Perhaps in anticipation of the reprise screening of David Gatten’s The Extravagant Shadows on Monday, April 29 at the Elinor Bunin Munroe film center in New York, the press has been paying close attention to Gatten and his latest work. In the March/April 2013 issue of Film Comment, an article by Holly Willis covers everything from Gatten’s three part… Continue reading The Press, The Extravagant Shadows, & David Gatten
Category: Faculty Work
Interview with Gary Hawkins on His Screenplay “Joe”
I’m getting congrats now, because one’s chances of getting a film made are very slim, but I did the real work a decade ago. – GH Filmmaker and Center for Documentary Studies instructor Gary Hawkins is indeed getting congrats as his screenplay Joe began production in November 2012 and looks to premiere at the… Continue reading Interview with Gary Hawkins on His Screenplay “Joe”
Josh Gibson’s Kudzu Vine Wins at ZagrebDox
“Josh Gibson’s Kudzu Vine was not only filled with information on the sturdy kudzu vine — it’s history; the many and unexpected uses for it…” -Jury, 2012 LA Film Festival At the 9th Annual ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival Duke MFAEDA faculty member Josh Gibson’s Kudzu Vine took the Big Stamp Award in International Competition. Jurors said of… Continue reading Josh Gibson’s Kudzu Vine Wins at ZagrebDox
Duke at CAA’s 2013 Annual Conference
The College Art Association will hold its 101st annual conference February 13-16 in New York. The event will bring together over 6,000 artists, art historians, collectors, critics, curators, educators, librarians, and students to engage in four days of intellectual discussion and creative presentation, and will kick off with an opening reception at the Guggenheim Museum.… Continue reading Duke at CAA’s 2013 Annual Conference
Josh Gibson’s Nile Perch Wins Grand Prize at Black Maria Film Fest
Duke’s Art of the Moving Image program and MFAEDA faculty member Josh Gibson was honored two-fold through at 32nd Annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival‘s 2013 Tour Selections. His new film Nile Perch received the grand prize for documentary film. The work is described as “a luminous, picturesque documentary”. Though it takes place on the… Continue reading Josh Gibson’s Nile Perch Wins Grand Prize at Black Maria Film Fest
THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS makes Film Comment’s top ten list of 2012 films without distributors
For those of you who were lucky enough to make it to the Biddle Rare Book Room in Perkins Library on Friday, November 30th, Thinking Cinematics (previously Cinema Studies Series) at Duke University presented a new work of digital cinema by filmmaker, AMI lecturing fellow and Duke artist in residence David Gatten. This was the… Continue reading THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS makes Film Comment’s top ten list of 2012 films without distributors
NC Premier of David Gatten’s “The Extravagant Shadows”
Tomorrow, the Cinema Studies Series at Duke University presents a the North Carolina premier of a new work of digital cinema by filmmaker and MFAEDA faculty member David Gatten! The Extravagant Shadows (1998-2012, 175 min, Color, HD projection of Digital Master) Friday, Nov 30, 2012 3:00PM – 6:30PM Perkins Library–Biddle Rare Book Room Free and… Continue reading NC Premier of David Gatten’s “The Extravagant Shadows”
MFAEDA Student and Faculty Work at the NYFF’s Views from the Avant Garde
Exciting news from New York! Three MFA|EDA students are showing work this weekend in the venerable Views from the Avant Garde at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival: Marika Borgeson, Erin Espelie and Talena Sanders. In addition, both AMI’s Lecturing Fellow & Artist in Residence David Gatten and Visiting Artist & Adjunct Instructor Shambhavi… Continue reading MFAEDA Student and Faculty Work at the NYFF’s Views from the Avant Garde
David Gatten Films at Leeds Colllege of Art
Our friends in the UK will connect with the films of David Gatten tonight at the Leeds College of Art. —- The Illuminated Room DAVID GATTEN: Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts David Gatten in the Rare Book Room, Duke Library. Image… Continue reading David Gatten Films at Leeds Colllege of Art
Alex Harris and E.O. Wilson on the Spirit of Mobile
Congratulations are in order to photographer and MFAEDA faculty member Alex Harris, who is working on the proofs for the production of his book with E.O. Wilson, Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City. Publisher’s weekly reviewed the book in advance of publication, and on October 11th the Mobile Museum… Continue reading Alex Harris and E.O. Wilson on the Spirit of Mobile
