The disciplines of film, journalism, animation, music, games design and motion graphics are increasingly merging, changing and influencing each other, opening up new pathways for storytelling and creating new visual languages. In our expanding collection of themed Top 5’s (and some Top 10’s too) we explore best-practise examples of these new and emerging modes of … Continued
April 7th 2014 marked exactly 20 years since the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide that left 100,000s of innocent people dead. It also signaled the beginning of Love Radio: Episodes of Love & Hate, a new transmedia documentary by Anoek Steketee and Eefje Blankevoort that aims to explore the subject of reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. … Continued
Episode 4 of our interactive documentary Unspeak looks at how hackers and vast media conglomerates disguise their true intentions to create a brave new world. Unspeak terms discussed: Big data Digital Rights Management File sharing Intelligent design Like button Paywall Piracy Reform Smartphone Social network The Cloud User Generated Content Viral UNSPEAK is an interactive … Continued
Op-Docs, the short form opinionated documentaries that launched at The New York Times have officially gone deeper into multimedia journalism thanks to their latest collaboration with The National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Teaming up with Kat Cizek, the NFB’s Director of the multi-year and multi-collaborative Highrise project (including the Emmy-winning Out My Window), they … Continued
Applause! Web documentary and Submarine’s fellow nominee ‘Alma’ won the 2013 Visa d’Or FRANCE 24-RFI Web Documentary Award. Well deserved! The jury also gave a special mention to web documentary ‘La Duce Vita’, created by Cyril Bérard and Samuel Picas, and co-produced by Darjeeling and LeMonde.fr. Good observation, this piece of art is definitely worth … Continued
Glad to see the interactive music video ‘virus’ is successfully spreading. In March, UK synth pop band Hurts picked an interactive promo as the winner of their music video competition. Nothing very fancy or artsy, but the interactive vid allows users to switch between the perspectives of the two protagonists, making the viewing experience definitely … Continued
The idea is so simple and elegant, that you wished you came up with it yourself. It’s storytelling with an almost forgotten medium: the pay phone. The New Museum and Droga5 created a time machine that goes straight back to 1993 in the form of thousands of pay phones on the island of Manhattan. Learn … Continued
Hello, future! Since MTV is (musically) dead and we can interactively immerse ourselves in musical experiences, we can actually be at the concert and experience it exactly like the audience in the room does. Just leave it to Beck and superstar interactive video maker Chris Milk. Their immersive masterpiece Hello, Again is now featured on … 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.
REWORK_ is the new work of Submarine Channel’s darling interactive media artist Scott Snibbe. Want to know more about this guy? Watch the interview we did with him about Björk’s Biophilia. And here’s where you can get your very own REWORK_. Enjoy!
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