Showcasing new and unexpected forms of digital documentary storytelling
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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.
Planet Galata – A Bridge in Istanbul
Dynamic documentary portrait of the characters and hotspots of Istanbul’s Galata Bridge, directed by non-linear narrative pioneer Florian Thalhofer, and created using his bespoke Korsakow software.
A documentary portrait of Galata Bridge and the surrounding area in Istanbul, Turkey – a microcosm reflecting the rich cultural diversity of the city as a whole. Large numbers of people live and work on and around the bridge. Filmmaker Florian Thalhofer zooms in on some of them, including restaurant owners Kemal, Gaffur and Erkan, street cleaners Bayram and Erdogan, and bridge inspector Ömer, who secretly is the “king of the bridge.” Thalhofer constructed the non-linear narrative using the Korsakow software system he developed himself. He has been working on the system since 2000 and it has grown to become a much-used tool by makers of database cinema. In turn, the visitor selects people he or she wants to follow, and while the short film portraits play on the main screen, a variety of alternative paths are displayed around it. The visitor thus constructs his or her own story by combining the narrative building blocks Thalhofer provides. The portraits themselves are informal glimpses into ordinary lives, with their subjects talking openly about their troubles; in this way, they are the bridge and the starting point, the main character and the guide in the film the visitor creates. Thalhofer also edited a linear film, that is completing this cross media documentary project.
Tags DocLab 2010, Interactive, Social Issue, Storytelling, Video
Project details
Year of development :2010Created by:Florian Thalhofer and Berke Bas
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