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I read about a movie today called The Tracey Fragments. You ought to watch the trailer right now.

There are a lot of things about The Tracey Fragments that get me very excited. There are a few of those things that I can fairly describe with words.

First off (and why I heard about this film in the first place) the director Bruce McDonald is fully embracing creative commons licensing. Nearly 20 Gb of video, audio, and Final Cut Project files are downloadable as torrents on the film’s official site, under the heading “Re-Fragmented”. Everything shot during the four week’s of the film’s shooting, the script, and the original soundtrack by Broken Social Scene are available under a BY NC SA license.

McDonald explains:

“The Tracey Fragments is a film that fully embraces experimentation and teamwork. I wanted to find out if that experience exists on the Internet and give others the chance to experiment and play with some beautifully shot footage of a world class actress in a free form environment. I hope people make their own feature films, short films, rock videos, trailers, experimental films and personal manifestos out of The Tracey Fragments.”

Don’t like the way the editor paced the film? Fix it. Want to make a trailer that will highlight the portions you think are most appealing? Do it. Want to see the guts of the project splayed out on your monitor? Get to it. Read more about how this film is made of pure futurethought over on the CC Blog.

The Tracey Fragments has it’s US premier next Tuesday in LA. By then I will have all of the aforementioned files on my computer, but nothing can stop me from paying to see this movie.

The Darjeeling Limited? I’ll be stealing that off of the tubes, thanks. Saw IV? Yeah, um, pass.