“Cinema has become such a commodified form of information and entertainment that it’s morphed into something that disengages the viewer from their visual discipline and the fact that you can find pleasure in just looking at something. I’m doing something that’s perhaps in opposition to the whole tradition of cinema, which is about condensing our experiences.” Continue reading “Doc Talk with Peter Hutton”
Two graduates, Erin Davis from Doc Studies, and Mark Nickolas from the MA in Media Studies, will screen work in major festivals this week. A third, Doc Studies alum Ivana Todorovic, will be featured with her doc ‘A Harlem Mother’ in Wednesday’s New York Times (front page, Metro section). The films of both Doc Studies alums originated in the Doc Studies certificate program. Also from Doc Studies, is Mark Nickolas’ cinematographer Oscar Frasser.
Continue reading “Stellar Week for New School Documentarians”
The Class of 2015 is currently in production. Each student is working on a short documentary, while also crewing on shoots for fellow classmates. Their twelve documentary shorts will screen at the annual Truth Be Told public film festival in May 2015.
Doc Studies was profiled in the summer 2014 issue of ‘Documentary‘, the International Documentary Association’s (IDA) magazine. Interview with Doc Studies program director Deanna Kamiel.
The Times by Sarah Secunda
The Chronicles of Chicava by Arati Menon Carroll
Ask Me Why by Andreas Grynderup
Hang Up by Hugo Massa
Staging Realities by Daniela Valero
Love at Dawn by Shirin Barghi
For the Love of Tap by Tefe Del Rosario-Bell
Forage by Tim Ballard
Red Hook by Mikkel Møller Jorgensen
The Curator by Tara Kutz
Equipo Humilde by Maira Nolasco
Impossible Bodies by Lani Rodriguez
Love You Madly by Amy Shand
Reconnect by Max VanHorn
In Search of Tibet by Smrithi Sundaresan
This film portrait follows 19-year-old David Fasanya, an accomplished performance poet, as he ages out of his teen poetry organization and navigates the uncertain terrain between adolescence and adulthood.
The New School Doc Studies 