Premiere of Sue Hagedorn’s DEPUTIZED — Sunday, December 2 at 1pm.
The 2008 fatal stabbing of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, exposes a thinly veiled system of intolerance for immigrants in a Long Island community. Continue reading “Doc Studies Alum at Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival”
A rare screening of landmark New York place films by the great postwar photodocumentarians Rudy Burckhardt, Lionel Rogosin, Helen Levitt and James Agee. Continue reading “The New York Street — MOMA”
In 1995, four Danish filmmakers led by the director Lars von Trier issued a manifesto, for film a proclamation declaring a set of aesthetic ‘rules’ for cinema.
According to author Patrick Kinsley, in his new book How To Be Danish, the Dogme manifesto inspired a renaissance in Danish culture. Continue reading “The Dogme Manifesto — How It Reinvented Denmark”
The 2012 Margaret Mead Film Festival of contemporary cultural storytelling will screen 29 films and host special multi-media events and performances.
Continue reading “Margaret Mead Film Festival: November 29 – December 2”
Jeremy Cohan, a recent graduate of the Doc Studies graduate certificate program, is a recipient of the distinguished Directors Guild of America Student Film Award for his documentary short AFTER, on suicide bereavement within a family. Continue reading “Doc Studies alum Jeremy Cohan wins DGA Student Film Award”
“Documentary cinema … I’m not talking about propaganda or film journalism or brilliant programs about animals or culture. I mean making films out of contemporary reality.” Continue reading “Director Lindsay Anderson on Britain’s ‘Free Cinema’”
MOMA –Thursday, Nov 15 at 7 PM . Theater 1 –
Robert Frank’s legendary, suppressed film on The Rolling Stones. Continue reading “Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues”
FILM FORUM —
MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, by Alex Gibney / November 16 – November 29
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE and ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM) exposes the abuse of power in the Catholic Church: and a cover-up that winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through the churches of Ireland, all the way to the highest office of the Vatican. Continue reading “Film Forum”
The New School Doc Studies 