3 weeks in and the web documentary production in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for Boomtown Babylon is reaching Colonel Kurtz-like levels of intensity as director Vincent Moon produces content together with inhabitants of a remote, dusty artificial frontier town way beyond the city’s limits, where former residents of destroyed inner-city slums are forcibly sent to live. … Continued
The man behind Jawbone.tv – where non-linear dreamz are born – just shared this intriguing oeuvre-in-the-making with us: a dark, gory and compelling crowd-powered, interactive graphic novel-type project in which you get to kill and kill again the world’s deadliest killers. Keyword: kill :-) The project is *transmedia*-tastic, combining gaming, books, animation and live action … Continued
“Transmedia”, “crossmedia”, whatever you want to call it, there is a growing penchant for projects that blend a heady cocktail of the real and the virtual, inviting the public to interact with – and contribute to – the development of the (immersive, multi-platform, etc) narrative. Breathe is one such project: 3 short films made up … Continued
Alexandre Brachet is a Paris-based e-producer and director of experimental, cross-media production studio Upian. A luminary in the world multi-platform documentaries, he merges cutting-edge technology and traditional techniques to break new ground in made-for-broadband story-telling. We managed to corner him after an inspirational presentation at the very first edition of the International Documentary Film Festival‘s … Continued
An ever-growing log of exploratory thinking and doing from the edges of every discipline, Everyone Forever is the brainchild of virtual cross-media studio Universal Everything. From Aerobics to Zoology and everything in-between, the site enables its team of contributors to share their secrets and inspirations with the world. Contributors range from Universal Everything’s favorite collaborators … Continued
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