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Frunch – the Free Culture Lunch #5 (Blue Moon Edition)

This Friday, January 1, 2 pm, Soy & Sake @ 47 7th Ave S (at Commerce St) in New York’s West Village. Open to anyone who is into Free Culture, Free Software, Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, anti-censorship, etc.
We do this every week now! And it’s more fun than the other kind of “frunch” which …

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Sita held over at IFC; now playing through January 5.

Woo! New showtimes – Click on the time to purchase tickets for a screening.

Wed, Dec 30 at: 11:10 AM, 12:45 PM, 2:40 PM, 4:40 PM, 6:40 PM, 8:35 PM, 10:25 PM
Thu, Dec 31 at: 11:10 AM, 12:45 PM, 2:40 PM, 4:40 PM, 6:40 PM, 8:35 PM, 10:25 PM
Fri, Jan 1 at: 11:10 AM, 12:45 …

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The Cult of Originality

A lil’ illustrated essay by Nina Paley – keep reading

I. VACUUMS
I hear this a lot:
MICHAELANGELO WAS A GENIUS! A singular auteur! Wholly original!

How peculiar, then, that his works showed up in Europe in the 16th Century,

rather than ancient Egypt or Sumeria or Persia, or in the Lascaux Caves.

How “original” was Michaelangelo? He used …

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The Little Movie That Could

And the little Free Culture Activist that could, too:

T-shirt available here. Come see the movie! It closes Dec. 31.

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FINALLY! Sita in NY Dec. 25-31

Sita Sings the Blues plays for one week at New York’s IFC Film Center, Dec. 25-31. This is a real theatrical run, with 7 or 8 screenings a day. I’ll be doing Q & A’s at the 8:25 pm shows most (possibly all) nights. Tickets online!
The schedule so far (click on the time to …

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Free Culture Lunch #3

This Friday, December 18, 2 pm, Soy & Sake @ 47 7th Ave S (at Commerce St) in New York’s West Village. Open to anyone who is into Free Culture, Free Software, Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, anti-censorship, etc.
I’m trying to build another Free Culture community in New York. Last week’s was a lot of …

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Sita @IFC NY, Dec-25-31

Finally the Sita IFC Film Center page is up. Tickets go on sale Monday Dec. 21. We begged them to do it sooner, but you’ll have to wait until Monday!

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Bill Cheswick’s New Way to See Movies

Bill Cheswick prints entire films – I’m talkin’ every single frame of the film – on giant rolls of paper. Because Sita is open licensed, he was able to make cool new art with it without my permission, but he gave me this 30-foot-long print anyway!

From Cheswick’s site:
Of course, I would like to try …

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Minute Meme #1: Copying Is Not Theft

UPDATE: high res video file now on archive.org.

This is a “draft” of our (my and QuestionCopyright.org’s) first Minute Meme. A draft because the audio track is a placeholder, and we’re eager to hear what all you musicians out there can do with it. Also a draft because we need to make a fancier, more …

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An ideal hate mail

OK, this isn’t exactly hate mail – in fact it’s kind of adorable in its sincere incoherence. (I still get entertaining hate mail from time to time, but don’t publish it because I know the writers just want attention. This, however, is so perfect I couldn’t resist.) Vijaybhan writes:

Sister naina ji
Namsaty
what ever culture you …

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Sita NYC Theatrical Run Dec. 25-31, IFC Center

That’s all I know so far – a multiple-shows-a-day run of Sita Sings the Blues at New York’s IFC Film Center, starting Dec. 25 (aka “Chrismas) and closing Dec. 31 (aka “New Year’s Eve”). More info like exact screening times and how to buy tickets coming soon. Mark your calendars! Tell your friends! Help …

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Evelien Lohbeck

More of this artist’s really cool short films here. Via Ken Shan.

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What’s stopping you?

“What’s stopping ME from selling ‘Sita’ DVDs and merch?” I usually get this question from slightly shocked artists and filmmakers after Sita Sings the Blues talks. I’m not stopping them, and the law isn’t stopping them. Yet for some reason, they don’t go out and sell Sita merch once they know this. Why?
I can …

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I <3 Middlemen

Yes I do! Most indie filmmakers I talk to complain about distributors and “middlemen,” but they’re missing the real problem. Middlemen – publishers, distributors, resellers – can do excellent work. The problem is not middlemen; it’s monopolies.

So many middlemen insist on monopolies, we’ve forgotten we don’t need to grant them. They say that without …

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Frunch: the Free Culture Lunch, #2

This Friday, December 11, 2 pm, Soy & Sake @ 47 7th Ave S (at Commerce St) in New York’s West Village. Open to anyone who is into Free Culture, Free Software, Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, anti-censorship, etc.
I’m trying to build another Free Culture community in New York. Last week’s was a lot of …

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