desktop documentary

11 movies and shows

The Invention of Chris Marker

Thu, 28 May 2020

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker.

The Making of Transformers the Premake

Tue, 05 May 2020

The mind process behind the film, Transformers the Premake, explained by Kevin B Lee himself.

Fatima's Job

Sun, 21 Feb 2021

Emerging artists seek to stay afloat in their industry whilst the Covid pandemic induces career threatening lockdowns.

What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency

Wed, 14 Jun 2017

In this video I share my experience as the first Resident of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin during the winter of 2016-2017. Produced for the Goethe Institute.

A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s. The piece reflects on issues such as the power of scientific discourse to produce revisions of the world, the evolution of the concept of the archive and the resignification of borders in the rhetoric of space colonialism.

512X512

Wed, 27 Dec 2023

The search for René Descartes’ daughter Francine leads an internet user into the depths of an AI’s mental space. This intelligence generates limitless images from words given by humans, until it starts working by itself. An alternative, fleshless new world, containing all the world's memory, emerges.

getty abortions

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

What images do we associate with abortion and why? Where do these images and the emotional scripts in our head come from? How do they influence women who (want to) have an abortion, how do they shape the general discussion? Franzis Kabisch’s personal desktop documentary investigates these questions with great precision, clarity and humour (yes, humour, too!).