DOK.digital – Award for New Narrative Formats
The nominated projects 2025
BLOCKED UNDER GROUND
Heavy rainfall causes an underground railway crash, leaving four people are trapped. They are desperately looking for a way out. At the same time, a rescue operation starts on the surface of which they initially know nothing. Three approaches lead into the story that offers interactive media experiences and a sense of physical presence in the action space.
FORMAT & LENGTH Digital format, multi-perspective audio drama COUNTRY Deutschland EXPECTED RELEASE 22.11.2024 DIRECTOR Regine Elbers COMPOSER Rupert Jaud, Dagmar Petrus PRODUCER Regine Elbers PRODUCTION 3D-radio play: Bayerischer Rundfunk; 3D-audio game: Technical University Vienna. Funding: Center for Technologie and Society Vienna; 3D-audio walk: Regine Elbers. Funding: FFF Bayern, Women's Promotion Fund of the Bauhaus University Weimar, Crowdfunding. CO-PRODUCTION Audiowalk: Bayerischer Rundfunk
ETERNAL YOU DIGITAL
If you had the chance to talk to a deceased loved one, would you take it? ETERNAL YOU DIGITAL delves into the world of start-ups using AI to create avatars of the deceased. A transmedia project about what might become one of the greatest human experiments of our time – offering a multifaceted look at the ethical, psychological, and technological implications of humanity’s age-old Dream of immortality.
FORMAT & LENGTH Transmedia COUNTRY Switzerland, Germany EXPECTED RELEASE Spring 2025 (Transmedia Project) DIRECTOR Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck COMPOSER Gregor Keienburg, Raffael Seyfried PRODUCER Patrick M. Mueller PRODUCTION Docmine Productions AG CO-PRODUCTION Beetz Brothers film production GmbH DISTRIBUTION Farbfilm Verleih Gmbh SALES Transmedia Project: Docmine Productions AG
Film Distributor: Dogwoof
PALACE OF MEMORY / PALAST DER ERINNERUNG
An installation in mixed reality. The Palace of the Republic exists today as history and as a memory in the minds of many people. But memories are unreliable, incomplete and sometimes romanticised. They Change over time. New images and narratives emerge.
FORMAT & LENGTH Digital format, Mixed Reality installation COUNTRY Deutschland EXPECTED RELEASE 2024 DIRECTOR CyberRäuber (Marcel Karnapke, Björn Lengers) PRODUCER CyberRäuber, Stiftung Humboldtforum PRODUCTION CyberRäuber GbR
TRACES OF RESPONSIBILITY
TRACES OF RESPONSBILITY is an immersive journey – an interactive experience where viewers delve in a multi-perspective exploration of the complex origins and aftermath of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The participatory roadmovie follows the traces of a convicted war criminal with ties to Switzerland.
FORMAT & LENGTH Interactive and participatory documentary with a single player version and a multiplayer option to watch on the big screen in the cinema COUNTRY Switzerland, Germany, Ruanda EXPECTED RELEASE 29.03.2024 DIRECTOR Anja Reiß, Jann Anderegg COMPOSER Michael Sauter PRODUCER Karin Koch PRODUCTION Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion CO-PRODUCTION Joel Jent, Aaron Film Anja Reiß, StudioZB
WALKING ALONE, TEXT YOU WHEN I’M HOME
WALKING ALONE, TEXT YOU WHEN I’M HOME is an immersive 360-degree documentary that explores the hidden impact of everyday sexual harassment through personal stories and abstract visuals.
FORMAT & LENGTH Immersive 360-degree documentary COUNTRY Deutschland EXPECTED RELEASE 01. November 2024 DIRECTOR Vincent Abert COMPOSER Justin Robinson PRODUCER Jessica Jesenofsky PRODUCTION Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
