TED gets remixed
Ryan Merkley, COO of the Mozilla Foundation, demonstrates Popcorn software in this short, but informative TED talk which has recently been put online. Incase you weren’t already aware, Popcorn.js is an...
View ArticleCloud Filmmaking: a post from Mandy Rose
In a recent blog post – Stop Making Docs - Brian Newman argued that the era of the short doc has arrived. With the web, shareable media, mobile exhibition, he argues, the longer and feature length...
View ArticleCollaborate to the creation of a Web Documentary Manifesto!
If you are reading this post, the chances are that you know what a web-doc is… and yet… are you sure you do know? If you had to give a definition, if you had to be specific about what it is and what it...
View ArticleNFB collaborate with NY Times on documentary series about high-rise living
The New York Times Opinion Pages today announced a new multiplatform interactive series of Op-Docs in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of its ongoing HIGHRISE project....
View ArticleResearch stay at Harvard Metalab. Boston area and Zeega (I)
In this series of posts I will describe my experience during the month of January, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. This year my focus is on the east coast of the United States, with the goal of...
View Article“94 Elements” needs your help! – an interview with Mike Paterson
Mike Paterson, from PFILM, is just back from SXSW, where he presented his later venture: 94 Elements. As far as I know 94 Elements was the only UK i-doc presented within SXSW’s “digital domain” strand,...
View ArticleResearch stay at Harvard Metalab. Uniondocs and MIT Open Documentary Lab (II)
In the last two weeks I asked for permission from the Metalab to move to New York for three days. Apart from the mandatory visit to the “city of cities”, I visited the Uniondocs documentary center and...
View ArticleResearch stay at Harvard Metalab. NFB/Highrise, Ryerson and York University...
The last week before I come back I moved to Toronto, the other mandatory visit besides New York. I was there for two very active days. The first day I visited the National Film Board (NFB), where I...
View Articlei-docs and the art of intimacy
Jonathan Harris (We Feel Fine, The Whale Hunt, Cowbird, I Love your Work) will be giving a keynote at WebDox on Monday the 6th of May, in Leuven, Belgium. This is a real treat for us, i-docs lovers, as...
View ArticleinterDOC: the first spanish project and platform for the analysis of the...
InterDOC is an educational platform based on research, analysis and dissemination of interactive non-fiction, and can be used as a tool for studying and producing interactive documentary, an emerging...
View ArticleSXSW Panel Picker! Co-Creating Reality: Future Documentary
It’s that time of year again where SXSW asks the public to pick the panels they would like to see at the event next March. This year REACT, a Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy which is...
View ArticleOp-Docs & the NFB’s “A Short History of the Highrise” to debut at New York...
The New York Times’s Op-Docs and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will debut their new new immersive documentary series as part of the Film Society at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival...
View ArticleThe Future of Documentary is happening in Bristol
The first group meeting of REACT’s Future of Documentary Sandbox happened today in Bristol. This is exciting stuff: 6 innovative projects were selected to explore new models of authorship and...
View ArticleBroken Hopes: An immersive road trip, from the south to the north of the West...
A while ago I wrote a post about a collection of interactive documentaries encouraging social change and stated that I believe “interactive documentary can be a powerful and effective tool to discuss...
View ArticleFort McMoney: Two years of research, 60 days of shooting, 50 interviews.
More exciting news from the NFB today; on November 25, TOXA and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in association with ARTE, will launch Fort McMoney (fortmcmoney.com), a trilingual (English,...
View ArticleMy Neck of the Woods: part documentary, part performance, part live-stream...
This Friday and Saturday, Manchester teenagers are set to tell their own real-life stories through live transmissions from the streets of the city. My Neck of the Woods, a collaboration between...
View ArticleA Short History of the Highrise: the debut of the immersive, interactive...
The New York Times’s Op-Docs and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) have debuted their immersive, interactive multimedia series, A Short History of the Highrise yesterday. Optimised for tablet and...
View ArticleOn “Chasing Bonnie and Clyde” and why you should back it up on KissKissBankBank
Trailer – Chasing Bonnie & Clyde by chasingbc Remember Breves de Trottoirs? That super sweet French web-doc done by Olivier Lambert and Thomas Salva about the life of people in Paris? Well… they...
View ArticleMakers of interactive documentary Hollow discuss lessons learned
Yesterday afternoon the makers behind the incredibly successful interactive documentary Hollow got together online to answer some of your questions. Moderated by Opeyemi Olukemi (Digital Initiatives at...
View ArticleSlow web, slow food. And the winner is…
There is a new movement called “slow web”. This proposes something similar to slow food, i.e. the wish to use the web in a slow way, savor it, as with food. It shows none other than a young veteran...
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