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Passing Stanger – The East Village Poetry Walk
Passing Stranger - The East Village Poetry Walk is an audio...
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Pointer Pointer
A simple but effective online timewaster: stop your cursor...
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Gol! Ukraine
In 12 short films, hosts Oleg and Katya take us on a tour...
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mödern cøuple
A crash course in parenthood, for women who are afraid to...
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The Gallery of Lost Art
This Tate Modern web exhibition presents the vestiges of...
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MAFI.tv – Filmic Map of a Country
A new generation of Chilean filmmakers joins forces on this...
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Keep on Steppin’
Five dreamlike collages of image and sound transport us to...
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Cowbird
"The most beautiful place in the world to tell stories": a...
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Bear 71
Wildlife in Banff National Park from the perspective of a...
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Alma, a Tale of Violence
This interactive tablet documentary allows you to swipe...
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A Show
Three times a week, Internet pioneer Ze Frank humorously...
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A Journal of Insomnia
The website as a confessional: insomniacs are asked to...
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The Block: Stories from a Meeting Place
Three-dimensional web installation about the turbulent...
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Punched Out: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer
The story of Derek Boogaard, an NHL hockey player who died...
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Here at Home
A live web documentary about At Home, a major Canadian...
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CIA: Operation Ajax
Award-winning innovative graphic novel app that...
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Life in a Day
Life on July 24, 2010.
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Happy World
Burma: The Dictatorship of The Absurd
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Hospitality
A transforming sculpture investigates how soldiers who...
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Farewell Comrades
A transmedial documentary production about the final days...
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HIGHRISE: One Millionth Tower
A digital recording of the residents of a Toronto high-rise...
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C.A.P.E.
An individual, immersive experience that uses the latest...
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Balloons of Bhutan
A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom.
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Worry Box Project
Drop your maternal anxieties into a collective virtual...
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Photo Opportunities
We travel, we see a monument, we take a picture.
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Powering a Nation: Coal – A Love Story
An multimedia experiment in journalistic storytelling best...
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National Parks Project
National Parks Project is a collaborative film, music, TV...
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Surprising Europe
An international cross media project contributing to the...
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RISK! Show
RISK! is a podcast and live show, where creative people...
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Today
A simple ritual of taking one photo each day and posting it...
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The Johnny Cash Project
A global collective art project.
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9-eyes
9-eyes curates images found on Google Maps Street View
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Holy Mountain
Exploring people's relationship to the sacred through the...
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Truth and Lies: The last days of Osama bin Laden
An insider's look at the operation that killed bin Laden
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Big Stories, Small Towns
An interactive documentary project connecting local stories...
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Africa To Australia
Africa to Australia is an interactive documentary that...
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Museum of Me
Create and explore a visual archive of your social life.
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SPENT
Can you survive the hardships of poverty, unemployment and...
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Am Not Was
Multimedia piece about an amnesiac who is unable to...
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Exile Without End: Palestinians In Lebanon
Life in Shatila, a decades-old Palestinian refugee camp in...
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My Tribe Is My Life
An interactive documentary that plunges you into the worlds...
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Dear Photograph
Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.
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Soul of Athens 2011
Soul of Athens 2011 - Our Dreams Are Different - is a...
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Everynone
Everynone is a website with short documentary films made by...
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PressPausePlay
A Film about Hope, Fear and Digital Culture.
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Interview Project Germany
A simple and ingenious idea – a road trip across Germany...
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The Next Day
An austere animated web documentary in which four people...
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Goa Hippy Tribe
Goa hippies travel to the Indian beach paradise Anjuna...
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The Soft Atlas of The Netherlands
Jan Rothuizen maps the world in his drawings: personal but...
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The Zone
A sensory journey into the heart of Tchernobyl's exclusion...
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What is it like to be a bird?
In a small birdhouse, birdsong is slowed down to human...
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Barcode.tv
A cinematic story machine that tells you who you are, based...
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Beyond 9/11
Forty men and women look back on the 9/11 attacks.
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The Sexperience 1000
A social website wants to end the taboo on talking about...
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Soldier Brother
Your brother is at war but life goes on.
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The Prism: Krisis Greece 2011
Everything that newspapers and TV ignore is dealt with...
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Via PanAm
Documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen is traveling...
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Shit My Kids Ruined
What've your beloved kids ruined? Perhaps your couch? Your...
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Condition One
Choose your own field of vision in the images of a bloody...
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The Burning House
What would you rescue if your house was on fire?
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Insitu
A search for creative, artistic ways to intervene in public...
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Mobile Thrill – Shots of Reality
A machine that distributes unadulterated shots of reality...
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New York Minute
New York Minute paints an original and interactive portrait...
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Man With A Movie Camera
Film pioneer Dziga Vertov's remarkably innovative 1929...
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This Land
Interactive snowmobile road trip across 2,000 inhospitable...
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Soul of Athens
Using photographs, text, audio, and film, audio-visual...
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Tagfish
A blend of documentary, performance and video by Flemish...
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Planet Galata – A Bridge in Istanbul
Dynamic documentary portrait of the characters and hotspots...
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One Day on Earth
Multi-authored portrait of humanity which celebrates...
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Collapsus
A hybrid documentary game addressing the impending energy...
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The Wilderness Downtown
For Arcade Fire's "We Used to Wait", celebrated music video...
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Les Communes de Paris
A choice-based, digital tour of Paris, brought to you...
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iROCK
18 interactive journeys through the backstages of the huge...
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Young Me/Now Me
Placed together, a picture from a scrapbook and a careful...
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Awkward Family Photos
A spectacularly popular website where visitors share their...
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Sparrow Songs
The culmination of a 12-month project which saw director...
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Soul Patron
A debut by filmmaker Frederik Rieckher, Soul Patron...
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Kenk
Filmed footage of bicycle thief and Slovenian immigrant...
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California is a Place
An expanding series of brief impressions of sometimes...
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HIGHRISE/Out My Window
Kickoff to the extensive documentary project Highrise,...
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Welcome to Pine Point
A multimedia portrait of the disappeared Canadian mining...
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The Test Tube with David Suzuki
A playful look at global overpopulation and food shortages,...
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The Ninth Floor
This photo documentary with audio commentary spends three...
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Driftless: Stories from Iowa
Affectionate but unpitying black-and-white images capture...
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Big Stories, Small Towns
A heartwarming portrait of the care organizations in Port...
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Camerawar.tv
This film project seeks to create a new and free way of...
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Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Online remake project of Dziga Vertov's classic.
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The Big Issue: Obesity
An investigation into the causes of the explosive global...
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Generation Tian’anmen
Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann's trilogy on the...
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We Choose the Moon
An interactive recreation of the historic Apollo 11 mission...
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Filmmaker in Residence
Pilot project for the National Film Board of Canada's...
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Graffiti Archeology
On the award-winning Graffiti Archaeology website, visitors...
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Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
The visitor creates his or her own story from the...
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From Zero – Italy
Online platform webcasting daily episodes from the...
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Waterlife
The importance of water and the problems associated with it...
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Days with My Father
A poignant selection of photographs and text form a diary...
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One in 8 Million
A series of miniature portraits in sound and photographs;...
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GDP
An interactive map of Canada presenting stories of the...
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized
This short Flash film with clear graphic design visualizes...
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Couscous Global
Social networking site with a twist: rather than looking...
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Iron Curtain Diaries 1989-2009
An interactive map of the more than 4,000-mile-long Iron...
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24h Berlin – A Day in the Life
For a day and a night, 80 camera teams followed the...
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6 billion others
A selection from 5,000 short interviews with people from...
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This American Life
Live in the cinema, Ira Glass presents the best of 12 years...
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Mortified
This multimedia project allows visitors to upload...
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Prison Valley
This web documentary on the prison industry is a road movie...
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Interview Project
A road trip where people are randomly found and...
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Trendsmap
An interactive world map that allows users to see at a...
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Flight Patterns
Data artist Aaron Koblin transformed flight patterns above...
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The Dumpster
The Dumpster visualises 20,000 blog posts from 2005 that...
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Standard Operating Procedure
On the website of the documentary Standard Operating...
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Ushahidi
The initiative of a group of Kenyan civilian journalists,...
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Videosphere
Videosphere is a 3-D sphere that reproduces videos from the...
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The Whale Hunt
Web artist Jonathan Harris took a picture every five...
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I.O.U.S.A
According to one American newspaper, the documentary...
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Obama wikipedia edits
A visualization of people who've contributed to the Barack...
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Text Trends
Text Trends is a sendup of the ubiquitous line graphs and...
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
An animated movie bringing the words of the universal...
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The Machine is Us/ing Us
"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
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Thanatorama
An interactive web documentary about what happens after you...
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Flick Radio
A documentary maker gets lost in the world’s most popular...
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They Rule
Interactive graph of the most influential directors &...
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Exactitudes
A huge photographic collection of meticuously documented...
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Journey to the End of Coal
An educational webdocumentary that lets viewers investigate...
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Ensuring the Future of Food
Japan only produces about 40% of the food it consumes. This...
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Le Grand Content
An associative chain of statistical diagrams that dissect...
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FlickrVision
In a highspeed, geographical slideshow, Flickrvision shows...
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Duelity
Duelity pits Creationism and Darwinism against one another...
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Digglab
On the popular Digg website, visitors can “dig” news...
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Britain from above
A landmark cross-platform BBC series, showing modern day...
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Gapminder
Gapminder sums up the world in statistical data.
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Oakland Crimespotting
An interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for...
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One Photo a Day Projects
A collection of videos and websites by people documenting...
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The Onion infographics spoof
A short clip from the satirical Onion News Network, about a...
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Lives Connected
A webdocumentary about Hurricane Katrina, which hit New...
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Gaza / Sderot
“Life in spite of everything” is the motto of...
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Newsmap
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the...
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We feel fine
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human...
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