_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…
_Sound stories
5Audio is particularly effective in emotionally connecting when telling stories. It also leaves room for the imagination.
_Korsakow
4Open-source application for creating web docs and nonlinear, interactive narratives.
_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…
_Documentary Games
10The MIT Game Lab explores the question, "what is a documentary game?"
_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…
_Hybrid Journalism
8This playlist includes projects which made me understand that journalism could take so many different forms, merging with other fields such…
_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,…
_Confinement
11Here are projects that utilize new media techniques and technologies to explore themes of social confinement and isolation.
_Spatial memories in Latin America
7This playlist collects Latin American media projects that explore the spatial dimensions of memories.
_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…
_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…
_Ingrid’s Picks
14Ingrid Kopp, Director of Digital Initiatives at the Tribeca Film Institute, shares some of her favorite interactive works, from early influences…
_The Living Documentary
12I do not see interactive technology as a tool, but as a process that brings cultural, aesthetic, and political changes. Within this context,…
_Transmedia 101
7Innovative projects showcasing the potential of transmedia approaches in documentary, curated by MIT Open Documentary Lab.