Final screening and close.

24Hour Hackney

Open CinemaOpen Cinema a collective adventure in digital filmmaking and sharing; March–October 2015

Open Cinema is an 8-month long digital film project that offers free training, a range of free events, and the opportunity to collaborate on the production of an exciting 2-day cinema event at Open School East.

Rip, Splice, Share

The third in Open Cinema's workshops was developed and lead by documentarian, Jose Velazquez. Jose trained at the BBC in new broadcast technologies, he  has a vast knowledge and hands-on expertise in acquisition - we learnt to say 'ingestion'-  transport, storage, compression, management and delivery of moving image content.

Jose introduced some archives of digital moving image content, like Archive.org, and YouTube, and explained how they work; media hosted on a server and streamed on demmand. ..........More soon

 
Clip convertor to rip youtube content (video and audio)   

Editing:
Hitfilm free trial: (output length limited and only publishes to YT, otherwise full product)
Free youtube cloud editor:  (plenty of others available obviously)  

Torrents (if of interest):
Vuze client, or Unlock Torrent .

Community film-making

The second in Open Cinema's workshops was developed and lead by Ed Webb-Ingall.

Ed's research looks to recover, reactivate and revive the history and practice of community video. Ed gave a brief  account, from 1968 to 1981 of the development of a medium and moving image style that continued the tradition of direct cinema (cinema verité) although with radically different in form and content—that of community video making.

Supported by public funding, the community video movement enabled groups and individuals to use a media that was often used to misrepresent them - through broadcast television, to  engage in new forms of collective self-representation. Women’s groups, working class communities, gay liberation activists, tenants associations and people of color had the means to explore and represent their own experiences collectively.  Video’s DIY possibilities was often a technology to encourage community organization.

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Solar panelSelf Portrait; Relational MapMoMA WarsawAgora, 4th Athens BiennaleFaro FinisterraAmy at Chisenhale