projects curated
by

Caspar Sonnen

2013/11/22

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Caspar Sonnen is the new media coordinator for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and curator of the festival’s IDFA DocLab.

He founded IDFA DocLab in 2008 to create a platform for interactive and multimedia documentary storytelling that expands the genre beyond traditional cinema. In addition to his work at IDFA, he is co-founder and programmer of the Open Air Film Festival Amsterdam.

Caspar’s All-Time Favorites

For the launch of the MIT Open Documentary Lab’s _docubase at IDFA 2013, Caspar Sonnen compiled a list of his all-time favorite interactive projects (excluding this year’s IDFA DocLab competitors, of course!).

Explore, discover, and ask yourself: which works would you choose?

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1_Alma: A Tale of Violence

2_Bear 71

3_A Childhood Walk

4_Enemy Within

5_Gaza/Sderot

6_Highrise: Out My Window

7_Highrise: One Millionth Tower

8_David Lynch Interview Project

9_A Journal of Insomnia

10_One in 8 Million

11_CIA: Operation Ajax

12_Thanatorama

13_We Feel Fine

14_Welcome to Pine Point

_Alma: A Tale of Violence

Interactive tablet and web documentary "Alma: A Tale of Violence" lets its audience members move between a former gang member’s confession and a stream of imagery that supplements her story.

_Bear 71

Surveillance video and data feeds from Canada’s Banff National Park make environmental documentary "Bear 71" a commentary on life in the digital age.

_A Childhood Walk

A participatory trip down memory lane, Ze Frank’s "A Childhood Walk" explores the connections between location, technology, and memory.

_Enemy Within

Bjarke Myrthu's "Enemy Within" was an early interactive web documentary that revealed the power of this new storytelling form.

_Gaza/Sderot

"Gaza/Sderot" documents human resilience by capturing stories from neighboring cities Gaza and Sderot, each on different sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

_Highrise: Out My Window

In the Emmy Award-winning web documentary "Out My Window," filmmaker Katerina Cizek explores highrise living around the world.

_Highrise: One Millionth Tower

In "Highrise: One Millionth Tower," filmmaker Katerina Cizek, the residents of a Toronto apartment building, and a group of architects used webGL to reimagine a residential highrise, creating an interactive documentary that captured their aspirations for the community.