IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

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    With 10 selected titles, the Digital Storytelling Competition builds on the rich history of interactive storytelling with both established names and newcomers. From AI and interactive graphic novels to video games and interactive web installations, this section explores and celebrates a wide range.

    Projects in this section

    Alone Together

    • Dustin Harvey
    • 2022

      Step into the world of the Alone Together Agency, where lonely people can hire replacement relatives. Use the app at DocLab to become a freelance family member and have real conversations with a virtual loner.

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      Border Birds

      • Bieke Depoorter, Dries Depoorter
      • 2022

        While humans erect more and more physical boundaries around the world, birds just carry on cheerfully ignoring them. This digital project picked out 100 images of border-crossing birds from footage on publicly accessible cameras.

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        Ghana Airways

        • Hakeem Adam
        • 2022

          With news clips, snatches of music, historical recordings and advertising jingles, Hakeem Adam constructs an audio image of postcolonial Ghana. Through “things in which I can hear myself,” he examines what it means to be Ghanaian.

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          Glasfäden

          • Ben Wahl
          • 2022

            An interactive graphic novel about Vietnamese migrant workers in Communist East Germany. After the borders opened up with the West in 1989, they saw their children struggling with cultural differences and discrimination in a rapidly changing society.

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            He Fucked the Girl Out of Me

            • Taylor McCue
            • 2022

              In this story, told through the medium of a retro interactive computer game, a trans person named Ann talks frankly and in detail about a traumatic sexual experience and its harrowing, ongoing aftermath.

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              Her Body and Other Mukbang

              • Echo Tang
              • 2022

                Most stars of mukbang videos, which feature individuals eating huge quantities of food, are East Asian women. In this video installation—a feminist riposte to this form of fetishization—a voluptuous woman becomes the meal.

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                His Name Is My Name

                • Eline Jongsma, Kel O'Neill
                • 2022

                  A documentary about WWII in surprising form, unearthing the story of filmmaker Eline Jongsma’s great-grandfather, the infamous Dutch Nazi Gerrit Jongsma. Part family epic and part detective story, the series unfolds in ten binge-worthy episodes.

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                  Labyrinth

                  • Annie Marr
                  • 2022

                    An interactive documentary about the mysterious 2010 disappearance of an American hiker in Joshua Tree National Park. Follow the fanatic online and off-line sleuths still searching for answers.

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                    Social Bouquet

                    • Constant Dullaart
                    • 2022

                      A social media platform without the battle for likes? Why not just build it yourself, thought artist Constant Dullaart during the Covid pandemic. In this idyllic online meadow of flowers, every visitor has a chance to bloom.

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                      A South Asian Queer Pamphlet

                      • Soumya Mukhopadhyay
                      • 2022

                        Performance artist Kaur Chimuk was filmed during 26 queer performances that undermine South Asian gender norms. Spell a word with the alphabet in this web installation and create your own queer pamphlet.

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