Manifesto (2015 film) and Friedrich Engels' 1848 "The Communist Manifesto" and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 1909 "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism", the latter his first selection, to film director Jim Jarmusch's "Golden Rules of Filmmaking" (2004), the most modern text referenced. Rosefeldt selected approximately 60 manifestos which he "found to be the most fascinating, and also the most requitable", or chose "because they suited one another." After collating and fragmenting numerous texts, eventually 12 manifesto collages materialized. Rosefeldt said that the main concept for the project was to have a woman embody the manifestos. He wanted to "make a piece in which a
The People's Manifesto has opinions, and that was how the manifesto show was born. Instead of politicians telling us what we should do, it should be the other way round." The tour began on 27 March 2009 and finished after the 2010 General Election. Amongst the policies included in the manifesto are: In August 2009, Thomas performed his show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in which the winning policies during the Fringe were debated before a selection of Members of the Scottish Parliament. A two-part radio series based on the People's Manifesto, entitled "Mark Thomas: The Manifesto" was broadcast on BBC Radio 4