_Harsh Wonder: The Mystery & Reality of Being Alive
10I think a lot about this Mary Oliver quote: “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt…
_Pushing Boundaries
5Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…
_The Visceral Web
5The web can often feel cold, distant and anonymous, but these projects triggered a response from me. Whether emotionally or physically,…
_Let’s Not Forget the Climate Crisis
10Here are exemplar projects using innovative media approaches bringing the urgency of climate change into our everyday lives.
_Sound stories
5Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.
_Trailblazers, Technologies and Truth(s)
12Documentarians have always been at the forefront of innovation in form and content, as William Uricchio has so eloquently highlighted with…
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_VR for All
10Docubase has partnered with the LucidWeb platform to showcase gold star immersive 360° videos and make them accessible.
_Setting a Cultural Stage for Social Impact
14They use their art to create avenues for political and social framing, empathy and change, or direct action. And they set a cultural stage…
_The Internet is Reality
5We interpret the world around us, we seek and capture reality, we steal bits of life that occur outside our devices. We press “rec”…
_Interactive Documentary: My Favorite Latin Projects
12Canada and France are always going to be the pioneering leaders in the production of interactive documentaries. It seems that other countries,…
_ACCESSIBILITY FOR IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY MEDIA
4The Access and Disability Innovation Working Group at MIT Open Doc Lab and Co-Creation Studio brings together emergent media storytellers,…
_Energy, Economy and Culture
5Can interactive docs bring social issues alive differently and in ways that more directly make connections for users between their own lives…
_Constraints
11Narratologist Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses the effect that the media may have on artworks. Rimmon-Kenan argues that the inherent properties…
_Tablet-ready Interactive Docs
8Tablets provide a visually beautiful and rich experience that brings audiences closer to the material, make it easy to engage with deeper…