Deep Focus

Deep Focus is an experimental lab for the possibilities of non-fiction narrative, in collaboration between Abandon Normal Devices, the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting (CAIR). 

Deep Focus is an experimental lab for emerging journalists, artists and filmmakers based in the UK to uncover new and diverse ways to shape compelling non-fiction documentaries. Participants are encouraged to interrogate the unsettling rise of misinformation, extreme online communities, conspiracies and the ominous increasing influence of online personalities. 

We will be equipping a cohort of 9 practitioners with the investigative tools, instruments, tactics and strategies to question established narratives, highlight injustice and showcase overlooked stories. 

Hosted at School of Digital Arts (SODA), the Lab will feature compelling workshops, guest lectures and events by experts, disrupters and creatives from the sector.

Screening: Don’t Believe the Hyperlink [Part of Deep Focus] // 6 Dec

As part of our non-fiction narrative lab programme, Deep Focus, we invite you to join us for an evening of short film screenings which explore the deceptively seductive nature of algorithmic recommendations and the online aesthetic methods employed to allure and manipulate our desires or fantasies.

Get your tickets here (£2-10).

This programme is a collaboration between Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and Modal gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Arts (SODA). AND is supported with public funding from Arts Council England.