Posts Tagged highrise
The i-docs’ “evolution”, in just 10 points
While preparing for the forthcoming i-Docs conference, and thinking about what a great year 2011 has been for factual narratives, we started a discussion between Arnau Gifreu and myself to see if we agreed on the i-docs trends that are emerging just in front of our eyes.
Arnau proposed to come up with 10 points that [...]
How can 3D worlds be used in documentaries? A review of One Millionth Tower
Posted by Sandra in Blog, Uncategorized on November 8th, 2011
Kat Cizek, and her NFB team, have just launched Highrise’s latest baby: One Millionth Tower.
This is the fifth experiment in four years of what is now becoming a networked documentary, rather than a simple idoc. When Highrise started at the NFB in 2008 it was described as a “multi-year, multi-media documentary” but I have to [...]
Premiere of One Millionth Tower
Do go to Wired Magazine to watch the launch of Highrise’s brand new baby: One Millionth Tower. The project was launched by Kat Cizek just today in London at the Mozilla Festival “Media, Freedom and the Web”.
There will be a full presentation of One Millionth Tower on Monday that I will attend so… I’ll right [...]
Thoughts on Power to the Pixel 2011
Posted by Sandra in Blog, Uncategorized on October 17th, 2011
Power to the Pixel had its annual conference/festival last week, here in London. I only attended the conference day, just because I was curious to see how the trans-media trend was permeating into the documentary world. It was interesting to notice that in what is effectively THE only trans-media conference/festival in the world only one out [...]
A great interview with Kat Cizek
A very interesting interview to Highrise’s director Kat Cizek. If you are interested in knowing more about Kat’s past and her ideas on collaborative documentary practice… do definitively read it this interview done by by Mandy Rose for her brilliant blog Collabdocs!