(This discussion is) Off the Record
(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 realised 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 anonymised 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 Nederlands). 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.
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