Just to be clear, RIP: A Remix Manifesto is not a great film. It oversimplifies the issue it tackles, treats culture jamming as a serious philosophy worthy of respect(?!), and its first hour is populated almost entirely by white males. It’s sort of exactly what you expect from something distributed by Disinfo.

BUT. Some of the animations in this thing are really slick! Nothing particularly jaw-dropping, but some very neat presentation techniques (online video and webpage screencaps displayed on the screens of old Macintoshes, as well as archival TV footage shown playing on a vintage set) and cool motion graphics make RIP a pleasant surprise - especially since the the free-culture documentary genre isn’t known for high production values.

If you like what you see in the stills above, you can download the movie for free here. Most of the animation takes place during the first 30 minutes.

Just to be clear, RIP: A Remix Manifesto is not a great film. It oversimplifies the issue it tackles, treats culture jamming as a serious philosophy worthy of respect(?!), and its first hour is populated almost entirely by white males. It’s sort of exactly what you expect from something distributed by Disinfo.

BUT. Some of the animations in this thing are really slick! Nothing particularly jaw-dropping, but some very neat presentation techniques (online video and webpage screencaps displayed on the screens of old Macintoshes, as well as archival TV footage shown playing on a vintage set) and cool motion graphics make RIP a pleasant surprise - especially since the the free-culture documentary genre isn’t known for high production values.

If you like what you see in the stills above, you can download the movie for free here. Most of the animation takes place during the first 30 minutes.


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