Following on from the National Film Board of Canada’s desire to continue participatory film making into the digital age they have produced an ambitious participatory digital ethnography project called High Rise. NFB calls High Rise a 360 degree documentary – by which they mean it is an interactive documentary – a field growing in...
On the theme of digital stories (see previous post) I realised that I have not posted anything about some of the foundation organisations of the digital storytelling movement- for example the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkley California which has established a model of digital story telling that has been widely taken up and...
Launched this week at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia was a series of short films (digital stories) made by people who have experienced mental illness about their paths to recovery. They have been posted on the Mental Illness Education ACT website as part of their community education and storybox program....
One of the projects that broke new ground for movements in participatory & social-change film-making was the Challenge for Change program. Created by the Canadian National Film Board in 1967, it ran until 1980 and resulted in over 140 films being made as collaborations between filmmakers and Canadian communities. The Challenge for Change program...
Many projects that bring together collaborative arts and collaborative documentary (or ethnography) practices begin with a simple aim of allowing a particular group of people to give voice to issues that effect them, rather than relying on outsiders to represent them. By providing individuals and communities with tools for self expression – be they...