New Frontiers in Docs

http://www.mediamatic.net/id/8631 2008-02-25T15:32:13+01:00 New Frontiers in Docs Report on the Masterclass IDFA on the 22nd of November 2004

In this masterclass makers and thinkers presented critical visions and exciting practices of new media documentary in a set of lectures and presentations. This masterclass also functioned as opening session of the Mediamatic-IDFA workshop New Media Documentaries.

<a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/6152/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/060/6152-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004 - Mediamatic.net" href="/6152/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004">Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/8244/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/055/8244-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004 - Mediamatic.net" href="/8244/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004">Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/8241/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/912/8241-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004 - Mediamatic.net" href="/8241/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004">Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004</a> On monday November 22 the IDFA Festival and Mediamatic organised a Masterclass on the topic of new media documentaries. Six different specialists and documentary makers showed their views on the change in theory and practice of documentaries which are influenced by new media techniques. Peter Wintonick, a Canadian based documentarist and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer, a specialist in interactive new media, opened the seminar with a brief outline of the covered subjects in the masterclass. Professor Brent MacGregor, who is a specialist in documentary and a former BBC 4 documentarist, started the masterclass with a theoretical introduction about the influence of new media on traditional documentary. He found that although the new media techniques bring forth a new grammar in creating documentaries, we still need to have some basic creative skills. Apart from the technology nothing really has changed, just try to create something new whilst using the old skills. Bregtje van der Haak presented her interactive rendering of a film about the architect Rem Koolhaas’ research on the city of Lagos. Although it is originally shot as a linear film, she reshaped it into an interactive form. She claims that this is actually better for experiencing the real essence of Lagos. It makes you look more closely at the images and you see details better when you have to make choices. Florian Thalhofer, who is the inventor of the Korsakow system, showed his latest interactive multichannel documentary project about a social housing project in Bremen-Nord. He spent a month in Bremen to film and interview the locals and kept an online diary so that people could react to it immediately. So he used the Internet as well as live images as a basis to create an interactive film. Sam Gregory was the next guest. He is a video producer, advocacy trainer and human rights activist, and currently the Program Manager at WITNESS (www.witness.org). This is a human rights group organisation which manifests itself through the Internet. By placing short documentaries on the Internet, they highlight the human rights problems. These webbased documentaries are very effective for reaching a large public. They pull people in with a micro-documentary on the current affairs and these videoclips radiate trust. The documentary 24 hours on Craigslist is shown on the IDFA Festival. Director Michael Gibson talked about the film in this masterclass. The ‘Craigslist’ is a community board which was founded in San Francisco in 1994. On Craigslist people connect on basic things, it’s free to post and there is an anonymous factor. The film is about the people behind the postings which is basically a day in the life of the city of San Francisco. This shows that an Internet phenomenon can result in a linear film and therefore this is a typical crossmedia project. The last speaker of the seminar was Marijke Jongbloed. She presented her project Love Choice in Cyberspace. This was originally a radiodocumentary about the Internet dating circuit. She co-created a website on which the radiodocumentary can be heard. This also shows how the different old and new media merge within the documentary form. <h6>This workshop was made possible with the support of the MEDIA PLUS PROGRAMME of the European Community and OCW</h6> Mediamatic en IDFA presenteren: Docs in Orbit masterclass 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 november 2004

22 november: Masterclass Nieuwe Media Documentaire. In deze masterclass presenteren belangrijke makers en denkers kritische visies en interessante formats uit de huidige praktijk van de nieuwe media documentaire. Deze masterclass fungeert ook als openinsessie voor de Mediamatic/IDFA workshop Nieuw Media Documentaire.

<a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/060/6152-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004 - Mediamatic.net" href="/6152/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004">Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/055/8244-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004 - Mediamatic.net" href="/8244/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004">Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/912/8241-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004 - Mediamatic.net" href="/8241/en/mediamatic-idfa-masterclass-november-2004">Mediamatic/IDFA masterclass, November 2004</a> Florian Thalhofer (Duitsland) presenteert zijn nieuwste multichannel documentaire project 13er Stock. Thalhofer slaagt er telkens in nieuwe manieren van het bezorgen en ervaren van verhalen te creeren, waarin simpele maar krachtige technologie geheel in dienst staat van wat hij wil overbengen. Prof. Brent MacGregor (University of Edinburg, voormalig documentaire maker voor BBC4) schetst zijn visie op wat er werkelijk gebeurde met de documentaire in nieuwe media land. Robert Greenwald, producent en regisseur van Outfoxed, verschaft inzicht in zijn nieuwe media tactieken, waarmee hij een groot publiek bereikte, geheel buiten de TV netwerken en de gevestigde doducmentaire producenten om. Outfoxed is groot geworden op louter virale marketing en via verkoop op dvd’s online. Hoe hebben nieuwe media de documentaire praktijk beïnvloedt? Het blijkt dat de nieuwe media tv en cinema niet hebben vervangen, maar hebben geremedieerd onder toevoeging van een aantal belangwekkende mogelijkheden. Cinema en tv kunnen een publiek creëeren, nieuwe media kunnen een publiek betrekken. Het web omspant de wereld, telefoons veranderden in camera’s, video streamt en dvd spelers zijn alomtegenwoordig. Publiek en makers zijn vertrouwd geraakt met de aanwezigheid en het gebruik van nieuwe interactieve media. In dit verbreedde en meer verfijnde medialandschap leeft ook de documentaire film. Nieuwe media lenen zich zeer goed voor het construeren van ‘creative treatments of actuality’ (zoals Grierson de documentaire definieerde). En ze lenen zich ook voor het verzamelen, bekijken en deelnemen er aan. <h6>This workshop is made possible with the support of the MEDIA PLUS PROGRAMME of the European Community and OCW</h6> <img src="/file/medocw.jpg" width="190" height="71" alt="" /> - ARTICLE review 1