ABSTRACT
This paper could have been written by a group of people. In all but the most basic sense, it was. As I draw upon experiences of people in “real-life activist video collectives,” this insider’s view is not the result of an un-collective process. I want to discuss the underpinnings of our work, the fuel for it, the subjects and the products, and the relationship between those things. After I explain this endeavor, one collaborator turns her head, looks at me from the side of her face, and says, “I really don’t think twenty pages will be enough.” Sure. But we have to start somewhere. So, true to collective process, the first thing on the agenda is to set the agenda.
