Tonight, the 23rd of November, Jonathan Harris is speaking at IDFA DOCLAB. It will be at 8:00p.m. at De Brakke Grond, and the session is called “Jonathan Harris and the Slow Web”. So… what is it all about? On the DOCLAB website we find the following introduction:”The Internet is like food. It’s easy to find fast and mass-produced junk, but much …
London’s first Interactive Factual Narrative meetup took place on Tuesday night at the Centre for Creative Collaboration (great name for a meetup location, no?). We where about 25 people, coming from all sorts of backgrounds (journalists, anthropologists, designers, sound editors, filmmakers, television producers, UX, artists…. it was refreshingly varied!) and all curious about how to bring forward the art of interactive factual …
I think I know now why it took me three years to feel at ease at Mozfest. It is not because I am not a coder, it is because it exemplifies a paradigm shift. The fundamental attitude in an academic conference is “sit and listen”, while the one at MozFest is “move and make”. The first approach to learning is …
“Interactive documentaries in public places” is one of the new territories that we want to explore this year at i-Docs. Whether it is through performances (see previous article about Choose Your Own Documentary), interactive installations (see Arte’s recent Type:Rider) or public exhibitions… i-docs are clearly getting out of the screen! Convictions, an exhibition by US artist and academic Sharon Daniel at …
MozFest 2013 is back in London (Ravensbourne) in ten days time (25th-27th of October). Why should we care? I used to think this was a place for coders only. I was wrong. Or maybe what was wrong was to think that the clear distinctions between coder and non-coder was a way to position ourselves in the professional world. Wrong again; …
Trailer – Chasing Bonnie & Clyde by chasingbc Remember Breves de Trottoirs? That super sweet French web-doc done by Olivier Lambert and Thomas Salva about the life of people in Paris? Well… they are back, but this time they are traveling to the USA and they are uncovering the mysteries of the criminal justice system in Texas… all through the …
The first group meeting of REACT’s Future of Documentary Sandbox happened today in Bristol. This is exciting stuff: 6 innovative projects were selected to explore new models of authorship and ownership within the i-docs sphere, 6 projects to push ahead the questions that we can see emerging and to which we have no answer yet, 6 projects where academics and …
The Invisible Picture Show is a relatively low budget project that wants to raise awareness about children in immigration detention centers. I like this project because it demonstrates well the possibilities that cross-media campaigns offer to activist causes: it is about immersion linked to a clear call to action. I asked director Tim Hawkins to tell us more about The Invisible Picture …
Crossover has been the first UK conference/summit/showcase to position i-docs at the same level as linear documentaries. When Crossover started in 2009 (only 4 years ago) the message was very clear: there are cross-overs between the documentary world and the digital one. i-docs are more than promotional websites for films, they are a new form, and Sheffield Doc/Fest is …
WebDox 2013 has been an amazing conference: held in Leuven, Belgium, and organised by the Media Desk and iDROPS, WebDox has managed to pull together la crème de la crème of interactive documentary… The full programme can be found on Webdox’s website but, just to give you an idea, here was the line up: Jonathan Harris (US) – technological artist and maker …
Jonathan Harris (We Feel Fine, The Whale Hunt, Cowbird, I Love your Work) will be giving a keynote at WebDox on Monday the 6th of May, in Leuven, Belgium. This is a real treat for us, i-docs lovers, as Jonathan is one of the very few people that have managed to transform “data” into a meaningful universe that feels safe, …
Although there is no i-Docs conference this year in Bristol, the i-Docs team has been very busy taking part to several international initiatives that are worth mentioning: Judith Aston, Mandy Rose and Arnau Gifreu will be at the i-doc workshop in Nyon (Switzerland) on the 18-22 of April. This is a 3 days course on i-doc making so… sign …
Mike Paterson, from PFILM, is just back from SXSW, where he presented his later venture: 94 Elements. As far as I know 94 Elements was the only UK i-doc presented within SXSW’s “digital domain” strand, so… hat’s off to Mike and all his team! Now… 94 Elements is a very interesting project indeed: 1.It uses a scientific metaphor (the table …
Yesterday France Television launched “The End, etc…“, a new web-native experiment by French film director Laetitia Masson. This is what I would call an interactive hybrid: interviews, fiction and database narrative are all mixed together to find a new way to question what “engagement” might mean in our contemporary society. As Boris Razon (Director of FranceTV’s Nouvelles Ecritures) explains, while France …
Yes, it is official, no conference this year, no illuminating talks and friendly drinks at the Watershed this March in Bristol… We have decided to take a pause, after two very successful i-Docs, and reconsider what to do next, and how to do it. The good news: we will be back soon. We are looking at ways to make i-Docs …
