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Jigar Mehta used media generated by those on the ground to develop 18 Days in Egypt, a collaborative documentary project about the Egyptian revolution. Learn more about crowd-sourced storytelling; is this the post-modern documentary? Watch the full video.
Jigar Mehta used media generated by those on the ground to develop 18 Days in Egypt, a collaborative documentary project about the Egyptian revolution. Learn more about crowd-sourced storytelling; is this the post-modern documentary? Full video next week: stay tuned!
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By Jigar Mehta
On January 25, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution, we launched 18DaysinEgypt.com. No red carpet, no world premiere. It was a moment that we had spent many months building towards, but the site was not our final product. The launch was the beginning of our documentary about the revolution. Our audience is our collaborator.
18 Days in Egypt is an interactive documentary project that tells the story of the ongoing Egyptian uprising, using the personal media created by Egyptians in the crucible of the revolution. We want Egyptians to tell this story together, with their footage, their photos, their e-mails, their texts, even their Tweets and Facebook status updates, all created during the last year in Egypt, particularly but not limited to the first 18 days of the uprising, January 25 to February 11, 2011.
