Video activism
Video activism is a form of political activism that began as early as the 1970s and a. emerged in the social, environmental, anti-racism and queer movements and uses film and video as media . In the 1990s, video activism increased in Great Britain in the British "Do-It-Yourself movement" ( Thomas Harding ).
The term video activism established itself as more and more activists accompanied and documented demonstrations and political actions with video cameras . Due to the fact that video cameras became more and more affordable and the access to the Internet offers a great possibility of dissemination, numerous video collectives have emerged who make their productions available on the Internet free of charge. For example, the movement platform indymedia .uk explicitly sees itself as part of the tradition of video activism. The audiovisual reporting on the protest actions on May 1, 2000 in London marked the "hour of birth" of indymedia.uk.
The use of licenses such as the Creative Commons License , which is also intended to articulate criticism of the concepts of copyright and intellectual property , is also becoming increasingly popular . Films by video activists are often labeled as copyleft films .
Video activism offers the opportunity to document and disseminate alternative information, perspectives and news beyond the established mainstream opinion or spin from PR agencies .
See also
Web links
- videoactivism.de Web portal for video activism in German-speaking countries
- NoDogma.blogsport.de NoDogma, the video activism film festival
- kanalB.org official website of kanalB
- leftvision.de official website of the video activist collective leftvision
- de.indymedia.org/video Videos from the independent media network Indymedia
- Video activism in the 1980s at the Vienna WUK (online article with video links)
Individual evidence
- ↑ de Miguel Wessendorf, Karin (2006): Video activism using the example of video production by the Zapatista communities in Chiapas Master's thesis at the University of Cologne, Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies.
- ↑ Harding, Thomas (1998): Viva Camcordistas! Video Activism and the Protest Movement, in: McKay, George (ed.): DIY Culture. Party and Protest in Nineties Britain, London: Verso, pp. 79–99.
- ↑ Hamm, Marion / Zaiser, Michael (2000): com.une.farce and indymedia.uk - two modes of oppositional network use . In: Das Argument 238,5 / 6, pp. 755–764.