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..and the Oscar goes to

Documentaries really can change the world.

The beautifully disturbing The Act of Killing has sparked a debate about the mass killings in Indonesia like nothing before. When the film got Oscar nominated it forced the Indonesian regime to deny and publicly discuss it's bloody history. Hopefully the film will also make the US reveal their role in Indonesia's history more transparently. The groundbreaking narrative - a film about gangsters making a film about their killings - also tweaked the rules of documentary filmmaking. 

Congrats to The Act of Killing for changing the world, despite missing out on yesterday's Oscar.

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Queer Hip Hop & videos as cultural containers

Never checked out the queer rap scene? Another way to use LinkLib is to fill a music video with related music, articles and social media. In this Zebra Katz video we've added music videos, TV-inserts, a cult documentary and a bunch of articles about the gay space in hip hop culture.

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New interview with Simon on Splice Vine!

Splice Vine  just published a new interview with Simon Klose as part of their series on "disruptive story telling".  This time, Simon talks a bit about  the Creative Commons license of the film, the integration of Linklib into VHX to promote the trailer of The Pirate Bay Way from Keyboard, and the interactive story telling goal of Linklib. 

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Linklib for marvelous films

Moonrise Kingdom is truly a jewel of filmmaking and maybe the finest Wes Anderson so far. We loved this film at Linklib and we are fascinated with the details of this production.

Linklib is conceived for filmbuffs that would google details about film productions they are passionate about for hours. Linklib is the perfect way to amplify and comment on movies, harness and organize all that extra and meta information that lives in the web.

While researching the art in the movie we found an emerging scene of Moonrise Kingdom fan art and other amazing stuff related! We still have to dive more into it but for now we've linklibbed the trailer of the movie for you.

Can you imagine Wes Anderson linklibbing his own videos? We can!

We still need a lot of feedback, let us know what you think at @linklib_ and try it out! Linklib  beta is open for sign up.

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The Seapunk beef - linklibbing pop culture phenomena

We've been following the fascinating debate and drama around the internet seapunk culture, Azealia Banks, Rhianna and how internet communities and the mainstream pop culture influence each other. 

When a specific media scene propagates - like in the case of seapunk -  contextualizing becomes fundamental to amplify the debates,  from pop culture to political events.

Here's the Azealia Banks' video Atlantis, linklibbed with the web commentary about the seapunk controversy, derivate works, seapunk mixes and contemporary media references: Yes, Ecco the dolphin!   

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Our current cohorts includes the first-ever team led by a film director! Simon Klose got the vision to incorporate web technology into his craft of filmmaking while building his documentary on Pirate Bay. He realized that filmmakers benefit greatly from creating direct connections to fans beyond simply making the film itself. Hence Linklib was born!

Today Mozilla’s developer-centric blog MozHacks features a post by Simon sharing more about the vision, history and mechanics of how Linklib works, and how fillmmakers can start building stronger bridges with their current and future fans. Enjoy!

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Have you ever googled films and TV-shows while you watch them? Do you think Youtube’s popup annotations in the middle of a video are distracting?

Having shot a documentary about the Pirate Bay for 4 years I wanted to embed links directly into the film to give the audience more nuances in the complex and bizarre story about the Swedish file-sharing site. I constantly google videos I watch

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Linklib update: It's ready!

The team at Linklib has been very busy coding and beta testing the software the past weeks. Lots of new ideas are coming up but for now the platform is ready and doing most of what is expected so we can move forward.

Here is my video at the #Mozfest (again!) but now it is totally linklibbed! This is too meta!

I would really love your feedback! Hit me on [email protected] or even better, help us test the beta version and construct new narratives for the web with Linklib!  Just tweet us at @linklib_ for an invite.

We are preparing a series of posts that explore the different kinds of narratives that Linklib can help to enhance, so stay tuned!