www.swarmtv.org is a research project by Jem Mackay looking at the Political Structures of Open, Non-hierarchical and Collaborative Filmmaking.

Other projects on the site are
Legend of King Arthur 2.0
Counterpoint Counterpunch
Market of Ideas
Resource Camp on Open Budgeting

Up until the end of June, SwarmTV will be facilitating a set of open films, and we would very much like you to join in. We are aiming to enter something for the Cornish Film Festival 2008 (www.cornwall-film-festival.co.uk)

SwarmTV is a way of making films online so that at any stage, any person is able to push the whole project forward.

This means that people can spend as little or as long as they like on the project and still be part of the process.

Here's how the project works:

Each time you come to the site, do one of the following:

1. Write up a task that you think needs to be done at Tasks To Do

2. Have a go at doing one of tasks and if you need to upload the result either do that at idisk.mac.com/j3m-Public/swarmtv/ , or use the Tool Box uploader and list it at Tasks Done

3. Make a comment about any of the tasks that have already been done at Comments on tasks

4. Make this website more user friendly to any new people who might be visiting the project.

Click here to find out How this site works

If you would like to be sent our weekly update (or if you would prefer NOT to be sent it!), please send me an email to

Big thanks to everybody. Finished films from the project should now be posted at Project 2008

(Click on Play for a 5 minute tutorial on how to use this site.)

You cannot delete. Editing is about deletion, honing, cutting crap. Every editor has a mind agenda - to please the prospective audience. In this instance non- hierarchical and collaborative film-making is a nonsense,you try to please the contributors and the audience - or you invalidate the concept, in the end someone has to edit!

Reply: Its not strictly true that you can't delete things, you CAN change things. People always have to edit! The problem is that not enough people are bold enough to edit. I wish more people would of course. You seem kind of bold. Have you edited anything? People do have to edit, it's true, but it IS open to anyone. If at any stage anyone is able to swap what is on the website, upload anything on the website, or at least comment on what others have presented, then where is the facist Svengali approach?