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Documentaries really can change the world.

The beautifully disturbing The Act of Killing has sparked a debate about the mass killings in Indonesia like nothing before. When the film got Oscar nominated it forced the Indonesian regime to deny and publicly discuss it's bloody history. Hopefully the film will also make the US reveal their role in Indonesia's history more transparently. The groundbreaking narrative - a film about gangsters making a film about their killings - also tweaked the rules of documentary filmmaking. 

Congrats to The Act of Killing for changing the world, despite missing out on yesterday's Oscar.

We love Little Dragon!

In this mini doc by Yours Truly we've added a bunch of nerdy info about Little Dragon's upcoming album Nabuma Rubberband.

Tänk om dina favoritartister hade ett lätt sätt att guida dig genom allt brus som skrivs om deras musikvideor. 

Här kommer Timbuktus ‘Spring’ där han själv valt länkarna - med allt från N.W.A och Al Jazeera till röster från hans polare och media om låten.

Här är min senaste video Spring med några egna länkar förknippade med videon och till grejer jag tänkte på och blev inspirerad av när jag skrev låten.

Peace, Jason

Yes, it's a bit meta to annotate a video about annotating videos.

But think of it as a public speaker - wouldn't it be great to have interactive footnotes in your online talks and lectures?

Watch LinkLib founder Simon Klose demonstrate LinkLib as a tool to troll the audience with a clip from the Yes Men’s upcoming doc “The Yes Men are Revolting”. This talk was delivered at CPH DOX: Artists, Activists and Social Change at the National Gallery of Denmark Nov 14 2013.

Kände du inte heller igen alla fejorna i Jag-är-Jason-videon? Vi har länkat till de medverkandes reaktioner på Jasons 5i12-tal i sociala medier. 

Vi har också lagt till några av de artiklar som följde i kölvattnet av vissa-är-Jason, andra-är-inte-Jason-debatten. Och så Jasons egna tankar såklart.

För att visa fotnoterna i en smartphone eller surfplatta, tryck Connect Device och scanna QR koden. Nu kan du fullscreena videoklippet och kolla länkarna i telefonen utan att de stör filmen.

Mindfuck Your Audience!

This is last weeks audience scanning the QR code at my talk Mindfuck Your Audience! Second Screen Manipulation with the Yes Men and LinkLib at Copenhagen:DOX.

When I was asked to do something with LinkLib and The Yes Men I wanted to come up with ways to troll the audience by sending fake info to their phones. I kept asking myself how Banksy or Sacha Baron Cohen would use second screens to twist their narratives.

I’m a big fan of the Yes Men and love how they tell small lies to expose huge corporate lies. In this clip I wanted to breathe life into one of their fictitious characters and send links from his fake twitter account to the viewers’ phones. It was really fun!

Press Connect Device and scan the QR code to see what happens when fake dudes keep it real and real dudes are phonies.

Corporations of the world, watch out! The Yes Men are back!

Four Swedish movie theatres recently launched a new rating system to draw attention to how few movies pass the Bechdel test. So what's up with the Bechdel test? Check out Anita Sarkeesian below.

We've added a green share button in the bottom left corner so it's really easy to embed or reblog videos with footnotes. Great for bloggers!

We've also updated our code so people can embed *LinkLibbed* videos with or without the feed on the right (some blogs don't have space for wide videos).

On the wide version press Connect Device to scan the QR code and send the footnotes to your phone or tablet. Press the green LinkLib icon to embed, share or add your own links to this clip.

Last week we we're part of In-Edit, a groundbreaking music doc festival in Barcleona. In an experimental screening of the doc Get What You Want we sent links from the film to the audiences phones.

With all the songs, music videos and artists - music documentaries have a natural layer of context to link to. 

We're super proud to present the trailer to the upcoming documentary Ai Weiwei The Fake Case. The film is directed by Andreas Rosforth and will premiere at IDFA in Amsterdam next month.

We've added links to articles, videos and social media - all about this intimate portrait of Ai Weiwei and the Chinese authorities' bogus case against him.

As a documentary filmmaker I often got frustrated that I couldn't give my audience more context about the complicated Pirate Bay-film I worked on. I founded LinkLib with a friend because I wanted to tell broader, more nuanced and updated documentary stories.

Today we're doing a workshop with the documentary community at Nordisk Panorama in Malmö. We're gonna get dirty and annotate a bunch of trailers!

Docs have that magic ability to change people's perception of the world. With LinkLib we hope to give filmmakers and film lovers a sharper tool to change people's perception of the world.

Here's the TPB AFK-trailer 7 months after we released it, with updated links about the Pirate Bay-thriller.

If research papers have footnotes - why shouldn't research videos? Annotating scientific videos makes a lot of sense.

*Hacking video storytelling with LinkLib's Second Screen*

is the name of our workshop at the hacker maker camp OHM2013 in Amsterdam this week. Excited to see how the tech community will flip our second screen.

We're also screening TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard - this time with footnotes focused on Pirate Bay tech and hacks.

It's really cool how you can customize the topics of the annotations after the audience's preferences.

Screening a court room copyright thriller to lawyers or hackers can be two pretty different experiences, depending on how you tweak the meta data.