Last year duckrabbit did some work with MSF, producing a series of videos for their Condition Critical website.
It was hands down one of the most most rewarding and challenging experiences of my professional life.
Tonight duckrabbit and the rabble from MSF (Robin Meldrum, Julie Remy) will be at the British Film Institute to find out whether we will win an Amnesty Media Award.
One of the aims of the videos we produced with MSF was to get people to write messages of support that could be distributed in the camps in Eastern Congo. Some people thought that idea was a bit daft. Fair enough. The wonderful video below is not by us, but by the team at MSF, and shows some of the messages being delivered in the camps. After watching the video it’s hard to be cynical. I hope for those of you who were thoughtful enough to leave a message it makes the effort worthwhile. PLEASE DO WATCH … I found it very moving. If a few messages of support mean something to these people imagine what a difference the International Community could make if they really got their shit together about the Congo.
Thanks to everyone who supported this project and wrote about it. Too many to mention (Photography Lot, Bruno De Cock, Pete Masters, The Travel Photographer, Reciprocity Failure, Charlie Beckett at POLIS, Innovative Interactivity, Ciara Leeming, Rights Exposure Project, Steven Alvarez, Adam Westbrook and many others. You know who you are and you know how much it means to me).
I never even managed to put all four videos up on the blog or the wonderful pictures that Bruno De Cock took of people writing messages of support in a shopping centre in Brussels, whilst watching the films.
At duckrabbit we try and do everything with our hearts. It may be a bit daft but then David and I are a bit daft. We love people, we love telling stories and we’re still soft enough to get upset about the terrible inequalities that exist in this world.
If you’re in the UK and you want to be able to make photofilms like the ones we did for MSF then come to our training on the 19th. Robin (from MSF) who recorded most of the audio from these films is one of our trainees and testament that a little bit of learning can go a long way.
If we lose, we’ll have a beer. If we win we’ll have a beer. Either way we’ll be happy, cause we’re lucky sods and that really isn’t fair.
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that’s just beautiful. Good luck tonight folks – a win would help to keep the story in the public eye
The leave a message idea is not daft, it is beautiful. People want to connect, to let others know they are thinking of them. But you know that.
I love going back to the site and seeing even more green squares.
Best of luck tonight, it is a great campaign thoughtfully implemented and very well produced.
That video is wonderful.
Good luck tonight guys, you deserve it big time!
By the way…’photofilm’…have you just come up with the long awaited new name for an audio slideshow…?