2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You!

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We invite filmmakers and artists of all skill levels to celebrate Public Domain Day on January 22, 2025, by creating and uploading 2–3 minute short films to the Internet Archive!

This contest offers a chance to explore and reimagine the creative treasures e-commerce photo editing the public domain, including works from 1929—classic literature, silent films, music, and art. Participants are encouraged to use materials from the Internet Archive’s collections to craft unique films that breathe new life into these cultural gems.

Top entries will be awarded prizes up to $1,500, with winners announced during our in-person Public Domain Day Celebration on January 22, 2025, at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco. All submissions will be featured in a special Public Domain Day Collection on archive.org and highlighted in a January 2025 blog post.

Join us in this creative celebration of cultural heritage and timeless art!

Here are a few examples of some of the materials that will become public domain on January 1, 2025:

Books! E.g. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, a timeless tale of love and war. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, a revolutionary modernist novel. The English translation of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, a seminal anti-war novel.
Periodicals! Black Thursday – October 24, 1929: The stock market experienced a massive drop, with panic selling beginning. Black Monday – October 28, 1929: The market fell even more sharply, accelerating the crisis. Black Tuesday – October 29, 1929: The Great Depression begins.
Music! The musical composition of George Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Singin’ in the Rain, as well as the first recordings of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Movies! The Cocoanuts with the Marx Brothers, Un chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali. The first Silly Symphony cartoons, including The Skeleton Dance.