Alone Together
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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IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Projects in this section
Projects in this section
Border Birds
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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