Video Republic
How young people are changing Europe
Production companies and broadcasters no longer hold a monopoly over moving-images - instead, a new theatre of public information has emerged. Spread across the internet, television, festivals and campaigns this emerging ‘Video Republic’ is a messy, alternative realm of video creation and exchange, dominated by young people. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic?
Strangers
at 11:13am on Friday, 15th February 2008
The website for the Stranger Festival - a celebration of videos made by young people across Europe - is now online. It's well worth a look, not least for the videos themselves. The Festival, and the supporting workshops, are the main case study for our project looking at the way young people in Europe use audio-visual media to express themselves and communicate.
The videos are mainly the product of workshops run throughout Europe by artists, co-ordinated by the European Cultural Foundation. We'll be blogging lots next week from Helsinki, where Celia and I will be visiting the workshops and seeing what the videos and ideas there look like.
In the meantime, here are a couple of our favourite videos so far from the Stranger Festival site. (You can also check out their YouTube channel).
The videos are mainly the product of workshops run throughout Europe by artists, co-ordinated by the European Cultural Foundation. We'll be blogging lots next week from Helsinki, where Celia and I will be visiting the workshops and seeing what the videos and ideas there look like.
In the meantime, here are a couple of our favourite videos so far from the Stranger Festival site. (You can also check out their YouTube channel).
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