In summer 2010, the Brazilian multimedia producer Giovanni Francischelli led a Korsakow workshop in Campinas, a city located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. “I work with web-documentary films and I found Korsakow an excellent tool to develop such projects, so I decided to use the software in workshops on the subject”, he told [...]

In Media Res is a scholarly website “dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.” For their September 5-9, 2011 theme issue, five individuals offered their own brief insights into the world of Interactive Documentaries. Contributions included Ben Miller’s thoughts on Korsakow SNUs and POCs (‘Documenting Change in Points of Contact’) and Jen [...]

In this engrossing and complex new Korsakow film titled Archiving R69, Monika Kin Gagnon explores what it means to deal with a creative project that remains unfinished after its creator has died. Gagnon’s father, Charles, was a distinguished Canadian artist and filmmaker who passed away in 2003, leaving behind notes and a rough cut of [...]

A couple of days ago a young man, Lalon Sander, came for a visit, to do an interview with me. He is studying journalism at the University of Leipzig, and currently doing research for his diploma. His paper is about “nonlinear storytelling in online media”, and he asked excellent questions. The questions of a young [...]