The Holy Road
An interactive web documentary about the people who live – with and alongside each other – along the ‘holiest’ but also most contested road through Israel and Palestine: Route 60.
Homescape
A dark and eerie night time walk in the outskirts of the Israeli village.
A Whaling Season in Alaska
A deep dive into the lives of the last Alaskan whale hunters, and a sensitive look at the harsh changes underway in the Arctic.
I SPY (with my 5 eyes)
This interactive documentary reveals how the largest surveillance program in human history impacts our lives.
Lionhearted
8 Year old Rida tells us about her journey, the difficulties of her escape from Afghanistan, and her dark past overshadowed by the Taliban.
Step to the Line
A virtual reality documentary that aims to provoke a transformation in the spectator’s eyes about prisoners, the prison system, and even themselves.
Notes to My Father
A story of love, grief and reconciliation between a survivor of trafficking and her father.
Home In Between
A 360-degree documentary about the people of Kara Tepe, a refugee-camp on the Greek island of Lesvos.
I Am Rohingya
Experience Jamalida’s life inside a regufee camp and watch an account of how she fled the violence in Myanmar in an immersive animation.
Melting Ice
Join Al Gore on an immersive 3D-360 experience to the frontlines of climate change on the melting ice caps of Greenland.
We Who Remain
An immersive virtual reality film that takes the viewer into the heart of the forgotten conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
After Solitary
An experience that places the viewer physically and emotionally inside an otherwise inaccessible world.
Unrest VR
An immersive journey into the experience of an invisible illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Testimony
A virtual reality documentary that shares the stories of five survivors of sexual assault and their journey to healing.
Project Adrift
Adrift engages with the mysteries and contradictions of space junk.
Zero Days VR
Experience the high stakes of cyber warfare from inside the invisible world of computer viruses.
Tree
This virtual-reality project transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and your body as the trunk, you’ll experience the tree’s lifecycle.
Inside Manus
This virtual reality experience takes you inside the devastating reality of life in Manus Island immigration detention centre.
FIGHT
Witness a phenomenon known as binocular rivalry in this virtual reality artwork.
Tajen: Interactive
A web documentary made by visual anthropologists, using different modes of representation to evoke and explain the cultural, historical, and psychological aspects of cockfighting in Bali.
One Shared House
A radical experiment in communal living is explored in this interactive research project by Irene Pereyra.
The Space We Hold
Witness the stories of “the Grandmothers”—women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World War II.
Future Living
This interactive experience gives web users a chance to come together and chose the living spaces of the future.
The Final Days of Standing Rock
Follow Lakota Tammy Howard in the last days of the 2016 protests against the construction of an oil pipeline at Standing Rock Reservation.
I’m Your Man
A digital adaptation of an award-winning theatre play, I’m Your Man is an interactive story about the world of boxing in Australia.
Life Underground
Encounter passengers and hear their personal stories of love, dreams, family, and migration in this interactive documentary.
The Congo Tribunal
The Congo Tribunal examines the causes and backgrounds of the Congo War in a unique transmedia art project.
Trophy Camera v0.9
An A.I. driven photo camera that can only make award winning pictures. Test it yourself.
BotStory: The Futurist Cookbook
Become a co-writer of The Futurist Cookbook. A chatbot will match you with a mystery chef to write a collaborative futurist recipe.
Patent Alert
Experience what the smart glasses of the future will offer. Are we actually heading in the right direction?
#veryveryshort
60 seconds: that’s the maximum length of each of these 10 web-based interactive experiences, which you can open up on your smart phone wherever and whenever you choose.
Echoes of IS
This poignant, nuanced web documentary features 12 people talking about how IS has changed their lives.
Poppy Interactive
A protracted investigation into the nexus between war and organized crime, brought together in an interactive documentary that exposes an extensive network.
I Swear to Tell the Truth
A combination of audio guide, documentary and physical experience, inviting you to participate in a playful journey exploring your own personal perception of truth.
Limbo
What is it like to flee your home and start again in a new country? This virtual reality film allows you to feel this period of limbo, waiting for a decision that will affect the rest of your life.
{The And} VR
Watch a gripping conversation in VR between a mother and daughter as they answer a series of confrontational questions.
Learning to See: Hello World!
An interactive installation that shows how machine learning works by rapidly comparing patterns and distilling an image from them.
Astronaut.io
A funny, moving and confrontational interactive collage of snapshots from thousands of YouTube films that are rarely or never viewed.
A Thin Black Line
This interactive VR experience follows five-year-old Patima’s perspective as she flees the violence of war.
Greenland Melting
Let two NASA scientists show you around Greenland. Why have the glaciers been melting so fast over the past 15 years?
The Cave
An overwhelming virtual reality experience that gives the sensation of exploring one of the stunningly painted Mogao caves in China.
K’gari
An interactive documentary that debunks one of Australia’s first fake news stories by exposing the Aboriginal version of events.
Cosmic Top Secret
Puzzle together a secret agent’s past over six levels, through dossiers, shooting practice and uncomfortable conversations between him and his daughter.
The Last Chair
In a satisfyingly calm 360-degree documentary, we are silent witnesses of solitary rural lives as they draw to an end.
Everything
Whoever you are, whatever you are and where ever you are, you’re in the middle. That’s the game.
Bury Me, My Love
In this surprising, interactive smartphone app, you play Majd from Syria, whose young wife is trying to escape to Europe.
Homestay
A moving virtual reality story in a world of delicately folded paper, about a Canadian family and their unexpected experience with a Japanese exchange student.
Invisible
An immersive journey into the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s immigration detention system.
C.A.P.E. Drop_Dog
Using state-of-the-art technology C.a.p.e. Drop_Dog teleports the visitor to the stage and into the core of two short stories.
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
Through the making of “I, Daniel Blake”, and through his previous films, “How to Make a Ken Loach Film” explores how the director depicts reality.
Making Home: Tai Hang
Explore the experiential and analytical routes in investigating Hong Kong home cultures.
My Millennial Life
Combining verité filming, interviews and video diary, the documentary puts a human face on the quandary of finding a place in 21st century society.
Hieronymus Bosch, The Eyes of the Owl
An innovative way to experience Bosch’s most famous painting up close and personal.
WE ARE DATA
WE ARE DATA – Mirror Room is an installation that lets you experience how it feels to become data.
Propaganda by the People
A crowdsourced story that goes further than just the EU, but a story that brings together cultural, geographical and political Europe.
My Grandmother’s Lingo
Angelina Joshua fights to save her language or ‘lingo’, ‘Marra’ – one of the oldest languages in the world.
COME/IN/DOC (Collaborative Meta Interactive Documentary)
This could be described as a “meta-interactive-doc”, an experimental interactive documentary that reflects on the new genre.
Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel
Step into one man’s memories of a moment that changed Irish history forever: the 1916 Easter Rising.
The Ark
A virtual reality documentary that puts viewers face-to-face with the last northern white rhinos.
1979 Revolution: Black Friday
A story-driven adventure about choices and consequences, chaos and order, where you are dropped into the world of a real revolution.
Dada Data
A viral, vibrant, living homage to Dadaism, connected to our times like Dada was at war with its own.
Mamie’s Dream
Experience what it means to be a girl in Sierra Leone and deal with the issues that affect girls on a daily basis.
Daily Life VR
A WebVR series about some of life’s most basic and essential pursuits: eating, pooping, sleeping, etc.
plplpl.pl::synchronicity
A tech-noir espionage object taking inspiration from the set of La Jetee, Blade Runner or THX 1138.
51 Sprints
Explore the history of a highlight of the Olympic Games: the hundred meter sprint finals.
Charlotte
Players explore the world of the 19th century short story, The Yellow Wall-paper and its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman who was an important suffragist.
Grandmas Project
Grandmas Project is a collaborative webseries – under the patronage of UNESCO – sharing the recipes and stories from grandmas around the world, filmed by their grandchildren.
The World in Ten Blocks
This interactive documentary allows users to virtually explore one of Toronto’s most multicultural and vibrant neighbourhoods.
What I Saw in Syria
A journalist gives readers a visceral, intimate sense of what it’s like to report on the Syrian war.
Team Gaza
Team Gaza is an interactive documentary about a group of young Palestinians seeking for happiness in the Gaza Strip.
Natural Life: Interactive Archive
Follow the stories of five individuals who were incarcerated for Life Without Parole (Natural Life) for crimes they committed as youth.
Collisions
A journey to the land of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian desert.
Underworld: a virtual experience of the London sewers
Explore the beauty, dangers and mythological allure of London’s Victorian sewer system in an interactive documentary that blends podcast journalism and VR gaming.
Zeki Müren Hotline
Spoken messages to the popular Turkish artist Zeki Müren (1931-1996) speak of an underlying nostalgia for a Turkey of bygone days.
DeathTolls Experience
A virtual journey from the refugee crisis in Europe to the bloodbath in Syria, placing the dry “data reality” of the news in an emotional perspective.
These Memories Won’t Last
An interactive web animation in which a grandson relates in words and drawn images the eventful life of his grandfather, who is starting to suffer from dementia.
Bear 71 VR
A seminal piece in the history of interactive documentary, reimagined and re-released as a virtual reality experience.
Flint Is a Place
A powerful, stylized portrayal of the pride, hope and pent-up anger felt by the people of Flint, Michigan, a symbol of all that can go wrong with the American Dream.
Clickclickclick.click
In a likeable, playful clickbait experience, you are rewarded for exploring all the interactive possibilities of your mouse.
White Spots: a Journey to the Edge of the Internet
A surprising journey away from the connected world and into the lives of people living in “white spots” without Internet or cell phone reception all over the world.
Smell Dating
An online dating service matches subscribers on the basis of their scent. Use your molecular intuition to find out who you really find attractive.
Chameleon
An immersive and sensory portrait of Mexico City, in collaboration with 12 Mexican artists from various disciplines.
Saydnaya
A 3-D reconstruction of the notorious Saydnaya prison in Syria, on the basis of testimony from former prisoners who were held there in fear and darkness.
Home: Aamir
Experience the inhumane conditions of the Calais “jungle” and travel with Aamir from South Sudan via Libya and across the Mediterranean to his new “home.”
I Am Not Home Video
A virtual experience of forgotten answering machine messages and a very special videotape that director and found footage fanatic Bert Hana picked up in a second-hand store in France.
Tzina: Symphony of Longing
A poetic, interactive VR documentary in which the residents of the run-down Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv muse on their lives, loves, longing and loneliness.
100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time
A multimedia project on the hundred photos that have shaped our world. Short films, essays and stories from those who have made the news explain why.
The Resistance of Honey
Bioni Samp’s bees don’t just make honey – they also make music. A fascinating, mind-expanding glimpse into the exceptional world inside the beehive.
Meat Puppet Arcade
The 3-D scanner as a portal to the virtual space. Play with true-to-life replicas of the artist’s body.
Everyday Everywhere
By uploading photos of everyday life, “ordinary people” from all over the world show the place they live from a different perspective.
The Dig
Modern relationships bring new dilemmas. This interactive web series present you with different couples and the choices they should make. What would you advise?
News Globus
Travel the globe and let the world news help you discover surprising connections between places that are close together or far apart.
The Modular Body
Marvel at this science fiction perspective. You can assemble this story about a biologist who clicks organs together by clicking on the different elements online.
The Great Animal Orchestra
Imagine you are the conductor of an animal orchestra in this interactive and incredibly detailed natural soundscape, compiled by artist and nature recordist Bernie Krause.
Notes on Blindness VR
What’s it like to be blind? Notes on Blindness is an enchanting, award-winning interactive VR experience, based on the audio diary of author and theologian John Hull.
Deprogrammed
A meditative virtual walk through the mental worlds of a former member of the Unification Church, a skinhead and a jihadist.
pplkpr
pplkpr is an app that tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social life accordingly.
Interactive Haiku
A collection of 12 very, very, very short interactive explorations. To discover quickly, without rushing.
Why Srebrenica Had to Fall
The interactive documentary Why Srebrenica Had To Fall is part of an ongoing investigation lasting 20 years, into the circumstances of the genocide in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in 1995.
Bycatch
Bycatch is a casual card game about the topics of remote warfare and drone surveillance. It is a simple to learn and quick to play game aimed at a broad audience.
Future Cities
Future Cities is a transmedia documentary about five emerging cities. Cities behind the obvious; because we all know Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai are booming.
250 Miles Crossing Philadelphia
Visual artists Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum lived in Philadelphia for 7 months. New to the city, they invited inhabitants, both human and non-human, to explain their city through movement.
Californium
Explore the worlds of Californium, a first person exploration game where you are a writer trapped into shifting realities.
Kabul’s Portrait
In Kabul’s Portrait, Afghan-Canadian filmmaker Ariel expands the boundaries of modern portraiture by creating a range of riveting interactive digital profiles of contemporary Kabul’s storytellers, from artists and journalists to filmmakers, actors, and photographers.
The Cave
With a slow, poetic and contemplative pace, The Cave confronts the viewer with the supernatural power of painted prehistoric caves (which were none other than the first “immersive experiences”) as if you discover one of them for the first time.
Criers of Medellín
Medellín’s soundscape is contrasting. In this city there are voices of all kinds, including urban shouting from street vendors. They understand that clientele, like lovers, are seduced by ear, and they commit to this in order to sell their products.
Norilsk Film
The story about Norilsk, the world’s northernmost large city; a city that is home to 170,000 people living there all their life, people to whom ice or flame is just a child’s play.
SEASONS : MORPHOSIS
Morphosis is a free tablet app to support The Seasons, the next movie by Jacques Perrin. The film sketches the key stages in our planet’s evolution and retraces the interaction between humans and their environment.
4Stars Hotel
4Stelle Hotel is a web documentary that recounts a day in the life of the multiethnic community that occupied the abandoned luxury hotel on Via Prenestina in Rome and transformed it into their own home.
Offshore VR
Offshore VR takes its audience into a derelict, shattered drill platform far away in some unspecified ocean where something has gone terribly wrong.
Pirate Fishing – Interactive Investigation
Pirate Fishing is an interactive investigation set in Sierra Leone.
After the Storm
While you might think the art of letter-writing is sliding into the past tense, imagine if you opened an envelope and out slid a stream of sound and moving pictures and still images, a mix of meteorology, webGL, tree rings.
Racing Home
Racing Home, a highly personal rumination on identity, combines 8mm and 16mm footage shot in Ontario and Europe.
Who Are the Champions?
The World Cup 2014 has been played. Germany is world champion. Meanwhile, FIFA President Sepp Blatter decided to step down as past and future World Cups in 2018 in Russia and 2022 in Qatar are causing some controversies.
Karen
Karen is fictional life coach, an experimental storytelling piece designed to be played out on your phone over 9 days.
London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid
Immerse yourself in an experiential documentary on a group of young Londoners recruited to carry out secret missions in resistance to South African apartheid.
Face your Fears
We all experience and even fear fear, but without really comprehending the phenomenon and all its dimensions.
Meet Thomas Drake
After blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse within the NSA, Thomas Drake was charged under the Espionage Act by the Obama Administration.
Connected Walls
November 9th 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
From the Factories
This is a research-creative project, a hypervideo web-site (in sum 330mins of video) with embedded transcription that renders multiple narratives.
In the Eyes of the Animal
Discover forests anew through In the Eyes of the Animal, a 360 cinematic experience immersing you in a vibrant landscape belonging to woodland creatures.
Sheriff Software
Want to play traffic cop? Thanks to our monitored society, you can. Visit the scene of a crime by live webcam or inform the police of an offense.
That Dragon, Cancer
A personal game that offers new ways of mourning. Designed by the father of Joel, a boy who died at the age of four.
Walden, a Game
This first-person documentary game follows in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, attempting to live a self-reliant life at Walden Pond.
Way to Go
A walk in the woods as an interactive experience for people of all ages.
Rebuild Fukushima
Contribute to the reconstruction of Fukushima following the nuclear disaster, using construction kits based on Google Street View images.
HIGHRISE: Universe Within
This multimedia project explores the lives of city dwellers and shows how online communities can shape the physical world.
Do Not Track
This personalized series on privacy shows who benefits from the online private data that we unthinkingly share every day with those out to make money off of us.
Cue China
This installation lifts unknown Chinese factory workers out of anonymity – suddenly, they are right before our eyes.
Exhausting a Crowd
This addictive tableau vivant of a packed Piccadilly Circus allows observers to attach a limitless number of comment “tags” to the people in the crowd.
RecoVR: Mosul, a Collective Reconstruction
A virtual environment that brings back to life the historical collection of the Mosul Museum, raided by IS in 2014.
Drawing Room
Step into the first “drawn reality” by Jan Rothuizen, about the “premium experience” of the tower room in an Amsterdam department store.
Witness 360: 7/7
One survivor of the London bombings of July 7, 2005 talks about that day and gives us a sense of the trauma that still haunts her.
The Unknown Photographer
An ominous, poetic and virtual odyssey through the trenches of the memory of a photographer from World War I.
Quipu Project
This interactive documentary provides a platform for victims of the involuntary sterilization campaigns under Peruvian President Fujimori in the 1990s.
Network Effect
An interactive collage of an endless stream of video clips, messages and other visual noise, reflecting the frenetic restlessness that characterizes the Internet.
Life on Hold
In 10 powerful Internet videos from Al Jazeera, we share the pasts and futures of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
LoVR
A virtual reality love trip through the brain activity that occurs in the staggering moment you fall in love; a poem written in data.
Lahore Landing
This interactive online documentary shows how citizen activists in Lahore are responding to extremism with art and culture.
Imperial Courts
A serene photo and video portrait of the predominantly African American residents of a housing project in South Los Angeles.
The Deeper They Bury Me
A prisoner in Louisiana since 1972, Herman Wallace tells the disturbing story of his solitary confinement in a series of interactive animations.
Crowd Assesment
A playful investigation into crowd behaviour and audience participation.
Zero Point
One of the first 360-degree documentary films ever, investigating the future of virtual reality.
Atlas of Pentecostalism
This dynamic interactive database charts the astonishing rise of the Pentecostal movement. At 35,000 new converts every day, it’s the fastest growing religion in the world.
Empire Interactive
This powerful and highly dynamic interactive documentary offers insight into the unintended long-term effects of Dutch colonialism, making them palpable.
After 6/4
Protest or riot? A comparison of reporting on unrest at Tiananmen Square in 1989 shows how various versions of the news crystallize into historical fact.
John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes
This interactive app takes the user on the stormy voyage to Bermuda that inspired John Lennon to make his album Double Fantasy.
Seven Digital Deadly Sins
A moral update on the Internet era on the basis of the seven deadly sins, presented as an interactive website with videos, posts and polls.
Door Into the Dark
Door into the Dark is an immersive documentary experience about what it means to be lost in an age of infinite information.
Last Hijack
A true tale of survival in Somalia told from the pirate’s perspective.
Who Are The Champions
Stories from the other side of the stadium.
A Spacecraft for All
The ISEE-3 was launched to study the Sun in 1978, but ended up redefining space flight. Now it’s on a new mission to become citizen science’s first spacecraft, with data accessible by everyone.
Land of Opportunity
An interactive, layered exploration of post-crisis community (re)building in America. In the wake of disaster, who has the right to return?
Lagos Wide and Close
An interactive journey into an exploding city.
Never Alone
This game, inspired by Alaska Native culture, brings the world of Iñupiaq stories alive.
Points of View
An ongoing interactive web documentary based on video footage shot by Palestinians working with B’Tselem’s Camera Distribution Project.
Love Your Neighbour
How do you picture your European neighbours? Nationals from the 28 EU countries were asked this question. Stereotypes? Truths? Fantasies? It’s for you to see.
A Global Guide to the First World War
The story of a global conflict in the voices of 10 historians from around the world.
Remote Landscape (País Remoto)
A web documentary discovering the artistic geography and human landscape of Chile.
DIY Manifesto
Starting from the city of Detroit, this crossmedia web documentary explores the DIY movement on at least 2 continents.
The Shirt on Your Back
A documentary about the Rana Plaza disaster and the global garment industry.
The Devil’s Toy Redux
Fifty years after Claude Jutra’s ‘The Devil’s Toy’, 14 directors across the world remix the pioneering film in an interactive experience.
The Risk Takers Survival Guide
Uncover the precarious world of risk.
Just a Reflektor
This collaboration between Vincent Morisset and art rockers Arcade Fire is a fascinating experiment with interactivity, in which you the viewer get to build your own video installation at home.
I Love Your Work
In this web documentary, nine women working in the lesbian porn industry reveal all – their bodies and their innermost thoughts. Or do they?
17000 Islands
A crowdsourcing project on the propagandistic “Taman Mini” amusement park, in which the films made by visitors lead to a dialogue about Indonesian history.
Hidden Wounds Interactive
An interactive version of a subdued video about the lives of war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Unspeak
In this web documentary based on found footage, journalist Steven Poole explains at breakneck speed how the public debate is being corrupted with “unspeak.”
Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
This animated infographic shows that clandestine drone attacks carried out in Pakistan by the American military claim almost exclusively innocent victims.
Hollow
This multimedia collage is a morale booster for the residents of McDowell County, who keep hope alive in their shrinking region.
Type:Rider
This surprising combination of video game and book maps out the multifaceted history of typography.
A Short History of the Highrise
This latest episode in a multi-annual documentary project highlights the history of the vertical living, from the Tower of Babel to the skyscrapers in New York.
Fort McMoney
A groundbreaking fusion of documentary and video game in which visitors play the detective, unraveling the interests that lurk behind the Canadian oil industry
The Faces of Facebook
This website compresses 1.2 billion Facebook profile photos into a full-screen mosaic, and a remarkable world atlas
The Last Hunt
This interactive photo book tells the story of Antonio “Pit” Allard, who retreats for the very last time into the Canadian wilderness to hunt.
Burn Out
This shocking web documentary captures the recent wave of suicides in France, which is on the verge of a collective burnout.
Firestorm
Firestorm is an immersive, media-rich experience about a small Tasmanian town that was devastated by a catastrophic bushfire on January 4, 2013.
The Brussels Business Online
The Brussels Business drives you to the European bubble amongst lobbyists and MEPs.
Clouds Over Cuba
Navigate the Cuban Missile Crisis in full detail, including a thought provoking fictional “What if?” scenario.
Garedunord.net
Gare du nord is the biggest of Europe.500.000 persons cross it every day, coming from Paris, Lille, London, Amsterdam.
The Invisible Picture Show
Animated interactive web documentary based on phonecalls made by the director with children locked inside immigration detention centres around the world. Invisible Picture Show from tim travers hawkins on Vimeo.
Reinvention Stories
This is an interactive storytelling web site, based in the post industrial town of Dayton Ohio
MONEYOCRACY
MONEYOCRACY analyses the major impact of the 2010 Citizens United vs. F.E.C ruling on the U.S democracy.
The Wagner Files – Interactive Graphic Novel (App)
Love him or hate him.
COME/IN/DOC
A meta-documentary that reflects on the interactive documentary.
THE BUILDERS’ CHALLENGE
A transmedia adventure in the heart of gothic cathedrals.
Passing Stanger – The East Village Poetry Walk
Passing Stranger – The East Village Poetry Walk is an audio tour of poetry related sites in New York City’s East Village.
Planet Takeout
Planet Takeout is a participatory documentary project about the Chinese takeout as a vital cultural crossroads in Boston and beyond.
The Sticking Place
Interactive documentary about elite freestyle wrestler, Leah Callahan
Moments of Innovation
When Documentary and Technology Converge
Snowfall
New York Times reporter John Branch tells the harrowing story of skiers caught in an avalanche.
Pointer Pointer
A simple but effective online timewaster: stop your cursor somewhere on the screen and a picture is loaded in which someone points right back at it.
Gol! Ukraine
In 12 short films, hosts Oleg and Katya take us on a tour of Ukraine, which hosted the European Soccer Cup last summer.
Bear 71
Wildlife in Banff National Park from the perspective of a grizzly bear and that of the park rangers watching her 24 hours a day.
Alma, a Tale of Violence
This interactive tablet documentary allows you to swipe back and forth between a no-frills presentation of the violent confessions of former gang member Alma and an alternate image stream that puts it all in context.
A Journal of Insomnia
The website as a confessional: insomniacs are asked to provide insight into their affliction, which will be used in an interactive artwork.
The Block: Stories from a Meeting Place
Three-dimensional web installation about the turbulent history of The Block, an aboriginal district in the heart of Sydney. Forty years on, it’s about to make way for a new development.
Here at Home
A live web documentary about At Home, a major Canadian housing project that gave homes to 1,265 homeless people.
CIA: Operation Ajax
Award-winning innovative graphic novel app that reconstructs the battle for black gold in the Arab world, long before the Second World War broke out.
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.
Hunger in Los Angeles
An immersive journalistic experience where the viewer becomes a witness to the consequences of food shortages in Los Angeles.
Worry Box Project
Drop your maternal anxieties into a collective virtual worry box.
Powering a Nation: Coal – A Love Story
A 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.
Tracking Transcience
Hasan Elahi’s self-tracking system constantly and publicly presents his exact location, activities, and other personal data.
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
A Childhood Walk
A participatory trip down memory lane, Ze Frank’s “A Childhood Walk” explores the connections between location, technology, and memory.
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.
We Choose the Moon
An interactive recreation of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
Filmmaker in Residence
Katerina Cizek collaborates with doctors and patients to capture the stories of a Toronto hospital in the National Film Board of Canada’s pioneering Filmmaker in Residence initiative.
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
A visualization of 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
Interactive commentary on the photos of American soldiers torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq
Ushahidi
An open source project that allows users to crowdsource crisis information and send it via mobile.
Videosphere
An audiovisual knowledge network
The Whale Hunt
Photographs are presented as a framework to tell the moment-to-moment story of a whale hunt in Northern Alaska.
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.
Gaza / Sderot
“Life in spite of everything” is the motto of Gaza/Sderot.
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.
Enemy Within
An interactive web documentary on the forefront of demonstrating the power of web native documentary narratives.
Expert Meeting: Interactive Documentary Preservation
Invite-only expert session on the preservation of interactive documentary art.
Immersive Network Summit
The Immersive Network Summit brings together experts from all corners of the interactive and immersive storytelling industry.
firestarters: Emotional Arcade
A live event inviting you to play with real emotions, using brain scanners, biometric sensors and carnivalesque props.
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).
Interactive Conference 2017 talks are now online
You can now catch up on all of the talks from the 5th DocLab Interactive Conference, featuring artists and thinkers from across the industry.
‘Die With Me’ by Dries Depoorter & David Surprenant
The chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery.
DocLab Interactive Conference 2015 is now available online
Watch digital pioneers and artists present their most provocative works, lessons learned and visions for the future.
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.
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
