Showcasing new and unexpected forms of digital documentary storytelling
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Past events
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.
Live Cinema Event: Reality vs Technology 22 Nov 2011 at 20:00
Live presentations of three of the most innovative projects at IDFA 2011: the webdoc and installation Barcode.tv, the interactive installation What Is It Like to Be a Bird? and the immersive iPad app Condition One. The authors will showcase their
Camerawar.tv
This film project seeks to create a new and free way of viewing and analyzing through short grassroots films.
Camerawar.tv argues that the obstacles to progress at the beginning of this 21st century are too complex to get a grip on in a single film. Reality itself has to be rearranged to make sense of our world,”says founder Lech Kowalski on the website, and this is why the distribution of a project like this one can only take place through the Internet.
Every Monday for a year, the site published new short films featuring Kowalski as he interviews passersby about their views on society and their ideas for improving the world situation. Rather than radical global changes, these discussions are more likely to focus on changes at the community level, on everyday life, or on a building Kowalski has been walking past for three years and has become curious about. Kowalski is searching for new narrative, a new way of capturing life, without the “ideology of the New World Order” that he encounters in traditional media. This makes for a seemingly arbitrary selection, and the conversations are not slickly directed interviews. This is exactly what Kowalski is looking for: a medium that is free and makes it possible to look in a new way. The typical contemporary documentary is more a tool to dispence propoganda than a way to discover the world.
Tags Art, DocLab 2009, Interactive, Shorts / Series, Social Issue, Video, Watch Online
Project details
Year of development :2009Created by:Lech Kowalski
