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
Farewell Comrades
A transmedial documentary production about the final days of the Soviet system, told using old postcards.
In 1975, almost half the world’s population lived in a communist state. Only 16 years later, Gorbachev announced his resignation. How could the fall of the Soviet Empire happen so fast? Which forces caused this shift? And why did no one foresee the decline? This transmedial documentary production answers these questions by allowing not only those responsible within the system, but also “regular” people to speak their minds.
The postcards they sent between 1975 and 1991 are the connecting tissue between the various platforms: a chronological TV series in six episodes; a historical non-fiction book; an exhibition; a website; and a mobile app.
In the online media, the starting point is always a postcard that you can select on a timeline, a map of Europe or through themes like the Cold War, secret services, love, and youth. In video messages, the original senders then reveal the how, the what, and the why of the card. Twenty years after the fact, they give a whole new meaning to the old socialist slogan: “Ever forwards, never backwards!”
Tags 2011, DocLab 2011, DocLab Competition, Interactive, Shorts / Series, Video, Watch Online
Project details
Year of development :2011Created by:Lena Thiele
With:Gebreuder Beetz Filmproduktion GmbH and Artline Films
