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.
RISK! Show
RISK! is a podcast and live show, where creative people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share.
What is it like to be a bird?
In a small birdhouse, birdsong is slowed down to human speed, mimicked and sped back up to a bird’s pace, allowing visitors to sing like a bird.
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.
Live Cinema Event: Reality vs Future
Live cinema event exploring the intimate relationship between documentary storytelling and technology, from the early 19th century to the near future.
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: The Soft Atlas with Jan Rothuizen
Live event celebrating the unique work of documentary artist Jan Rothuizen. with performances by Hans Aarsman, Dirk van Weelden and the launch of Rothuizen’s latest book: The Soft Atlas of the Netherlands
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: 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
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 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 Interview 3_Ophira Eisenberg & Faye Lane
The ladies of The Moth talk balls (and explain how to spin a cracking yarn).
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.
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.
