The book >be me – a collection of ‘greentexts’, on which this installation is based, can be seen as the first book dealing with an Internet-borne literary genre. The ‘greentexts’ presented in this work are short stories posted on 4chan during 2010-2015. They are written in an internet-evolved language that can be characterised as abrupt, statement-like internet slang and get their name from the use of 4chan’s quote function that colours the text green.
The protagonist in the stories is most often a young male and, due to its anonymous online source, gives an exceptional insight into a young man’s psyche. The stories describe absurd, once-in-a-lifetime moments we can all relate to, but for the most part we hope will never actually have to face. The book can be downloaded for free at greentext.org. A selection of these texts and an instruction that will inspire the audience to share something themselves can be found at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Also in this combined programme
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#MEMEPROPAGANDA Goes to Rotterdam
This interactive exhibition looks at the growing role of memes in digital society, focusing on meme characters. -
Slenderman Is Real // Slenderman Is Fake
What is truth? Based on fragments from the still expanding online Slenderman myth, the audience can itself decide what is real and what is not.… -
Octocat Story
In 2008, RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago uploaded a hand-drawn animated video Octocat Adventures, about a red cat head with eight legs looking for… -
Meme-rIFFR
Eric Allen Hatch is a festival programmer and film critic who believes that making and appreciating memes can broaden knowledge and taste and so facilitate… -
Get Your Views; Is This Meme Art?
Combining a digital art series with video art, the work humorously questions the power of consumerism in the post-internet age. The videos explore the current… -
Meme Rewind 2018
Remember Trumpet Boy? Rewind of the best memes in 2018, with an explanation by 15-year-old meme expert Tobias Kers.
Film details
- Country of production
- Finland
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
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