The birth of Street View cinema
Desktop documentaries and poetic journeys
The ethics and future of virtual filmmaking
YOUR GOAL
Master of Cinema made with Google Maps
choko Desktop documentaries
Pegman on the screen, / Chasing ghostly streets, / Home inside the glitch!
choko British artist Robert Luxemburg treats Street View as a live-action, slow-motion movie set of everyday life.
choko Palestinian filmmaker Razan AlSalah uses Street View to bypass physical borders and reconnect with forbidden homelands.
choko Match street view snapshots to discover how artists turn Google Maps into poetic cinema.
Virtual time travel: Google Maps allows users to view historical Street View imagery dating back to 2007, acting as a digital time machine.
A nonfiction film that uses a computer screen as its canvas to record digital navigation. In 2017, Razan AlSalah used this form to navigate occupied Palestine via Google Maps in her film.
Why do some filmmakers use Google Maps to document neighborhoods undergoing gentrification?
In her film 'Your father was born 100 years old, and so was I', which city does Razan AlSalah virtually explore?
What year was Razan AlSalah's landmark Google Maps film 'Your father was born 100 years old, and so was I' released?
What feature of Google Maps allows filmmakers to access older, archived versions of street imagery?
Which artist is famous for sequencing static Street View frames to create the illusion of a slow-motion movie?
In desktop documentaries, how do filmmakers typically guide the audience's attention across the screen?