Students in the Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies participate in a variety of events. Central to the program is Doc Talk, a bi-weekly series with contemporary film and video makers, festival programmers, and others, who engage in an intimate discussion with students about their own work and the issues and challenges faced by documentary makers today.
SURFING THE YUGOSLAV BLACK WAVE
DOC STUDIES PRESENTS
@tnsdocstudies
Monday, October 22 at 1 PM
Kellen Auditorium, Ground Floor, 66 Fifth Avenue
“[The black of black wave] is about where the society as society is absent and about
what politics, however democratic, cannot represent.” – Boris Buden
“Film – weapon or shit?” – Black Wave ABC Glossary, Surfing the Black Zine No.3
Continue reading “Doc Talk, Oct 22: Screening of shorts and Q&A with filmmaker KARPO GODINA”
“As [documentary filmmakers] we have a chance to make something that transcends straight [journalistic] storytelling. We have the opportunity to bear witness to incredibly messy situations and to interrogate our own placement with in that.”
-Stephen Maing
“There is a middle ground in the documentary terrain: taking two (contrasting) impulses – the rigorously journalistic and the lyrically experimental – and bringing them together.”
“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”
“I do not hide my camera. I do not hide the fact that I am making a film.
The hidden camera is a scam. It is all right to use in films on timid animals,
but it has no place in films with people. “
— Zelimir Zilnik
Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Doc Studies graduate and editor Maya Mumma discusses the making of the HBO documentary on photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya shortly after the release of his 2011 Oscar-nominated film Restrepo. Maya describes her role in the researching, shooting and editing of Which Way Is The Frontline From Here?, a tribute to Hetherington’s singular work by his close friend and Restrepo co-director Sebastian Junger.
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