https://open.movie/about/instance/homehttps://open.movie/videos/browse?scope=localhttps://open.movie/w/rT8NJfigT43JEr6FD3mbADhttps://open.movie/lazy-static/thumbnails/e2b4f5a3-7cea-4d0f-aab3-13074a2453b6.jpgCath Le Couteur on the utopian 90s web, closing Shooters and the film collective future*"I'm not an anti-tech person. Shooters was built on technology. But I am mindful that we want technoloogy that doesn't extract, technology that enables people. I think physical events - more of them - goes hand in hand with a future for film, for future for culture. "* **Cath LeCouteur** was there at the start of multiple culture-changing moments: the world's first web cafe, the BBC's first steps online mid-90s, bringing user-generated content and peer-to-peer learning to the film industry, the 'freemium' funding model. But most impactful, in that we all still do it, she reimagined the 90s web forum as a morning scroll, natter (and occasional rant) along with your coffee. **Note:** This film is available under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. For the avoidance of doubt, that means AI and LLM tools may not copy or ingest this video file without Cath and Nic's explicit consent. They can add subtitles, translations of those subtitles and text-based summaries of the film provided that doesn't require copying the video to a training pool. I don't know a better license that makes that clear. For other uses, get in touch…https://open.movie/static/streaming-playlists/hls/d198358c-ce0e-4edb-a521-8caa4a54b5e1/7b55a336-5a4e-4ef8-bb9e-66b1f6b26e92-master.m3u8https://open.movie/videos/embed/rT8NJfigT43JEr6FD3mbAD3158062026-02-19T23:48:20.499ZYESnetributionNOhttps://open.movie/w/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTfhttps://open.movie/lazy-static/thumbnails/2d08d6ab-a4fa-4257-9512-55dc5139e785.jpgMike Little, Part 2: his life in codeMike recounts his history with computers and how he taught himself coding. In 1978 at Stockport College, Mike had his first experience of a computer: a teletype machine with no display but a printer, with BASIC and punched tape to save programmes. Next he learnt programming colours and simple animations with the Sinclair Spectrum in the early 80s to make visuals for local bands - using code typed in from magazines. Then he mastered 6502 Assembler (the language above binary code) on a 16 bit Atari and next while working at a video store wrote his own database system to track customer records by writing directly on the hard drive raw data with hardware controls. Later he encounters Linux, and creates the first revision control system for DOS to track changes to code, inspired by Linux's SCCS - and long before CVS, SVN or Git. **Note:** This film is available under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. For the avoidance of doubt, that means AI and LLM tools may not copy or ingest this video file without Mike and Nic's explicit consent. They can add subtitles, translations of those subtitles and text-based summaries of the film provided that doesn't require copying the video to a training pool. I don't know a better license that makes that clear. For other uses, get in touch…https://open.movie/static/streaming-playlists/hls/cc2f3cfa-0a46-4e4f-b930-460e4124fae4/fc4cf4be-7b76-4587-a6b0-509ac1e18d0f-master.m3u8https://open.movie/videos/embed/rdot9DoygXTXzLM4ZnJjTf25040652026-02-19T23:48:51.011ZYESnetributionNOhttps://open.movie/w/bX16VKiLD3dbN49jk2uanChttps://open.movie/lazy-static/thumbnails/3e5012b6-a026-49ef-8683-2e6578a4fba4.pngDavid Nicholas Wilkinson, director, producer & distributorThe director of The Marbles, Getting Away With Murders, and the First Film – and distributor over 100 feature films – reflects on a 56 (so far) year career. From overcoming snobbery at his working class Yorkshire roots to a career spanning the film industry as producer, director and distributor – his talk is packed with advice for filmmakers, gossip, familiar names and insider tips. He finishes discussing his next film, '1 in 2', inspired by his experience of stage 4 bowel cancer and its fast rise among young people. **Note:** This film is available under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. For the avoidance of doubt, that means AI and LLM tools may not copy or ingest this video file without David and Nic's explicit consent. They can add subtitles, translations of those subtitles and text-based summaries of the film provided that doesn't require copying the video to a training pool. I don't know a better license that makes that clear. For other uses, get in touch…https://open.movie/static/streaming-playlists/hls/58a95b5f-4d75-4333-9713-d38c5bd25afa/580f5d11-f16c-42c1-ae7c-9ca0275d1c6b-master.m3u8https://open.movie/videos/embed/bX16VKiLD3dbN49jk2uanC2723012026-02-19T23:48:36.812ZYESnetributionNOhttps://open.movie/w/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kzhttps://open.movie/lazy-static/thumbnails/01fa35ec-a328-4d64-9ed9-3dde62ded191.pngMike Little, Part 1: co-founding WordPress and watching it grow (from afar)It all starts in the B2 Cafeblog community - with Matt Mullenweg's 2003 proposal to fork it, and Mike's offer to help. We follow their work developing it together, learn of the improvements each of them want to focus on - Mike added the 'blog roll', and the 'Maybe Upgrade DB' function central to the non-breaking upgrade process that drove WordPress success. From Mike's patience with a less experienced coder to Matt's later success (WordPress.com Automattic is valued over $7bn) - and his shock during the first UK WordCamp at how many people made a living from a tool that he'd never earned a penny from. "Making a living from WordPress? Wait a minute! You could say that was a life-changing moment"https://open.movie/static/streaming-playlists/hls/864b8ae7-2dbf-4dd2-a9a4-5e697cf28fc3/45aebbb3-db8b-420d-9f3c-8af570802c58-master.m3u8https://open.movie/videos/embed/hzQjFV6xJF9agsn5ERz4Kz183352122026-02-19T23:49:04.892ZYESnetributionNOhttps://open.movie/c/netribution/videoshttps://open.movie/a/nicol/video-channels