Case Studies List
  • Gonzo: Research&Art
    This project is an attempt to get closer to understanding a woman of a different culture. Completely different.
  • Long Lead
    For decades, police have championed less-lethal munitions as life-saving alternatives to deadly force. Their history, however, tells a different story — one of imprecise science, unmeasured usage, untrained police forces, death, and disfigurement.
  • Artifact Design Engineered
    The Warsaw Rising in 100 photographs that were selected, colorized, and arranged into a historical photo essay by renowned photographer Chris Niedenthal.

  • Cult Leader & The National Film Board of Canada with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation
    The interactive web documentary The Space We Hold is a direct provocation to audiences to bear witness to the testimonies of three former “comfort women” during World War II.

  • Karam Alhamad, Psychoactive Studios
    An immersive, interactive web-experience. From political detainee to refugee and activist, a story of survival and revolution through the Syrian uprising.
  • Nam Le, Matt Huynh, Kylie Boltin, Matt Smith, SBS Online
    ‘The Boat’ an interactive graphic novel based on the acclaimed short story by Nam Le of of 16-year-old Mai, sent alone by her parents on a boat after the Fall of Saigon.
  • Arolsen Archives
    #StolenMemory uses photos of objects that were confiscated from their owners to tell the stories of five individuals whose relatives we are still looking for.
  • Emblematic Group and Nuba Reports in collaboration with The New York Times
    An immersive virtual reality film that takes the viewer into the heart of this forgotten conflict amid an active fighting season. The film weaves together the lives of four people – a student, a rebel soldier, a journalist, and a mother – who struggle to improve their lives in the midst of a relentless war.
  • Kummer & Herrman
    Love Radio is a transmedia documentary about the process of reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda by Anoek Steketee and Eefje Blankevoort. It tells the story of Musekeweya, ‘New Dawn’, a popular radio soap created to prevent new outbursts of violence.
  • Rattapallax
    The storyline focuses on new Indian “superhero” – Priya, who is a rape survivor and through the power of persuasion she is able to motivate people to change.
    Priya’s story became a powerful voice in the global movement for women’s rights and a symbol of solidarity against gender-based violence and continuing with the #MeToo movement.
  • Jean Christophe Rampal, Marc Fernandez, Upian
    One of the earliest web documentaries, Upian’s “La Cité des Mortes” is an interactive memorial to the more than 400 women who have been murdered in Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez since 1993.
  • The Why Foundation
    The Why provides free access to the most powerful, high-quality documentaries on human rights, including to people with limited access to information
  • My Choices Foundation
    My Choices Foundation aims to give women, children and families choices to live lives free from violence, abuse and sexual exploitation.
    It acts through two operations focusing on two important issues: stop domestic violence and end sex trafficking.
  • Atlas Obscura
    A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
  • Rolling Stone, Starling Lab, Gladeye
    The DJ and the War Crimes is an immersive storytelling experience which forensically retraces an infamous Bosnian war crime committed by a Serbian Paramilitary Unit in the 1990s.
  • A National Film Board of Canada production, in collaboration with Le Devoir, Phi Center and Dpt
    This immersive story centres on Roxham Road, a small section of the border where people are arrested and welcomed at the same time.
  • JR
    Déplacé·e·s is a series of installations that spread awareness about the millions of refugee children around the world. For each installation, JR and his team traveled to a place where families were seeking refuge due to war, climate change, or social instability. There, with the help of the community, they unfurled an image of a refugee child on a 45-meter-long tarp.
  • Laurie Anderson
    Heart of a Dog is a 2015 documentary directed by visual artist and composer Laurie Anderson. It centers on Anderson’s remembrances of her late beloved piano-playing and finger-painting dog Lolabelle. A soundtrack album of the same name was released by Nonesuch Records on October 23, 2015.
  • Amnesty International Poland
    “We decided to conduct a simple experiment during which refugees and Europeans sat across from each other and looked each other in the eyes. We recorded these very human encounters and the short film speaks for itself.” — Draginja Nadażdin, Director of Amnesty International Poland.
  • Made In A Free World with the support of the U.S. Department of State
    Slavery Footprint is a survey that asks and responds to the question, “How Many Slaves Work For You?”
    The survey allows users to input select data about their consumer spending habits, which then outputs a graphical “footprint” of the user’s participation in modern-day slavery (as quantified by their consumption of items created by forced labour and child labour.)
  • Sergei Dvortsevoy
    Bread Day unflinchingly depicts a community of elderly pensioners living in near isolation outside St. Petersberg, as they enact the weekly ritual of bringing a delivery of bread — left at a rail junction two hours away — back to the village.
  • AES+F
    Suspects with subtitle The Seven Sinners and the Seven Righteous is a study in indeterminacy, locating the Other in the Other, where psychosis or sanity, guilt or innocence, threat or promise are shown to occupy each body as much as or at the same time as any other. The work consists of a series of 14 large-scale photographic portraits featuring a frontal view of an equal number of girls, none of whom has yet turned 18, as well as an attendant performance element requiring audience participation. Seven of these portraits present children from a Moscow school, all daughters from well-to-do Russian families; the other seven — while formally identical to the previous portrayals, with young ladies in red lipstick, rouged face, donning colored crew neck shirts of their choice, set against a neutral background — the artists photographed inside the walls of a high security detention facility, portraying child murderers, each convicted of brutal, unmotivated killings.
  • Nam Le, Matt Huynh, Kylie Boltin, Matt Smith, SBS Online
    ‘The Boat’ an interactive graphic novel based on the acclaimed short story by Nam Le of of 16-year-old Mai, sent alone by her parents on a boat after the Fall of Saigon.
  • Simone Menin, Wow Tapes
    Documentary aims to promote the historical memory of the Second World War, through the personal story of an Italian military internee: Nildo Menin, the director's grandfather.