Visiting Artist Richard Ashrowan: Jan 27 Screening + Q&A

Via Rubenstein Library Archive of Documentary Arts News & Events 2016 Rubenstein Visiting Artist: Richard Ashrowan Public Screening + Q&A January 27, 2016, 7:00-8:30 pm Full Frame Theater Directions Free and open to the public In January 2016, the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library will welcome Richard Ashrowan for a month-long residency.… Continue reading Visiting Artist Richard Ashrowan: Jan 27 Screening + Q&A

MFA|EDA Shop Talk with Visiting Alumna Laura Doggett (’13)

MFA|EDA is pleased to share the news that alumna Laura Doggett (’13) will visit Duke and Durham, November 20-24. As part of the visit, which includes MFA|EDA student critiques and the CDS Documentary Forum, former Felsman Fellow Laura Doggett will lead a Shop Talk the morning of Friday Nov 20 — an opportunity for MFA and CDS students interested in continuing their… Continue reading MFA|EDA Shop Talk with Visiting Alumna Laura Doggett (’13)

MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Peter Hutton: Nov 16-18

Duke MFA|EDA is proud to announce an upcoming event featuring visiting artist Peter Hutton. As part of the influential filmmaker’s MFA|EDA visit, you are invited to join us for a rare program of personal prints and digital excerpts, followed by Q&A. Filmmaker/Friend/Family David Gatten will moderate the evening’s program. __________________________________ Peter Hutton: Analog and Digital Works Tuesday, November 17… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Peter Hutton: Nov 16-18

MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Bill Burke: Artist Talk, Nov 11

Please mark your calendar and join us next week for Bill Burke’s Artist Talk: A Life at the End of the Gasoline Age Duke MFA|EDA proudly hosts photographer Bill Burke for a visit to Duke and Durham, Nov 10-13, 2015. Bill Burke will participate in student critiques, course visits and an artist talk at the Full Frame Theater.  Please join us for the not-to-be-missed… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Bill Burke: Artist Talk, Nov 11

MFA|EDA + Cassilhaus Visiting Artist: Mark Steinmetz Event, Oct 28

Wednesday, October 28 at the Full Frame Theater Don’t miss the upcoming  Click! Triangle Photography Festival event with Duke MFA|EDA and Cassilhaus Visiting Artist Mark Steinmetz Click Triangle Photography Festival Mark Steinmetz Artist Talk Full Frame Theater 7:30pm Don’t miss it! Viewfinder Grid Image from The Players, Mark Steinmetz, 2015 ###

MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Deborah Stratman: Oct 8

MFA|EDA is pleased to welcome film artist Deborah Stratman back to Duke and Durham, October 6-9. Mark your calendar for a free public screening of short films curated by the artist, including IMMORTAL SUSPENDED (2013 / New York Film Festival) and HACKED CIRCUIT (2014 / Sundance Film Festival / Full Frame Documentary Film Festival) and followed by… Continue reading MFA|EDA Visiting Artist Deborah Stratman: Oct 8

MFA|EDA Salon: David Gatten’s Extravagant Shadows, 9/27

Save The Date: Sunday, September 27 THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS David Gatten’s first digital feature | Artist in attendance 5:00pm | Full Frame Theater | 175 mins Free screening, doors open at 4:30pm Fourteen years in the making, The Extravagant Shadows was ranked the No. 9 film of the year in the Film Comment international critics… Continue reading MFA|EDA Salon: David Gatten’s Extravagant Shadows, 9/27

MFA|EDA + More at Chicago Underground Film Festival

Check out the Chicago Underground Film Festival lineup at http://cuff.org. MFA|EDA friends and family exhibiting work include: Chora by Anna Kipervaser (Class of 2015) Night Noon by Shambhavi Kaul (Faculty) Speculation Nation by Bill Brown (Faculty) and Sabine Gruffat Hacked Circuit by Deborah Stratman (Visiting Artist) Soundprint by Monteith McCollum (Visiting Artist) Now you know where… Continue reading MFA|EDA + More at Chicago Underground Film Festival

Congratulations MFA|EDA Class of 2015

___________________________________________ Randall Kenan, raised in the rural North Carolina community of Chinquapin, is the author of A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, and The Fire This Time, among others.  He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the… Continue reading Congratulations MFA|EDA Class of 2015

Ruth Behar and The Vulnerable Observer: After Twenty Years, What Next?

MacArthur Award winning writer and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar will give a public talk The Vulnerable Observer: After Twenty Years, What Next? at the Center for Documentary Studies on April 8th at 7PM. Wednesday April 8, 7:00 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham Free and open to the Public Reception and… Continue reading Ruth Behar and The Vulnerable Observer: After Twenty Years, What Next?