Synopsis

Antigone Interactive is a multiplatform portal, built with specialist software and database driven technology, collating a number of global, first-person (personal) documentaries that explore stories underpinned by geo-cultural journeys across borders.

Each film will be thirty minutes in length and present a personal account of the human dramas that have accompanied migration, exile, and cross-cultural journeys. For example, two of the current films that have been commissioned for the Project include the story of a 2nd generation exiled Iranian man in London trying to understand mother's recent conversion to a strict form of Islam. Another film sees a middle-aged man retracing the journey of his father from a Nazi war camp to a dwelling in Scotland, in the hope of finding out about his father's murky past.  These films explore the interaction between the personal, autobiographical and the socio-historical. They explore the affect of broader global currents on the very private sphere of family and the self. 

The multiplatform element of this project is very strong. A select few films will be collated as a series of documentaries that will go out on broadcast TV, while more interactive versions of all the films made for the project will be available on the web portal.

The portal will also allow for participants to access contextual and background information on all the different migratory journeys featured on the website. So a film about the journeys of political refugees escaping Mugabe will also allow participants to have access to an archive of visual, video, sound and text exploring the different contexts and details that underpin this journey.

This project has received seed funding and the technology that drives the portal is currently in development. The prototype website will be launched at ISEA Interactive Conference in 2011, Istanbul.

We are currently inviting one-page project proposals from interested filmmakers in different parts of the world. If you are interested please contact us.