Featured Screening
Produced by Steve Anderson and Mimi Ito

Digital video, circulated among communities, friends and the Internet at large, is becoming one of the primary ways we tell stories about ourselves, our interests, opinions and passions. The videos we find online are as varied as the conversations we have in our everyday lives, but there are also themes, techniques, and shared source materials that tie together diverse genres of DIY video.

Our Featured Screening program opens with a video telling of the threads and commonalities that have emerged from our viewing of DIY video in different genres. Curated through a collective process that tapped the intelligence of our curatorial and conference committee, we trace the "meta" context that frames what we see as a new golden age in DIY video production. The program is organized as segments that feature video and response, the use of common source material, shared topics, and shared techniques in different forms of DIY video.

Part Two of our Featured Screening program features videos that stood out among the thousands that we viewed as part of our curatorial process as the most outstanding and compelling DIY video works. Sit back, enjoy, and be inspired to do it yourself.

Segment One

A Fair(y) Use Tale
by Eric Faden
Used by permission here only with a waiver to the Creative Commons Share Alike License

A Girl Like Me
by Kiri Davis

Absolutely Cuckoo
by Zoetrope

Abuse of Power
by ironman28

Amateur
by Lasse Gjertsen

Ask a Ninja 17
by Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine

Channel Zero: Craig Baldwin
by Lewis Cohen and Stephen Marshall

Closer
by T. Jonesy and Killa

Code Monkey AMV
by Studio Hybrid

Code Monkey Dance Live at Schuba's 2007-12-08
by CJFringe

Conference Call
by Charlene Rule

Emily's Code Monkey Dance
by Aleprechaun

Failed Experiments in Video Editing
by Big Big Truck Productions

Gimme the Mermaid
by Tim Maloney

Home town Baghdad ñ #24 Troops
by Chat the Planet , Michael DiBenedetto

HungVP158's Videologblog
Written by the Colbert Report Writers, Directed by Frank Lesser

I Put You There
by Laura Shapiro

Inside The Machinima
by Jonathan Perry

It's the End of the World As We Know It Ep. 25
by Franklin Lopez

Jetset - 50th Episode Back To Videoblogging
by Zadi Diaz

Jonathan Coulton in LA -10- Code Monkey
by Gle3nn

Jon Stewart is God
by Erin Ptah

Josh Wolf Trial At The Berkman Center In SL
by Bernhard Drax

Keeping America Scared
by Brennan Houlihan

Kodak
by Jonathan McIntosh

Lac St. Clair
by Chris Weagel

Live Action Group Code Monkey
by Derrick Stolee

Machinima! With Officer Dan
by Harrison Heller

No Borders Camp Promo 2007
by Sasha Costanza-Chock

Not the Daily Show, With Some Writer
by The Writers of The Daily Show

Ordained From Above
by ManyLemons Productions

Plunder Propaganda
by Doki Doki Productions

Sims 2 Code Monkey
by thumbmaster021

State of the union 2
by Goatchezpiza

Tasting Rachel Ray
by Naomi Leibowitz

The Revolution Will Be Televised
by YouthLAB Chicago

Tibettan Kids Vlogging
by Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman

Us
by lim

Vlog Anarchy
by Michael Verdi

Vogue
by Luminosity

Voices of Uncertainty
by Anonymous

WGA Strike: a Love Story
by Tim Kelleher and Danny Zuker

What About That Bacon
by Aaron Valdez

What is Machinima?
by Frank Fox

Where I Find Calm
by Jay Dedman

Wonder of Birds
by Laura Shapiro and Morgan Dawn

WoW Code Monkey
by Mike Booth
Segment Two

1K Project II
by BlackShark and Amraphendt

Anarchy in the UK
by Rupert Howe
Used by permission here only with a waiver to the Creative Commons Share Alike License

Angry Teacher
by Unkown

Go Army Computers, Army of One?, H2 Bummer, Dropped Into the Blue, and One Man
by Jonathan McIntosh

Ballad of Black Mesa
by Zacharia Scott

Bush vs. Zombies
by MyEverythingdotcom

Cantina Crawl XII
by Javier

Chevy 1, Chevy 2, Chevy 3
by Unknown

Chongalicious
by Mimi Davila and Laura Di Lorenzo

Code Monkey (Live Action Guy)
by Jocopro

Cunnilingus in North Korea
by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

Excited
by Ryanne Hodson

Full Metal Alchemist - Always Hardcore
by Nostromo

GB state of union map
by Immortal Technique

Geisha Girl II
by Bryony Matthewman

George Bush Don't Like Black People
by Franklin Lopez

In My Language
by AM Baggs

Internet People
by Dan Meth
Used by permission here only with a waiver to the Creative Commons Share Alike License

The Machine is Us/ing Us
by Michael Wesch
Used by permission here only with a waiver to the Creative Commons Share Alike License

Midwest Teen Sex Show, Episode 1: Female Masturbation
by Guy Clark
Used by permission here only with a waiver to the Creative Commons Share Alike License

Mine 2 Trailer
by Snoken Productions

Planet of the Arabs
by Jacqueline Salloum

Right Now Someone is Reading This Title
by Doki Doki Productions

Shoot on Sight
by Burma Issues

Slip of the Tongue
by Karen Lum

Walking on The Ground
by Seah and Margie

We all live in Azumerica
by Fall_Child42

Women's Work
by Luminosity and Sisabet


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