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
One in 8 Million
A series of miniature portraits in sound and photographs; each introduces just one of the more than eight million inhabitants of New York City.
The “eight million” referred to in the title are the inhabitants of New York City. At the last count in 2008, there were in fact 8,363,710 of them. And the “one” refers to the unique individual — a remarkable person or just an ordinary New Yorker — who features in each three-minute miniature portrait in this series.
Every week since 2009, a new portrait has been added to this New York Times project. They include the Rookie Detective who learned his trade in the Israeli army, the former Bar Fighter enjoying himself on his racing bike, the Struggling Stand-Up living from paycheck to paycheck, and the Urban Taxidermist who goes in search of living examples of the animals he stuffs.
Each of them starts as the stereotype these labels imply — symbolizing a particular kind of citizen — but they become distinct individuals through the radio interviews in which they talk about themselves, and through the striking black-and-white photographs by New York Times photographer Todd Heisler.
Tags DocLab 2009, Interactive
Project details
Year of development :2009Created by:Sarah Kramer, Alexis Mainland
