A brief introduction to the work of the great documentary photographers, and then, for each of the 12 students, a chance to produce a documentary photo project.
Documentary filmmaker Generoso Fierro takes you through a one time class where you will learn the basics of shooting a documentary film on mini dv, editing and getting it seen.
Filmmakers Chris Boebel and Chris Walley on the making of Exit Zero, an in-progress documentary film about deindustrialization, community, class, and family in a former steel mill region in southeast Chicago.
John Ellis will argue that "Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact."
Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
The urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place.
Jigar Mehta is a documentary filmmaker and a journalist and currently co-creator of the collaborative documentary project, 18 Days in Egypt, about the ongoing Egyptian revolution.
