Apply Now: March 1 Deadline for 2012 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
This year marks the twenty-second anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards. The awards are named for the noted scholar John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University, in recognition of his lifetime accomplishments and his dedication to students and teaching. CDS makes these awards to undergraduates attending Triangle-area [...]
Videos Available, Press “Play”: Duke Students Film Big Boi and MSTRKRFT at the Yorktown Throwdown
Last fall, Center for Documentary Studies film instructor Gary Hawkins and Emily LaDue, production coordinator at Duke’s program in the Arts of the Moving Image, took a vanload of current and former Duke film-production students to the Yorktown Throwdown in Charleston, South Carolina. The mission: to film Big Boi and dance-electronic duo MSTRKRFT at the [...]
CDS Undergraduate Class Debuts Photos and Multimedia Slideshows of Elementary-School Life, Monday, December 12
Students from the Center for Documentary Studies who spent the fall semester documenting life at the George Watts Elementary School in Durham will display their multimedia slideshows and photos on Monday, December 12. The event is free and open to the public. Students will be on hand to talk about their experiences at the school, [...]
Undergraduate Documentaries: Stories of Homelessness and Finding Home Again, December 5 at the Durham County Library
Eleven Duke undergraduates from the Center for Documentary Studies and the Hart Leadership Program will present their short documentaries on homelessness or formerly homeless individuals living in the Triangle at an event hosted by Housing for New Hope, an organization that has been working for almost twenty years to prevent and end homelessness in Durham [...]
Spring 2012 Undergraduate Courses Announced
The undergraduate program in Documentary Studies allows undergraduate students to connect their educational experiences to broader community life through documentary fieldwork projects. Program courses challenge students to combine intellectual ideas with grassroots engagement as they use tools of documentary inquiry to learn and render in various mediums. Documentary Studies students combine their coursework with a [...]
Duke Magazine Website Features “Documenting Duke” Audio Work by CDS Undergraduates
Through a collaboration between the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Magazine, students in John Biewen’s undergraduate classes “Introduction to Audio Documentary” and “The Short Audio Documentary” have produced audio features to complement stories featured in the magazine. Among the recent audio pieces posted to Duke Magazine’s website is a piece by Elisabeth Michel, who [...]
Fall 2011 Undergraduate Courses Announced
The undergraduate program in Documentary Studies allows undergraduate students to connect their educational experiences to broader community life through documentary fieldwork projects. Program courses challenge students to combine intellectual ideas with grassroots engagement as they use tools of documentary inquiry to learn and render in various mediums. Documentary Studies students combine their coursework with a [...]
Student Audio Documentaries Featured on the Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Audio documentaries produced by students in the class The Short Audio Documentary, taught by CDS audio program director John Biewen, are now available to listen on the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). PRX is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming, and also serves as a growing social network and community of [...]
2011 Julia Harper Day Award Winner: Sarah Goetz
The Julia Harper Day Award was created in 1992 by the Center for Documentary Studies in memory of the young woman who was the Center’s first staff member and who, herself, was a photographer and writer of real accomplishment. This award of $500 recognizes a graduating Duke senior who has demonstrated excellence in documentary studies [...]
“The Parchman Hour” Play Presented at the Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary Reunion in Jackson, Mississippi in May 2011
The Parchman Hour brings to the stage powerful oral histories and conversations from the Freedom Rides’ most iconic protagonists and antagonists alike. Based on interviews, newspaper accounts, documentary imagery, and other primary sources, The Parchman Hour is the outgrowth of a yearlong residency by actor and playwright Mike Wiley, a visiting professor at the Center for [...]
Watch a Clip from “In My Mind” (“In My Mind”)
“In My Mind” is a segment from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. In My Mind was filmed as part of Gary Hawkins’ Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking Course at [...]
Watch a Clip from “In My Mind” (“Not His Hands!”)
“Not His Hands!” is a segment from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. In My Mind was filmed as part of Gary Hawkins’ Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking Course at [...]
Watch an Opening Clip From “In My Mind”
The opening clip from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. Director: Gary Hawkins Producer: Emily LaDue Director of Photography: Steve Milligan Executive Producer: Tom Rankin In My Mind [...]
Screenings of Final Projects Produced in CDS and Arts of the Moving Images Classes for the Spring 2011 Semester
The Spring 2011 AMI Duke Student Film Showcase – presenting the final projects produced in AMI film/video classes at Duke this semester! Free and open to the general public! Thursday April 28th and Friday April 29th, both nights 6 pm-midnight in the Griffith Film Theater (Bryan Center, West Campus): THURSDAY APRIL 28 SCREENING SCHEDULE: 6:00 pm: [...]
Community Organizers in Their Own Words: Presentation of Three Oral History Projects
Students in the Introduction to Oral History class taught at the Center for Documentary Studies have spent the semester hitting the pavement to learn about community organizing—by going out and talking to the activists themselves. Three small groups will present websites with their findings, including audio and video clips from their interviews as well as [...]
2011 CDS Certificate in Documentary Studies Undergraduate Presentations and Exhibition
Graduating seniors who are completing the Certificate in Documentary Studies at Duke University will present their final projects to the public in an open house celebration at the Center for Documentary Studies on May 1, 4–7 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 4–7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC Beyond the Front Porch Featuring the work [...]
Student Actors to Tour Mississippi with The Parchman Hour on 50th Anniversary of Freedom Rides
A busload of student actors, a noted playwright/actor, a civil rights historian, and several documentarians will be traveling to Mississippi over Spring Break (March 6-11) to present The Parchman Hour, an original play featuring the songs and stories of the 1961 Freedom Riders. For the ’61 Freedom Rides, a group of mostly young people, black [...]
“Documenting Duke”: CDS Students Make Audio Features for Duke Magazine
Under a collaboration with Duke Magazine, students in John Biewen’s undergraduate class The Short Audio Documentary have produced audio features to complement the stories featured in the magazine. Listen to these audio features at dukemagazine.duke.edu/documentingduke
“In My Mind” (“In My Mind” Clip)
“In My Mind” is a segment from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. Director: Gary Hawkins Producer: Emily LaDue Director of Photography: Steve Milligan Executive Producer: Tom Rankin [...]
“In My Mind” (“Not His Hands!” Clip)
“Not His Hands!” is a segment from In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University documenting Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon’s 2009 original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall performance. Director: Gary Hawkins Producer: Emily LaDue Director of Photography: Steve Milligan Executive Producer: Tom Rankin [...]
Apply for the 2011 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
This year marks the twenty-first anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards. The awards are named for the noted scholar John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University, in recognition of his lifetime accomplishments and his dedication to students and teaching. CDS makes these awards to undergraduates attending Triangle-area [...]
Listen to Student Audio Documentary Projects
Short audio documentaries from undergraduate students in the Fall 2010 Introduction to Audio Documentary course and Spring 2010 The Short Audio Documentary course with John Biewen have been posted on CDS iTunesU. Listen to student audio projects here* *The piece “Friends With Benefits” contains explicit material that may be offensive to some listeners and may [...]
The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming Photographs and Audio by Undergraduates at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Farming is among the oldest expressions of human culture. For a documentary artist or student, the farmer and his/her land present potent ground on which to create original artwork that explores and reflects central issues of our day. [...]
“Coming Home: Stories of Homelessness and Finding Home Again,” Presentation of Student Documentary Projects December 6
Ten Duke undergraduates spent the fall semester documenting the people and programs of Housing for New Hope (HNH), an organization that has been working for almost twenty years to prevent and end homelessness in Durham County and Orange County, North Carolina. As part of the course Documentary Engagement, the students were required to spend more than [...]
