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Student Work
The Last Slam, a film by Nora Gross. Excerpt.
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.
I Want to Open Eyeballs, a film by Sam Allen. Excerpt.
5 Pointz, Queens is the grandest cathedral ever built to hip hop — an internationally celebrated graffiti center, recently erased by city rezoning and property development.
Doc Talk with Nina Davenport
About the form of first-person cinema, Davenport says: “The ‘off-the-cuff’ intimacy of personal documentaries makes them look easy, but from the cadence and delivery of the voiceover to the creation of a persona, it’s actually extremely difficult to get it just right.”
Doc Talk with Zelimir Zilnik
“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
Doc Talk with Maya Mumma
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.
The New School Doc Studies 