Thirteen years after Wesley Hogan received her doctorate degree in history from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 2000, she returned to campus as the third director of the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) since it was founded at Duke in 1989. An oral historian with an academic focus on the civil rights movement, Hogan was especially drawn to the Center's mission. "I think what really captured it for me was that they wanted to foster respect, break down barriers and illuminate social injustice," she maintains. "I just thought that was a really unusual academic mission."
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Animation's history within the realm of documentary is a long and storied one, but to this day its origin is still a matter of contention. Although Winsor McCay's 1918 hand-drawn short, The Sinking of the Lusitania, is often cited as the first example of animation being used for documentary purposes, it could be argued that Eadweard Muybridge's use of stop-motion photography in 1877 to document The Horse in Motion not only heralded the birth of the motion picture, but was also the first instance of using cameras for motion capture, and a harbinger of the animation process to come. Any reader
An eye-opening documentary about restorative justice on the rez, Anne Makepeace's Tribal Justice should be required viewing for anyone involved in running the US court system, from local lawmakers to (especially) US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The film follows two remarkable ladies, Chief Judges for tribes on either end of California, who are implementing traditional solutions (i.e. tackling criminal behavior's causes and not just its symptoms) to keep their community members out of jails and state foster care, and on a healthy, law-abiding path. So it's quite an honor that the Honorable
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Netflix is Michal Marczak's All These Sleepless Nights, a fiction/nonfiction hybrid in which two classmates roam the streets of Warsaw on a beat-fueled quest for self-discovery. IndieWire calls it an "unclassifiable wonder [that] obscures the divide between fiction and documentary until the distinction is ultimately irrelevant." Currently streaming on Fandor is Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made in America, which captures the late jazz composer Ornette Coleman's
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! At IndieWire, Roger Ross Williams shares his experiences with a new high school program addressing issues with race in the doc world. Full Frame director Deirdre Haj began the program in 2010 in an effort to improve access to documentary film for public school students and to diversify the documentary pipeline
As documentary storytellers, artists, activists, and journalists, we believe in the power of images, and also of words. We believe it is important to identify the acts of racist violence committed in Charlottesville last weekend by white supremacists not merely as examples of extremism, but as terrorism. The International Documentary Association decries this brutal violence and takes a stand against domestic terrorism, and all forms of white extremism, bigotry, and racism. We express our support to the victims and families of this horrific attack, and our deepest gratitude to all those
The IDA is proud to introduce the two immensely talented individuals who are serving the documentary community this summer through internships at IDA: Xavier Allison (Filmmaker Services Intern) and Cecilia Hua (Educational Programs Intern). Xavier and Cecilia's internships have been generously sponsored by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Xavier, a rising senior studying business management at Fisk University in Nashville, is a Los Angeles native who has always loved the arts. As a teenager, he began making short films on his phone
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Starting tonight, Monday, August 14, POV will be streaming Whitney Dow and Marco Williams' Two Towns of Jasper, the 2003 film about a modern-day lynching. Two film crews, one black and one white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder of James Byrd, Jr. by following the subsequent trials of the local men charged with the crime. Currently streaming on Netflix is Kasper Collin's I Called Him Morgan, an exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan
Essential Doc Reads is a weekly feature in which the IDA staff recommends recent pieces about the documentary form and its processes. Here we feature think pieces and important news items from around the Internet, and articles from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! At T he New York Review of Books, Ian Buruma considers Marcel Ophuls' four-and-a-half-hour documentary about individual and collective responsibility for war crimes. Ophuls does not dilute the monstrosity of Nazi crimes at all. But he refuses to simply regard the perpetrators as monsters. "Belief in the Nazis as
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, August 7 on HBO and HBO Go is Lisanne Skyler's Brillo Box (3¢ Off), following the journey of an iconic Andy Warhol sculpture owned by the filmmaker's parents. The Los Angeles Times calls it "a simple tale of serendipity — of a sculpture that broke an auction record." Streaming beginning Tuesday, August 8 on Filmstruck is Chris Marker's Sunday in Peking, in which the French filmmaker meditates on his experiences traveling through China's capital