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Don’t Look Away II is a branching database narrative film, a dynamic prosthetic memory assemblage and an act of digital, global, mobile witnessing. It was conceived as a follow-up to Usher’s 2015 interactive music video experience Chains (feat. Nas and Bibi Bourelly), which both effectively and affectively chains its viewser to its interface by challenging her… Continue reading Don’t Look Away II

Jonathan Harris’ I Love Your Work (2013) is an interactive documentary environment that depicts “the realties of those who make fantasies.” Alternately referred to by its creator as a film and a portrait, the piece collates fragments of the private quotidian lives of nine women who make lesbian pornography. Harris follows each woman for one… Continue reading Make your own neverland

Jonathan Harris’ The Whale Hunt (2007) is an experimental, interactive storytelling environment, shot over the course of nine days Harris spent with a family of Alaskan Inupiat before and during a whale hunt. In terms of its innovative strategies and the filmmaker/subject relation, it resembles another, much earlier, white American male’s documentation of an indigenous north… Continue reading The Whale Hunt

As commonly attends the arrival of a nascent art form, the field of scholarship that surrounds the emergent interactive documentary mode is as yet highly contested, replete with suggested, sometimes limiting definitions and aspirational, perhaps totalizing taxonomies, mired in familiar questions of medium-specific features and properties and the dialectics of content and form. Indeed, McMillan… Continue reading Empathy and the interactive documentary mode