Departures Presented by Juan Devis

Ask a community to tell you its story and you wont get one, you get many. How do you stitch those stories together in ways that create a narrative, that explain something about a culture? The answer is you dont. Departures is an experiment in non-linear community story-telling. The stories themselves come out of the communities. The video is often shot by kids, and the way users experience the project is by choosing their own entry points and finding paths through the site.

Departures is a multimedia site that can seduce with its panoramic landscapes but deflects attempts at immediate payback. It imposes its own pace on users explorations. The slickness of the beautiful design suggests an expensive, resource-heavy and lengthy production process, but the projects were designed and produced inexpensively and are replicable in templates. Departures suggests a different way of telling the stories of cultures that havent found voice in traditional journalism. Artist Juan Devis has developed what he believes is a more interactive form of journalism that gets closer to the cultures of a neighborhood.

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[tarainLA]

go juan!!