Enacting polyphony: An interview with Florian Thalhofer

Thalhofer, Florian; Aston, Judith; Odorico, Stefano

Abstract

Florian Thalhofer is a documentary filmmaker and the inventor of Korsakow, a software to create a new form of film and a principle to create a new kind of story. Florian’s system allows video makers to create nonlinear and interactive films and to tell stories through a number of links generated by keywords. Thalhofer’s Korsakow films include Planet Galata and The Other Fun Stuff. Starting from a SNU (Smallest Narrative Units, as he calls them) his film are polyphonic representations of our world. Florian gave a keynote at the first i-Docs Symposium in 2011, and has been an active and deeply committed member of the i-Docs community ever since.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 9, 2018
• Publication Date: Oct 9, 2018
• Deposit Date: Nov 22, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 22, 2018
• Journal: Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media
• Print ISSN: 2009-4078
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Pages: 106-112
• Keywords: polyphony, Korsakow, smallest narrative unit, i-docs, interactive documentary, idocs, open documentary, docmedia, documentary studies
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/859029
• Publisher URL: http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue15/InterviewThalhofer.pdf
• Contract Date: Nov 22, 2018