Abstract
This research-creation thesis examines the filmmaker’s role in the production of interactive web documentaries. First, the author recalls conventional documentaries he directed in order to identify 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 is producing and to assess its capacity to carry his usual communication objectives. Subsequently, the author refers to interactive documentaries in which he participated in the 1990s and points out specific interactive devices that proved efficient in accounting for 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.