Desktop Documentary Movies

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

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...

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

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,...

This desktop documentary portrays the student movement in July and August 2024, the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime, and its aftermath.

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

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...

Premiered at the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival.

A time capsule about change and loss during the death of Adobe Flash.

A collectively authored three-channel video which reinterprets the 1929 film of the same name through the lens of internet-based aesthetics.