What we talk about when we talk about editing. Renowned editor Jonathan Oppenheim (Paris is Burning, Arguing the World, Sister Helen, and the upcoming Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner) screened and discussed the ways in which he worked with director Laura Poitras to create a framework and context for the post 9/11 film The Oath. Oppenheim’s psychological approach to shaping character in documentary has won him a Peabody, an Oscar nomination and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
Doc Talk: Julia Loktev – Moment of Impact- (Feb. 13, 2013)
Julia Loktev, director of The Loneliest Planet, on many critics’ ‘best of 2012’ film lists, made her remarkable debut with the documentary Moment of Impact, for which she won the Directing Award at Sundance in 1998. Shot in 16mm black and white, the film is a stark portrayal of Loktev’s parents after a freak accident incapacitated her father. The rigor of mundane quotidian life, redolent of Chantal Akerman’s iconic Jeanne Dielman, powers the film’s intimate non-fiction family drama.
Doc Talk: Ken Ross and Louis V. Galdieri -1913 Massacre, Filming History- (21, Dec. 2012)
How two indie filmmakers discovered the origins of the Woody Guthrie song ‘1913 MASSACRE’ in the form of a ‘living history’ documentary.
With co-directors Ken Ross and Louis V. Galdieri.
More information about the film: http://1913massacre.com
Doc Talk: Tony De Nonno -Art of the Short Doc- (Nov. 26, 2012)
The art of the short documentary is at the heart of TONY DE NONNO’S lifelong body of work. He discusses his sense of visceral and formal aesthetics.
DOC TALK: Karen Shatzkin (Nov. 12, 2012)
Doc Talk – November 12, 2012
Indie Layer – Karen Shatzkin clarifies the documentary practice of ‘fair use’ and other doc legalities. A highly regarded indie lawyer and long-time friend to the Doc Studies program, Shatzkin offers invaluable perspective on the vast terrain of legal rights and wrongs for documentary producers. Continue reading “DOC TALK: Karen Shatzkin (Nov. 12, 2012)”
Doc Talk: Jeff Malmberg on making Marwencol (Oct. 11, 2011)
Q&A with Jeff Malmberg speaking on the making of his film, “Marwencol”, 2010.
Doc Talk: Alan Berliner (March. 2011)
Q&A with Alan Berliner last March 2011. “Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet’s Alzheimer’s”, a short film which preceded his new feature “First Cousin Once Removed” recently shown at NYFF 2012.
Laura Poitras: The Program
LAURA POITRAS, MACARTHUR FELLOW, ON DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE IN THE POST 9/11 SECURITY STATE
Monday, October 22 at 1 pm
Filmmaker Laura Poitras, a newly named 2012 MacArthur Fellow, presents The Program, an Op-Doc for the New York Times on the N.S.A.’s top-secret domestic spying program. This documentary short is part of Laura Poitras’ recent body of work on the post-9/11 world. Continue reading “Laura Poitras: The Program”
The New School Doc Studies 