In this gallery you can view dropping knowledge's Copyleft films: shot on location, edited for rapid turnaround and released on our website immediately upon completion (often within days of being shot). dropping knowledge creates and hosts reportage documentaries that connect people and their questions, highlight under-reported stories and raise awareness of pressing social topics.
These films are protected by the dropping knowledge Copyleft License (PDF, 55kb). You are free to copy, use, modify, publish, broadcast or otherwise redistribute any portion of these films, and we actively encourage you to do so.
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This is dropping knowledge An 8-minute retrospective, up-close, inside-view of what we've done and seek to continue... Credits Flash Video (320x180) QuickTime (554x312) QuickTime (320x180) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (320x180)

The Question Movie The original dropping knowledge promotional film, the Question Movie was first screened on this website in September 2005. Cut together from images created during dropping knowledge CEO Ralf Schmerberg’s 15-year career as a commercials director, the Question Movie is a visually poetic intoduction to the practice of questioning. Credits QuickTime (320x240)

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NGO ACTION: Street Football for Peace On Monday, July 3, 2006, a street-football team made up of young Israelis and Palestinians played a local side in Mariannenplatz, Kreuzberg, Berlin, as part of the street football world festival 06. The team was in Germany thanks to the Peres Center for Peace’s ‘Twinned Peace Sport Schools’ initiative, which brings Palestinian and Israeli children from disadvantaged communties together for sports training and peace education. At the game, dropping knowledge met Peres Center Sports Unit directors Roni Asoulin from Israel and Anwar Zaidan from Palestine, and caught up with the action. Credits QuickTime (320x180) QuickTime (554x312) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (320x180) Flash Video (320x180)

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CeaseFire Now: a day with bianca jagger A dropping knowledge production, this film is Copyleft. You are free to screen it, sample it, recreate it and spread it through your network — and we actively encourage you to do so. Credits Flash Video (320x195) QuickTime (320x195) QuickTime (554x344) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (320x195)

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Jonathan Meese, Berlin One of Germany’s most exciting young artists wonders about geometry, adventure, revolution and something called ‘Copyleft.’ Credits QuickTime (320x195) QuickTime (554x344) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (320x195) Flash Video (320x195)

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Chocolate city - we are here to stay dropping knowledge shot Chocolate City »we are here to stay« in New Orleans on January 31, 2006, 155 days after Katrina hit. Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and Chalmette, two destroyed areas, tell how they have survived without promised help from the U.S. government. Chocolate City features the Common Ground Collective, an NGO in the Ninth Ward that provides relief and organizes against government efforts to take over homes, especially in Black-owned areas. Credits QuickTime (320x240) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (720x576) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (320x240)

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What is your tree? dropping knowledge shot ‘What Is Your Tree?’ at the South Central farm in Los Angeles on June 1, 2006. The farm, which supports 350 families who grow their own food, is the largest community-garden in the US. After the land was sold by the city of Los Angeles to a private property-developer, the South Central Farmers fought and lost a two-year court battle to save the land they have farmed for 12 years. On May 23, 2006, celebrities, activists and the local community joined the farmers in staging a ‘tree sit’ to save the farm. Credits MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (320x180) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (720x406)

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Die Fantastischen Vier, Hamburg Die Fantastischen Vier, donate their questions to dropping knowledge. As the only camera team present, dropping knowledge was allowed to shoot the private wedding of singer Smudo and his bride Esther Müller. Credits Flash Video (320x195) QuickTime (320x195) QuickTime (554x344) MPEG4 ACV / h.264 (320x195)