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Switching is a different type of film that paves the way for new storytelling methods. Switching was specially developed for DVD video. The fascination with interactive expression basically originates in its potential to depict a more fragmented form of reality. The user of this film enters a narrative labyrinth simultaneously unfolding and disrupting the story. A film is now something you can change by touching it. Film has become « pliable ».

There are three element that explain why Switching departs form the linear form. The first is that the film can be changed at any time. Consequently, the user can jump back and forth in time and location. The second is the fact that interface and content are not divided; in order words, the screen has no buttons to click – the interface is transparent. The film itself is the clickable object. Accordingly, linear control and logic disappear. The third element is teh fact that the narrative is structured around a circular system in which everything repeats itself. So it has no ending. The film continues forever in its circular universe.

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Marie Tyrell is a fictional activist and revolutionary on death row. Based on a 1974 short story by DM Fraser, the film weaves mutiple view points. Watch the narrative drama, then click the video to interrogate the politics, authorship and production of this DVD.

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A do-it yourself movie about identity, belonging and things we desire. It consists in two stories: four generations of Irish Jewish heritage played against four decades of lesbian life. With a combination of text and QT movies, Mixed Greens explores articulations of identity across sexual and ethnic lines.

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Based on Norman Klein’s book, History of Forgetting, this interactive narrative combines a database detective story with a digital city symphony and a metanarrative reflection on interactive storytelling in this new medium. Set in a three-mile radius near downtown Los Angeles, the DVD-ROM explores several locations that helped shape the city’s cultural history. Includes a book, which contains a novella by cultural historian Norman Klein and essays on the production.

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Challenging the borders between autobiography, memory, history and fiction, this interactive memoir presents a diverse array of personal materials by and about John Rechy, a Chicano writer from Texas, and sets them against larger collective histories of Chicano culture and the gay world.

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A woman wakes up one morning with a physical anomaly : her hands become hypersensitive, to a point where she can ‘read’ and feel the world by touching objects. Science and medecine help her to adapt to her new senses. Her hands starts to grow, she becomes the Women With Huge Hands. This CD-ROM comes with an illustrated book of poetry of which it constitutes the last chapter.

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This literary and illustrated work will take you in the heart of Dominique Noblet’s life, which involves love stories, job interviews, and a mundane social life. Through multi-layered dialogues filled with contradictions, we discover the ambiguity and the power games involved in social interaction.

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Leaving. The ultimate word around which Clara builds her own universe in this animated CD-ROM. Inspired by the iconography of the road movie genre, this interactive fiction leads us through four seasons of feelings, poetry and adventure with Clara as a travelling character.

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Based on Pat O’Neill’s 35 mmm film, this interactive fiction is an archeological exploration of the Hotel Ambassador in Los Angeles, a vintage building now in ruins. Visitors wander through the abandoned rooms encountering cultural traces of historical traumas and personal dramas that occured in the hotel.

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In the midst on a baroque city that endlessly liquidates, follow TOPO Agency’s investigation in LIQUIDATION – a random photo-novel. Pursue a detective’s steps, meet businessmen from the Corp, forgery artists, a variety star, a professor and a poet…powered by a random storytelling engine, this multimedia fiction includes over 1800 photographies and 4 hours of original music and dialogues with twenty interpreters.

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Sexy photographs make good cocktail-party bitching in Cocktails & Appetizers. Max, a photographer, spends a day taking photos of Jesse. An homage to lesbian pulp fiction novels of the 50s, Cocktails is an interactive narrative about women looking at women, taking a risk, and falling in love.

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UNCOMPRESSED is an interactive film that allows viewers to choose the path that they will follow. Finding themselves in the middle of a world not far removed from science fiction, viewers become involved in a story avout human cloning. Six character’s tales are told from their own perspectives. The interface allows the audience to view the tale from any of these viewpoints and to switch between them at interaction points.

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A tale of food, sex, family, and what happens after the first kiss is over. Building the story from fragments overheard, you also learn how to make an apple pie!

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In a rather cynical way, the artist presents « chronicles of a contemporary, fundamentally pornographic society, shocking domestic performances, grating humour … ». He takes takes you over and questions on what you felt on seeing his images then carries you firther along your mutimedia «martyrdom». The Worst of Connanski is a non-interactive fiction on a unfriendly and semi-linear CD-ROM.

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