14 DAY TRIAL // Following a string of disastrous public appearances, live performances and plenty of ridicule both from the public and industry watchers, Joaquin Phoenix seems to have gone into hiding. Nevertheless, director Casey Affleck is still busy working on a yet untitled documentary on his transition from acting to music – and he needs fans’ help with it, as he reveals in a post on a newly set-up website.
Although Affleck followed Phoenix around with a camera crew for the better part of the past couple of months, which means he already has enough footage shot, the director would still like whatever material the fans have, so as to be able to make the documentary even better. Fans who wish to upload clips or photos of the actor getting the hang of the rap game in several Las Vegas clubs, though, are told that they are to surrender all rights to the respective material, which can then be used as Affleck sees fit.
“I am making a film about Joaquin Phoenix’s transition from movies to music. If you have any video that pertains to this topic and would like it included in this film I would like to use it. Please upload your video here. Thank you.” the director writes on the new website. Of course, reading the Terms and Conditions section and then agreeing (or not) with what they stipulate before actually uploading any material to the website is a step fans must also take.
“By posting any content, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, ‘Content’) on the Website, you hereby grant to Flemmy [Affleck’s production company], a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content in any and all media and by any means now known or hereafter devised that Flemmy, in its sole discretion, shall deem appropriate.” a clause of the agreement contract says.
Fans of the “Gladiator” star must remember that, when Joaquin initially announced he was turning rapper and then began to perform live, speculation had it that he and Casey Affleck were working on a Sacha Baron Cohen type of mockumentary. A mockumentary is a documentary that is actually a hoax pretending to be the real thing – in this case, Phoenix’s sudden career reorientation.