Becky Hurwitz on Collaborative Storytelling
Becky Hurwitz of MIT’s Center for Civic Media recently wrote a blog about artist Olga Nunes‘s collaborative storytelling projects. In one of these projects, Nunes asked people to contribute memories related to smell by calling a phone number and recording a message. The messages people left, in Becky’s words, were both “touching and deep” and...
Sandy Storyline wins the Tribeca Storyscapes Competition!
Congratulations to the collaborative documentary Sandy Storyline, which was just awarded the top prize for transmedia storytelling at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Storyscapes exhibition. Chronicling New York’s response to Hurricane Sandy, the online documentary is a collaboration between Cowbird, Housing is a Human Right, and our neighbors at the MIT Center for Civic Media. Interoccupy.net...
Should Filmmakers Learn to Code?
The MIT Open Documentary Lab teamed up with Filmmaker Magazine on The New Digital Storytelling Series, a group of interviews with leading digital storytellers, technologists and curators. This interview was previously published on FilmmakerMagazine.com and is reposted with permission. Should Filmmakers Learn to Code? by Sarah Wolozin, Director, MIT Open Documentary Lab “Do filmmakers need to...
MIT at Sundance Roundup
We’ve had an exciting month here at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. In addition to braving the blizzard of the decade (it’s been a week since Nemo, and we’re still defrosting), the MIT team travelled to the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. We caught some great docs, hosted a panel at the fabulous New Frontier exhibition,...
‘Index’ Fingers at Sundance’s New Frontier
The OpenDocLab teamed up with Indiewire and the Sundance Institute to publish a series of articles about the 2013 Sundance New Frontier festival, written by OpenDocLab research assistants. This was previously published in Indiewire’s Criticwire blog, and is reposted with permission. ‘Index’ Fingers at Sundance’s New Frontier Katie Edgerton For nearly a decade, Sundance’s New...
The Hidden Depths of ‘Coral: Rekindling Venus’
The OpenDocLab teamed up with Indiewire and the Sundance Institute to publish a series of articles about the 2013 Sundance New Frontier festival, written by OpenDocLab research assistants. This was previously published in Indiewire’s Criticwire blog, and is reposted with permission. The Hidden Depths of ‘Coral: Rekindling Venus’ Julie Fischer Inside a specially constructed full-dome...
