OpenDocLab & IDFA DocLab | Moments of Innovation
The Open Documentary Lab has teamed up with IDFA DocLab to create Moments of Innovation, an interactive exhibit and online research project exploring the long history of inventive documentary practices. IDFA attendees can immerse themselves in the many innovative moments of documentary history at the project’s festival exhibit space, De Brakke Grond: Venue: De...
Christine Walley and Chris Boebel | Exit Zero
Exit Zero is a feature-length documentary film that tells a personal story of the lasting social and environmental impacts of “deindustrialization” and the key role it has played in expanding class inequalities in the United States. Interweaving home movies, found footage, and a first person narrative, the film traces the stories of multiple generations of...
Vivek Bald | Bengali Harlem
Bengali Harlem is an ongoing project by filmmaker and scholar Vivek Bald using different media – web, print, and video – to document the histories of two little-known groups of early South Asian migrants to the United States. Both were groups of Muslim men, predominantly from the region of Bengal, who entered the U.S. between...
REV | New Day, New Standard
New Day, New Standard, a hotline and cross-media art project that informs domestic workers about the new Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, recently received a grant from the Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund. MIT’s Center for Civic Media partnered with the New Day, New Standard team to adapt VoiP Drupal, an open-source mobile toolkit,...
Collaborative Documentary | Sandy Storyline
Sandy Storyline is a collaborative documentary focusing on the recovery from 2012 Hurricane Sandy. Participants can call a hotline to submit stories, or upload video, audio and text online. The project is a collaboration between MIT’s Center for Civic Media and Housing is a Human Right. Cowbird, Interoccupy.net, and Occupied Stories are also partners. Becky...
Mobile Experience Lab | Locast
Locast is a flexible and cutting-edge location-based platform that combines distributed Web and Mobile applications that create hyperlocal and highly-connected experiences. Locast superimposes layers of collectively generated information within the physical space. This augmentation of space is democratically chosen by Locast users, in real time, as they participate in the content-generation process. Within Locast, the...
