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 its parents. In the final episode, the videos were revealed to be made by 3D animator David OReilly. OReilly made Octocat Story out of the wave of fan art about Octocat that sprawled over the internet.
Also in this combined programme
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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 fa
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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. See
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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.
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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
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>be me
What stories do anonymous internet users share on internet forums? Come to >be me, where the special selection of ‘greentexts’
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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
- Japan
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
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- Premiere status
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