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From CCTV to MTV: Paper on the Cheap

If bands could get to No. 1 on the charts for ingenuity rather than record sales, then the amusingly irreverent unsigned trio, The Get Out Clause, would win hands down. The English indie band exploited a legal loophole to make an innovative video for their single “Paper” on the cheap.

“We wanted to produce something that looked good and that wasn’t too expensive to do,” says guitarist Tony Churnside, 29, who met the other band members at The University of Salford in Manchester. Desperate to make a video for their new single Paper, but with no budget to hire a crew, the Manchester guys decided to let the state do the filming instead. The band used footage from some of the the many CCTV surveillance cameras stationed around their home city of Manchester to create their own music video. The Get Out Clause played in front of CCTV cameras at 80 locations (out of the 13 million CCTV “security” cameras currently deployed throughout England), including at Deansgate, on a bus, on a zebra crossing and in the Castlefield Amphitheater. They then approached the companies who owned the cameras and used England’s Freedom of Information Act to obtain the footage.

The images were then pieced together and used as the video for one of the band’s songs, “Paper.” James Thomson of the band said, “You can’t help but go somewhere and not see one of these CCTV cameras, so we just thought we’d regurgitate what was available to us.” Tony Churnside, the band’s guitarist, said: “Legally, you are supposed to be able to get this footage back as it is information that is held about you. The vast majority of these places didn’t respond, so there was only a few we managed to get footage from in the end.” In all, the band had played in front of 80 CCTV cameras, and managed to get a quarter of the tapes back. The video ended up showing the band playing in 20 different locations throughout Manchester.

This piece includes photographs, a documentary short and the music video, “Paper.”

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The 85th Academy Awards list of winners

The complete list of winners from last night's 85th Academy Awards.

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Pessimistic commentary for The 85th Academy Awards

Useless but mandatory commentary from last night's 85th Academy Awards.

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Paperman Wins 2013 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film!

“Paperman” is a sweet tale of love at first sight, which won the 2013... more

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“Searching for Sugar Man,” Story of Musician Sixto Rodriguez, Wins Oscar

“Searching for Sugar Man” found an Oscar on Sunday night. The film, which traces the strange, almost unbelievable tale of Detroit folk musician Sixto Rodriguez from obscurity to international success, largely without his knowing, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at Sunday’s 85th Academy Awards. Rodriguez, 70, was not at the ceremony, “because he didn’t want to take any of the credit himself,” producer Simon Chinn explained from the Oscar stage while accepting the award. “And that just about says everything about that man and his story that you want to know.”

“Searching for Sugar Man” is a 2012 Swedish/British documentary directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which follows the efforts of two Cape Town fans, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumored death of Rodriguez was true, and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Previously, the film won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Durban International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Melbourne Film Festival. Malik Bendjelloul won the 2013 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary for “Searching for Sugar Man.”

The film tells the magical story of a gifted singer-songwriter from Detroit, who was an enigmatic mystery. His face half-hidden by long flowing hair and dark glasses, he sang in smoke-filled folk music bars, often with his back turned to the audience. His name was Sixto Rodriguez. In the late 1960′s, Rodriguez was so good that with neither fame nor a large fan base, he signed a two-album contract with Sussex and A&R Records. The first album, Cold Fact, got a rare four-star review from Billboard Magazine. However, neither it nor his second album, Coming From Reality, sold well, the contract was dropped and the story seemed to end there.

Nothing else was heard from Sixto Rodriguez. But several years later, his albums traveled half-way around the world, to Cape Town, South Africa, where bootleg copies passed from hand to hand and his songs became the storied anthems of the anti-apartheid movement. When an indie record store owner named Stephen Segerman released them commercially, they took off, the first selling 500,000 copies, which in that nation was comparable to the Beatles or Elvis Presley.

This piece includes photographs, two documentary short films and a music video.

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The Jockstrap Raiders: Heroic British Misfits Defeat Invading German Army

“The Jockstrap Raiders” is a delightfully wacky animated short film by... more

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Henry: The Inevitable Verdict of Life

“Henry” is an emotionally touching short film by Quebec actor Yan England,... more

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We finally got the Blackmagic Cinema cam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9gstLG1FN0 This camera is CRAZY!

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We’ve All Been There: The Unexpected Kindness of Others

“We’ve All Been There” is an acclaimed, inspiring short film... more

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The Eagleman Stag: 2013 SOTW Best Short Animation Award

“The Eagleman Stag” is an award-winning, stunning monochrome stop-motion... more

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Head Over Heels: A Marriage Just Hanging in the Balance

“Head Over Heels” is a poignant and heartfelt animated short directed by... more

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Adam and Dog: The Joy of Discovering a Loyal Friend

“Adam and Dog” is a stunning hand-drawn, 15-minute animated short film by... more

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The Joy of Brooklyn’s Sparkly Bedazzled Mosaic House

“Mosaic House” is a wonderful documentary short film, a portrait of mosaic... more

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The Maker: The Beguiling Preciousness of Life and Love

“The Maker” is an acclaimed stop-motion animated short film directed by... more

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As I Am: We Are Meant to Find Each Other

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Belly: A Heart-Wrenching Tale of Childhood Love and Loss

“Belly” is an acclaimed animated short film by filmmaker Julia Pott,... more

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Paperman: A Sweet Celebration of Missed Connections

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Sixto Rodriguez: The Powerful Music of a Deeply Good Man

“Searching for Sugar Man” is the magical story of a gifted singer-songwriter from Detroit, who was an enigmatic mystery. His face half-hidden by long flowing hair and dark glasses, he sang in smoke-filled folk music bars, often with his back turned to the audience. His name was Sixto Rodriguez.

He was so good that with neither fame nor a large fan base, Rodriguez signed a two-album contract with Sussex and A&R Records. The first album, “Cold Fact,” got a rare four-star review from Billboard Magazine. However, neither it nor his second album, “Coming From Reality,” sold well, the contract was dropped, and the story seemed to end there.

Nothing else was heard from Sixto Rodriguez. But several years later, his albums traveled half-way around the world, to Cape Town, South Africa, where bootleg copies passed from hand to hand and his songs became the storied anthems of the anti-apartheid movement. When an indie record store owner named Stephen Segerman released them commercially, they took off, the first selling 500,000 copies, which in that nation was comparable to the Beatles or Elvis Presley.

“Searching for Sugar Man” is a 2012 Swedish/British documentary directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which follows the efforts of two Cape Town fans, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumored death of Rodriguez was true, and, if not, to discover what had become of him. The film won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Durban International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Melbourne Film Festival. “Searching for Sugar Man” was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2013 Academy Awards to be held in February 2013.

This piece includes photographs, two documentary short films and a music video

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"Dirty Wars": Jeremy Scahill New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert US Warfare

Premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the new documentary Dirty... more

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