DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

"Fifty years ago people on the streets of Paris were asked: Are you happy? in a documentary experiment with the new film technology of 1960 - hand-held sync sound. Searching for Happiness takes advantage of a new era of creative technology to ask the same question today. From Mongolia to Maharashtra, filmmakers around the world have responded to an invitation to restage those 1960 interviews. In a documentary first, producer Mandy Rose has brought those recordings together with live feeds from the web to create a documentary experience which never plays the same way twice.

DCRC Senior Research Fellow Mandy Rose has offered the following commentary, initially posted on her CollabDocs blog, on the statement of intent offered by the new Director General of the BBC, drawing upon her own open letter to the incoming DG, 'Breaking the chains of linear programming', posted as part of openDemocracy's "Our Beeb" site.

Pearl and Dean have given permission to use the Asteroid ident for the Projection Hero installation.

Following the success of i-Docs 2011, we are delighted to invite your participation in i-Docs 2012, a two-day event dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary.