Documentary Games

_Let’s play with documentary!

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

_Constraints

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…

_Setting a Cultural Stage for Social Impact

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…

_Harsh Wonder: The Mystery & Reality of Being Alive

by Wendy Levy

I 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…

_Documentary as Co-Creation

by Mandy Rose

In the context of networked culture the ground beneath documentary has shifted. Cheap, accessible, and mobile production tools make the…

_The Internet is Reality

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”…

_Korsakow

by Florian Thalhofer

Open-source application for creating web docs and nonlinear, interactive narratives.

_Energy, Economy and Culture

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…

_The Visceral Web

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,…

_Full Spectrum Documentary on the Climb

by Jessica Clark

Since 2008, AIR has been cultivating an emerging documentary form: “full spectrum public media.” Such creations extend beyond the…

_Confinement

by MIT Open Documentary Lab

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

_The Personal is the Political

by Paisley Smith

Paisley Smith shares which personal stories (across platforms) have impacted her over the years.

_Spatial memories in Latin America

by Diego Cerna Aragon

This playlist collects Latin American media projects that explore the spatial dimensions of memories.

_Hybrid Journalism

by Andre Deak

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

_VR for All