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Cross Media Screening 2013
A Journal of Insomnia

The world of insomnia as an interactive self-experience. Personal stories and staged encounters form a psychological profile of Western society. Intimate, but also disturbing.

A Journal of Insomnia

Documentary Film
Canada
2013
45 minutes

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Hugues Sweeney
What is it, what keeps us up at night? The interactive documentary looks into this question inviting users to immerse in the universe of insomnia – a phenomenon that is linked to stress and anxiety and affects one in three people in our contemporary society. Moving beyond the narrative boundaries of the documentary form, “A Journal of Insomnia” collects personal stories of insomnia via video, text and drawings and creates a collaborative experience of affected people from across the world. The revealing testimony of four insomniacs in particular offers an intimate experience of a distressing condition that is usually experienced in solitude.
Cross Media Screening 2012
Bielutin - Das Geheimnis einer Sammlung

Shrouded in mystery and worth millions – the Bielutins’ art collection is legendary. Surrounded by dusty works of da Vinci and Rubens they spin yarns about their own myth; an interactive Web-walk through a fairytale world. Amusing, whimsical and soaked in vodka.

Bielutin - Das Geheimnis einer Sammlung

(none)
France
0
45 minutes
subtitles: 
English
Shrouded in mystery and worth millions – the Bielutins’ art collection is legendary. Surrounded by dusty works of da Vinci and Rubens they spin yarns about their own myth; an interactive Web-walk through a fairytale world. Amusing, whimsical and soaked in vodka.
Cross Media Screening 2014
Check-In – Visit Europe in 5 Minutes Andrés Jarach

A trip from the Tyrolean Alps via the Oktoberfest to the Canal Grande in Venice – and through the web. Interactive, satirical, documentary and entertaining.

Check-In – Visit Europe in 5 Minutes

Documentary Film
France
2014
10 minutes
subtitles: 
No

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Jérôme Duc-Maugé, Cocottesminute Productions
Andrés Jarach
Alexander Knetig
Ilo von Seckendorff
Ilo von Seckendorff
From the Tyrolean Alps to the Oktoberfest right up to the Canal Grande in Venice – this interactive documentary web satire provides its audience with an entertaining experience of mass tourism.
Cross Media Screening 2012
Défense d’afficher

A virtual and interactive street art journey around the world. Protest culture, creative movement or vain conceit? Eight artists show how they paint the world: shrill, colourful, and anarchistic. Reclaim the streets!

Défense d’afficher

(none)
France
0
45 minutes
A virtual and interactive street art journey around the world. Protest culture, creative movement or vain conceit? Eight artists show how they paint the world: shrill, colourful, and anarchistic. Reclaim the streets!
Cross Media Screening 2012
Frontiers Portraits

Where exactly are Europe’s borders? A tale of customs officers, kiosk owners and truck drivers. Everyday life at the periphery of Eastern Europe in interactive photo collages and film sequences. Strange, close, distant, and absurd.

Frontiers Portraits

(none)
Germany
0
45 minutes
Where exactly are Europe’s borders? A tale of customs officers, kiosk owners and truck drivers. Everyday life at the periphery of Eastern Europe in interactive photo collages and film sequences. Strange, close, distant, and absurd.
Cross Media Screening 2012
Highrise: One Millionth Tower

High rises – the aging symbols of modern life, full of stories. A journey into a virtual and interactive world where the power of the imagination transforms rooms – and biographies.

2011

Highrise: One Millionth Tower

(none)
Canada
2011
45 minutes
subtitles: 
No
High rises – the aging symbols of modern life, full of stories. A journey into a virtual and interactive world where the power of the imagination transforms rooms – and biographies.
Cross Media Screening 2014
Netwars / Out of Ctrl

A nice man talks about data espionage, chip-controlled infrastructures and the dangers lurking on the web. And suddenly your own computer screen goes black. Welcome to the cyber war!

Netwars / Out of Ctrl

Documentary Film
Germany
2014
45 minutes
subtitles: 
No

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Michael Grotenhoff, Saskia Kress, Filmtank GmbH
Lena Thiele, Michael Grotenhoff
Ilo von Seckendorff, Britta Senn
Ilo von Seckendorff
“I’m just a salesman”, the nice man in the suit announces at the start of this five part Web series. He chats amicably and pleasantly about cyber wars, data espionage and the invisible threat lurking in our chip-controlled environment. Visitors of the interactive multimedia production are asked to take part in a quiz, enlightened by statistics and expert interviews, and spied upon. An up-to-the-minute lesson about cyber crime – told at the site of the crime.
Cross Media Screening 2014
The Devil's Toy Remix Alex Leduc

Fourteen directors take a look back at the history of skateboarding and explain in this interactive episodic documentary why the rolling wheels are more than a toy to them.

The Devil's Toy Remix

Documentary Film
Canada
2014
35 minutes
subtitles: 
No

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Dana Dansereau, Dominique Willieme, Loc Dao, Hugues Sweeney
Alex Leduc
Alexander Knetig
Ilo von Seckendorff
Ilo von Seckendorff
In 1966, Claude Jutra shot the first skateboard film in history, “The Devil’s Toy”, with a hand-held camera. A film that’s not only about the new sport but also about being young, the urge to rebel, and intolerance. What’s left fifty years later? In this interactive documentary that can be browsed by geography and theme, fourteen directors from eleven countries on four continents show us what the rolling wheels mean to them.
Cross Media Screening 2013
The Duce Vita

Mussolini is alive! At least for the neo-fascists and diehards who make the pilgrimage to his hometown to create a bizarre cult around the dictator – saying a rosary included. Absurd and sinister!

The Duce Vita

Documentary Film
France
2012
45 minutes
90 years after Mussolini came to power, the interactive documentary immerses web users into the daily life of Predappio, the dictator's native place. It is a small city that was created ex novo to serve Mussolini’s worship and to spread propaganda about the myth around the dictator. During the fascist regime the city was visited by all Italians and numerous foreign heads of state. And even today, Predappio remains the most important place of pilgrimage for the “black shirts”, the Neo-Fascists, worshiping Mussolini and evoking the dark times from yesterday's Italy.
Cross Media Screening 2013
The Invisible Picture Show

Children’s voices talking about dreams, fear and reality. An interactive journey into the eerily animated world of immigration camps, shown from the perspective of the young people interned there.

The Invisible Picture Show

Documentary Film
UK
2013
45 minutes

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Andy Noble, Tim Travers Hawkins
Every day thousands of children and young people seeking asylum are locked up in immigration detention centres around the world, where filming is absolutely impossible. The immersive animated transmedia documentary features voice interviews of detained children and teenagers and creates symbolic images that give new depth and dimension to what was being said. Users enter the corridors of a virtual detention centre, listen to the voice messages and watch ghostly images appearing projected across the walls, telling the stories of young lives trapped in worlds we cannot access.
Cross Media Screening 2014
The Last Hijack Interactive Tommy Palotta, Femke Wolting

Piracy in the 21st century. Not much romance but a lot of misery – on all sides. A fascinating interactive animadoc about a Somalian pirate’s last kidnapping and its consequences.

The Last Hijack Interactive

Documentary Film
Netherlands
2014
45 minutes
subtitles: 
No

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Bruno Felix, Femke Wolting, Submarine, Razor Film, ZDF, IKON
Tommy Palotta, Femke Wolting
Corine Meijers
Ilo von Seckendorff, Britta Senn
Ilo von Seckendorff
This interactive project explores the immersive story of the hijacking of a ship in Somalia. By delving into both sides of the story, the audience discovers the complex realities behind piracy in Somalia through the eyes of a pirate and a captain, an advocate and a journalist, a parent and a wife.
Combining live-action video and animation, the interactive experience gives the user the opportunity to navigate the real stories of the protagonists, building to the hijacking itself and its aftermath. With an elegant use of data visualization, the project provides unique, informative insights into the murky world of the hijackings that take place in this East African region.
Cross Media Screening 2014
The Polar Sea 360° Interactive Journey Thomas Wallner, Stephanie Weimar

Breathtaking 360° images of the Arctic. An interactive journey through the legendary North West Passage and encounters with people, nature and climate change.

The Polar Sea 360° Interactive Journey

(none)
Canada,
Germany
2014
45 minutes
subtitles: 
No

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Irene Vandertop, Thomas Wallner, Michael McMahon, Kevin McMahon, Kristina McLaughlin
Thomas Wallner, Stephanie Weimar
Thomas Wallner, Irene Vandertop, Stephanie Weimar
Ilo von Seckendorff
Ilo von Seckendorff
An Arctic expedition is sailing through the previously impenetrable icy expanse of the legendary North West Passage. The international scientists, musicians, writers and filmmakers aboard experience the overwhelming nature, local residents and causes and consequences of climate change.
This interactive documentary accompanying the eponymous ARTE series offers a thrilling and visually breathtaking 360° journey through the Arctic. The use of the latest camera technology in combination with the three dimensional Oculus Rift glasses creates one of the first virtual reality-based film events that integrates the viewer and his or her perspective.
Cross Media Screening 2013
Unspeak

An interactive episodic film that takes a critical and satirical look behind political, economical and other terms used by the media to show how familiar words are used to systematically manipulate public opinion.

Unspeak

Documentary Film
Netherlands
2013
45 minutes

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Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix, Submarine
Steven Poole
Based on British journalist Steven Poole’s intriguing book of the same name, the interactive documentary, visualizes the manipulative power of language and looks at the changing role and responsibility of the media. Consisting of short films, an interactive data visualization, and a participatory dictionary, the project critically and satirically reveals the unspoken messages and obscured meanings behind familiar media terms such as War on Terror, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Clean Cole, File Sharing, or Erectile Dysfunction, that are deliberately used to manipulte public opinion.