An account of moving countries in a pandemic — The noise bleeds up from the street: the hum of traffic, the dull thuds and warning beeps of construction, the odd shout. We’re fifteen stories up, though, so it’s muffled; there are very few individual noises, nothing that connects us to the earth below. We’re not quite part of the…

Bronwin Patrickson and Tom White discuss urban design, video game realism, and 360 video in Nepal — The second conversation in our i-Docs + Immerse climate conversations pairs Bronwin Patrickson, a digital design researcher with a background as a transmedia practitioner, and Tom White, a visual journalist who teaches at Yale-NUS. Both firmly in lockdown and communicating across oceans — Bronwin in Wales and Tom in Singapore…

Lizzie Warren and Michaela French discuss immersive documentary and ecological emergency — In a parallel world, documentary maker Lizzie Warren and artist Michaela French heard each other speak at the i-Docs Symposium in March 2020 in Bristol, UK. They had coffee together in one of the breaks and discovered a range of shared professional interests around creative media practice and environmental issues.

Julia Scott-Stevenson writes about her experience of The Collider, the latest immersive work from creative duo Anagram — in its inaugural showing at IDFA DocLab in November 2018. A fellow participant and I are directed through two separate doors to begin the experience independently, accompanied by a narrator’s voice through…

i-Docs research fellow Julia Scott-Stevenson gives a rundown of her visit to the Alternate Realities showcase at Sheffield Doc/Fest, with additional comments from Mandy Rose and Juliet Lennox. I’m handed a VR headset which feels disconcertingly wet when I place it against my face. At first I think perhaps the…