If you’re feeling voyeuristic and reality TV just isn’t cutting it, you could make like Jimmy Stewart and start spying on your neighbours, but then you’d probably end up having to defend yourself (poorly) with nothing but a camera flash. So why not watch an interactive documentary shot in high rise apartments around the world to fulfill your peeping Tom urges instead? Sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Katerina Cizek, Highrise: Out My Window is a collaborative project spanning across the globe. The documentary, if one can even call it that—the term doesn’t fully capture what this cinematic experience is—allows you to click on a window and pan the enclosed apartment in 360°, exploring collaged photographs that make up the homes of the featured characters. Each apartment contains various clickable hot spots that elaborate on the story of its objects and inhabitants. The entire documentary features 49 stories from 13 cities, told in 13 languages.In some ways, Out My Window feels similar in conception to Jake (son of Ridley) Scott’s HBO project Voyeur where the viewers choose who they want to spy on in Manhattan apartments, witnessing the unfolding drama to unravel a murder. While one is fiction and the other non-fiction, both platforms allow a user-controlled narrative experience.[via Boing Boing]
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