Documenting Complexity

Media Lab

Check out our project gallery. Listen to podcasts, explore interactive experiences, read up on offline and online installations and dive into different entrepreneurial journalistic initiatives that were discussed in the talks.

Bob

Maker: Nele Eeckhout

Bob is a six-part podcast about Elisa, an eighty-four years old in love with Bob, a man her three daughters had never heard of until now. Who is Bob and did he really exist?

Laura H - De Podcast | AudioCollectief SCHIK

Maker: Nele Eeckhout

In the summer of 2016, a young woman was found outside the Islamic State caliphate running through the desert with two small children. Her name is Laura, she says, and she's from Sweet Lake City. She escapes, cries, and wants to go home.

El Tarangu

Maker: Nele Eeckhout

In 2003 the cycling hero Lucien van Impe received a strange phone call. His old rival José Manuel Fuente wants to meet with him. Not an unusual request in itself, but there is one problem: cyclist Fuente has been officially dead for seven years. Yet Lucien accepts the invitation

Motto

Curator: Caspar Sonnen

Motto is a playful, one-of-a-kind adventure—an interactive novella that uses thousands of tiny videos to tell the thousand-year tale of a kindhearted spirit named September. Motto finds a way to be both documentary and fiction—incorporating participants’ lo-fi, unstaged footage into its own emotional narrative.

IDFA DocLab: Over IDFA DocLab

Curator: Caspar Sonnen

The IDFA DocLab program has been open since 2007 for all kinds of interactive projects, from webdocs and VR to data art, multimedia journalism, live performances and fulldome. Research into the way in which the documentary profession is changing and has changed as a result of the digital revolution is central to this.

Are We Europe

Maker: Marije Martens

Description: As an award-winning media outlet, Are we Europe brings borderless journalism from the next generation of storytellers. Podcasts, print magazines, and multimedia stories: they are (dis)covering Europe through a new lens.

DROG

Maker: Marije Martens

DROG counters sociological online harm globally. They offer public-private solutions to proactively counter online subversion, coordinated inauthentic behaviour and disinformation.

Forensic Journalism

Maker: Marije Martens

Forensic Journalism is a project of DROG and the Trollrensics team. It supports journalism with research in the context of disinformation and coordinated inauthentic behavior.

De Correspondent

Maker: Anoek Nuyens

Ad-free journalism that helps you understand the world better. A daily medicine against the delusions of the day.

Lopendebandwerk

Maker: Emmie Kollau

What is it like to be lived by machines and the clock? Hidden in huge blocks of blocks along the Dutch highways, tens of thousands of people do work that few would envy. Lopendebandwerk is a podcast about hard work, fulfilling days, perfectionism, and sometimes feeling like a robot.

Buiten de Muren | NPO Radio 1

Maker: Emmie Kollau

Harry had already been jailed twice for murder and revolving door criminal. Bram stole a bag of candy for the umpteenth time. After long prison terms, they are released and determined to do things differently. Yet the statistics give them little chance, as half of the ex-prisoners revert to old mistakes.

De Man en de Maan | NPO Radio 1

Maker: Emmie Kollau

A Dutch astronomer teams up with China to make his big dream come true. What happened just after the Big Bang? To answer that question, astronomer Marc Klein Wolt has to go to the far side of the moon. Documentary maker Saar Slegers follows him in his race against time and sees how his scientific dream gradually turns into a nightmare.

Iron Curtain Project

Maker: Emmie Kollau

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the whole world would become democratic, liberal, wealthy and happy. At least that was what we were told. What is left of that optimism nearly three decades later? The Iron Curtain Project is a multimedia project featuring online stories and offline events and exhibitions across Europe.

Hoe overleeft de democratie ons? – Iron Curtain Project

Maker: Emmie Kollau

For a while, democracy in Europe seemed self-evident, but in recent years the system has come under increasing pressure. In the traveling How to Survive a Democracy Pop-up Museum we look back at the recent dictatorial past of Europe, and together with you in the Democracy Laboratory we investigate the value of democracy through stimulating games.

Lagos Wide and Close Web | IDFA

Maker: Bregtje van de Haak

Every hour, an estimated 52 people start new lives in Lagos. As the largest port and commercial center of Nigeria, it is home to approximately 16 million people whose very survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. This interactive film and online experience present an intense and chaotic engagement with a then hardly documented city...

Tegenlicht

Maker: Emmie Kollau

We explore the future with our background stories: on television, on the internet, and in our podcast. What will the world of tomorrow look like? We will discuss this with you.

De zaak Shell

Maker: Anoek Nuyens

Theatermakers Anoek Nuyens & Rebekka de Wit maken al jaren producties over maatschappelijk betrokken onderwerpen. Hun meest recente werk is De zaak Shell. Een theatervoorstelling die de vraag stelt: wie is er verantwoordelijk voor wat in de klimaatcrisis?

Those Who Feel the Fire Burning - 2Doc.nl

In an unconventional, poetic form, Those Who Feel the Fire Burning captures a serious social problem: the hopeless situation in which the refugees find themselves when crossing the borders.