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It’s very likely that you’ve come across Webdocs – A Survival Guide… before, but they’ve released a brand new update about webdoc software which you can download for the small price of a Tweet! This chapter includes the 3WDOC and Klynt software which you can learn how to use at our workshops in March – taught to you by the …
Guest post by Jigar Mehta, i-Docs 2012 keynote speaker on Thursday 22 March. On January 25th 2012, the one-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution, we launched 18DaysinEgypt.com. No red carpet, no world premiere. It was a moment that we had spent many months building towards, but the site was not our final product. The launch was the …
Interactivity, collaboration and activism A guest post from one of this years speakers Paulina Tervo. Background – why did the story turn into an interactive project? In 2004 I came across a small community called Awra Amba during my travels in the rural parts of Northern Ethiopia. Having seen a lot of poverty and hardship on my trip, I was …
If you haven’t heard of Into Eternity yet, nows a really good time to open your ears as they are opening a “window of 150 837 seconds of free on-line streaming of the documentary INTO ETERNITY” on both the 3rd (tomorrow!) and 5th of March. Have a look at their website for more details or visit tomorrow from 7.32am (CET): http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/ A bit of background INTO …
Below are the blogs of some of the people directly involved in the organisation of this years i-Docs, they are all deeply embedded within the field of interactive documentary, come from backgrounds in theory or practice or both. This list is just the start – we would love to hear of more resources/blogs/lists/channels from the wider i-Doc community. 1. CollabDocs …
The first time you take a look at Epopée.me, it feels like this project is a very minimalist interactive documentary. In fact, the interaction goes beyond the digital world and expands into the streets of Montréal where marginalized people struggle to live their life. Rodrigue Jean, who started the project, tells us a bit more about Epopée. I-docs.org: Can you tell …
A guest post by Brian Winston. People might remember Barbara Kopple’s Oscar winning documentary Harlan County, USA. It was about a bitter strike in the Kentucky coal-fields in 1974. Most memorably, the company goons were so out of control they even started shooting at the film crew. But my memory of Harlan County coverage is a little different. It centres on …
It’s that time of the week where we’re pulling some of the most interesting bits from the Facebook group and popping them up here; this week is focused on story telling. First up some story telling tips from Caspar Sonnen. He mentions interfaces from some of the projects presented at last years i-Docs; GazaSderot and Prison Valley as well as Kat Cizek’s project, …
Guest post by Brett Gaylor In this post I explore how Popcorn follows the tradition of technology influencing the form of documentary. This post was created with Popcorn Maker.
The programme is now up in its entirety! The symposium is spread over 2 days featuring talks from Jigar Mehta, Brett Gaylor, Kat Cizek, Submarine Channel and many many more! Look through the programme to see who else speaking and find out more about each one by clicking the links! And there is still more to come – workshops, which …
As immersive journalism is experimenting new ways to create “immersion” (see Eva Dominguez’s article on this for LaVanguardia) Nonny de la Pena goes one step further. With Hunger in L.A. she combines filmmaking, augmented reality, and journalism to recreate a real incident that took place two years ago at a food bank line in L.A. This is a fascinating project …
Firstly a blog post from Patrick Meier (an internationally recognized thought leader on the application of new technologies for crisis early warning, humanitarian response, human rights and civil resistance) on ‘Why Bounded Crowdsourcing is Important for Crisis Mapping and Beyond’. If you’re not entirely sure what ‘Bounded Crowdsourcing’ actually is, read an earlier post from Meier here. Next is Biasmap, …
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/35368376] “For the first time in history, citizens are recording an actual revolution in real time. Throughout the 18 days of the 2011 uprising—in the year since—and now—Egyptians are filming pivotal events on their cell phones, taking pictures, texting, tweeting and facebooking their extraordinary bid for freedom. Now, “18 Days in Egypt”, the collaborative documentary project, aims to capture the …
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/35267742] Just launched at Sundance, Bear 71 is a brilliant interactive documentary created by Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison with the NFB Digital Studio. It’s a haunting story told from the point-of-view of a female grizzly bear – Bear 71 – about humans and animals in the Banff National Park, and how animals are being devastated in that relationship. It’s about nature, technology, …
We’ve had a lot of interesting links/videos/articles posted to our Facebook group so here’s a few of the best so far: Bears and interactive documentaries Bear 71 from National Film Board of Canada on Vimeo. Bear 71 Live observes and records the intersection of humans, nature and technology in a live, Internet connected event. Questioning how we see the world …
