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
The Big Issue: Obesity
An investigation into the causes of the explosive global increase in obesity. According to the World Health Organization, 2.3 billion people will be obese by 2015.
Why are human beings getting so fat? This is the simple but powerful question at the heart of the interactive documentary The Big Issue. The user goes on a personal journey into the causes of the explosive increase in obesity in contemporary society.
The UN World Health Organization predicts that 2.3 billion people will be obese by 2015 — making our world “Planet XXL”, as The Big Issue calls it. Co-director Samuel Bollendorff was also responsible for last year’s Doc Lab project Journey to the End of Coal, which employed the same principle: just like in a classic interactive game, the user chooses his or her own route through the available film clips and interviews.
Those who wish to complete the story at the end of their journey can also choose to view any of the 10 interviews separately. Interviewees include a French doctor, an American family, and a European Commission lobbyist.
Tags DocLab 2009, Interactive, Social Issue, Video, Watch Online
Project details
Year of development :2009Created by:Samuel Bollendorff, Olivia Colo
With:Honkytonk Films
