February 15, 2010 - 3:45 pm
Tags: 3D, 3d Documentary Explorer, BBC, Collaborative, Documentary, Interactivity, New Media, Open Source, The Virtual Revolution, Video
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From the BBC, regarding The Virtual Revolution, their collaborative documentary about the web:
It was a radical change for BBC documentary making – an open and collaborative production, which asked the web audience to debate programme themes, suggest and send questions for interviewees, watch and comment on interview and graphics clips, and download clips for personal [...]
December 9, 2009 - 11:04 pm
Tags: CNMI, Conservation, Director of Photography, Endangered Species, Fanihi, Flying Fox, Fruit Bat, Jim Tharp, Jonathan's Work, Poaching, Rota, Weird Delicacies
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Fanihi (The Mariana Fruit Bat, a type of Flying Fox) have long been considered a delicacy by the inhabitants of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Unsustainable hunting has brought the population of Fanihi to critical levels on the archipelago’s small island of Rota - despite recent laws prohibiting the killing of the endangered species. Fanihi: [...]
November 8, 2009 - 10:07 pm
Tags: Documentary, Errol Morris, Film, Les Blank, National Film Board of Canada, New Media, Pepita Ferrari, Robert Lepage, Video, Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog discusses climbing an active volcano in order to get the shot. Although, as he puts it, he was merely playing “the blind lottery” and didn’t do it to “show bravado.” Filmmakers and cinemaphiles tend to have strong opinions about Herzog; from positive to negative to genuinely amused to gravely concerned… and just about [...]