_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…
_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”…
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_Transmedia 101
7Innovative projects showcasing the potential of transmedia approaches in documentary, curated by MIT Open Documentary Lab.
_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,…
_Full Spectrum Documentary on the Climb
15Since 2008, AIR has been cultivating an emerging documentary form: “full spectrum public media.” Such creations extend beyond the…
_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,…
_The Personal is the Political
7Paisley Smith shares which personal stories (across platforms) have impacted her over the years.
_Constraints
11Narratologist Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses the effect that the media may have on artworks. Rimmon-Kenan argues that the inherent properties…
_Let’s play with documentary!
11Since the very beginning of cinema, documentary has played. With its characters (Nanook of the North), with reality (all modern mixes between…
_Pushing Boundaries
5Independent talent and public media drive innovative storytelling. As we’ve seen at AIR where we work with creative independent multimedia…
_Re-Enchanting Spaces: Participatory Location-Based Media
9Location-based media—physically or digitally linked to physical locations, conceptually connected to these locations, and designed to…
_Documentary Games
10The MIT Game Lab explores the question, "what is a documentary game?"
_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…
_Hybrid Journalism
8This playlist includes projects which made me understand that journalism could take so many different forms, merging with other fields such…