Bank Robbers
The work is inspired by abook of Lawrence Lessig from Stanford University about the free sharing of ideas and creation of the concept of Coplyleft.
In his famous essay published "Remix", Lawrence Professor of Law invites us to resize the concept of copyright in modern culture, It will not be able to avoid the phenomena of REMIX media. Bank Robbers is a provocation for the revision of some laws that otherwise would render much of the world's population pirate.
Always the treasures of the banks put wings to ours imagination, but no crime meets a lot of sympathy as a bank robbery.
We can consider bank robbery a topic covered and discussed, often it is described trough an overproduction of images starting from the news, but even more from the movies, so as to constitute a genre itself, so many films were shooted to build the myth of many "authors" of robberies: Bonnye and Clyde, the Dalton brothers, Dillinger. Strange is the common linguistic position, for name who commit a robbery, the term is most commonly associated with "author of the robbery," as they do for a book or a movie or an art work.
In short, the bank robbery is a great artistic act.
This video is in two channell to compare reality and fiction, because in bank robberyes creality inspire cinema industry and vice versa.
- Hands up, this is a robbery! - Please do not shoot!
The ambivalence of the word in English on the filmakers language,
suggests a theme of contemporary or a situationist detournament touse images from others. This opera is an operation to reappropriation and re-use stolen images for personal purposes. The social and political act of robbery is quite evident, one of the first exponents politicians of the first '900 as Buenaventura Durruti called the bank robbery "political exercise" and the legend says that one day he gave the gun to a mendicant and Buenaventura said: "Take it! Tell about the money to the bank! " At the same time we can find our images from films (copyrigt covered) or images from bank CCTV, Now we can make a film without shooting! We can make a lot of mistake, but in this situation the question is who is the robber between the bank and the robber?
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