Laura Poitras Artist’s Talk and Reception September 20 at CDS
O’ Say Can You See, a gallery installation by artist Laura Poitras, is on view in the Kreps Gallery at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, July 25–October 22, 2011. Laura Poitras Artist’s Talk and Reception September 20, 2011, 6–9 p.m., talk at 7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies Read more about the [...]
Charlie Thompson on “Spirits of Just Men”
Charlie Thompson, director of the undergraduate program at CDS, holds the faculty position of Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion. His latest book, Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World (University of Illinois [...]
Register Now for the Documentary Video Institute, June 4–June 11, 2011
In this eight-day intensive, students are fully immersed in the process of documentary filmmaking. Working in small production teams (one instructor for every four students) led by experienced documentary filmmakers, you will be introduced to an array of tools and techniques as you collaborate with a partner to direct, shoot, edit, and screen a documentary [...]
Nancy Kalow on “Visual Storytelling: The Digital Video Documentary”
Nancy Kalow is a folklorist and filmmaker who has taught at the Center for Documentary Studies since 2000. She attended Harvard University (A.B.), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A.), and was a Rockefeller Fellow at UNC’s University Center for International Studies. She has documented southern traditional music and material culture, Primitive Baptist [...]
Interview with John Biewen about “Travels with Mike” on the Big Read Blog
John Biewen was recently interviewed on the Big Read Blog about John Steinbeck’s classic novel Travels with Charley in Search of America, and the Travels with Mike project. “Driving Cross Country with John Steinbeck.” By Rebecca Gross. “Big Read Blog: Updates on the Big Read Initiative.” March 28, 2011. Read more about the Travels with [...]
“Office Hours” with Tom Rankin: An Insider’s Look at Full Frame
Recorded in a live webcast on April 15, 2011, Tom Rankin gives an overview of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, held April 14–17 in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Full Frame, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, is an annual international event with more than 100 screenings, panel discussions, conversations, and late-night entertainment. [...]
Interview with Monika Sziladi (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Monika Sziladi Jurors’ Pick (Julie Saul and Alec Soth), 2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize What sparked your initial interest for your “Wide Receivers” project? It’s enormously complex to try and map out the effect of one person’s behavior on another since each person’s emotional and intellectual make-up is shaped by that of [...]
Interview with Martin Roemers (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Martin Roemers Juror’s Pick (Jamie Wellford), 2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize What were you attempting to illustrate by the use of blurred images? What you see are moving people and vehicles. This illustrates the hectic activity and chaos which never stops in a city with so many people. Why were you particularly [...]
Interview with Paula McCartney (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Paula McCartney Juror’s Pick (Darius Himes), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize Could you describe your start in photography—how and why you first became interested in making photographs? It was in my third year of college. I had begun school by studying advertising, but in the second year realized it was too business orientated, [...]
Interview with Erica Allen (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Erica Allen Juror’s Pick (Hank Willis Thomas), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize Did you experience any type of change in your artistic practice when you moved cross country from Oakland, California to Brooklyn, New York? My artistic practice definitely shifted after moving to New York City. Previously my photographic work was all shot with [...]
Interview with Daniel Stier (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Daniel Stier Juror’s Pick (Darius Himes and Alec Soth), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize Where does the nature part of the project Man, Nature, Technology come into play? I found the title “Man, Nature, Technology” to have this utopian idea about science, which I’m trying to contrast with the real world of scientific [...]
Interview with Jan Lieske (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Jan Lieske Juror’s Pick (Jamie Wellford), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize We had trouble finding your biography: could you give us a brief history of what led you to this sort of photography? About seven years ago I got my first SLR camera. I started studying documentary photography and photojournalism at the FH [...]
Interview with Priya Kambli (2010 Daylight/ CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Priya Kambli Juror’s Pick (Vince Aletti), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize As you described in your artist statement, you absolutely despised being photographed by your father when you were younger. What made you decide or realize that your passion was to become a photographer? Having grown in a household where photography was prevalent [...]
Interview with Rachel Barrett (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Rachel Barrett Juror’s Pick (Hank Willis Thomas), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize In juror Hank Willis Thomas’s statement about your project, he said that you “understand texture” and that your “serious search for connection with your subjects comes through in your images.” Do you think that this is a fair assessment of what [...]
CDS Continuing Education Information Session and Student Testimonials
Prospective and current students welcome! Come and ask questions about courses at CDS, meet instructors, and learn about the Certificate in Documentary Arts. Please register on-line for this free session at www.cdscourses.org. For additional information, contact Continuing Education at the Center for Documentary Studies: 919-660-3663 or cdscourses@duke.edu Continuing Education Information Session with April Walton Monday, January [...]
Interview with Elizabeth Moreno (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Elizabeth Moreno Winner and Juror’s Pick (Vince Aletti), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize Why did you decide to do utilize diptychs in your work? This project started with the idea to portray the rancheros within their environment. Working with diptychs allows me to make more emphasis in the little details I find in [...]
Interview with Nandita Raman (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Nandita Raman Winner and Juror’s Pick (Julie Saul), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize We read that the inspiration for the theme of your series, Cinema Play House, came from the fact that your mother used to own a movie theater. Can you talk about the connection you have to the cinema and why [...]
Video Interviews with Munkzhul Chuluunbat, Visiting Filmmaker from Mongolia
Munkhzul Chuluunbat is the executive director of Globe Art Center, which offers an international documentary film festival, a children’s art festival, and a series of workshops, meetings, and training opportunities. She is also the founder of Gal Pictures, an independent film production company that creates documentaries, feature films, and TV shorts. Chuluunbat’s visit to the [...]
Literacy Through Photography – Arusha, Tanzania Exhibition Reception and Panel Discussion
Photographs, posters, and texts from the Literacy Through Photography project in Arusha, Tanzania are on view at CDS through January 8, 2011. A reception for the exhibit, with a talk by Katie Hyde, will take place on October 21. A panel discussion about the exhibition will be held on November 4. More details at http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/nowonview.html First-year [...]
Gary Hawkins Named One of “Top Ten Leaders in Learning” by Variety Magazine
Variety magazine recently named Center for Documentary Studies instructor Gary Hawkins as one of its “top ten leaders in learning.” Hawkins teaches documentary film production at CDS and frequently collaborates with students on projects. Hawkins’s In My Mind, which premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2010, involved CDS Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking [...]
“Five Farms” Interview with John Biewen by Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks
John Biewen was recently interviewed by Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks about the documentary project Five Farms: Stories of American Farm Families. Biewen was the series producer for Five Farms and is the Audio Program Director at the Center for Documentary Studies. Listen to the interview with Biewen here. Recent [...]
“My Rise and Fall: Roger Hodge on The State of Magazines”
“My Rise and Fall: Roger Hodge on The State of Magazines” Friday, March 5, 7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium Roger Hodge, until recently the editor of Harper’s Magazine, will discuss the prospects of long-form journalism into the future as he recounts his experiences working with writers and offers his perspectives on the shifting [...]
“Today” Show Video Segment And “New York Times” Piece Profile The Jazz Loft Project
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Today Show Friday, November 13, 2009 Watch the interview with Sam Stephenson, Jazz Loft Project Director, from the broadcast. New York Times Sunday, November 15, 2009 “The most chaotic and soulful gift book this year. . . an elegiac stew of sight and [...]
Videos From The Jazz Loft Project: Bill Crow, Joey Massters, And Dan Partridge
Interview with Dan Partridge, Jazz Loft Project Research Associate from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo. Interview With Dan Partridge, Jazz Loft Project Research Associate Dan Partridge has been working as part of the Jazz Loft Project since 2003. His role as the “professional listener” on staff has entailed listening to and making detailed notes [...]
