National Film Board of Canada’s ongoing HIGHRISE project, an Emmy Award-winning multiyear, many-media collaborative documentary experiment. This project was created for Op-Docs, the New York Times editorial department’s forum for short, opinionated documentaries, and is part of the Smartphone users can view the four films. On desktop and laptop computers, users can mouse over features and click to On tablets, viewers can navigate the story extras and special features within the films using touch commands like swipe, pinch, pull and tap. The interactive experience incorporates the films and, like a visual accordion, allows viewers to dig deeper into the project’s themes with additional archival materials, text and miniature ![]() Each film is intended to evoke a chapter in a storybook, with rhyming narration and photographs brought to life with intricate animation. That have largely been unseen in decades. The first three (“Mud,” “Concrete” and “Glass”) draw on the New York Times’s extraordinary visual archives, a repository of millions of photographs ![]() ![]() “A Short History of the Highrise” is an interactive documentary that explores the 2,500-year global history of vertical living and issues of social equality in an increasingly urbanized world.
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