In this time of self-isolation, narrative games offer us the opportunity of exploring new worlds while interacting with fascinating characters. Technically, they’re not real people, it’s true, but it’s still better than talking to your alarm clock. If you feel like playing video games is a too passive quarantine activity, you can start building your … Continued
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
By Davide Banis When I meet Janet Murray she had just finished her keynote speech at the Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht, the most important Dutch film festival. She lectured about the themes that made her an academic heavyweight worldwide: interaction design, the future of storytelling and the new narrative affordances granted by digital media. … Continued
Firestarters Files is a documentary series about exploring the changes in how mobile technology is being used across the world. For their fifth episode, they joined Submarine Channel’s Bruno Felix at last year’s Playgrounds Festival in Amsterdam, to discuss a little about how the festival has become an unmissable chance for studios, filmmakers and visual … Continued
Now toasting a successful second year, Tribeca Storyscapes is a program at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival that aims to bring together some of the most interesting projects by artists and digital media innovators from across the globe. Featuring everything from virtual reality to live performance, Tribeca Storyscapes is a haven for powerful interactive storytelling … Continued
Featuring Submarine Channel’s own Bruno Felix, the fourth short documentary of fire starters and Discovery Channel explores the changing role in which we interact with movies. The past two decades have seen an expansive growth in digital innovation, which in turn has required an active participation of the viewer. Experimental filmmakers today are already using iris scans, … Continued
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Dutch independent game designer and game journalist Sander van der Vegte, co-creator of FLX., reviews the most exciting, most original, most innovative (indie) games for Submarine Channel. For his first review, Sander tackled the critically acclaimed first-person game Dear Esther. In 2008, a modification of the popular first person shooter Half Life 2 was released … Continued
Winner of Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards 2012 We’re exited to bring you our review of the brand-new interactive book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lesmore. Design and animation is done by ex-Pixar designer William Joyce, also known from Toy Story and A Bugs Life. Morris Lessmore is a humorous … Continued
The age-old art of storytelling is undergoing a radical transformation. In a media climate that is dominated by interactivity, hybrid formats, multi-platform distribution and the ubiquity of participatory media engagement, new forms of telling and consuming stories are taking over. Submarine Channel’s editorial program Story Mundo explores the transmedial (r)evolution of story across the film, … Continued
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