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Carnal Cinema returns!

25 years ago, Andrew Lowes wrote a series of satirical interviews with familiar but imagined cinema celebrities for Netribution. These were brought to life a few years later by French cartoonist Éric Dubois, with a brilliant set of illustrations, many of which have never been seen.

For the first time, these are brought together in a sewn-bound limited edition. From the poetry of Hollywood Hard man Brick McCracken to Roger Bland at the BBFC – the pre-smart phone comedy columns transport us briefly back to the last days of a mostly-male, mostly-pale, ego-littered film industry about to be changed forever with the arrival of YouTube, Netflix, TikTok and Me Too.

A photograph of the Carnal Cinema book on a wooden table. It's hard-backed with cartoons across the top, Carnal Cinema against Orange beneath that, and some tiny text beneath that. A dark grey ribbon emerges from the bottom.

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

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Project Publication External event

2001

Digital Asset Management published

2002

Helps Shooting People email grow & launch freemium model

2003

Get Your Film Funded co-published with Shooting People

2004

Hewlett Packard HyPe Gallery video mashup launch events

2004

‘Imagine a newspaper written by its readers’

2004

Facebook launches

2005

YouTube launches

2006

Netribution v2 launches

2007

Film Finance Handbook (feat crowdfunding)

2009

Kickstarter launches

2009

Living Cinema : live film project

2010

Cinema on Demand, the Big Open Playlister

2012

The Virtuous Circle: CRMs & self-distribution

2013

Indie film’s monopoly problem with digital

2013

Open Source Capitalism: the future of coops

2014

Platform Coop movement launches

2015

Cooperatives Uber Moment

2017

Change of direction : to focus on non-profit tech, and to join, understand and support a large, active, distributed global open source community.

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