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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.

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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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