Open Source Shorts was a curatorial project, screening short films and video art released under Creative Commons licences. Open Source Shorts was first screened at the Nun’s Island Theatre, the Galway Arts Centre, on Sat 2nd December 2006. It was subsequently screened in 2007 as part of the Darklight Film Festival, in Dublin, where I participated in a panel discussion on the evolution of short film.
Provided attribution is given, you are free to copy and distribute these creative works on a non-commercial basis. Some are original works and the authors do not permit their use in derivative works. Others incorporate found footage, and authors encourage viewers to use and remix the material.
In 2022, I realised that a number of the videos were no longer online, and I re-uploaded copies from my personal archive to the internet archive, and updated this page.
His Girl Friday, between the lines edit by Valentin Spirik (2005)
A radically shortened experimental edit by Austrian writer/director/editor Valentin Spirik, of director Howard Hawks’ 1940 classic, His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell.
“All the action without the dialogue, hard cuts for sound and picture only, strictly in chronological order. While no shots or sequences have been moved, some non-dialogue material did fall on the virtual final cut editing room floor (but no segment, sequence or scene has been left out). Although some of the finer details of the original story don’t come across in this non-dialogue version of the screwball comedy classic, the main elements of the story still somehow work – this is specially interesting since His Girl Friday, based on a play, is a dialogue intense movie.”
http://indiworks.wordpress.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/indimediaworks
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
Generating Civil Society by David Meme (2005)
“Generating Civil Society is a stop-motion animation that explores the meaning and form of commons based peer-production (See the work of Yocahi Benkler) through the use of intertextuality and interdiscursivity in the production of a music video. Throughout the film, numerous references and visual citations are made (such as to the ‘commons’ in Hardt & Negri’s groundbreaking book Empire) to explore how through the reuse of culture we can develop new and innovative visual works.”
For further details click here.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
ML-Heavy Artillery by Pedro Inoue (2004)
“A strongly political music video that links consumerism, populism and war with a decline in our moral standards”.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Prelinger Silly Bulls! by Frank Panucci (2004)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
Al fondo a la izquierda by Cintia Paz (2006)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
Move this Rock by Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint
Part of ‘A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness’.
“A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness – Summer 2005” is a video performance work made in the woods and on rural back-lots and is part of Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir’s series of performance art videos begun in 2002. This video attempts to (1) disrupt the popular imagination of “nature” as an unproductive, uninhabited, ahistorical space; and (2) bring wilderness into the global digital network through the immediacy of dissemination made possible by internet video”.
Restlessculture.net is no longer online, thankfully the website was archived and a detailed description of the work is available on archive.org.
See other works from the series reviewed by Michael Szpakowski on DvBlog.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
Neum by Enda O’Donoghue (2003)
“Neum or neume is a succession or series of notes sung on or to one syllable. The term is found in medieval music theory and seems to have been used first in the eleventh century. The word derives from the Greek pneuma for breath.
Nnneeeuuummmm is a sound sometimes heard from children while playing with toy cars. Other sounds heard include Vroom, Beep, Rrooaar, Bbbdroom, Braaawn, Brraaooom, Screeechhh, Nee-Naaaww and of course Woo-Woo-Wooo.”
https://www.endaodonoghue.com/neum
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Unfinished from Scenes of Provincial Life by Michael Szpakowski (2007)
This work was licenced with the now retired creative commons sampling licence. As stated on the artist’s website “You may freely download & remix any of them, though I would appreciate a credit.“
Original Source
Illusion of Distance by Steven Baughman
http://www.iworkinprogress.com/video/theillusionofdistance.html
The Alternate World Waltz by Nicolas Sincaglia (2006)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
Movements No.1 by Jose M. Insua
“As my first step into video work, “movements no.1″ represents a look into the environment that surround us. The video expresses confusion and clarity using images and sounds interrelated by the particularity of movements captured in sequences of shots. The nature around us defines our physical and psychological behavior. The landscape the video explores are random scenes we pass by, from one side to the other, sharing common places with other elements of the nature. Day after day, human nature is defined by our environment.” Description from Rhizome Art Base.
http://jinsua.com/movements.html
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
Lark by Bronwen Parker-Rhodes
Winner of the FourDocs award for best short documentary, Sheffield DocFest 2006.
http://www.bronfilms.com/lark
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
Santa Monica from Scenes of Provincial Life by Michael Szpakowski (2006)
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi/2006/03/23#post054
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/
From Beirut to .. those who love us by Beirut Dc (2006)
“This video letter was made on July 21, 2006 at the studios of Beirut DC, a film and cinema collective which runs the yearly Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Film Festival. This video letter was produced in collaboration with Samidoun, a grassroots gathering of various organizations and individuals who were involved in relief and media efforts from the first day of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. It was also broadcasted at the Biennial of Arab Cinema, organized by the Arab World Institute in Paris.”
https://www.beirutdc.org/about
http://www.beirutletters.org
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
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