Perry Bard
“Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”
February 01-23, 2012

Workshop with Perry Bard: February 01 2012

Opening Reception: February 02 , 2012  6pm
aceartinc. 290 McDermot Ave  2nd Floor

Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre, in collaboration with aceartinc. “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake” is a participatory web and public video installation re-interpreting the original 1929 avant-guard documentary “Man With a Movie Camera” by  Dziga Vertov.  “The Global Remake” illuminates the capabilities of the internet to achieve global collaboration by encouraging culturally diverse participation. The piece includes footage shot by people around the world creating infinite possible versions of the film. As new videos stream online (dziga.perrybard.net) each contribution becomes part of a worldwide montage, in Vertov’s terms the “decoding of life as it is”.

WORKSHOP with New York based artist Perry Bard  FEBRUARY 01, 2011
Join Perry Bard to learn about and discuss “Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake”, influenced and inspired by Dziga Vertov’s remarkable documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” from 1929. Bard will lead a two hour workshop touching on Dziga Vertov’s documentary practice and Vertov in the age of YouTube,
Participants will record their own video footage interpreting the original script of Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera, and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net where software developed specifically for this project archives, sequences and streams the submissions as a film. The submissions uploaded will be a Winnipeg contribute a Winnipeg chapter to the world wide project.