melbo
17-05-2007, 08:56 AM
Movie makes director star of CCTV
An Austrian filmmaker has come up with a novel way of avoiding the costs of creating a movie - by making her film entirely from images of real life captured by CCTV cameras.
The film was made according to the "manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers" - there was to be no specialist equipment or cameras involved; the only cameras used had to be CCTV cameras already in place; and the footage had to be obtained by using the Data Protection Act to procure it.
As an artist I try to work with these images in a way that it opens up questions to everyone
Manu Luksch
"It was interesting to observe a part of our legislation - in this case the Data Protection Act - over a period of five years," she said.
"My requests were more often than not replied to in an inadequate or uninformed way - the controllers had clearly not heard of the Data Protection Act."
She explained that the usual responses to her requests would either be no reply - despite the law stating requests for images must be responded to in 40 days - or she would be told no images could be provided.
Others attempted to charge thousands of pounds for "post-production", even though the DPA says that only a standard fee of £10 can be charged.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6654971.stm
Can you imagine what would happend if every single person requested footage of themselves in exchange for a £10 fee?! The system would break down....
An Austrian filmmaker has come up with a novel way of avoiding the costs of creating a movie - by making her film entirely from images of real life captured by CCTV cameras.
The film was made according to the "manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers" - there was to be no specialist equipment or cameras involved; the only cameras used had to be CCTV cameras already in place; and the footage had to be obtained by using the Data Protection Act to procure it.
As an artist I try to work with these images in a way that it opens up questions to everyone
Manu Luksch
"It was interesting to observe a part of our legislation - in this case the Data Protection Act - over a period of five years," she said.
"My requests were more often than not replied to in an inadequate or uninformed way - the controllers had clearly not heard of the Data Protection Act."
She explained that the usual responses to her requests would either be no reply - despite the law stating requests for images must be responded to in 40 days - or she would be told no images could be provided.
Others attempted to charge thousands of pounds for "post-production", even though the DPA says that only a standard fee of £10 can be charged.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6654971.stm
Can you imagine what would happend if every single person requested footage of themselves in exchange for a £10 fee?! The system would break down....