Showcasing new and unexpected forms of digital documentary storytelling
Tell us about your project
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
Days with My Father
A poignant selection of photographs and text form a diary of the last years in the life of photographer Phillip Toledano’s father.
Following his mother’s sudden death in 2006, Toledano began to spend increasing amounts of time with his father. Because his dad’s short-term memory no longer functioned, Toledano was obliged to create a fantasy world for his father in which his mother was still alive.
Clicking above or below the photographs brings up a series of photos over the screen, which allows the viewer to become a close-up witness to the sometimes intensely sad and sometimes joyful moments shared by father and son. The photos exhibit heartbreaking details, such as a note in which the father wonders where everyone has gone.
Days with My Father is a diary that takes leaps in time; a diary in which it is not the days that matter, but the moments of connection, the eye contact, the conversations, and the silences.
Clicking through the images, the viewer feels the inevitable approach of the end of a life.
Tags Art, DocLab 2009, Interactive, Photography, Watch Online
