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Just off the highway in the Similkameen Valley in British Columbia, there’s an idyllic white church that most travellers barely notice. But this little chapel is an integral part of the history and identity of the Similkameen people―as well as a symbol of the conflicted position of the Church on First Nations communities in Canada. For Métis artist Tyler Hagan, …
“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 …
We have some exciting news to share with you today! Not only do we have some fantastic keynotes already confirmed for i-Docs 2014, we can now also announce an exciting ‘Choose your own Documentary’ performance. Inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure phenomenon of the 1980’s – Choose Your Own Documentary tells the true story of the discovery by Nathan Penlington of a diary and his …
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 New York Times’s Op-Docs and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have debuted their immersive, interactive multimedia series, A Short History of the Highrise yesterday. Optimised for tablet and comprised of videos on urban highrise living, the series had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival and launched yesterday on NYTimes.com. Incase you weren’t aware already, the series …
//// THE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE EMAIL IDOCS2014@GMAIL.COM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT PARTICIPATING IN I-DOCS 2014//// Following the success of the i-Docs Symposia in 2011 and 2012, we are delighted to invite you to participate in i-Docs 2014, a two-day event dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary. i-Docs is convened by Judith Aston, Sandra …
This Friday and Saturday, Manchester teenagers are set to tell their own real-life stories through live transmissions from the streets of the city. My Neck of the Woods, a collaboration between Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and BAFTA winning interactive artists Blast Theory, is part documentary, part performance, part live-stream online video experience. The online experience will see young people from the Exchange’s Truth About …
More exciting news from the NFB today; on November 25, TOXA and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in association with ARTE, will launch Fort McMoney (fortmcmoney.com), a trilingual (English, French and German) interactive documentary game about the issues facing Fort McMurray, Alberta. Created by David Dufresne. an independent journalist and documentarian who was also behind the well-known interactive documentary Prison Valley. Fort McMurray is a …
A while ago I wrote a post about a collection of interactive documentaries encouraging social change and stated that I believe “interactive documentary can be a powerful and effective tool to discuss complex issues and encourage social change.” Luckily I am again able to prove my point with the launch of Broken Hopes, an interactive documentary about life in Palestine …
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 …
Do you have a great idea for an interactive webdocumentary? Are you looking for the expertise to develop your project to a successful webdoc? Do you wonder how you can put your project on the market? Are you looking for funding? During WEBDOX – Doc Hothouse you will discover how to successfully blast your interactive documentary idea into the market …
In association with the 57th BFI London Film Festival, Power to the Pixel’s Cross-Media Forum, is taking place this year on the 15–18 October. The event focuses on those working in cross media and features talks from Lance Weiler Co-founder, Reboot Stories, Loc Dao Head of Digital Content & Strategy, NFB and Ingrid Kopp Director of Digital Initiatives, Tribeca Film Institute . These speakers, plus a whole …
The New York Times’s Op-Docs and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will debut their new new immersive documentary series as part of the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival Convergence program – a showcase for storytelling that transcends a single narrative medium – on Monday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. ET. Following this, the series will premiere on NYTimes.com in October. “We are greatly honored …
It’s that time of year again where SXSW asks the public to pick the panels they would like to see at the event next March. This year REACT, a Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy which is based in Bristol, is hopefully sending a panel to reflect their current Future Documentary Sandbox project. Organised by Matt Davenport, REACT Producer, and …
