Interactive Cinema on DVD in the Discourse of Audiovisual Art
Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences
Abstract. This study offers a systematic art-historical analysis of interactive DVD cinema (late 1990s–mid-2000s) as a short-lived but formative artistic phenomenon. Using case studies and formal analysis, it argues that interactive DVDs were a unique format whose lessons — menu as dramaturgy, limited agency, hybrid viewing — still matter for contemporary interactive cinema and digital distribution.
Abstract. This article examines interactive DVD cinema of the late 1990s to mid-2000s as an artistic phenomenon.
Using art-historical analysis and case studies, it argues that interactive DVDs were a unique, short-lived format whose lessons still matter for contemporary interactive cinema and digital distribution.
DOI: 10.30525/2592-8813-2025-3-12.
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