Mnematronic Serendipaceratops

An experimental film by François Vautier in tribute to Ridley Scott’s legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982)
This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels)
It was made with 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’.

1>first step : the “picture” of the film
Vautier extracted the 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’ (final cut version,1h51mn52s19i)
then assembled all these images to obtain one gigantic image of colossal dimensions : a square of approximately 60,000 pixels on one side alone, 3.5 gigapixels (3500 million pixels)

2> second step : an illusion
A virtual camera is placed above this big picture. So what you see is like an illusion, because contrary to appearances there is only one image. It is in fact the relative movement of the virtual camera flying over this massive image which creates the animated film, like a film in front of a projector.

source : Blade Runner de Ridley Scott (the final cut)
durée : 1h51mn52s19i > 167819 frames >>
one picture / format psb : 60 000 X 60 000 : 3 540 250 000 pixels >> 3,5 gigapixels
compositing> logiciel : Combustion. Mac pro 2X 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. nombre de layers : 1!

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This animation named “35mm” by artist Pascal Monaco represents a set of 35 movies in an unusual but fun way.
The German artist has managed to make the video last only 2 minutes with minimum representation of each film.

Concept / Layout: Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco
Animation: Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco
Sound: Torsten Strer
Check out the animation and see if you can recognize some of the movies.

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The American Museum of Natural History today launched the American Museum of Natural History Explorer, a groundbreaking mobile app designed as an enhanced navigation tool for indoor use.

Funded with a grant from Bloomberg, the Explorer App, available from the App Store, works with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and uses WiFi to function as an “indoor GPS” within the Museum, pinpointing a user’s location and offering turn-by-turn directions through more than 500,000 square feet of public space that encompasses 45 permanent exhibition halls, theaters, restrooms, cafés, and Museum shops. The new wireless network established for the Explorer system allows visitors to connect to the internet, effectively transforming the Museum into a single enormous WiFi hotspot.

In addition to serving as a guide, the Explorer is also an educational resource that provides visitors with additional information on more than 140 specimens and objects on display, including such iconic exhibits as the blue whale and the Tyrannosaurus rex. The Explorer features customized tours, a fossil treasure hunt, and social media links for posting to Facebook and Twitter-a dramatic advance over standard audio and handheld guides that provides a next-generation museum experience.

Explorer is the latest offering of the American Museum of Natural History’s expanding digital platform that enables the Museum to connect the public-whether they are visiting on site or online-to the Museum’s extensive resources in science, education, and exhibition in new and engaging ways and to re-define what it means to be a museum in the 21st century. By anticipating the ways that people access, learn, and share information today, the new digital platform integrates the experience of visiting the Museum with a variety of online and mobile offerings that extend the Museum’s impact past its walls, drawing the public into the wonder and excitement of discovery from anywhere they carry their mobile device. [Read more here...]

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“20 Years of Tall Tales” is the title of the web series THE BLACK CROWES will roll out starting Tuesday, August 3, the street date for CROWEOLOGY (Silver Arrow/Megaforce Records), their first-ever double album of all-acoustic material with new arrangements of their best-loved songs and deep cuts.

In a wide-ranging and freewheeling interview marking the 20th anniversary of their landmark multi-platinum debut, 1990′s Shake Your Moneymaker, frontman CHRIS ROBINSON talks about where THE BLACK CROWES –arguably one of the most misunderstood rock bands of all time–have been and where they are now.

Throughout the month of August, the band will release one webisode per day via their website, www.blackcrowes.com. It’s all here: the highs, the lows, controversies, the arrests, feuds and more. “20 Years of Tall Tales”was directed and produced by John Vanover and filmed earlier this month at Robinson’s Los Angeles home.

- Did THE BLACK CROWES – a band that has never played it musically or commercially safe and at times been crucified for it–really spend $1,000,000 recording an album (Tall) that went unreleased for more than a decade?

- What really happened in that Denver convenience store that led to Chris’ arrest?

- Why was the band really fired from theAerosmith tourbefore being reinstated?

- What really went on in the studio the night the band held a bacchanalia for the amorica album?

- What really drives the relationship between Chris and his brother, guitarist RICH ROBINSON?

- How did the union of THE BLACK CROWES and Oasis on the “Tour of Brotherly Love” actually cancel out the feuds of both bands’ brothers?

- And what about the band’s recently announced lengthy hiatus that will begin when their upcoming “SAY GOODNIGHT TO THE BAD GUYS 2010″ tour ends this year with an epic six-night stand in San Francisco at The Fillmore December 12-19?

Fasten your seat belts as THE BLACK CROWES – Chris Robinson (vocals/guitar), Rich Robinson (guitar), Steve Gorman (drums), Sven Pipien (bass), Luther Dickinson (guitar) and Adam McDougall (keyboards) – share the ride in “20 Years of Tall Tales.”

The Black Crowes: Croweology – Track Listing

CD 1
Jealous Again
Share The Ride
Remedy
Non-Fiction
Hotel Illness
Soul Singing
Ballad In Urgency
Wiser Time
Cold Boy Smile
Under A Mountain

CD 2
She Talks To Angels
My Morning Song
Downtown Money Waster
Good Friday
Thorn In My Pride
Welcome To The Good Times
Girl From A Pawnshop
Sister Luck
She
Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye

www.blackcrowes.com

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The Department of Defense is unable to account for the use of $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion it spent on reconstruction in Iraq.

Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (PDF).

From: GOOD blog

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The Tower of Babel' by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563

by Lera Boroditsky (professor of psychology at Stanford University and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology), Wall Street Journal

New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish

Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express? [Read more here...]

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The personal details of more than 100 million Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net.

Ron Bowles, an online security consultant, used a simple piece of code to collect the data from Facebook. He said he published the data to highlight privacy issues, but Facebook said it was already available.

The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user’s profile, their name and unique ID and has spread rapidly across the net. On the Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more than 1,000 users. One user, going by the name of lusifer69, described the list as “awesome and a little terrifying”

NB- it doesn’t give away any personal details, though.

Ron Bowles blog
Ron’s Facebook Data Torrent
BBC report

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The United States consumes more oil than any other country in the world.
18.7 million barrels of oil per day.
It imports 9-12m barrels a day.
Where does it all come from?

1. Canada 1.94 million barrels/day > $37 billion ($3,900,000,000)

2. Mexico 1.10m b/d >$22b

3. Saudi Arabia 0.99m b/d  =$20b (45%GDP)

4. Venezuela 0.97m b/d =$19b (30%GDP)

5. Nigeria 0.77m b/d >$15b

6. Angola 0.45m b/d = $9b

7. Iraq 0.49m b/d >$9b

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by Wallace C. Turbeville, New Deal 2.0

The current system of trader compensation will continue to decay the heart of Wall Street.

Which is a greater threat to the nation — terrorism or the relentless decline of middle income families? Unless we abandon our core values out of unwarranted fear, terror cannot fundamentally change our way of life. The number of people affected by growing income disparity is vast. When I was a student, income disparity was indicative of an underdeveloped and unstable society.

The government appropriately devotes enormous resources to protect our lives and property from terrorism. It is unthinkable that a leader would display any weakness opposing this threat. Politicians have stiff backbones when it comes to terrorism.

In contrast, the government is timid and half-hearted in its approach to the system which perversely rewards a few Wall Street traders with billions of dollars of bonuses, yet allows the foundation to decay.
Kenneth Feinberg issued his report identifying outrageous Wall Street compensation of executives despite their role in the financial disaster and bail out. He proposed that the banks voluntarily adopt “brake provisions” that permit boards of directors to nullify bonuses in the event of a new financial crisis.

He might have more success asking the lions of the Serengeti to give the wildebeests a sporting chance of making an escape.

Over the last fifteen years, the financial sector’s percentage of GDP has increased dramatically. At the same time, the median family income stagnated and then declined. I do not believe that this is a coincidence.

The large banks have changed. They slice and dice the constituent elements of a stagnant economy, squeezing value out in ever more sophisticated ways. Wall Street has turned away from its roll as the financial backer of industry and commerce. In the short term, it is more profitable for them to use their capital for trading. Newfangled software and MIT “quants” allow the traders to “rip the faces off” of corporate counterparties and investors which were once trusted clients.

These young traders are simply doing what America has told them to do. They are allowed to earn obscene amounts of money using the advantageous information, technology and capital of their employers. Making money from less powerful counterparties is like shooting fish in a barrel. The banks make so much money that they have no problem shoveling it out to the traders.
The alternative careers for these talented young people offer upside which is modest by comparison. Besides, the trading world, in which the law of the jungle prevails, appeals to youthful aggressiveness. Michael Lewis expected that college students would be appalled by the amoral environment he described in “Liar’s Poker.” Instead, the overwhelming response he received from students was a desire to get in on the action. The draining of talented and energetic young professionals away from corporate America where they could help create jobs by the millions may be as damaging as the new allocation of wealth.

The government’s flaccid approach to Wall Street compensation, embodied in the Feinberg report, is appalling. Geithner and Bernake appear intimidated by Wall Street, yet intent on its approval. Why do they guilelessly buy into the notion that giant, multi-purpose banks dominated by trading are essential to America’s competitiveness in the world? Smaller, less risky institutions aligned with economic growth would seem to be a better idea for the vast majority of Americans.

Greenspan and his progeny, including Geithner and Bernake, are enthralled by financial innovation. Innovation, by itself, can be good or bad. Innovation does not fall into the “good” category if it corrupts the home mortgage market, siphons off business productivity and the jobs and wages of employees and unfairly enriches the few at the expense of the many. It is good if it creates jobs and enriches the public as a whole.

Trader compensation is at the heart of the problem. It encourages behavior that is inconsistent with Wall Street’s most important function: raising capital for industry and commerce. The banks and the government are afraid that the traders will desert the banks and move to hedge funds if their compensation is reduced. If they do jump ship, it is all the better for America. At least hedge funds can blow themselves up without crippling the US economy in the process.

Former traders now run most of the financial sector. They believe that the traders somehow deserve compensation at the prevailing levels. The system will not change unless it is forced to do so. The restrictions in the financial reform legislation only inhibit specific abuses. The banks will concoct new ways to trade risk. It is the only way to maintain their unconscionable profits (that is, until the next bubble bursts and we are in an even worse predicament). The only way to really change the system is to reduce short term incentives, that is to say limit bonuses. The government needs the kind of resolve it uses when fighting terrorism. After all, the stakes are actually higher.

Wallace C. Turbeville is the former CEO of VMAC LLC and a former Vice President of Goldman, Sachs & Co.

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Harvard astronomer Dimitar Sasselov, a co-investigator of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, has declared that the “Galaxy is rich in small, Earth-like planets” at a Technology Entertainment and Design conference at Oxford University in mid-July.  ”Even before we have confirmed the planets among these hundreds of candidates,” he adds, “we can see statistically that the smaller-sized planets will be more common than the large-sized (Jupiter- and Saturn-like ones) in the sample,”The Kepler space telescope has observed evidence of up to 140 different planets similar in size to the Earth. Sasselov believes that the discovery amounts to a Copernican revolution where a clear and loud “yes” is given to the question: “Are there other Earth like planets out there that can harbor life?”

Estimates of earth-like planets in the galaxy could be quickly revised up to 100 million or more. Most importantly, Sasselov  says that the data allows scientists to scan exoplanets for tell tale signs of life.

David Koch, the mission’s deputy principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, says these planets “have the apparent signature we are looking for, but then we must perform extensive follow-up observations to eliminate false positives, such as background eclipsing binaries. This requires substantial amounts of ground-based observing which is done primarily in the summer observing season.”

Sasselov explained that the results so far of the Kepler mission heralded a Corpernican revolution. Just as Corpernicus revolutionized astronomy by publishing data that the solar system rotated around the sun, rather than the earth, so too the data from the Kepler mission would lead to another scientific revolution. Rather than planets like earth being unique or an uncommon occurrence in the galaxy, they in fact are plentiful. Sasselov declared in his speech that the “Galaxy is rich in small, Earth-like planets”

This April, Stephen Hawking claimed it was “perfectly rational” to discuss the motivations of advanced extraterrestrial life. The findings of the Kepler mission make inquiry into the possible motivations of intelligent extraterrestrial life not only “perfectly rational” but now a logical necessity. The Kepler space telescope results will not only bring about an astronomical revolution, but a revolution in social and political thought about technologically advanced intelligent life in the galaxy and its impact on humanity.

Daily Galaxy

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Zack Snyder’s upcoming pic Sucker Punch 3D will be released in the expanded IMAX format simultaneously with its regular release on March 25, 2011. THR reports this is part of a 20-picture distribution deal between Warner Brothers and IMAX lasting through 2013. The film is a 1950s period piece that tells the story of an institutionalized girl who retreats to an alternate reality to devise a means to escape the asylum.

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by Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing

Earlier today, I spoke with Jacob Appelbaum, a volunteer with the WikiLeaks project whose work in other projects related to tech and human rights have been blogged here on Boing Boing over the years.

As reported on Boing Boing and widely elsewhere, Wikileaks have released a massive archive of secret US military documents related to the war in Afghanistan, unprecedented in scope. The archive spans a 6-year period from 2004 to 2010, encompassing more than 91,000 documents and 200,000 pages. The White House, Pentagon, and Department of State have condemned the leak, with various spokespersons describing it as a breach of federal law, a “criminal act,” and describing Wikileaks as a threat to US national security. I spoke with Appelbaum, a longtime friend of mine, about why he and other Wikileaks volunteers disagree. —XJ

Boing Boing: We’re told that there are more documents from this archive yet to be released by Wikileaks, some 15,000 of them as reported. Some have speculated that these could relate to Iraq. Can you comment more?

Jacob Appelbaum: The 15,000 documents are part of the set of Afghanistan documents. They are being redacted for harm-minimizing purposes as requested by our source, and will be made available as is applicable with respect to the relevant security concerns.

Boing Boing: What do you think of the White House reactions so far to the “Afghan War Diaries” leak?

Jacob Appelbaum: It’s clear that the White House is attempting to shoot the messenger. These documents provide concrete evidence of events that have occurred during the last six years of the Afghan war.

Boing Boing: The Department of Defense has called Wikileaks a “national security threat.”

Jacob Appelbaum: Wikileaks is not a national security threat; we are an international security promise.

Boing Boing: What do you mean by that?

Jacob Appelbaum: We promise our sources that we will get their information to the public. We have released information about what is actually happening in Afghanistan. We are telling you the facts as the US military saw fit to document them. We are telling you these facts because they document an important first-hand perception of everyday life in Afghanistan that our source felt important to show the world. It clearly meets with our submission criteria and based on the reaction, it’s obvious that we’ve done our job as we’ve promised.

Boing Boing: What of the criticism from some commentators, and from the US defense spokesperson yesterday in the initial response, that these documents are “old news,” because they only cover from 2004, when Bush was in office, through late 2009, before Obama announced a policy change for Afghanistan?

Jacob Appelbaum: The contents may be old news to the White House but it was very clearly not available to the American public and actually any public with an interest in the topic before our release.

To suggest that it only covers Bush is to misrepresent the very clear facts. The document archive goes all the way up to the end of 2009. The White House tried to spin this by saying it goes only until December when the Obama administration announced a policy change. However, there is an overlap – this is a document cache that spans both of their presidencies and it includes information after Obama enacted the policy change in early December 2009.

Boing Boing: What do you think will happen as a result of the leak? Will there be policy change?

Jacob Appelbaum: It’s only been a single day and the entire world is talking about this information. The collaborative effort put into the initial analysis of these documents is unprecedented, and the foundation laid by New York Times, Guardian and Der Spiegel in respect to initial analysis of the material will certainly serve as a sound basis for further investigations by the media, historians and researchers, as well as general public scrutiny.

People in the United States of America have the ability to democratically change this situation if they are unhappy with the truth; they now have information that will assist them in having a clearer picture. Perhaps they will demand more transparency and more accountability. It is clear that they will find out how the war is actually going, and see what they’re financing. This isn’t unique to the United States: it impacts the people of every country with troops in Afghanistan. The world has wide-open eyes. Together, we can make better, more honest decisions.

Furthermore, the people of Afghanistan are not shocked by this information. Nobody needs to tell them what the conditions are like on the ground. They don’t have reports with this level of specificity, rather they live with everyday terror and fear. In some cases, we can see more clearly now that the Taliban are doing terrible things, and they’re far better equipped than the “camel jockeys” they’re portrayed as in the American media. These are scary guys with scary capabilities. Why aren’t we being told this truth regularly after nine years? Why would the US government hide this from the world? Why are the rest of the governments complicit in this silence?

Additionally, it sounds like our allies are the ones supplying them with some of those capabilities. Some wings of the US government were apparently aware of that. But I’d wager that most Americans were unaware. This strongly suggests a need for policy change. How can the people of the US fund another situation that is not unlike when America was using Afghanistan as proxy during the Cold War? Didn’t we learn our lesson the first half dozen times we did something like this?

If not, let’s learn it now.

(photo courtesy Jacob Appelbaum)

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Facebook has announced that it now has 500m active users, just six years after it was launched. The site has become the poster child of social networking on the web. While some others have seen growth, MySpace, Flickr and Bebo appear to have declined in the past year, according to these figures from Nielsen. Interesting international variations are seen, both in the amount of time Facebook users spend on the site each month and in the competing networks’ popularity in different countries.

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The UK Film Council is to be axed as part of a cost-cutting drive by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), it has been announced.

The organisation, founded in 2000, had an annual budget of £15m to invest in British films and employed 75 people.

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he wanted to establish a “direct and less bureaucratic relationship with the British Film Institute”.

UK Film Council chairman Tim Bevan called it “a bad decision”.

He said the announcement was “imposed without any consultation or evaluation”.

“People will rightly look back on today’s announcement and say it was a big mistake, driven by short-term thinking and political expediency,” he said.

The DCMS said film funding would continue but would be distributed through other bodies.

Current lottery funding for film is £26 million per year. This is expected to increase to £32 million after 2012.

Direct government funding, currently about £25m a year, is being considered as part of the ongoing spending review.

In a statement, the DCMS said it was “clear that culture and creative industries will not be singled out as a soft target, and that the government will champion the value they bring”.

Digital screens

The Film Council was set up by the Labour government to develop and promote the British film industry.

Funded by the National Lottery, it channelled about £160m into more than 900 films over the last 10 years, including Bend It Like Beckham, The Last King of Scotland and Streetdance 3D.

Other initiatives included the Digital Screen Network, which invested in 240 digital cinema screens across the UK – meaning the UK now has more digital cinemas than any other European country.

In a letter to the British film industry, John Woodward, Chief Executive of the Film Council, said he had been informed that “the target is to have the organisation totally closed down with its assets and its remaining operations transferred out by April 2012″.

“That does, at least, give us time to honour our current commitments,” he added.

Mr Hunt said 16 public bodies, including the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) would lose their funding as the government committed to “increasing the transparency and accountability of its public bodies, while at the same time reducing their number and cost”.

“Many of these bodies were set up a considerable length of time ago, and times and demands have changed,” he added.

“The changes I have proposed today would help us deliver fantastic culture, media and sport, while ensuring value for money for the public and transparency about where taxpayers’ money is spent.”

Shadow Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has accused the government cuts of being “hasty, ill thought-though and incoherent.”

He added: “The UK fllm industry has just had its best year ever, earning millions for our country, but the Government is axing the UK Film Council without saying what or who will do its important work.”

The MLA is also to be wound up by 2012, in order to “focus efforts on front-line, essential services and ensure greater value for money”.

Responding to the announcement, chairman Sir Andrew Motion and chief executive Roy Clare have pledged to “continue to deliver a vibrant and effective expert service for the public who rightly expect excellent, sustainable museums, libraries and record offices in their local neighbourhoods.

“Stormy seas call for cool heads and steady hands,” they added.

Selected films funded by the UK Film Council

• The Last King of Scotland
• Vera Drake
• Fishtank
• Bend It Like Beckham
• In The Loop
• Nowhere Boy
• Gosford Park
• The Constant Gardener
• Vera Drake
• This is England
• Man on Wire
• Streetdance 3D
• Tamara Drewe

Figures from the British film industry have given their reaction to the government’s decision to scrap the UK Film Council.

Tim Bevan, Chairman of the UK Film Council

Abolishing the most successful film support organisation the UK has ever had is a bad decision, imposed without any consultation or evaluation. People will rightly look back on today’s announcement and say it was a big mistake, driven by short-term thinking and political expediency. British film, which is one of the UK’s more successful growth industries, deserves better.

Our immediate priority now is to press the government to confirm that the funding levels and core functions that are needed to underpin British film are locked-in, especially at a time when filmmakers and film companies need more support than ever as they make the challenging transition into the digital age. To that end, we will work with the DCMS over the summer to identify how they can guarantee both continuity and safe harbour for British film.

Ben Bradshaw, Shadow Culture Minister

The Labour government was already streamlining and reducing the number of quangos, but, like so much of what this government is doing, this appears hasty, ill thought-though and incoherent.

For example, the UK film industry has just had its best year ever, earning millions for our country, but the government is axing the UK Film Council without saying what or who will do its important work.

Chris Atkins, documentary film-maker

UK FILM COUNCIL ABOLISHED! Fabulous day! I wonder what 70 incompetent overpaid bureaucrats are going to do? I could use a couple of runners.

[It had] far more misses than hits. Funded Sex Lives Of Potato Men, U2 3D, 4321, Rolling Stones, St Trinian’s, I could go on… (via Twitter)

Lord Puttnam, President, Film Distributors’ Association

Today’s announcement proposing the abolition of the UK Film Council, which would appear to have come out of the blue, will take some time to digest fully.

Over the past decade, the Film Council has been a layer of strategic glue that’s helped bind the many parts of our disparate industry together. It is sure to be widely missed, not least because the UK cinema industry is in the midst of a fundamental transformation at the heart of which is digital roll-out.

On the welcome premise that government and lottery support for film will continue, I look forward to discussing ways in which a new, coherent plan for film can be developed and implemented to benefit audiences throughout the UK

Mike Goodridge, editor Screen International

It is a stunning blind side and a shocking blow. It feels like a terrible betrayal of the industry. The UK Film Council has done a good job of slimming itself down so it is a disturbing day.

The UK Film Council has spent the last 10 years establishing the value of film to the economy and this feels like a dismantling of that by the government.

Abolishing the UK Film Council means there is no coherent funding strategy and it leaves an industry at sea for the next six months. How will funding continue without the structure and how much money will be available? Is the government talking about cutting funding as well?

The UK Film Council does a lot more than just distributing funding. It has done a lot for expanding the distribution of of British films and the advancement of new platforms. It has been a big supporter of digital cinema.

This decision is a shock to everyone at the Film Council, it feels like a political manoeuvre and does not show commitment to the film industry by the British government.

Daniel Barber, film director, Harry Brown

I think this decision is a retrograde step, but then I think there hasn’t been a great history in this country of helping British filmmakers make films.

Successive governments don’t seem to have thrown themselves behind the industry in any significant way. They may like the glamour of it, and hanging out with the stars at parties, but for a filmmaker to get the money to make actually make a film is very difficult. The UK Film Council is one place for young filmmakers to go to and get support, and if this decision means that support is going to disappear then I think it is real blow to film in this country.

Harry Brown was my first feature, and the funding I received from the UK Film Council really helped us get the rest of the investment we needed. As an artist, this decision doesn’t fill me with belief that the government is keen to back the UK film industry.

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