Content tagged "documentary"
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Errol Morris: A Rough Cut of His Documentary
Errol Morris’ films have won many awards, including an Academy Award, an Emmy, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
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The New Digital Storytelling Series: Hugues Sweeney
An interview by the MIT Open Documentary Lab
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Video: “Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News”
Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s on-line journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism?
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Podcast: “Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News”
Convergence journalism — combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are — a notable feature of today’s on-line journalism.
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Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
How is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
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Engaging Your Audience in Co-Creation: The Power of the Crowdsourced Documentary
Jigar Mehta is a documentary filmmaker and a journalist and currently co-creator of the collaborative documentary project, 18 Days in Egypt, about the ongoing Egyptian revolution.
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Video: “Documentary Film and New Technologies”
Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
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Podcast: Jesse Shapins, “Mapping the Urban Database Documentary”
Jesse Shapins is a media theorist, documentary artist, and social entrepreneur.
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Mapping the Urban Database Documentary
The urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place.
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Podcast: “Documentary Film and New Technologies”
How will handheld video cameras and ubiquitous open-source computing change the nature of documentary film?
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Documentary Film and New Technologies
Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
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Podcast: John Ellis, “How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences”
Digital filming has transformed documentary, says John Ellis, offering new potentials to filmmakers and at the same time transforming audience attitudes.
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How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
John Ellis will argue that “Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact.”
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Exit Zero: Documentary Filmmaking, Historical Memory, and Personal Voice
Filmmakers Chris Boebel and Chris Walley on the making of Exit Zero, an in-progress documentary film about deindustrialization, community, class, and family in a former steel mill region in southeast Chicago.
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Dub, Diasporas & Digital: Vivek Bald
From dub music to South Asian Diasporas, to political theory and a PhD in American Studies, and onto digital media – the colorful professional trajectory of Vivek Bald has led him from his former base in New York to MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.
