Reading: New Documentary Ecologies

Korsakow is one of many freely available tools on the internet that can be used for non-linear storytelling and to create interactive documentaries.

All claim to be easy-to-use and do not require any programming skills.

There is an interesting distinction between ‘Theatrical Documentary’ and ‘Web Documentary’.

Theatrical documentary tells a specific kind of story, which is usually a big event, often in one characters life, like an incredible cinematic journey.

The web offers an opportunity to examine and understand very small, everyday details of our lives. This is the kind of storytelling Korsakow founder Florian Thalhofer has been creating with his own work in Korsakow.