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.
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
The visitor creates his or her own story from the collection of 163 film clips of prominent documentary filmmakers discussing their profession.
This web companion of the documentary of the same name that premiered at IDFA last year is much more than your average film site. The project, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, shows Pepita Ferrari interviewing 38 leading documentary filmmakers about their profession.
Interviewees include Albert Maysles, Kim Longinotto, and Werner Herzog. What is documentary? Why do they make documentaries? What is the relationship between documentary and “the truth?” Whereas the film version presented talking heads in a linear, narrative sequence, the website allows the user to construct his or her own story from 163 film clips not contained in the film.
The main screen is a grid of links to all the clips, leading the user into a selection based around the filmmaker or one of nine key themes, each with its own subthemes.
Unlike the film, the site includes only a small handful of excerpts from original works, but it does contextualize the documentary filmmakers with short biographies and filmographies.
Tags Art, DocLab 2009, Interactive, Shorts / Series, Video, Watch Online
Project details
Year of development :2008Created by:Steve Mackey and Pepita Ferrari
With:National Film Board of Canada
