As a kid, I used to play Concentration a lot, a card game in which players have to find connections between matching cards. The documentary oeuvre of legendary BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis inspired bingos but it also resembles a giant Concentration game trough time and space where weird and fascinating connections between the cards of history are … Continued
It’s so refreshing to see how some creators are so infected with the docu-style virus that everything they do, whether it’s photography, ads, shorts or music videos, has to revolve around the same ideas and aesthetics. Such is the case with director and photographer Ewen Spencer. In 1997, freshly graduated from the School of Art … Continued
Canadian photographer Alexi Hobbs tells how an intimate story like a hunting trip with his grandpa turned into a gorgeous NFB produced interactive documentary. It’s easy to experience. It’ll only take 20 minutes.
Discovery Channel Benelux is teaming up with firestarters by Vodafone to present, “firestarters the series’’, a sequence of six short documentaries that explore how the mobile revolution changes the creative industries. The series will delve into the worlds of photography, music, art, film, fashion and media. Which innovators have set the tone for a future … Continued
Raw data is not designed. The CIA analysts who tracked down Bin Laden navigated thousands of spreadsheets and documents filled with words, numbers, and coordinates, to which they added countless scribbled notes. For the HBO doc Manhunt, Creative Director Manija Emran and her team at The Mill+ delivered more than 10 minutes of meticulously researched, … Continued
In honor of Inauguration Day in the U.S today (along with Martin Luther King Day), we´re bringing you a sneak peek at one of the episodes from a new interactive documentary series we are working on called Unspeak. Based on the book of the same title by amazing British author Steven Poole, Unspeak looks at how … Continued
An aboriginal housing project in the middle of Sydney. Why would you want to watch this transmedia documentary about such an outlandish topic? For so many reasons! Experience The Block here.
Since this is the big day in the US, we wanted to show you a little piece from a project we are working on called Unspeak. It’s based on the book by the amazing British author Steven Poole. Unspeak is a series that looks at how language can smuggle persuasion into description. Think of words … Continued
Watch all episodes of Submarine’s acclaimed 2004 hit doc Sneakers on the dedicated website sneakers.submarinechannel.com, or on Vimeo. Sneakers is a 50-minute documentary about the history and social significance of sneakers. The film asks the question how sneakers have evolved from “poor man’s shoes” to an icon of modern lifestyle and sub-culture identity. The film … Continued
We know you know our old school Sneakers website, but now we’re finally able to give you Submarine’s acclaimed 2004 documentary “Sneakers” as well. Starting Monday August 6, 2012, we will start releasing “Sneakers” online in 5 episodes, one episode a day on sneakers.submarinechannel.com. Sneakers is 50-minute documentary about the history and social significance of … Continued
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