Target: BACRIM is an immersive and interactive documentary game that exposes the atrocities of Colombia’s paramilitary forces in one of its most violent regions. The producers combine both non-fiction and fiction to create a game that places the user at the heart of the story. Through this docufiction, which is anchored in augmented reality, the user or participant experiences danger firsthand....

In this article, I focus on selections from Black German essayistic and creative writings that center experiential knowledge is personal often multisensory. My case studies are excerpts Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte (1986), its English translation by Anne V. Adams (Showing Our Colors 1992), Natasha Kelly’s collection of interviews her documentary film, Mil...

documentary called 23 Week Babies: the Price of Life. My thoughts and feelings as I watched this programme were not always straightforward. The documentary was moving, sometimes profoundly so. How could it avoid emotional impact when it dealt with life and death, compassion and vulnerability, hope and loss? There were other times when I found myself irritated and frustrated with the presenter a...

The article poses the formation of discursive units in the documentary analysis in relation to the Group Temma from ECA (School of Communication and Arts) of USP (University of São Paulo) based on the theoristmethodological confluence between the bibliometry and the Archaeology of knowledge by Michel Foucault. It considers as the object of analysis the collection “Documentary Analysis: an analy...

In this paper we describe a model for automatically generating video documentaries. This allows viewers to specify the subject and the point of view of the documentary to be generated. The domain is matter-of-opinion documentaries based on interviews. The model combines rhetorical presentation patterns used by documentary makers with a data-driven approach. Rhetorical presentation patterns prov...

Eclipse of Reason is a 1987 anti-abortion [3] documentary film directed, filmed, and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician in the US. American Portrait Films released the film in 1987 featuring Nathanson?s commentary and footage of an abortion [3] of a four-month-old fetus [4]. The film also featured the testimony of women who had suffered following similar procedures. In Eclipse of Re...

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus [2] in the womb [3], Mosley meets with individuals around the world who...

The public release of artificial intelligence tools such as Microsoft’s Bing Chat built on OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) continues to spark extensive interest—attracting headlines, prompting important interdisciplinary questions, and posing dilemmas both ethical methodological. aim this paper is provide a sampling temporal snapshot AI-powered Bing’s abilities through the cre...

An examination of what is included and excluded in a documentary invites readings of the producer‟s ideology and what values comprise their intended audience. What if a production company in Germany produced a documentary in Poland in the late 1930‟s and made no mention of the German invasion? What if an American company made a documentary in Vietnam in the 1960‟s and made no mention of America...

In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You. Michael Mosley, a British television producer and journalist, hosts the documentary. Along with narrating animated scenes of a growing fetus [2] in the womb [3], Mosley meets with individuals around the world who...