COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE

From the era of production to that of post-production?

Hito Steyerl in her lecture The Flood of Rights, speaks of the importance of "Circulationism", as a form of manifesto which tends to no longer produce but to organize and reconnect existing systems through hacking, decoding and reconstruction by operating within their structure.

Echoing this open and uninhibited spirit, the films presented in this session delve into the flow of media that surrounds us on a daily basis to extract snippets which, replayed in another context, reveal previously hidden meanings and shine with new meanings. . Between mainstream cinema, anonymous archive films, informational images and random videos that we can come across on YouTube in the early morning, these audiovisual “found objects”, reorganized in new structures, speak to us about our world with incredible eloquence . What’s more, through their very mode of production, they offer a model of creation emancipated from media and consumer hegemony.

Because if “Copyright Infringement is your Best Entertainment Value”, leitmotif of the Negativland group, it is by opening ideas to sharing and organizing their distribution that real resistance can be organized in the face of a cultural industry where, well often, profit considerations are the sole validation of the commodity, generalizing the patent to all forms of life or exchange.

A program conceived by Miguel Armas and Mariya Nikiforova

with :
Peggy Ahwesh
Astrid de la Chapelle
Jérôme Cognet & Karen Luong
Maxime Martinot
Hito Steyerl
Malaz Usta
Charlie Verot