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.
C.A.P.E.
An individual, immersive experience that uses the latest technologies to transport its users to a virtual mix between Shanghai and Brussels.
Balloons of Bhutan
A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom.
Worry Box Project
Drop your maternal anxieties into a collective virtual worry box.
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.
The Johnny Cash Project
A global collective art project.
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.
Africa To Australia
Africa to Australia is an interactive documentary that follows the stories of Africans who came to 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?
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.
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.
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.
The Zone
A sensory journey into the heart of Tchernobyl’s exclusion zone – the forbidden area around the nuclear power plant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One in 8 Million
A series of miniature portraits in sound and photographs; each introduces just one of the more than eight million inhabitants of New York City.
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.
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.
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.
Trendsmap
An interactive world map that allows users to see at a glance what Twitter users at any given geographical location are talking about.
The Dumpster
The Dumpster visualises 20,000 blog posts from 2005 that relate to romantic breakups. The interface is designed in such a way that links between the failed love affairs become visible.
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.
Ushahidi
The initiative of a group of Kenyan civilian journalists, Ushahidi uses Google Maps to unlock information about the violence that followed the Kenyan elections in December 2007. An expanded version of the website is now in the works to report on incidents all over the world.
Videosphere
Videosphere is a 3-D sphere that reproduces videos from the renowned TED Talks archive and shows the relations between different presentations on technology, entertainment and design-related topics.
The Whale Hunt
Web artist Jonathan Harris took a picture every five minutes during his trip to Alaska, where he went whaling with an Eskimo family. The photos are now in an online album with advanced possibilities, such as being able to see which moments were most exciting for Harris by using his heart rate as a measure of dramaticness.
Thanatorama
An interactive web documentary about what happens after you die. Thanatorama will be presented live on 27 November by producer Alexandre Brachet.
They Rule
Interactive graph of the most influential directors & companies in the US. make your own selection & explore various spatial configurations to discover unknown relationships between seemingly unrelated or competing companies, or download maps made by other users.
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.
FlickrVision
In a highspeed, geographical slideshow, Flickrvision shows the latest pictures placed on the photosharing website Flickr.
Digglab
On the popular Digg website, visitors can “dig” news articles they like.
Britain from above
A landmark cross-platform BBC series, showing modern day Great Britain from the sky.
Gapminder
Gapminder sums up the world in statistical data.
Oakland Crimespotting
An interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.
Lives Connected
A webdocumentary about Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans in the summer of 2005.
Newsmap
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.
We feel fine
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from weblogs.
Exhibition: Expanding Documentary 2011
Interactive installations, immersive performances and other unexpected representations of reality, presented by IDFA DocLab, Paradocs and Brakke Grond.
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.
Live Cinema Event: Interactive Monuments
Live screening of two interactive documentaries from the DocLab Competition Program: Beyond 9/11 and The Zone.
Live Cinema Event: Sex, Data & Goa
Live screening of two interactive web documentaries from the DocLab Competition Program: Goa Hippy Tribe and The Sexperience 1000
Live Cinema Event: Reality vs Technology
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
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.
Expanding Documentary Expo
Multimedia exhibition that includes the DocLab installation HIGHRISE/Out My Window.
DocLab Live 4: The Web Rocks
Free screening of the most visually innovative online and interactive music documentaries.
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 3 / A Showcase by Zach Wise
Night 3 in the DocLab Live program, and they were lining up at the door of Tuschinski 4, for New York Times multimedia producer Zach Wise’s top web bookmarks selection, a bespoke pick of golden needles in that murky haystack they call “Internet”.
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
