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Telestreet is a short film documenting the vast network of close to 200 micro TV transmitters that have sprung from Italy's vibrant political counter-culture. Telestreet has grown in opposition to media tycoon and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's control of close to 90% of the daily audience. But Telestreet also reaches far beyond this, linking up with video distribution on the net to create new forms of media production and social activism to challenge the media monopolies. Check out the Telestreet website for more information.

In the spirit of the tactical media praxis of Telestreet the documentary was put together using simple and easily available consumer technologies (shot on a digital stills camera with no microphone) and distributed freely online through archive.org, new tools that are radically democratising media production. Since being uploaded in January 2005, Telestreets has recieved over 2000 downloads, screened in a number of festivals and DVD compilations around the world including:

Indymedia Newsreal (US)
Exploding Television Festival (Netherlands)
OK Video, National Gallery of Indonesia (Indonesia)
Datafighters DVD (Spain)
Transmediale (Berlin)
Houston Indymedia (US)
Memory Grid at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image as part 777 compilation (Aus)
Lost Film Festival (US)
Mas alla de la TV (Andalucia, Spain)
Test Transitions (Centre For Contemporary Art, Glasgow)
Globale 06 (Germany)

Credits:
Directed by Andrew Lowenthal
Edited by Tim Parish
Produced by Andrew Lowenthal and Tim Parish
Music by Combat Wombat
Contact Information: and@axxs.org art@undergrowth.org

Also check out this article for Indymedia by the filmmaker

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Telestreets - The Italian Media Jacking Movement view play download login or register to post comments \| play or download Telestreets - The Italian Media Jacking Movement Telestreet is a short film documenting the vast network of close to 200 micro TV transmitters that have sprung from Italy's vibrant political counter-culture. Telestreet has grown in opposition to media tycoon and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's control of close to 90% of the daily audience. But Telestreet also reaches far beyond this, linking up with video distribution on the net to create new forms of media production and social activism to challenge the media monopolies. Check out the Telestreet website for more information. In the spirit of the tactical media praxis of Telestreet the documentary was put together using simple and easily available consumer technologies (shot on a digital stills camera with no microphone) and distributed freely online through archive.org, new tools that are radically democratising media production. Since being uploaded in January 2005, Telestreets has recieved over 2000 downloads, screened in a number of festivals and DVD compilations around the world including: Indymedia Newsreal (US) Exploding Television Festival (Netherlands) OK Video, National Gallery of Indonesia (Indonesia) Datafighters DVD (Spain) Transmediale (Berlin) Houston Indymedia (US) Memory Grid at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image as part 777 compilation (Aus) Lost Film Festival (US) Mas alla de la TV (Andalucia, Spain) Test Transitions (Centre For Contemporary Art, Glasgow) Globale 06 (Germany) Credits: Directed by Andrew Lowenthal Edited by Tim Parish Produced by Andrew Lowenthal and Tim Parish Music by Combat Wombat Contact Information: and@axxs.org art@undergrowth.org Also check out this article for Indymedia by the filmmaker #4 - Snapshots of the Resolution \| activism \| indymedia \| Motion Pixels

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