• by Lena Thiele

    A transmedial documentary production about the final days of the Soviet system, told using old postcards.

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  • by Katerina Cizek

    A digital recording of the residents of a Toronto high-rise as they work with an architect to improve their home.

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  • by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    An multimedia experiment in journalistic storytelling best experienced as an interactive film.

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  • by Pop Sandbox

    An austere animated web documentary in which four people who attempted but failed to commit suicide explain what drove them to their desperate act.

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  • by Darius Devas

    Goa hippies travel to the Indian beach paradise Anjuna Beach – the place where it all began.

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  • by Guillaume Herbaut and Bruno Masi

    A sensory journey into the heart of Tchernobyl’s exclusion zone – the forbidden area around the nuclear power plant.

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  • by ONF/ARTE

    A cinematic story machine that tells you who you are, based on the material possessions you hold dear.

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  • by TIME Magazine

    Forty men and women look back on the 9/11 attacks.

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  • by Adam Gee

    A social website wants to end the taboo on talking about sex, using video messages, discussion forums and infographics.

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  • by Kaitlin Jones

    Your brother is at war but life goes on.

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  • by Nikos Katsaounis and Nina-Maria Paschalidou

    Everything that newspapers and TV ignore is dealt with here, in 27 short films by retrained photojournalists, who capture crisis-ridden Greece in a creative, resolute way.

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  • by Kadir van Lohuizen

    Documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen is traveling from the southern tip of Chile to the very north of Alaska, creating multimedia photo stories along the way.

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  • by Danfung Dennis and Patrick Chauvel

    Choose your own field of vision in the images of a bloody protest in pre-revolutionary Libya or a chaotic police arrest on the streets of New Orleans.

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  • by Foster Huntington

    What would you rescue if your house was on fire?

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  • by Antoine Viviani

    A search for creative, artistic ways to intervene in public space, presented both linearly and non-linearly. Winner IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling 2011.

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Past events

DocLab at SXSW 2012 12 Mar 2012 at 15:30

IDFA DocLab presents two sessions on interactive documentary at SXSW. With Jeremy Mendes (NFB), Marshall Heald (SBS Australia) and Caspar Sonnen (IDFA DocLab).

Exhibition: Expanding Documentary 2011 25 Nov 2011 at 10:00

Interactive installations, immersive performances and other unexpected representations of reality, presented by IDFA DocLab, Paradocs and Brakke Grond.

Live Cinema Event: Stories We Love to Forget 23 Nov 2011 at 22:00

An evening packed with embarrassing, true stories told live on stage. With Micha Wertheim, Paulien Cornelisse, Kevin Allison (The Risk Show) and someone reading an excerpt from their adolescent diary.

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DocLab at SXSW 2012

IDFA DocLab presents two sessions on interactive documentary at SXSW. With Jeremy Mendes (NFB), Marshall Heald (SBS Australia) and Caspar Sonnen (IDFA DocLab).

Review: Live Cinema Event: Out On The Streets

Telling the stories of re-imagined cities.

Condition One Workshop and Case Study

Documentary iPad app enables photojournalists to create interactive, immersive and three dimensional video stories.

A week in review: IDFA DocLab Opening Night + First Live Cinema Event

Unexpected documentary storytelling from day one.

Docs on the Spot

An experiment in transforming documentary cinema into a locative storytelling web-app.

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