By Ambar Reyes This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Prison X” Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New Frontier section. Here, Ambar Reyes explores two projects that tackled...
By Srushti Kamat This article was originally featured in Indiewire. “Beyond the Breakdown” Editor’s note: Each year, IndieWire collaborates with MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program by inviting students to reflect on Sundance’s New Frontier program. Sundance’s New Frontiers’ team...
I Come From Giants (working title) is a short memoir in virtual reality by ODL Fellow Cindy Bishop. On the back of the common chicken, the human population has thrived in...
Territories of Exclusion by ODL Fellow Gabriel Vieira Posada is a project that will utilize participatory exploration to make visible the child trafficking networks in the public spaces of Medellín, Colombia, through digital...
Meshmemories is an augmented reality portrait by ODL Fellow Fabiano Mixo. Below is the project treatment. Imagine a face of woman fluctuating in space. She is still and stares at the...
On Slow Images and Multivalent Objects In this talk, Jaret Vadera will discuss key arcs, propositions, and questions guiding his transdisciplinary practice. Vadera’s work explores how different technologies shape and control the ways that...
The Future is Present: Cultivating Intimacy in Process and Practice The Future is Present (TFP) is a co-created performance laboratory that amplifies the life-affirming demands of young Black and Indigenous activists. It...
By Andrea S. Kim This article was originally featured in Indiewire. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="750"] “Secret Garden”[/caption] Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New...
Social Justice in a Virtual World The makers of the immersive media experience THE CHANGING SAME will discuss the challenges and opportunities their team faced in the development, production and distribution of their...
1 to Infinity is a portrait series by ODL Fellow Danny Goldfield of 1 person each age from a 1 year old to as old as possible. The highest age...