Switching is a different type of film that paves the way for new storytelling methods. Switching was specially developed for DVD video. The fascination with interactive expression basically originates in its potential to depict a more fragmented form of reality. The user of this film enters a narrative labyrinth simultaneously unfolding and disrupting the story.… Continue reading Switching
Category: Fiction
Marie Tyrell
Marie Tyrell is a fictional activist and revolutionary on death row. Based on a 1974 short story by DM Fraser, the film weaves mutiple view points. Watch the narrative drama, then click the video to interrogate the politics, authorship and production of this DVD. AUTHORS • Direction and edition : Patrick «Flick» Harrison • Soundtrack… Continue reading Marie Tyrell
Mixed Greens
A do-it yourself movie about identity, belonging and things we desire. It consists in two stories: four generations of Irish Jewish heritage played against four decades of lesbian life. With a combination of text and QT movies, Mixed Greens explores articulations of identity across sexual and ethnic lines. AUTHORS • Concept, Design, Writing and Direction:… Continue reading Mixed Greens
Bleeding Through Layers of Los Angeles
Based on Norman Klein’s book, History of Forgetting, this interactive narrative combines a database detective story with a digital city symphony and a metanarrative reflection on interactive storytelling in this new medium. Set in a three-mile radius near downtown Los Angeles, the DVD-ROM explores several locations that helped shape the city’s cultural history. Includes a… Continue reading Bleeding Through Layers of Los Angeles
Mysteries and desire
[lang_fr] Aux frontières de l’autobiographie, du document historique et de la fiction, cette oeuvre interactive présente une diversité de matériel audiovisuel sur l’écrivain chicano et texan John Rechy, et de façon plus large, sur la culture à la fois chicano et gay.. [/lang_fr] [lang_en] Challenging the borders between autobiography, memory, history and fiction, this interactive… Continue reading Mysteries and desire
Histoire de la femme aux grosses mains
A woman wakes up one morning with a physical anomaly : her hands become hypersensitive, to a point where she can ‘read’ and feel the world by touching objects. Science and medecine help her to adapt to her new senses. Her hands starts to grow, she becomes the Women With Huge Hands. This CD-ROM comes… Continue reading Histoire de la femme aux grosses mains