In late January, MFAEDA student Eric Barstow was invited as a guest on the UNC-TV show Black Issues Forum to discuss two of his films – “¿Qué será del Caribe?” and “Pickaninny”. Both works will be screening at Durham’s Hayti Heritage Film Festival. The episode aired on January 27th, but is still available streaming. “¿Qué será… Continue reading MFAEDA Student Eric Barstow at Hayti Heritage Film Fest
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Artist’s Talk: LaToya Ruby Frazier
“Exposing the underbelly of corporate practices – rapid de-industrialization and outsourcing, environmental negligence, and inner-city gentrification – Frazier’s work examines the crises of postindustrial communities and the class divisions wrought by capital” -The Whitney, on Frazier’s artistic terrain Photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier will give an artist’s talk on Tuesday, February 12 at… Continue reading Artist’s Talk: LaToya Ruby Frazier
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
MFAEDA Student John Rash at ECU’S Biennial Exhibition
MFAEDA student John Rash will be exhibiting a photo in this year’s 8th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition held at East Carolina University in the Jenkins Fine Arts Center. The work featured by Rash is taken from his “Skin, Scars and Birthmarks” series. The exhibition opens January 24 in the Wellington B. Gray Gallery and runs through February 23. All… Continue reading MFAEDA Student John Rash at ECU’S Biennial Exhibition
Wolfgang Hastert Screens at Strange Beauty Fest
Strange Beauty Film Festival opens Thursday, January 24. The festival, now in its fourth year, was founded by husband-and-wife team Jim Haverkamp and Joyce Ventimiglia. Haverkamp, a member of Duke’s Arts of the Moving Image program faculty, and Ventimiglia hold Strange Beauty at Durham’s Manbites Dog Theater. While many of the films that will screen at the… Continue reading Wolfgang Hastert Screens at Strange Beauty Fest
“48 Hours in Las Vegas” MFAEDA Student Exhibition on view through February 17
In the spring of 2012, twelve students in Duke University’s MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts program flew to Las Vegas for a crash art project sponsored by Zappos.com. Their mission: seek, capture, and record the infamous Sin City, in two days. The result: 48 Hours in Las Vegas. The Triangle area’s Independent Weekly describes the exhibition as “work that teases… Continue reading “48 Hours in Las Vegas” MFAEDA Student Exhibition on view through February 17
MFAEDA China Film Tour: 米铝乘客
Current MFAEDA student John Rash presented two screenings while in China this January. 米铝乘客: A Collection of Experimental Documentary Films, also titled Lost Passenger, was shown on January 3 at Yugong Yishan in Beijing, and on January 9 at Eco & More Film Club in Shanghai. In addition to Rash’s own work, Lost Passenger featured films by… Continue reading MFAEDA China Film Tour: 米铝乘客
SYNTHESIA: Kristin Bedford bridges the gap between sight and sound
In December 2012, MFAEDA student Kristin Bedford collaborated with the Wet Ink Ensemble and the Duke University Department of Music to create “Synthesia,” a multimedia piece that aimed to combine photography with the experience of listening. For the project, Bedford photographed musicians from the Wet Ink Ensemble when they performed Ken Stewart’s score “Make It Opaque”… Continue reading SYNTHESIA: Kristin Bedford bridges the gap between sight and sound
In Retrospect: Rachel Boillot on her first semester
The first semester of the MFAEDA program was an unbelievable whirlwind, wonderful in its intensity. There are a lot of questions about the program, as we are truly breaking new ground. I rarely have good canned answers ready in response to such questions, and we are all still figuring it out. Regardless, here are some of my… Continue reading In Retrospect: Rachel Boillot on her first semester
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
