Exploring documentary storytelling in the age of the interface
Past events
DocLab Live: Bloodless – Guided by the Ghost of a Korean Sex Worker 25 Nov 2017 at 17:00
Special presentation on VR installation Bloodless, in which director Gina Kim and guests discuss the influence of American military presence on the South Korean people since 1956.
DocLab Live: Order, Chaos and Everything 21 Nov 2017 at 20:00
Join Jonathan Harris on a secular pilgrimage: from physical reality to the chaos of YouTube, and a digital simulation of consciousness.
Industry Session: Making VR Work for Audiences 20 Nov 2017 at 10:00
Zillah Watson, Commissioning Editor for Virtual Reality at the BBC, on how to make VR work for audiences.
DocLab Expo: Seamless Reality
The DocLab: Seamless Reality exhibition showcases thirty installations and interactive projects exploring the future of documentary storytelling.
The selection includes a striking number of virtual reality projects, as well as audio installations, experiments with artificial intelligence, surveillance and our sense of smell as a means for non-fiction storytelling.
The exhibition is open from 9:00 – 23:00 from 19-28 November and from 9:00-18:00 on 29 November. Some installations and all Virtual Reality projects require on-site reservation and are only open between 11:00 – 21:00.
Selected projects include:
- Bistro in Vitro by Koert van Mensvoort, The Netherlands
- The Deeper They Bury Me by Ted Bigg & Angad Bhalla, Canada
- Do Not Track by Brett Gaylor, France/Germany/Canada
- Exhausting a Crowd by Kyle McDonald, USA
- HIGHRISE: Universe Within by Katerina Cizek, Canada
- Imperial Courts by Eefje Blankevoort & Dana Lixenberg, The Netherlands
- Lahore Landing by Jeremy Ho, Singapore
- Life on Hold by Reem Haddad & Dima Gharbawi Shaibani, Qatar
- Network Effect by Jonathan Harris & Greg Hochmuth, USA
- The Quipu Project, Talking Knots by Maria Court & Rosemarie Lerner, Peru/England
- Sheriff Software by Dries Depoorter, Belgium
- That Dragon, Cancer by Ryan Green, Amy Green & Josh Larson, USA
- Walden, a Game by Tracy Fullerton, USA
- word.camera by Ross Goodwin, USA, 2015
The following projects require on-site reservation:
- Cue China by Ant Hampton, England
- DMZ: Memories of No Man’s Land by Hayoun Kwon, South Korea
- Drawing Room by Jan Rothuizen,The Netherlands
- The Enemy by Karim Ben Khelifa, France & Canada
- Famous Deaths by Frederik Duerinck & Marcel Brakel, The Netherlands
- Kiya by Nonny de la Pena, USA
- LoVR by Aaron Bradbury, England
- Rebuild Fukushima by Bert Hana, The Netherlands
- RecoVR Mosul: A Collective Reconstruction by Ziv Schneider & Laura Chen, USA
- Someone Else by Ant Hampton, Belgium
- The Unknown Photographer by Loïc Suty, Canada
- Waves of Grace by Gabo Arora, USA
- Way to Go by Vincent Morisset, France & Canada
- Witness 360: 7/7 by Darren Emerson, England
The DocLab: Seamless Reality program is a co-production by IDFA and De Brakke Grond. Made possible by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts), in collaboration with the Dutch Cultural Media Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund, VAF, Creative Europe Media Desk Flanders.
Exhibition photos by Nichon Glerum
Tags DocLab 2015, Seamless Reality
Event information
- When: 2015-11-19 at 09:00
- Venue Name: De Brakke Grond
- Venue address: Nes 43, 1012KD Amsterdam
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