Take a look about what is going on in our department, and with our students, faculty and alumni.
A Showcase of Experimental Found Footage Films –
Since its inauguration in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation has emerged as a premiere international showcase of experimental found footage film and video, attracting the work of artists who probe the limits of collage, machinima, remix, détournement, mash-up and more.
Continue reading “Call for Entries: The Festival of (In)appropriation 2013”
This series aims to reflect the evolution of documentary practice in China over the past 25 years, revealing the growth and ever-increasing influence of nonfiction film and media. Continue reading “Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions — MOMA — May 8–June 1”
The 16th edition of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is now open for film entries. The submission deadline is June 28, 2013.
In memory of Les Blank, the great documentarian whose sophisticated screen language appeared effortless when connecting us to regional musicians, garlic, gap-toothed women or Werner Herzog.
In tribute to the opening of the 2013 Tribeca FIlm Festival and its strong documentary roster, New York Magazine’s David Edelstein offers a rhapsodic ode to non-fiction cinema.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/edelstein-documentary-is-better-than-filmmaking.html
The extreme and visceral Leviathan, by visual anthropologists Lucien-Castaing Taylor and Verena Paravel, opens this Friday at the IFC Center. A must-see.
Documentary Fortnight, MoMA’s annual showcase of recent nonfiction film and media, returns this week with an International selection of 23 films , along with three thematic programs, that examine the relationship between contemporary art and nonfiction filmmaking, and reflect on new areas of nonfiction practice.
Continue reading “DOC FORTNIGHT 2013 — MOMA — Feb. 15 through March 4”
A CLOSE-UP OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI.
From sublime shorts and early documentaries and narratives on through a stunning string of films in the 1990s and a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the possibilities of digital video in the new century, the cinema of Abbas Kiarostami stands as one of contemporary cinema’s most vital and important statements. Continue reading “Film Society of Lincoln Center — KIAROSTAMI RETROSPECTIVE — Feb. 8 to 17”
The New School Doc Studies 