New paths

This year DOK Neuland has opened its doors at a new location. For all those, who don’t know the way yet: We made our way from the festival center.

The Exhibition

Dok Neuland is exhibiting 10 projects this year. Part of them was an analog animation, four 360° films, two shock scenes from future worlds, two web documentaries and a room scale experience, the last meaning that you walk through a room with VR glasses and are the stories main protagonist.

Who are the champions (Web documentary) What do Leipzig, Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro have in common? This interactive web documentary shows the social, economic and cultural impact of FIFA World Cups on the inhabitants of the venues, documenting personal experiences around the stadiums of people in all three cities. photo @DOK Leipzig
Plug&Play (App) Anthropoid creatures with plugs instead of heads out of control. Instead of obeying the dictates of the raised finger they do what they want. But the fingers also finger around. Is it love or just destiny? It’s up to you to decide. The exhibition presents the game app on a tablet and the eponymous animated film looped on a monitor. photo @DOK Leipzig
MORPHOSIS (App) This game app offers a playful and informative story of the metamorphoses of earth. Minute finger movements change a landscape in fast motion from the ice age until today and illustrate how human beings influence nature. Little game episodes that invite especially (but not exclusively) young users to interact provide information about astronomy, geology and ecology. photo @DOK Leipzig
Lahora Landing (Web documentary) We follow three people who despite crushing contradictions between religious extremism and a modern way of life have not given up hopes of a positive future. In five chapters the interactive navigation takes us into the heart of Pakistan via videos, photos and texts, in a portrait far removed from any stereotype. photo @DOK Leipzig
Do not track (Web documentary) It’s scary what the Internet knows about us – and how this knowledge is used. But how exactly is a “like” click connected to our personal freedom? This documentary web series examines this and many other questions, while the user decides whether his or her data should be tracked simultaneously to produce an individual evaluation of Internet use. photo @DOK Leipzig
DEEP (Virtual Reality Installation) A streak of light floats in the water, controlled only by your breath. It’s like a brief vacation that takes place in one’s head, but this meditative journey can also be shared with others. In the virtual reality installation “Deep”, modern technology is combined with Yoga breathing techniques to create a new physical experience. photo @DOK Leipzig
Criers of Medellin (Web documentary) “Criers of Medellín” is a virtual tour of the city of Medellín. We find ourselves in an interactive Google Street View map where every player chooses their own path through the Colombian metropolis to collect the market criers’ stories. Surrounded by a web of chants and original urban sounds we listen closely to the singing street sellers’ fears, desires and realities of life. photo @DOK Leipzig
ARTE360 - PLATTFORM FÜR 360° (360°/VR - Onlineplatform) ARTE is currently working on new 360° and virtual reality projects in the fields of culture, documentary and fiction which can be experienced via the ARTE360 platform and through virtual reality glasses. The exhibition offers visitors access to the first documentaries through virtual reality headsets and cardboard glasses. photo @DOK Leipzig
After the storm (Web documentary) This web documentary in letter form offers not only general information about natural disasters. Its simple images, delicately drawn charts and the director’s voice over also create a very personal and emotional access to the subject. photo @DOK Leipzig
15 seconds Part 3 (Web documentary) What makes us happy and what changes us? This Web-based film installation allows us to go on a trip through time in the course of which 26 school kids are portrayed at the age of 10 and then again ten and twenty years later. Discussing career aspirations and personality developments, relationships with parents and friends, the adolescents reflect on their former selves with disarming honesty. photo @DOK Leipzig
REIMAGINE BELONGING (Interactive website) Who are we? Where do we come from? “Reimagining Belonging” is a complex multimedia project which presents the different lives and routines of people with an immigrant background in New York and Berlin. photo @DOK Leipzig