Oats Studios

Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium director) launched an experimental film studio called Oats Studio. They've posted a number of films on YouTube and a handful of them are absolutely worth watching. Rakka feels pulled straight from Blomkamp's playbook with a dystopian future overrun by aliens, Fluke is an uncanny valley animation of depressing weaponry experiments and Cooking with Bill is.. well, just gross.

But there's a twist! For Oats Studio is not just a studio, it's a "Lab". Here's the official writeup:

The Studio is an independent incubator of ideas with the capacity to handle all aspects of production from start to end. Oats Studios works in an open source format with the audience by allowing the fans to interact with the filmmakers and the studio directly, and allowing the fans access to the actual film's assets to then merge with their own creativity.

That last bit is certainly the outlier from any other movie studio. You can actually Download the assets from each film and then do... whatever? It's possible that your ideas might even get worked into a future volume of works. How that works with royalties and IP is probably a little murky but that seems like a problem to worry about when it becomes a problem.

For those of us that aren't going to be creating new works, it's an interesting user to follow on YouTube as you do get a variety of work from some rather clever filmmakers.