CRAIG BALDWIN
SONIC OULAWS
87min, 16mm, San Francisco, 1995
When the Oakland-based collage band Negativland a half-minute snippet from a corny tune by the arena-rock gods U2, the record was summarily sued out of existence...but not without a sea-change in pop consciousness about intellectual property, fair use, and culture-jamming. Appearing in person, Craig Baldwin's feature-length collage-essay on the case and its implications for all of the media arts extends to the activities of John Oswald, Doug Kahn,
the Tape-Beatles, the Emergency Broadcast Network, the Barbie
Liberation Organization, the Situationists, and the cyberpunk
future.
Source: ATA-program
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"SONIC OUTLAWS"
(USA 1995, 16mm, Farbe, Ton, 87 Min. by Craig Baldwin)
Acht verschiedene Film- und
Videoformate mixt Craig Baldwin in
seinem neuesten experimentellen und
vor Energie Ÿberbordenden
Dokumentarfilm Sonic Outlaws Ÿber
Urheberrechtsverletzungen und 'culture-jamming' ('Kulturstšrung').
Ausgangspunkt des Films ist der 199
von der Major-Plattenfirma Island
Records angestrengte Proze§ gegen
das Independent-Label SST und gegen
die experimentelle Band Negativland.
Anla§ des Streits war Negativlands
Platte "U2", die nicht nur den Namen
der irischen Supergruppe U2 benutzt
sondern massiv deren Hit "I Still
Haven't Found What l'm Looking For"
sampelte und satirisch verfremdete.
Die dichte Montage aus Interviews,
Musik und Archivmaterial wird
sukzessive erweitert um Šhnlich
inspirierte AktivitŠten von John Oswa
den Tape-Beatles, dem Emergency
Broadcast Network, der Barbie
Liberation Organization den
Situationisten und vielen mehr, die zur
Zeit mit «gefundenem' Sound arbeiten.
In einer Periode des raschen
kŸnstlerischen und technologischen
Wandeis, wachsender Spannungen
zwischen Imagination, Autorenschaft
und der Rolle des Marktes werden
illegale Telefonmitschnitte, Reklame,
Verfremdungen, die Digitalisierung
geistigen Eigentums u.a. unter dem
Aspekt der IllegalitŠt betrachtet.
Innerhalb dieser eineinhalbstŸndigen
Auseinandersetzung entwickelt sich
Sonic Outlaws von einer Kompilations-Dokumentation zu einer eigenstŠndigen
Collage aus cover versions, Parodien u
kritischer Reportage. Er demonstriert
Methoden des kreativen Widerstands
und zeigt die Hoffnung auf eine
'electronic folk culture' inmitten einer
alles verschlingenden elektronischen
Umwelt, die zunehmend von den
gro§en Konzernen kontrolliert wird.
Source: Sixpack-Film, Wien
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