17.000 Islands, an interactive documentary
17000 Islands is an interactive documentary experiment in image making. Set in the Indonesian museum park called Taman Mini Indonesia Indah or Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park – a manicured synopsis of the country’s 17,000 islands – the project explores models of reality by looking at how an image of a nation is created and how documentary filmmaking takes part in this process.
(Source: 17000islandsinteractive.com)
Loc Dao on NFB’s future interactive projects at TFI Interactive 2013
Loc Dao, head of digital and strategy for English programming at NFB, take us through the projects NFB Interactive is working on.
The Aatsinki Season is the online companion to Aatsinki: The Story Of Arctic Cowboys. While the film focuses on the Aatsinki family and their deep bond with their reindeer and the land, The Aatsinki Season is an interactive debate that draws attention to the social, environmental, political and moral issues confronting them.
Expanding on the themes of the film, the online experience challenges each participant to reconsider his or her assumptions about technology, food production, and, most critically, man’s place in nature. Episodes of The Aatsinki Season will be released in seasonal installments over the course of a year, coordinated to coincide with the real-time events of the herding schedule.
Moments of Innovation, when documentary and tech converge
Presented by: MIT Open Documentary Lab // IDFA DocLab
“We take an expansive view of documentary, and are above all interested in the pas de deux between representation and technology, and the resulting capacity to see the world with new eyes.
We are interested in history, in connecting the dots between our latest endeavors and those conceptual pioneers and technological prototypes that came before them. We consider innovation both in the creative application of new technologies and in the creative impulse that lead documentarians to invent new technologies.
We are interested in continuities and disruptions, in tracking down origins and inspirations. Although our theme is evolutionary, we do not assume that recent instances are better than earlier ones – they are different, and our goal is to recall those earlier instances, to learn from and to celebrate them.
For these reasons, MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and IDFA’s DocLab have joined together to put the long story of documentary innovation into perspective, and to speculate about its future”.
CINEMACITY, Just Great!
Cinemacity geolocalizes film excerpts throughout Paris, exactly where they were shot. Different walks are available to the users, enabling them to discover the city through the lens of cinema. Cinemacity is also a creation lab which produces original ‘fiction walks’ on a neighborhood scale, split in 5 episodes. Users are invited to walk from one episode to the next. You may also express your talentby sending us your own sweded version of a film scene shot in Paris : this is your own remake, made with what’s available at hand. A Cinemacity festival will be organized to reward the best of these contributions. Cinemacity is a free cultural experience aimed at film and city lovers alike, available in English, French and German. Wall newspapers will be posted in the city to walk pedestrians through Cinemacity. Several publications will be printed in different neighborhoods, in French and in English, enabling everyone to discover the city’s intimate story, interspersed with film shoot anecdotes. Cinemacity is co-produced by Arte and the Small Bang studio, in partnership with la Mairie de Paris and the Forum des Images, with the support of the CNC.
Official website
(Source: smallbang.fr)
A Total Disruption: Ondi Timoner’s Portal for Innovators
(Source: Kickstarter)
“A TOTAL DISRUPTION, has multiple series about innovators and entrepreneurs who are using technology to transform our lives. The channel is an invitation to participate in our up-coming documentary of the same name. A TOTAL DISRUPTION the feature will pull the camera up to look at this tectonic revolution and how it is transforming our lives, economy, and where we’re headed from here through the eyes of the innovators heading this change.”
Google Maps Treasure Mode
Visit the Treasure Map
Internet according to Frank Rose in his book The Art of Immersion: How the digital is remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the way we tell stories.
This Exquisite Forest is an online collaborative art project that lets users create short animations that build off one another as they explore a specific theme. The result is a collection of branching narratives resembling trees.
The project was conceived by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, and produced by Google and Tate. It makes extensive use of Google Chrome’s HTML5 and JavaScript support, as well as Google App Engine and Google Cloud Storage.
Oculus Rift, a new virtual reality headset designed for immersive 3D gaming
Find your way to Oz: a Chrome experiment inspired by Disney’s Oz The Great and Powerful
Find Your Way to Oz is an interactive journey inspired by Sam Raimi’s latest feature film, Oz The Great and Powerful.
Built using advanced web technologies, this Chrome Experiment will take you through a dusty Kansas circus to the vibrant land of Oz.
Some explorations through the universe of transmedia storytelling and multi-platform experiences.
