_Collective Wisdom
15The Co-Creation studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab published Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines…
_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…
_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,…
_Documentary as Co-Creation
9In the context of networked culture the ground beneath documentary has shifted. Cheap, accessible, and mobile production tools make the…
_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.
_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…
_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…
_In Search of Truth
16I’m fascinated by the relationship of “point-of-view” to our understanding of truth. I’m amazed by how vehemently we hold on to…
_Ingrid’s Picks
14Ingrid Kopp, Director of Digital Initiatives at the Tribeca Film Institute, shares some of her favorite interactive works, from early influences…
_Sound stories
5Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.
_Constraints
11Narratologist Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses the effect that the media may have on artworks. Rimmon-Kenan argues that the inherent properties…
_The New Visual Documentary
12The new visual documentary is different from what already exists in the well-defined editorial, film, broadcasting, and art contexts, both…
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_The Interactive Documentary: my life, my passion, my playlist
20Interactive digital media have had an impact on the logics of production, exhibition and reception of traditional audiovisual documentaries.