Videos from this summer’s video institute are now available for on the CDS site on iTunes U. You can view or download the 12 video shorts for free. Three of the videos are available for viewing below.
This summer the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University collaborated with Watts Hospital-Hillandale residents to create short video and audio documentaries about the Durham neighborhood. Two CDS summer institutes—one in June, focused on video, and another in July, focused on audio—brought continuing education students from across the country to work intensively for a week on fieldwork projects that resulted in documentary features about the Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood.
A biography of Watts Hospital, anchor of the Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood since 1909. It closed in 1976 amid controversy over racial integration, and is now the site of the North Carolina School of Science and Math. By Laura Valencia and Enrique Vega.
Download Birth by Charity, Death by Intolerance from iTunes U
Ellen Ciompi is a surgical nurse by day, cabaret singer and abstract photographer by night. By Claire Nakajima.
Download Ellen Ciompi: A Neighbor in Our Town from iTunes U
Postman John Riley does more for the people on his postal route than just deliver the mail. By David Mayer and Leanora Minai.