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
Mortified
This multimedia project allows visitors to upload embarrassing adolescent treasures such as diary extracts, poems, and photographs.
Sometime in the late 1990s, Dave Nadelberg came across a love letter he had written as a teenager. Instead of putting it away again, he decided to show it to his friends. This was the beginning of Mortified, which has grown into a multi-branched multimedia project since its inception in 2002.
Its core activity is organizing regular theater evenings at which people read their embarrassing adolescent treasures and put them into context, in what the site describes as “personal redemption through public humiliation.” These theater evenings have become a monthly phenomenon in various American cities.
Mortified has also published two books in recent years, and then there is the website Get Mortified. Here, visitors can watch live video clips with added animations and sound effects, or read the blog, which is devoted primarily to the cultural outpourings of the early 1980s. But, most important of all, visitors can submit their own embarrassing stories, poems, diary extracts, and photographs.
In the words of the site, “There are a million stories buried in the pages of people’s lives. Share the shame.”
Tags Collaborative, DocLab 2009, Funny, Photography, Video, Watch Online
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Year of development :ongoingCreated by:David Nadelberg
