Interactive Documentaries: Navigation and Design
The interactive documentary, still barely emergent, has attracted both enthusiasm and analysis. Despite the cautions of Lev Manovich against the inexactitude of the term “interactive” (since all art at some level is interactive), the term “interactive” has come to be generally used to designate multimedia, mostly
screen-based storytelling. Sessions at film festivals and even entire conferences on interactive documentary are now standard. At the standard-setting South by Southwest (SXSW) event in Austin, Texas, a strand of interactive documentary that finds overlapping audiences between SXSW’s Interactive and Film conferences has become a place where even standing room is highly prized. Tribeca, Sheffield, and IDFA (International Film Festival at Amsterdam) film festivals have interactive strands/conferences. Events such as “Future of StoryTelling,” “TransVergence,” and “Power to the Pixel” are among the many venues where professionals exchange stories and hints about making these new works. Entities as diverse as the US Army (Myers),1 the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and US public television stations (“Localore”)2 are developing interactive projects (Stogner).
Aufderheide, P. (2015) “Interactive Documentaries: Navigation and Design”. In: Journal of Film and Video Vol 67 Issue 3, Pp. 69—78, Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press ISBN 0.5406/jfilmvideo.67.3-4.0069
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