Help us bring color to Share alike by funding its release and post-production !

We need €5,000, and we have already raised €2,422.24 (48%).

Synopsis

Share alike meets artists who choose to use free licenses to produce and distribute their creations. These licenses are based on sharing, freedom, collaboration and a direct relationship between creators and the public. With Internet, the use of cultural goods is on the rise, and production has never been so abundant. Despite this, the lives of artists remain precarious. In a world where art and culture seem to be becoming standardized industries, these artists are developing alternatives and seeing it as a breathing space even though they face a great deal of resistance.

Share alike deconstructs the dominant modes of artistic production by giving a voice to those who seek to transform the conditions of exchange for their work, and imagine alternative economies based on sharing.

Presentation

Share alike is a documentary series of nine 15-minute episodes. Each episode focuses on a theme and follows an artist or collective. The series includes footage of creations, life stories, remixed works, discussions, colors, questioning, experimentation and music, among others.

History

We begin work on this project, then called Sortir du cadre and supposed to be a movie in the summer of 2018, and we film several interviews with free art actors a few months later. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, based on our first images, we spend a lot of time writing files to find funding, with the help of a producer, Audrey Ferrarese, without much success. It was at this point that the film Sortir du cadre became the series Share alike. However, we did get support from Pictanovo in Hauts-de-France, and we can count on you in February 2020 for a successful first crowd funding campaign. With Lent ciné, to supplement this small budget, we run image education workshops and produce a video capsule for open-air film screenings. All proceeds are redirected to the Share alike project. And in 2022, we’ll start shooting!

Filming

Filming takes just over two years, from May 2022 to July 2024. It took us to Marseille, Montrouge, Paris, Romainville, Montauban, Bures-sur-Yvette, Lugan, Pantin, Montreuil, Brussels, Lyon, Toulouse, Balma, Saint-Marcellin and Rotterdam. Put all together, we shot for 26 days!

Post-production

In July 2023, we edit a first episode, to see if what we’d imagined works. And in August 2024, we finalize the post-production team (one sound editor, one picture editor, one mixer and one colorist) and start editing the other 8 episodes, which is still in progress. The end of post-production is scheduled for December 31, 2024.

Episodes and participants

The fellowship of sharing, with Morjiane Benzitouni/ Mystique (DJ) and Angie Gaudion (public relations officer for Framasoft)

Let It Go, with Koji, Claustinto (musicians) and members of a musical and Alexandra Josse (trainer for the association Média Commun and station manager of the webradio Onde Courte)

Invisible hand, with Joseph Paris (director) and Julien Munschy, Morgane Vanhuin et Thierry Bertrand from the LGBTQI+ Center Archive of Paris IDF

War is peace, sharing is privatization, with Rrrrrose Azerty (musician) et Nastasia Hadjadji (journalist and columnist, author of No crypto)

The art of profitability, awithec Colette Angeli, Blandine Bernardin and Nico Maria Moscatelli from the Polynome collective and Benjamin Jean (intellectual property lawyer and founder of Inno³)

For your eyes only, with Gee (author-cartoonist, creator of video games and illustrator) and Aurélien Catin (author, member of La Buse collective and association Réseau Salariat)

Neither blue pill nor red pill, with Camille Circlude, Enz@ Le Garrec, Eugénie Bidaut, Ludi Loiseau, Mariel Nils and Pierre Huyghebaert from the Bye Bye Binary collective eandt Aymeric Mansoux ( Professor at the Willem de Kooning Academy Research Center, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences).

Together, everything becomes possible, with David Revoy (illustrator and cartoonist) and Sarah Diep and Soizic Pineau from the media Manifesto XXI

Place conflict, with Laure, Nive, Yannick, Zoé from the Cinéma Voyageur and Amélie Lenoir and Gauvain Sansépée (librarians) 

Description of expenditure items

Series budget

Pablo and Tristan do all the production and directing work on a voluntary basis.

How the money will be used

The first 640 euros raised will be used to complete the financing of post-production. The remainder will be used to finance subtitling and translation of the series into English, graphic design and printing of communication materials, and travel to organize screenings wherever possible.

Final beneficiaries of the fundraising campaign

A series under free licenses

Share alike is the name of a clause that ensures works remain free forever, by obliging derivative creations to be distributed under a free license. It is the guarantee of a common good, and gives concrete expression to a philosophy of freedom and solidarity by giving it existence. We follow librists in placing the work we create under a free license, because we believe it should be an object of reflection and discussion that is freely accessible and reusable. We’ll be placing Share alike under a Free Art Licence and Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. So you can freely watch and share the series, on your own or by organizing public screenings.

A projection near you?

We plan to release the series in February or March 2025. We’ll be putting an episode online every week, and in parallel, we’d like to organize as many screenings as possible. We’ll be available to accompany screenings, as will participants in the series.

Are you part of a collective or association that could organize a screening? Do you know places that screen films and might be interested? Do you have a large living room and lots of interested friends?

Contact us, if possible specifying where you are and when you’d like the screening to take place.

It’s possible to show all or just some of the episodes. Depending on the themes you’re interested in, we’ll be able to advise you on the choice of episodes.

Project leader

Lent ciné

Lent ciné is an audiovisual production and distribution collective dedicated to the creation and distribution of free works.

We aim to create thought-provoking free works, to share knowledge, especially technical knowledge, to enable as many people as possible to express themselves, and to distribute free films as part of the free movement.

All our films are under free or open licenses, to be seen by as many people as possible. With the aim of showing free films, we created Nos désirs sont désordres, a festival of socially critical free films, and HorsCiné, a platform for free films. Because we like to create collectively and share knowledge, we organize Lillo Kino, a kino cabaret during which people get together to create for 48 hours. The collective is open and we’d be delighted to welcome you.