Michela Ledwidge wants her film to be more than watchable. She wants it to be remixable. By February, the director plans to post all of the raw material for Sanctuary, her 10-minute sci-fi movie about a girl, her computer, and a mysterious murder, on www.modfilms.com. Expect nearly nine hours of production footage, 90 minutes of sound effects and dialog, plus hundreds of storyboards, concept drawings, and still photos. Viewers will be able to manipulate the cinematic elements with downloadable software called Switch. Ledwidge was inspired by game modding: Fans spend untold hours performing retrofits on their favorite titles (famous examples include Half-Life and Quake III). If her project catches on, Sanctuary could turn into the first massively multiplayer online movie.
- Jason Silverman
Raw material: One of hundreds of downloadable production shots from Michela Ledwig’s remixable movie.
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