_The Interactive Documentary: my life, my passion, my playlist

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by Arnau Gifreu

Interactive digital media have had an impact on the logics of production, exhibition and reception of traditional audiovisual documentaries.

_Let’s play with documentary!

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by Cédric Mal

Since the very beginning of cinema, documentary has played. With its characters (Nanook of the North), with reality (all modern mixes between…

_The Internet is Reality

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by Hugues Sweeney

We interpret the world around us, we seek and capture reality, we steal bits of life that occur outside our devices. We press “rec”…

_Constraints

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by Eran Hadas and Udi Ben-Arie

Narratologist Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses the effect that the media may have on artworks. Rimmon-Kenan argues that the inherent properties…

_In Search of Truth

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by Kamal Sinclair

I’m fascinated by the relationship of “point-of-view” to our understanding of truth. I’m amazed by how vehemently we hold on to…

_Energy, Economy and Culture

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by Patricia Aufderheide

Can interactive docs bring social issues alive differently and in ways that more directly make connections for users between their own lives…

_Trailblazers, Technologies and Truth(s)

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by Katerina Cizek

Documentarians have always been at the forefront of innovation in form and content, as William Uricchio has so eloquently highlighted with…

_Setting a Cultural Stage for Social Impact

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by Lina Srivastava

They use their art to create avenues for political and social framing, empathy and change, or direct action. And they set a cultural stage…

_Sound stories

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by Francesca Panetta

Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.

_Hybrid Journalism

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by Andre Deak

This playlist includes projects which made me understand that journalism could take so many different forms, merging with other fields such…

_Collective Wisdom

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by Co-Creation Studio

The Co-Creation studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab published Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines…

_Pushing Boundaries

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by AIR

Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…

_The Visceral Web

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by Elaine McMillion Sheldon

The web can often feel cold, distant and anonymous, but these projects triggered a response from me. Whether emotionally or physically,…

_Confinement

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.

_Mapping the Intersection of Two Cultures: Interactive Documentary and Digital Journalism

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by MIT Open Documentary Lab

The projects on this playlist mark the convergence of interactive documentary and digital journalism; two forms that, despite their distinctive…