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The MIT Open Documentary Lab brings technologists, storytellers, and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary . In November 23, 2013 the MIT Lab has launched_docubase at IDFA festival. Few things can compete with the emergence of a new media practice for sheer innovation and unpredictability. Conventions, orthodoxies and routine have not yet set in. Virtually anything is possible. Consider the earliest years of film, radio and television, when media makers engaged in unparalleled levels of experimentation thanks to the absence of rules. Today, this untamed creative fervor can be found in the new documentary: a fast-emerging form that includes interactive, participatory and community-created fact-based storytelling. 'Unruly' better describes the types of documentaries that are gathered in _docubase. Interactive, collaborative, location-based, community-created, parts of larger trans-media experiences… the projects gathered in _docubase defy easy categorization. They are made by and with communities, journalists, citizen-activists, film and video makers, game-designers, community organizers, data-visualizers and ordinary people. Some production teams model their credits on the conventions of film, others on games, and still others invent new ways of describing their work. Why so complicated? Because we are witnessing a rare moment that is in equal parts creative and inchoate. We will explore together how _docubase offers multiple ways of bringing order to this complexity. Read less