Interactive Documentary Archive
BBC’s 3D documentary explorer
2010
By:
BBC
Project type:
Web
Tags 3D explorer, BBC, hypertext mode, visualization
Description:
As part of the collaborative documentary Virtual Revolution , a 4×1hr series about the history and consequences of the web, BBC2 has launched a “3D documentary explorer”. The idea is to allow an interactive viewing of the series content, and therefore to create a new way to browse the content creating a totally different experience [...]
Gone Gitmo
2010
By:
Nonny de la Pena
Project type:
Web docu-game
Tags conversational mode, docu-game, Guantanamo Bay, Nonny de la Pena
Description:
Gome Gitmo is a docu-game by Nonny de la Peña and Peggy Weil designed for Second Life. This is a simulation of Guantanamo Bay where the player/user enters as a prisoner and discovers what it is like to loose his/er own civil rights. The reconstruction includes journalistic video material that the team has [...]
What have you left behind?
2009
By:
Mariana Mota
Project type:
Web collaborative
Tags biographical, diary, hypertext mode, notebooks, participative mode
This project was proposed to the archive by Mariana Mota
Description:
What have you left behind? is a web documentary that allows the user to browse through 130 testimonials of people of all countries around the theme of loss, changes in life, moving to a new country and discovering new cultures. As Mariana Mota explained to me:” [...]
the 44th president inauguration
2009
By:
CNN & Photosynth
Project type:
collaborative
Tags collaborative, Obama, participative mode, Photosynth, president
Description:
Photosynth is a Microsoft technology that creates 3D spaces from anyone’s 2D photos. CNN has used this technology to grab the moment of the inauguration of President Obama. Asking people that were present at the inauguration (or that were watching it on TV) to send pictures of Obama, and of themselves watching him, [...]
Journey to the End of Coal
2008
By:
Honkytonk Films (France)
Project type:
Web
Tags China, hypertext mode, news, testimonial, web project
Description:
This web documentary was made in 2008 by French production company Honkytonk Films (and more specifically by directors Samuel Bollendorff and Abel Ségrétin). Interestingly it was first First released on French news portal lemonde.fr and has then successfully toured the most renowned Documentary Film Festivals of this world…
The documentary wants to make public the [...]
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