GDP – Measuring human side of the Canadian economic crisis | Interactive documentary
juin 23, 2011 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
Depuis décembre 2008, une crise économique mondiale sans précédent est venue lentement bouleverser nos vies, parfois en laissant des marques profondes et indélébiles. Au delà des pertes d’emploi et des changements de carrière, elle a modifié le parcours, voire les destins de milliers de personnes, non seulement au Canada mais ailleurs dans le monde.
Afin de rendre compte de ce moment important de notre histoire, l’Office national du film du Canada s’est engagé dans une aventure multimédia inédite et exaltante en mettant en œuvre « PIB – L’indice humain de la crise économique canadienne » (pib.onf.ca), un tout premier documentaire Web pancanadien bilingue, qui témoigne des effets à long terme de la crise sur la vie des Canadiens et des Canadiennes.
Sous la direction de la documentariste Hélène Choquette qui, la première, a défini les bases et la vision éditoriale du projet, deux douzaines de réalisateurs et photographes chevronnés, postés un peu partout au pays, ont accepté de mettre leur créativité et leur sensibilité au service d’une expérience jamais tentée auparavant à cette échelle : documenter et mesurer l’indice humain de la crise. Au cœur du récit, une quarantaine de lieux névralgiques, dans les zones les plus touchées au Canada, et leurs « acteurs de changements » : des hommes et de femmes de tous âges, de tous horizons, de toutes les communautés et de différents secteurs d’activité, qui ont accepté de nous parler librement à la caméra afin de partager leur nouvelle réalité.
Vous aurez pu les suivre jusqu’en septembre 2010 et vous laisser étonner par leur résilience, leur ambition, leur soif de renouvellement et leur inventivité. Mais il n’est jamais trop tard pour laisser votre marque en témoignant à votre tour des enjeux qui vous concernent.
D’une durée d’un an, ce documentaire social entièrement conçu pour le Web est constitué de plus de 185 films et essais photographiquesd’une durée de 4 minutes. C’est sans compter les contenus (texte, image et vidéo) que vous, les internautes, avez déposé dans le site, ajoutant ainsi votre voix à cette oeuvre collective, évolutive et interactive.
Havana/Miami (Arte.tv, Troqua Vision, Tamouz Media, Alegria, Upian) | Interactive documentary
juin 22, 2011 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
VoW: Surviving The Drought by Duckrabbit
février 21, 2011 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
Here’s a new era coming on this website (hopefully). I’ve recently been working a lot on different project, and it’s time now to revive this blog and propose a richer content. A couple of years ago, I’ve created a video-group on Vimeo called « Photojournalism & Multimedia« . Strangely enough, I created it and let it live its life until recently when I discovered that 86 members had uploaded almost 240 videos.
I immediately watched the whole content, some are very good, others not so, but there’s an energy and a will to share that I can’t be insensitive of.
So I’ve decided to feature once a week my top 3 videos from Vimeo, but specially from our « Photojournalism & Multimedia » group.
Here’s the video « Surviving The Drought » by Duckrabbit. Here’s what the studio says about this production:
The 2009 drought in Kenya has had a devastating effect on pastoralists. Hundreds of thousands of cattle died and with them a way of life that had provided families a livelihood from the land. We met Lawrence in a quarry just out of of Nairobi. For many generations his family have reared cattle on the rangelands of Kitengale. Now he shift rocks in order to pay his way through University and the dream of a better life. This photofilm was made by duckrabbit during a duckrabbit photofilm workshop at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi August 2010. The audio and photos were collected in less than an hour.
Photos by David White and the Audio and production is by Benjamin Chesterton
Stay tuned for more about webdoc (which is becoming to me i-doc, I’ll explain why), transmedia storytelling, interactivity and documentaries.
Cheers
Now What Argentina? – North Carolina MULTIMEDIA
octobre 25, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
In 2001, Argentina’s economy collapsed, leading to deep economic and social disruption. Over the past decade, people have found new ways to adapt. Yet old struggles persist and new challenges emerge. Rooted in their culture yet looking to the future, the people ask – Now what Argentina? (link)
I warmly recommend you to take a look at the work Students of North Carolina University did.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication collaborated with Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina to produce multimedia stories about life in Buenos Aires nearly a decade after the most devastating economic crisis in Argentina’s history. This month-long reporting assignment explores the history of the 2001 collapse, the adaptations of the resilient Argentine people, and the enduring culture.
The interface is very light, no fancy flash slideshow, but instead, a javascript based website, relying on vimeo for the video player part. « Now What Argentina? » is the perfect example of an efficient multimedia work, very well crafted, nice and clean, focused on the emotion off the story told. All you need to learn is there: simplicity and professionalism.
Oil and Conflict by Ed Kashi – VII
octobre 17, 2010 by gholubowicz · Leave a Comment
Ed Kashi explains the work he’s conducting about the Niger Delta and the Oil production over there. A very interesting interview.
From VII Magazine:
About Ed Kashi:In this interview with VII The Magazine Ed Kashi talks about his years covering the explosive situation in the Niger Delta. This story has everything, big oil companies, a corrupt political situation, great wealth and extreme poverty, war and the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence.
Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. Since graduating with a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University in 1979, he has photographed in over 60 countries. His images and essays have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek, and various other domestic and international publications. With his wife, writer Julie Winokur, Kashi completed an eight-year project which included a traveling exhibition, an award-winning documentary film, a website, and a book. Aging in America: The Years Ahead, published in the fall of 2003 by powerHouse Books, examines the social impact of the expanding elderly population in the United States. In 2002 Kashi and Winokur founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit multimedia company that explores social issues through visually compelling materials. The first documentary project for Talking Eyes Media produced a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured. The book was published in March 2003 and the exhibition continues to travel throughout America.
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