Photo Opportunities
We travel, we see a monument, we take a picture.
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.
Mobile Thrill – Shots of Reality
A machine that distributes unadulterated shots of reality to mobile phones
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.
Tagfish
A blend of documentary, performance and video by Flemish theater group Berlin, which tells the story of the UNESCO world heritage site Zollverein, a coalmining complex in the German Ruhr area.
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.
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.
Kenk
Filmed footage of bicycle thief and Slovenian immigrant Igor Kenk is transformed into a remarkable interactive, black-and-white comic book over documentary audio footage.
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.
Industry Panel: What’s up-and-coming, and what’s passé?
Defining which tools, formats, techniques we should hone – and which would best be left along the wayside of the interactive documentary landscape.
DocLab Dance Night: The Web Rocks
IDFA’s annual new media party, directly following the DocLab live screening of interactive music docs. Free admission.
Expanding Documentary Expo
Multimedia exhibition that includes the DocLab installation HIGHRISE/Out My Window.
DocLab Presentation: Back to the Future
The annual IDFA DocLab presentation, including keynotes by Zach Wise and Ophira Eisenberg.
DocLab Live 4: The Web Rocks
Free screening of the most visually innovative online and interactive music documentaries.
DocLab Live 5: Objective Stories
IDFA DocLab and Micha Wertheim from Echt Gebeurd present an evening packed with true life tales – told live on stage and on the big screen.
DocLab Live 1: Going Places
Live screening of two ‘interactive road movies’, Sparrow Songs (Alex Jablonski; international premiere) and Soul Patron (Frederik Rieckher; world premiere)
DocLab Live 3: A Showcase by Zach Wise (NYTimes.com)
Zach Wise, the multimedia producer spearheading the groundbreaking projects by New York Times online, showcases his favorite online documentaries and multimedia-projects during a live presentation.
DocLab Live 2: 3 Stories of Time & Place
Live screening of the interactive webdocs The Test Tube with David Suzuki, HIGHRISE/Out My Window (Katerina Cizek) and Welcome to Pine Point (Paul Shoebridge & Mike Simons).
DocLab Interview 3_Ophira Eisenberg & Faye Lane
The ladies of The Moth talk balls (and explain how to spin a cracking yarn).
DocLab Interview 2_Frederik Rieckher
Debut interactive documentalist Frederik Rieckher emotes on his exquisite, non-linear quest through Japan, Soul Patron, in this exclusive little interview.
DocLab Interview 1_Kat Cizek
The winner of the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling introduced for the first time in 2010, talks about her HIGHRISE project, and new media for social change (or lack thereof).
Review: DocLab Live 5 / Objective Stories
Live storytelling: the perfect antidote to screen fatigue – and a mighty enjoyable way to re-connect dizzy DocLabbers – after five days of screenings, projects, and talks exploring the future of narrative – with what we’re all trying to do here: share gosh-darned good stories.
Review: DocLab Live 2 / Three Stories of Time & Place
The second live screening for this year’s interactive IDFA program featured three very different web projects, which nonetheless hail from what seems to be emerging as the Godmother of Non-Linear / Non-Fiction: the fair nation of Canada.
Review: DocLab Live 1 / Going Places
The first in DocLab 2010’s line-up of 5 live interactive screenings at Amsterdam’s Tuschinski cinema, featuring web road movies in Japan and California.
Industry Event: Cross Media pitch at IDFA
Emerging new media formats snatch some limelight at IDFA 2010.
Review: IDFA DocLab 2010 Opening Night
Dynamic documentary expansion at the DocLab 2010 launch.
Going Places
New media open countless doors for inventive filmmakers, and their audiences, to forgo the machinations of the industry.
Three Stories
Connect to your fellow world residents without leaving the house. Step into their lives, learn about their dreams, hopes and fears.
Create your own screening
At the Interactive DocLab Lounge (located at Flemish cultural center De Brakke Grond), you are invited to create your own interactive documentary stories on a big screen. Discover new forms of documentary while navigating through the dozens of online projects
Beyond Barriers
How should policy makers deal with the rapidly dissolving boundaries between media? Hans Maarten van den Brink, director of the Dutch Cultural Media Fund, calls for a focus on content instead of re-organizations.
New Award for Digital Documentary Storytellers
Introducing the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Documentary Storytelling, sponsored by Canon.
True Stories: A New York Phenomenon
The simple concept of having people stand on a podium and tell real-life, autobiographical stories, is all the rage in New York as testified by the wildly popular events organized by the now legendary storytelling collective The Moth.
Juror #1: Alexandre Brachet
Introducing the jury for the 1st IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling, sponsored by Canon.
Juror #3: Zach Wise
Introducing the jury for the 1st IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling, sponsored by Canon.
Juror #2: Antoinette Hoes
Introducing the jury of the 1st IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling
