If you have not yet heard about the "crowdsourcing" craze, you might want to familiarize yourself with it, because you're going to be hearing about it a lot more in the near future. Crowdsourcing involves focusing the skills and resources of a large group of people on a single task, usually via the internet, in order to create something potentially bigger and much more efficient than would otherwise be possible. Although it's an ideal way to amass knowledge and solve problems, the concept has spilled over into the creative realm as well, where people are collaborating on everything from books to music to movies.
One of the biggest examples of collaboration in the realm of cinema thus far is the on-going fan remake
Star Wars: Uncut, a project being cultivated by Vimeo employee
Casey Pugh where the original Star Wars movie is recreated by hundreds of people in 15 second segment chunks. The resulting remake will obviously be a patchwork of conflicting styles and personalities, and while on the one hand it could turn out to be a complete mess, it could also be a charming and hilarious work of art with the same lo-fi feel as Michel Gondry's sweded remakes in
Be Kind Rewind. I don't have much love for fan films, but I have to admit, this is a pretty unique concept. The newly released trailer (embedded after the jump) gives an idea of just how eclectic and unpredictable the final product will be. What do you think? For more info, or if you want to join in the fun, visit
StarWarsUncut.com.
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