Life in a Day
Life on July 24, 2010.
Happy World
Burma: The Dictatorship of The Absurd
Farewell Comrades
A transmedial documentary production about the final days of the Soviet system, told using old postcards.
HIGHRISE: One Millionth Tower
A digital recording of the residents of a Toronto high-rise as they work with an architect to improve their home.
Balloons of Bhutan
A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom.
Photo Opportunities
We travel, we see a monument, we take a picture.
Powering a Nation: Coal – A Love Story
An multimedia experiment in journalistic storytelling best experienced as an interactive film.
National Parks Project
National Parks Project is a collaborative film, music, TV and new media project on Canada’s National Parks. Like never before.
Surprising Europe
An international cross media project contributing to the debate about migration to Europe and creating awareness about the real life of African migrants in Europe.
RISK! Show
RISK! is a podcast and live show, where creative people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share.
Today
A simple ritual of taking one photo each day and posting it online, along with a short story, beginning the day Jonathan Harris turned 30.
The Johnny Cash Project
A global collective art project.
9-eyes
9-eyes curates images found on Google Maps Street View
Holy Mountain
Exploring people’s relationship to the sacred through the city’s landmark, Mount Royal.
Truth and Lies: The last days of Osama bin Laden
An insider’s look at the operation that killed bin Laden
Big Stories, Small Towns
An interactive documentary project connecting local stories and communities in South Australia.
Museum of Me
Create and explore a visual archive of your social life.
SPENT
Can you survive the hardships of poverty, unemployment and homelessness?
Am Not Was
Multimedia piece about an amnesiac who is unable to recognize faces.
Exile Without End: Palestinians In Lebanon
Life in Shatila, a decades-old Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, whose 12,000 inhabitants are among the oldest group of refugees in the world.
My Tribe Is My Life
An interactive documentary that plunges you into the worlds of 8 music fans and shows how the Internet has helped them forge their identities and relationships within various music subcultures.
Dear Photograph
Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.
Soul of Athens 2011
Soul of Athens 2011 – Our Dreams Are Different – is a multimedia project showcasing different stories that examine the changing American Dream.
Everynone
Everynone is a website with short documentary films made by a filmmaking team located in New York.
PressPausePlay
A Film about Hope, Fear and Digital Culture.
Interview Project Germany
A simple and ingenious idea – a road trip across Germany – hundreds of miles from east to west and from north to south. A journey that thrives on totally random encounters with fifty very different people.
The Next Day
An austere animated web documentary in which four people who attempted but failed to commit suicide explain what drove them to their desperate act.
Goa Hippy Tribe
Goa hippies travel to the Indian beach paradise Anjuna Beach – the place where it all began.
Barcode.tv
A cinematic story machine that tells you who you are, based on the material possessions you hold dear.
The Sexperience 1000
A social website wants to end the taboo on talking about sex, using video messages, discussion forums and infographics.
Soldier Brother
Your brother is at war but life goes on.
The Prism: Krisis Greece 2011
Everything that newspapers and TV ignore is dealt with here, in 27 short films by retrained photojournalists, who capture crisis-ridden Greece in a creative, resolute way.
Via PanAm
Documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen is traveling from the southern tip of Chile to the very north of Alaska, creating multimedia photo stories along the way.
Shit My Kids Ruined
What’ve your beloved kids ruined? Perhaps your couch? Your TV? Your marriage? Your dreams?
Condition One
Choose your own field of vision in the images of a bloody protest in pre-revolutionary Libya or a chaotic police arrest on the streets of New Orleans.
The Burning House
What would you rescue if your house was on fire?
Insitu
A search for creative, artistic ways to intervene in public space, presented both linearly and non-linearly. Winner IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling 2011.
New York Minute
New York Minute paints an original and interactive portrait of the legendary hometown of hip-hop.
Man With A Movie Camera
Film pioneer Dziga Vertov’s remarkably innovative 1929 silent movie, complete with dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze frames.
This Land
Interactive snowmobile road trip across 2,000 inhospitable kilometers of Northern Canada by filmmaker Dianne Whelan.
Soul of Athens
Using photographs, text, audio, and film, audio-visual students from the small midwestern American town of Athens spotlight some of the city’s exceptional inhabitants and locations: the tattoo artist, the fashion doll, the banks of the Ohio River.
One Day on Earth
Multi-authored portrait of humanity which celebrates diversity, connectivity and digital democracy.
Collapsus
A hybrid documentary game addressing the impending energy crisis which includes animation, live action, documentary and fiction in a dynamic, choice-based narrative.
The Wilderness Downtown
For Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait”, celebrated music video director Chris Milk’s combines music video iconography with the computer’s multi-screen potential to create a multimedia narrative that unfolds as the song progresses.
Les Communes de Paris
A choice-based, digital tour of Paris, brought to you personally by the residents of the city’s rich, diverse and disparate neighbourhoods.
iROCK
18 interactive journeys through the backstages of the huge Eurockéennes rock festival in Belfort, France featuring behind-the-scenes footage with the likes of Tricky, Kanye West and Slipknot.
Young Me/Now Me
Placed together, a picture from a scrapbook and a careful reconstruction of it 20, 30 or 40 years later tell an enormous tale.
Awkward Family Photos
A spectacularly popular website where visitors share their awkward family photos with one another and with the rest of the world: clumsy photos of gawky people in embarrassing situations.
Sparrow Songs
The culmination of a 12-month project which saw director Alex Jablonski and cameraman Michael Totten shoot one new mini-documentary a month, and broadcast it online: a series fascinating and poetic portraits of people, groups and places around Greater Los Angeles.
Soul Patron
A debut by filmmaker Frederik Rieckher, Soul Patron presents a rich media journey through the atmosphere and culture of Japan, led by Tokotoko, an exquisitely animated bunny.
California is a Place
An expanding series of brief impressions of sometimes intriguing, sometimes alarming and always compelling stories the Golden State.
HIGHRISE/Out My Window
Kickoff to the extensive documentary project Highrise, which delves behind the myriad high-rise apartment windows that tower into the urban skylines of the world.
Welcome to Pine Point
A multimedia portrait of the disappeared Canadian mining settlement of Pine Point by one of its former residents.
The Test Tube with David Suzuki
A playful look at global overpopulation and food shortages, inviting visitors to share what they would do if they had one minute to spare.
The Ninth Floor
This photo documentary with audio commentary spends three years in the lives of heroin addicts residing in a Manhattan apartment building.
Driftless: Stories from Iowa
Affectionate but unpitying black-and-white images capture the tough existence of people still living in declining rural areas of Iowa.
Big Stories, Small Towns
A heartwarming portrait of the care organizations in Port Augusta, Australia: the Men’s Shed, the Wami Kata home for the elderly, and the Young Fathers group.
Camerawar.tv
This film project seeks to create a new and free way of viewing and analyzing through short grassroots films.
Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Online remake project of Dziga Vertov’s classic.
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.
Generation Tian’anmen
Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann’s trilogy on the student protests on Tian’anmen Square in 1989, and the impact of this event on the attitudes of an old and a new generation of Chinese.
Filmmaker in Residence
Pilot project for the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker in Residence program, in which Katerina Cizek was placed “in residence” at the St. Michael Hospital in Toronto.
Graffiti Archeology
On the award-winning Graffiti Archaeology website, visitors can visualize the evolution of graffiti art using a custom interface.
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
The visitor creates his or her own story from the collection of 163 film clips of prominent documentary filmmakers discussing their profession.
From Zero – Italy
Online platform webcasting daily episodes from the mountainous Italian region of Abruzzo, which focuses on its recovery from the huge earthquake it suffered six months ago.
Waterlife
The importance of water and the problems associated with it in the Great Lakes. Examined in 23 distinctly themed sections, using text, image and sound.
Days with My Father
A poignant selection of photographs and text form a diary of the last years in the life of photographer Phillip Toledano’s father.
GDP
An interactive map of Canada presenting stories of the economic crisis that reveal the fighting spirit of employers and employees.
Couscous Global
Social networking site with a twist: rather than looking for friends, users seek out opponents for debate and discussion.
Iron Curtain Diaries 1989-2009
An interactive map of the more than 4,000-mile-long Iron Curtain, illustrating the changes since the Berlin Wall came down.
24h Berlin – A Day in the Life
For a day and a night, 80 camera teams followed the adventures of various residents of the German metropolis.
6 billion others
A selection from 5,000 short interviews with people from all over the world that reveal what connects people to one another.
Mortified
This multimedia project allows visitors to upload embarrassing adolescent treasures such as diary extracts, poems, and photographs.
Prison Valley
This web documentary on the prison industry is a road movie with interactive potential.
Interview Project
A road trip where people are randomly found and interviewed.
Flight Patterns
Data artist Aaron Koblin transformed flight patterns above the United States into colorful computer animations. The patterns that arise don’t only provide information, but are also a feast for the eye.
Standard Operating Procedure
On the website of the documentary Standard Operating Procedure, visitors can look through the photos of American soldiers torturing prisoners in the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Each photo is accompanied by explanations from the soldiers involved as well as expert commentary.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
An animated movie bringing the words of the universal declaration of human rights to life with motion graphics of typography & symbolism.
Thanatorama
An interactive web documentary about what happens after you die. Thanatorama will be presented live on 27 November by producer Alexandre Brachet.
Flick Radio
A documentary maker gets lost in the world’s most popular photosharing website.
Journey to the End of Coal
An educational webdocumentary that lets viewers investigate the world of Chinese coal miners who risk their lives in state-owned and private coal plants. 300 photographs and many hours of video and sound were used to create a striking immersive environment.
Ensuring the Future of Food
Japan only produces about 40% of the food it consumes. This is the lowest among all major developed nations. Infographic movie commissioned by the Japanese ministry for agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
Le Grand Content
An associative chain of statistical diagrams that dissect human existence with a good sense of humour. Subjects such as death, school parties, hobbits and cable TV are visualized in overlapping coloured circles, graphics and connecting arrows.
Live Cinema Event: Out on the Streets
Digital documentary pioneers turn their interactive documentary into a live cinema event. With Insitu and The Prism: Krisis Greece 2011, both selected for the IDFA DocLab Competition.
Three Stories
Connect to your fellow world residents without leaving the house. Step into their lives, learn about their dreams, hopes and fears.
