This research-creation dissertation studies the filmmaker’s role in the production of interactive web documentaries. First, the author recalls conventional documentaries he directed in order to indentify their primary discursive objectives. Then, he examines the new spectatorship being defined by current media delivery devices to better understand the shape to be given to the interactive work he’s producing and assess its ability in carrying his usual communication objectives. Subsequently, the author refers to interactive documentaries in which he participated in the 1990s and points out specific interactive devices showing to be efficient in taking into account the active presence of the viewer. Finally, the author describes the making of his web documentary and highlights aspects of his research that guided its production. The author concludes with some remarks regarding his creative process and the relationship existing between the filmmaker creator of an interactive documentary and today’s new multitask spect-actor.

Keywords : Documentary, interactivity, Internet, web documentary, spectatorship, non linear, author, spect-actor, editing, reflection.