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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

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Powering a Nation: Coal – A Love Story

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An multimedia experiment in journalistic storytelling best experienced as an interactive film.

“We’re in a love affair with coal right now because of the way we live. It’s a twisted love affair: we depend on it for everything that we do, but at the same time it’s killing is.”

One of the interviewees expresses precisely the central point of the multimedia report Coal – A Love Story, made as part of the “Powering a Nation” project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Within the context of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, the students here are looking for a shift away from traditional journalism.

Coal – A Love Story is an extensively researched investigation of the ways in which coal, responsible for more than 45% of U.S. energy production, affects the daily lives of various people. A miner talks about the explosion that he narrowly escaped but that killed several of his coworkers. A young blond who won the “Miss Coal” pageant defends the energy source at all costs. And a teenager named Luis protests against the coal plant that borders his neighborhood: “If teens can do it, then the adults can do it.” The collection of videos, infographics and interactive elements form a running story, but the various elements can also be watched separately.

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Year of development :2011
Created by:The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
With:News21
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http://www.poweringanation.org/