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important part of the target audience exists of experimental filmmakers, who now have a
platform that has the ability to unite the separate spheres of the online communities, the
art world and the film world.
The key subject in the overarching theme was that the preservation of works online
offered a way in which the curators could add value through contextualizing the artists
and their artwork, which is supposed to lead to a richer experience for the public
engaging with those works. Furthermore, in the case of InstantCinema, a big factor in
the succes was the establishing of a trusting relationship between the artists and the
organization. The filmmakers would be offered an easy-to-use platform. As Termeer
explained, InstantCinema wanted to make film widely available providing a
complementary platform towards existing establishments such as the museum,
specialized film festivals and cinémathèques
Termeer explained that the project came about through the shared inititiative of L.A.
based Dutchmen Rene Daalder, who is a writer and filmmaker, and Folkert Gorter, and
interaction designer. The technical framework, the content management system of the
project, originated in a few of their earlier projects, namely SpaceCollective.org, a crossmedia
platform where the future of human existence is being discussed and
CargoCollective.com, which functions as a platform on which graphic artists can easily
share their work.
In Termeerʼs view, InstantCinema has the important socio-cultural function to show the
similarities between different forms of media-art. The site, located at
www.instantcinema.org, has several features with which it tries to provide a quality
alternative to commercial distribution platforms. It offers a high image quality and a solid
content management system. It also has a feature that enables community building. As
you can see on the image below, the left of the website exists of curated works, and the
right side offers contributed work by artists:
After describing the website, Termeer expanded on what challenges the creators faced.
One of the obstacles that arose, was that it was taking far more time than expected to
finish the platform. Besides that, there were the usual problems surrounding intellectual
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