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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.
From Zero – Italy
Online platform webcasting daily episodes from the mountainous Italian region of Abruzzo, which focuses on its recovery from the huge earthquake it suffered six months ago.
What happens in a disaster area after the cameras have departed? The mountainous Italian region of Abruzzo and its capital L’Aquila were struck by an earthquake on April 6, 2009, and the online platform From Zero — Italy is a record of daily life there today.
Sixty thousand locals were put up in tent camps, and one of these, Centicolella, was erected on a soccer field.
Through daily episodes, the viewer gets to know people living in the camp and the wider situation in the area. The owner of Fausto’s Café describes how he was just getting beer out of the cellar when the first shock came in April. Because of the danger of building collapse, the authorities only allow locals into the town under Fire Department supervision.
The From Zero project aims to maintain attention for the lives of people after a disaster as well as to provide viewers with a behind-the-scenes perspective on the news by showing the situation six months after an entire town — its public and private services and its buildings — disappeared in a single day.
Tags DocLab 2009, Interactive, Shorts / Series, Social Issue, Video, Watch Online
Project details
Year of development :2009, ongoingCreated by:Stefano Strocchi, Davide Barletti, Alessia De Ninno, Stefano Strocchi
