The Cosmonaut Remixed

The crowdfunded Spanish film, The Cosmonaut, has moved into their next phase of creative commons community involvement. Until the end of the month people have a chance to win prizes if they remix a trailer for the film. The goal is to get 500 entries to prove to the Spanish film industry that people are eager to interact with content.

Creative commons generally means that content is released to the public freely so that they can view, mix, mash, cut, reuse the material in any way they like, so long as it is attributed and not for commercial purposes.

We want you to re-interpret [the trailer] using these cuts, the soundfiles, and anything else (any audio, any extra footage) you want to splice in. You are encouraged to do remixes in as many formats as possible, from music videos to complete narrative cut-ups for mobile broadcast. You can use any technique, taking the trailer from simple re-working through to pure abstraction. 

The competition is being run in conjunction with The Auteurs, a great online film community that supports indie film. If you haven’t heard of this website yet, do check it out. It has three parts to it: a) legally view all manner of classic, indie, and international films for free or a small fee, b) a community of film literate people discussing film theory and criticism, c) a place to workshop or gain criticism of your own films.

For the "cause," I've had a bash at the remix, hope you'll take shot too to help them get those 500 entries.

The Cosmonaut - Teaser from luci temple on Vimeo.

In addition to this, the filmmakers have indicated that The Cosmonaut is a transmedia project, so there will be more to come in addition to the film itself. They’ve had flash mobs in Sol, ran a free transmedia workshop, and created an exhibition to show all the ins and outs of their project. They’ve written a nice manifesto on their blog “The Next Ten Years of Cinema” predicting how they see the future of entertainment.

Sounds exciting :)

Please help spread the word.