Mdocs Banner-2016-06-01, Walking The Line Fact And Fiction In Documentary Storytelling, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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Storytellers' Institute 2016 Walking the Line: Fact and Fiction

May 31 - July 1, 2016

THEME

This June, the MDOCS' Storytellers' Institute explores the theme of "fact and fiction." Documentary works are evidence-based stories, working with facts to render, reveal, and represent truth(s) to inform and, at times, inspire action. Despite relying on real people, depicting real places, and presenting real events, documentaries engage by interpreting and representing reality (Lamarre 2009).

In the words of John Grierson (1926) (considered the father of the term "documentary"), a documentary film is a "creative treatment of actuality." Tools in a documentarian's kit are …

Mdocs Booklet-2016-06-01, Storytellers' Institute Art Book, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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A collective booklet of photographs from 2016 Storytellers' Institute

Mdocs Poster-2016-04-20, Student Showcases 2015-16, Jesse Wakeman

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Wed Apr 20: Video Projects 6:30-8pm, Emerson Auditorium

Fri Apr 29, Tang Art Party 8pm-midnight, Tang Museum

Contemporary Time-Based Media: presenting media installations

Intro to Audio: live on air via FM transmitter 2-5:30pm

Tue May 3, Video Storytelling 5-7pm, Somers Room, Tang Museum

Wed May 4, Academic Festival 3-4:20pm, Palamountain 300

Evidence-based audio, video, and exhibit projects from Doc Studies

Wed May 11, Audio Doc 1:30-4:30pm, LI 113

Mdocs Flyer-2016-04-10, Spring 2016 Li113 Workshops, Jesse Wakeman

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April 2016 Workshops

Video Editing Support Session- Sunday Apr 10 @ 4pm

Conducting a Video Interview- Wednesday April 13 @ 7pm

Final Cut ProX- Thursday April 14 @ 8pm

Poster Design 101- Wednesday April 20 @ 7pm

Mdocs Poster-2016-03-31, Virgin Blacktop Screening, Sam Marks

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Test Screening of Virgin Blacktop with local filmmaker Charlie Samuels.

Thu March 31 @ 7pm, Palamountain 202

This sneak peek screening of a feature length hybrid documentary 21 years in the making is to provide the director with audience critique and feedback. A personal coming-of-age story made with real film reel about a crew of wildly diverse kids from the suburbs of New York City in the 1970's who had nothing in common but skateboarding yet forged lifelong friendships.

Mdocs Poster, 2016-3-8, Oriented, Michael Zhou

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Poster-2016-03-01, Youth Fx Screening And Discussion, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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Award Winning Youth FX Program with Bhawin Suchak

Tue March 1:

11:10-12:30pm: Join the conversation in 'Principles of Doc' (Zankel 214)

12:30-1:30pm: Lunch discussion with Director Bhawin Suchak (LI113) - RSVP appreciated, mdocs@skidmore.edu

6-8pm: SCREENING of award-winning shorts (Davis Auditorium)

Albany's own Youth FX film program presents an evening of award-winning short films with a Q & A with the filmmakers after the screening. These powerful short films range from dramatic narratives to insightful documentaries that reveal the hopes, dreams and realities of young people living in the capital region. Written, directed, and produced by local teens, Youth FX films …

Mdocs Newsletter-2016-03-01, 2.5 March/April 2016, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman, Liv Fidler, Renato Dornelas, Maria Maybock, Rebecca Stern, Augustus Svikhart, Sam Grant

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Table of Contents with links to live newsletter. Full PDF of the online newsletter available here.

MDOCS Newsletter 2.5, March/April 2016

Director's Note: March, 2016

2016 Storytellers' Institute: Walking the Line

MDOCS 2016 Fall Course List

SSMP Highlight: Skidmore Retiree Project

Doc on Campus: Dave DeSario documents Temp Workers' Issues

Doc off Campus: Youth FX

Faculty Spotlight: Rik Scarce on Video Ethnography and Barefoot Running

MDOCS Picks: "Serial" Reflections

Mdocs Newsletter, 2016-03-01, 2.4, Jesse Wakeman, Jordana Dym, Emma Foley, Laura Juncadella, Iva Radivojevic, Danielle Rosen

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Poster-2016-02-25, Exploremore, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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Exploremore: Media & Film Studies and MDOCS

Thu February 25

MFS @ 5-6pm, TISCH 301

MDOCS @ 6-7pm, TISCH 301

Interested in a Media & Film Studies minor? Curious about documentary work and media production? Meet faculty & students in both programs to learn more!

Mdocs Poster, 2016-3-1, Youth Fx Visit, Michael Zhou

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Program, 2016-3-1, Youth Fx Visit, Michael Zhou

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Banner-2016-02-16, Feb/March Events, Michael Zhou

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February/March Events 2016

Brian Murphy

Is This a Lynching Photo? Forgotten Archives of White Supremacist Violence

March 22, 7pm

Payne Room, Tang Museum

Award Winning YOUTH FX Program with Bhawin Suchak

March 1, 6-8 pm, Davis Auditorium

Meet the Youth FX filmmakers and see their films. This Albany-based digital film and media arts program for young people (14-19) is showing award-winning films, nationally (think Sundance and beyond).

Ethics Bowl: Media Production Ethics and Morals

Febraury 16, 6-8 pm, Emerson Auditorim

This training session tackles issues facing today's non--fiction storytellers. Get some tips, grapple with real-world cases.

Exploremore: MFS & MDOCS …

Mdocs Poster, 2016-2-25, Exploremore V.2, Jesse Wakeman

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Poster-2016-02-16, Ethics Bowl, Jesse Wakeman

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The Ethics Bowl is soon to be a required seminar for students taking MDOCS and Media & Film Studies production courses. This training session tackled issues facing today's non-fiction storytellers. The session included lectures by faculty members Scott Mulligan, Beck Krefting (Media & Film Studies), and Jordana Dym (MDOCS) providing tips followed by an activity in which attendees grappled with a real-world cases to discuss solutions.

This event was hosted by Media & Film Studies and MDOCS.

Mdocs Poster, 2016-2-25, Exploremore 2015, Jesse Wakeman

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Flyer-2016-02-11, Salt Of The Earth, Michael Zhou

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Synopsis: For the last 40 yrs, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He's witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He's now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, wild fauna and flora, and grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project, which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.

In "The Salt of the Earth," Sebastião Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by photographer …

Mdocs Poster-2016-02-11, Salt Of The Earth, Michael Zhou

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Synopsis: For the last 40 yrs, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He's witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He's now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, wild fauna and flora, and grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project, which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.

In "The Salt of the Earth," Sebastião Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by photographer …

Mdocs Poster-2016-02-01, Project Vis February/March Events, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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Project VIS February/March events:

Ethics Bowl: Media Production Ethics and Morals

Tue February 16 @ 6-8pm, Emerson Auditorium

Soon to be a required seminar for students taking MDOCS and Media & Film Studies production courses, this training session tackles issues facing today's non-fiction storytellers. The session will be a combination of lecture providing tips followed by an activity in which attendees grapple with a real-world case and come together to discuss solutions.

This is an important seminar for any students who are or will be working with subjects outside of the campus community.

Exploremore: Media & Film Studies and MDOCS …

Mdocs Trifold, Jesse Wakeman

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Newsletter-2016-01-01, 2.6 April And May, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Newsletter-2016-01-01, 2.4 February-March, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Poster-2016-01-01, Student Showcase Event List, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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MDOCS Student Work Showcases

Details listed below:

Wed Apr 20: Video Projects 6:30-8pm, Emerson Auditorium

Fri Apr 29, Tang Art Party 8pm-midnight, Tang Museum

Contemporary Time-Based Media: presenting media installations

Intro to Audio: live on air via FM transmitter 2-5:30pm

Tue May 3, Video Storytelling 5-7pm, Somers Room, Tang Museum

Wed May 4, Academic Festival 3-4:20pm, Palamountain 300

Evidence-based audio, video, and exhibit projects from Doc Studies

Wed May 11, Audio Doc 1:30-4:30pm, LI 11

Mdocs Newsletter-2016-01-01, 2.5 March-April, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Flyer-2015-12-11, Networking Night Graphic, Jesse Wakeman

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Invitation graphic used for Networking Night for Skidmore students and faculty with community creative practitioners.

Mdocs Newsletter-2015-12-01, 2.3, Jordana Dym, Jesse Wakeman, Sam Grant 17, Sara Marsh, Rebecca Stern, Yiyun (Evian) Pan 17

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No abstract provided.

Mdocs Publication-2015-11-16, Stone Phillips Helps Center Celebrate Anniversary, Anonymous Anonymous

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"Stone Phillips helps center celebrate anniversary"

The Saratogian

November 16, 2015

Author:

Mdocs Tri-Fold-2015-11-12, Exhibit: Sixty Years Young, Jordana Dym

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On November 12, 2015, the Adult and Senior Center of Saratoga celebrated its 60th anniversary with a gala. MDOCS Students Eli Ruben, 17, Phoebe Radcliffe, 17, Rebecca Walker, 18, Natasha Thaler, 18 and Tracey Wingate 18 prepared a video and exhibition, Sixty Years Young, for the event. This brochure offers a brief overview of the Center's history, drawn from its archives.

Mdocs Poster-2015-11-11, Sixty Years Young, Michael Zhou

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In support of the 60th anniversary of the Adult and Senior Center of Saratoga, Skidmore students prepared a video and exhibition, Sixty Years Young, drawing on the Center's archives and interviews, documenting its past, present and hopes for the future.

Mdocs Flyer-2016-06-01, Storytellers' Institute Fellows Postcard, Jesse Wakeman

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This postcard was created with information to pass out to potential Institute Fellows applying for the 2016 Storytellers' Institute.

Details about the 2016 Storytellers' Institute:

The theme for the 2016 Storytellers' Institute is "fact and fiction." Documentary films, podcasts, exhibitions and other works are evidence-based stories, working with facts to render, reveal, and represent truth(s) to inform and, at times, inspire action. Despite relying on real people, events and events documentaries engage because of the way they interpret and represent reality (Lamarre 2009). In the words of John Grierson (1926) (considered the father of the term "documentary"), a documentary film …