Showcasing new and unexpected forms of digital documentary storytelling
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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.
6 billion others
A selection from 5,000 short interviews with people from all over the world that reveal what connects people to one another.
The 6 billion Others project was launched in May 2003. In 75 countries, six reporters filmed 5,000 interviews with the goal of gaining insight into “the other.”
All of the interviewees — a hiker in France, a passerby in Kenya, a storekeeper in China, a fisherman in Brazil — answer the same questions about their hopes, dreams, fears, and problems. What did they learn from their parents? What are they passing on to their children? What difficulties have they overcome in their life? What is the meaning of love? The roughly 40 questions are aimed at revealing what connects people from all over the world and what distinguishes them from one another.
Visitors to the website can view a selection of these testimonies; other interviews are not accessible online, but screened at museums as part of the 6 billion Others exhibition. Initiator Yann Arthus-Bertrand is the renowned photographer who made Earth From the Air, a series of breathtaking aerial photographs of our planet.
Tags Art, DocLab 2009, Interactive, Shorts / Series, Video, Watch Online
Project details
Year of development :2003-2009Created by:Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Sibylle d'Orgeval, Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire
With:GoodPlanet
