STATE OF TERROR There’s never been such a meticulously organised extremist group. A huge cache of secret documents seized with former IS leaders, Abu Hajjar and Abdul Rahman al-Bilawi, reveal a detailed pyramid hierarchy. At the top is its reclusive and mysterious leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, its self-proclaimed Caliph of the Caliphate. Under him are a series of bodies: the all-guiding Shura Council, the Cabinet, the Military Council, the Sharia Council and the Security Council made up of the Governors of each province or ‘willayat’. The platform for this unprecedented terror enterprise was carefully laid during the lean years of its predecessor al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). With echoes of modern corporations, IS has even issued annual reports with performance targets containing full details of foreign recruits, assassinations and the tally of “unbelievers” forced to convert. Click on the graphic below to see how IS seized their territory. IS leaders quickly organised their newly conquered territory.
A Game of Shark and Minnow - Who Will Win Control of the South China Sea? A Game of Shark and Minnow In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin. Satellite imagery: NASA In most ways it resembles the hundreds of other reefs, islands, rock clusters and cays that collectively are called the Spratly Islands. But Ayungin is different. In the reef’s shallows there sits a forsaken ship, manned by eight Filipino troops whose job is to keep China in check. A Game of SharkAnd Minnow By Jeff HimmelmanPhotographs and video by Ashley Gilbertson Produced by Mike Bostock, Clinton Cargill, Shan Carter, Nancy Donaldson, Tom Giratikanon, Xaquín G.V., Steve Maing and Derek Watkins Ayungin Shoal lies 105 nautical miles from the Philippines. In early August, after an overnight journey in a fishing boat that had seen better days, we approached Ayungin from the south and came upon two Chinese Coast Guard cutters stationed at either side of the reef. We didn’t know if they would ram us, either.
FLUG MH17 | Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit Death in Syria More than 200,000 people have been killed in the four-and-a-half-year Syrian civil war. The constant violence has forced more than four million toflee the country, fueling a refugee crisis in the Middle Eastand Europe. Each of these dots represents oneperson who was killed during the conflict. “With each passing day there are fewer safe places in Syria,” PauloSérgio Pinheiro, chairman of the United Nations panel investigatinghuman rights abuses in Syria, wrote in a recent report. At least 28,277 civilians have died in shootings and mass killings. Thousands of civilians have been victims of mass shootings and gunfire between government forces and insurgents. The U.N. reports that armed opposition groups have also executed children, but lack of access in areas controlled by the Islamic State has prevented systematic documentation. Reported deaths caused by random shootings or mass killings March 2011 - August 2015 Areas of ISIS control and support Number of civilian deaths control and support
Atterwasch - a Scroll-Doc It may not be the end of the world, but it could be the end of Atterwasch, population 241. While Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised her country a future virtually free of fossil fuels, it may seem strange that this village in eastern Germany, and two neighboring ones, are still fighting plans to wipe them, quite literally, off the map. But Germany’s sudden hunger for coal has emerged as the dirty side of Ms. Merkel’s ambitions to shut down the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022 and eventually move Germans mostly to renewable energy... Read the full article on the website of the New York Times.
VOYAGE AU BOUT DU CHARBON « Samuel Bollendorff – Photographies films et web documentaires Un web-documentaire de Abel ségrétin et Samuel Bollendorff Production : Honkytonk Films Voyage au bout du charbon est le pilote d’une série de reportages inédits explorant le potentiel des nouveaux médias. Ce format propose un travail photographique complet sur les mines de charbon chinoises enrichi de prises de son et de vidéos in situ. Prix SCAM de l’œuvre d’art numérique interactive – 2009
Projects Skip to content Exploring documentary storytelling in the age of the interface Active Filter : None loading... LIVE FROM THE WEBZINE: Call for Entry: IDFA Bertha Fund Classic - 14 Apr DOCLAB ABOUT DOCLAB IDFA DocLab is the New Media program of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Website by: Events & screenings 20 NovDocLab Expo: Immersive Reality more 20 NovExhibition: Opening Night more 25 NovFinancing Market: IDFA Crossmedia Forum more
The Boat | 01storytelling ‘The Boat’ is an interactive online graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War. Written as a short story by Nam Le, the storyline centres around a teenage refugee Mai who is sent on the boat by her parents after the fall of Saigon. New York-based Australian artist Matt Huynh (whose parents fled Vietnam to Australia) created the illustrations using traditional Vietnamese bamboo calligraphy brush, paper and Sumi ink. These were then transformed by Matt Smith to impressively convey the depth of the story’s message on a screen. To top it off, Sam Petty engineered the incredibly realistic and even haunting sound effects, creating a true exploration of history using superb innovative storytelling. The entire project was produced by Australian broadcasting company SBS in commemoration of Vietnamese forty years resettlement in Australia. The story is divided into six chapters, embedded with either manual or auto-scrolling function.
Multimedia-Storytelling: Diese 25 beeindruckenden Artikel musst du gesehen haben Egal wie man es nennen möchte: Longform-Journalismus, Scrollytelling oder Multimedia-Features. Fest steht, dass in den vergangenen ein bis zwei Jahren viele journalistische Online-Projekte das Licht der Welt erblickt haben, die nicht nur Gebrauch von Bildern, Videos und Links machen, sondern durch ein besonderes und individuelles Layout eine Einheit mit dem Text bilden. Durch den Einsatz neuester Webtechnologien und jeder Menge Arbeit werden hochwertige Texte zu Kunstwerken und Einzelstücken. Wir haben die 25 besten Vertreter für euch ausgesucht. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (2012, Englisch, The New York Times, USA) „Snow Fall“ gilt als einer der Vorreiter im Bereich des journalistischen Multimedia-Storytelling. NSA Files: Decoded (2013, Englisch, The Guardian, Großbritannien) Geheimer Krieg (2013, Deutsch/Englisch, Süddeutsche Zeitung und NDR, Deutschland) Keine Zeit für Wut (2013, Deutsch, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Schweiz) Arabellion (2013, Deutsch, Rhein-Zeitung, Deutschland)
Get ready to submit your project to IDFA DocLab 2014 DocLab is open to all sorts of interactive projects, ranging from webdocs, apps and virtual reality projects to data art, multimedia journalism, installations and live performances. For those interested in the creative potential of digital technology, virtual reality and interactive media, this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (16-27 November 2016) will have more to offer than ever before. Since 2007, the IDFA DocLab program showcases the best interactive non-fiction storytelling and explores how the digital revolution is reshaping documentary art. IDFA DocLab: submission deadline August 1 DocLab is open to all sorts of interactive projects, ranging from webdocs, apps and virtual reality projects to data art, multimedia journalism, installations and live performances. Regulations Key Festival Dates Interactive Conference 2016: Sunday 20 NovemberDocLab Academy 2016 will take place from 17 to 22 November. Tags DocLab Competition