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Remix my looks

Remix: Extreme look variations

Two of the most extreme Remixes in terms of the look of the visuals. Take a look, compare and, if you think you can do it better... take part in the contest and win prizes!

Remix Me, Baby!

You can enter the contest from our Download section

We have put at your disposal 30 video clips (we haven't even used half of them :P), sound environment, CGI, music (two samples of Artemyev's soundtrack for Tarkovski's Solarys), voiceovers in Russian and English and title backgrounds, everything you need is in there!.

You have until the 31st of March to send in your remix teaser.
The winners will be announced in this year's edition of the Yuri's Night.

The prizes? For now we'll give you a preview: special edition 'The Comsonaut' LOMO LCA cameras and the charming pop Russian spark of sequential OKTOMAT's..

 To bring you this contest we've been working side by side with:

The Auteurs - Online cinematéque and distributor of The Criterion Collection, has collaborated with Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. With more than a million users it has become THE place to watch, recommend, comment and debate -and now even edit- auteur cinema online  :)



Garage - A division of The Auteurs Garage is a collaborative initiative, an online film school that has been recently launched to connect filmmakers from all over the world to work in editing, filming and production projects. Perhaps you've heard of it 'cause it's been generating loads of buzz.



Lomography Spain - Spain's official representative of the photographic phenomenon born in Russia -with strong ties to military photography- a few decades ago. A few months ago they helped us put together " Dreams of the Cosmonaut", a collaborative experience where hundreds of lomo photos explored the Universe of a film that hasn't even been born yet. Now they've put at your disposal all that material licensed under CC and will award the best remixers with cameras of Russian names :)


Unifest -  After four editions where more than 80 universities from over 30 countries have participated, UNIFEST celebrates its fifth anniversary giving out over 8000€ in prizes to University students. The definitive festival when it comes to cinema created by university students. We will soon reveal the prizes UNIFEST will give-out to university student remixers.

UOC - A regular collaborator of The Cosmonaut, the Universidad Oberta de Catalunya is Spain's most renowned University in new media education; collaborative creation, free software, transmedia, crowdsourcing: these are all familiar words to their syllabus. Eager to try and experiment with new things they are happy to support initiatives like the Teaser Remix Experience. The how's and when's will soon be revealed :)



SafeCreative - the first online copyright registry in the world: global, free, open and independent. It offers creators the opportunity to register and host their works and supports all kinds of licences (from traditional copyright to Creative Commons to à la carte licenses). Part of an ambitious collaboration with Riot Cinema, SC will eventually host the film and all our raw footage. What's more, they'll aid us in figuring out the semantic ID of the film online, in other words, the best way to let users know which licenses are free and which are restricted without confusing links, no added documentation and without altering the film itself.



The Internet Archive - A non-profit organization whose main purpose is to preserve all free licensed multimedia, or those works filmmakers have decided to share freely. It's by far the largest open source film, audio and text archive. The Cosmonaut, and all raw footage, will be hosted in the "Open Source Video" section.

The Remix step by step :)

If you want to save time, you can download them directly in TWO PACKS (ZIP file). Don't forget you have EXTRAS:129 MB of audio, images, etc...all in HD.





(If you want, you can click from here)

If you don't have a user account, you should create one. It's simple and it's free.  Plus, they're serious guys that make the sharing of movies, for streaming addicts like us or our friends at The Auteurs, a delight. And nop, they're not paying us to say this -sigh!..

 If you don't have an account at The Auteurs, you'll have to create one. It's quite straightforward; all you need is a username, an email and a password.  No spam, no endless registration forms, no BS. What else can you do at The Auteurs? Buff! Check it out! (yes, we're huge fans, and no, they're not paying us either :P )....

Remember to have an 448x252 pix. image -or similar­- at hand (if it's not the same size it'll flatten it a bit. Although it's barely noticeable :P  ) to represent your Remix.  Select an image that is eye-catching and original, remember there'll be many other videos!

(Click to see original size)

About the hosting of the materials.

If you have any problems, you can go to our directory and download the clips individually (1) or in two packs (2).

If you continue to have download problems, you can download the materials from their website. Access our directory, search for what you want, click on it, and in the details page look for the button "Download this work".

In SC you'll find all our material hosted in 2 packs, the extras and official teasers in HD.

Still hungry for images? Three more teasers of "The Cosmonaut"!

As from tomorrow you can take part in the Teaser Remix Experience we have developed along with the guys from TheAuteurs.com. You'll be able to create your own The Cosmonaut teasers...and win prizes!