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(This Discussion is) Off the Record is an interactive documentary work developed by journalist & director, Nirit Peled, in 2023.
Description
This 50-minute work was realized and produced in the Netherlands. It is a documentary performance based on a ten-year investigation into the consequences and risks of algorithmic profiling by the Dutch police. This subject is also the theme of the documentary Mothers by Nirit Peled. [1]
The documentary is trans-disciplinary, a cross between performance & visual arts production. The performance includes a section with journalist Nirit Peled, actress Janneke Remmers and human rights lawyer, Jelle Klaas.
This documentary was produced in both English and Dutch.
Spectators receive a booklet with anonymized documents from the survey.
Synopsis
The documentary looks back at an algorithm developed by the police and used as a risk assessment tool. In front of an audience, Peled presents individual people, both as humans and as data sets, to show how this algorithm works in situations based on real-life events. The people who suffer the negative consequences of this kind of profiling have no one to turn to; no one is accountable. [1]
The main characters are a journalist, a policeman, a human rights lawyer and 125 young people. Peled combines radical imagination with thorough research to ask these questions: Can a person's life really be captured in data? Who writes the script that dictates our lives? [2]
Subventions
(This discussion is) Off the Record received subsidies from the Film Funds DocLab Interactive in 2023. [3] [4]
The project was granted with 10 000 euros to support its production. [5]
Presentation
The interactive documentary was presented to the [1] International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) [6] in 2023. It was a nominee for the IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction Awards 2023, but did not win.
References
- ^ a b c www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam. "(this conversation is) Off the Record (2023) | IDFA Festival". IDFA. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ "(this conversation is) off the Record (2023) | IDFA Festival".
- ^ "Winnaars Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2023 bekendgemaakt". www.filmfonds.nl (in Dutch). 2023-09-21. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam (2023-09-14). "IDFA Institute | Winners Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2023 announced". IDFA. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Cunningham, Nick (2023-09-15). "Netherlands Film Fund/DocLab Interactive Grant winners announced". Business Doc Europe. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Macnab, Geoffrey (2023-11-09). "How IDFA's DocLab is bringing a "weightless, ephemeral digital experience' to a physical festival audience". Screen. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
An editor has nominated this article for deletion. You are welcome to participate in the deletion discussion, which will decide whether or not to retain it. |
(This Discussion is) Off the Record is an interactive documentary work developed by journalist & director, Nirit Peled, in 2023.
Description
This 50-minute work was realized and produced in the Netherlands. It is a documentary performance based on a ten-year investigation into the consequences and risks of algorithmic profiling by the Dutch police. This subject is also the theme of the documentary Mothers by Nirit Peled. [1]
The documentary is trans-disciplinary, a cross between performance & visual arts production. The performance includes a section with journalist Nirit Peled, actress Janneke Remmers and human rights lawyer, Jelle Klaas.
This documentary was produced in both English and Dutch.
Spectators receive a booklet with anonymized documents from the survey.
Synopsis
The documentary looks back at an algorithm developed by the police and used as a risk assessment tool. In front of an audience, Peled presents individual people, both as humans and as data sets, to show how this algorithm works in situations based on real-life events. The people who suffer the negative consequences of this kind of profiling have no one to turn to; no one is accountable. [1]
The main characters are a journalist, a policeman, a human rights lawyer and 125 young people. Peled combines radical imagination with thorough research to ask these questions: Can a person's life really be captured in data? Who writes the script that dictates our lives? [2]
Subventions
(This discussion is) Off the Record received subsidies from the Film Funds DocLab Interactive in 2023. [3] [4]
The project was granted with 10 000 euros to support its production. [5]
Presentation
The interactive documentary was presented to the [1] International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) [6] in 2023. It was a nominee for the IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction Awards 2023, but did not win.
References
- ^ a b c www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam. "(this conversation is) Off the Record (2023) | IDFA Festival". IDFA. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ "(this conversation is) off the Record (2023) | IDFA Festival".
- ^ "Winnaars Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2023 bekendgemaakt". www.filmfonds.nl (in Dutch). 2023-09-21. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ www.oberon.nl, Oberon Amsterdam (2023-09-14). "IDFA Institute | Winners Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2023 announced". IDFA. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Cunningham, Nick (2023-09-15). "Netherlands Film Fund/DocLab Interactive Grant winners announced". Business Doc Europe. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Macnab, Geoffrey (2023-11-09). "How IDFA's DocLab is bringing a "weightless, ephemeral digital experience' to a physical festival audience". Screen. Retrieved 2023-12-03.