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‘Life in a Day 2020’ Review: Slickly Crowdsourced YouTube Doc Sticks to Old Forms in a Changing Age of Video
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variety.comGuy Lodge Film CriticIt’s been precisely a decade since the first edition of “Life in a Day” debuted at Sundance, though in internet years, that amounts to several eons.
YouTube was young, Facebook was the hip subject of a hot movie, and TikTok was not yet a glimmer in a millennial developer’s eye.
The film’s concept was simple but seemed quite radical: A fully crowdsourced documentary, assembled by director Kevin Macdonald and editor Joe Walker from a vast haul of amateur footage shot on a single day by over 80,000 international applicants, it sought to elevate the scrappy YouTube video into art.
Since then, however, the ultra-short-form online video has become its own art form, free of assistance from prestige filmmakers.
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