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UNDERGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN DOCUMENTARY STUDIES CAPSTONE PRESENTATIONS Center for Documentary Studies Sunday, April 29, 2007 Auditorium 6–10 p.m. Refreshments provided Eight Duke students will present their documentary projects, as they complete their Certificates in Documentary Studies. Rebekah Fergusson Life Span of a Game A film about three soccer players at the end of their college careers Brian Wright Glady Fork A photographic portrait of a western North Carolina trout farmer Emily Shenkin Superwoman A video designed to help women heal, especially from the effects of sexual trauma Strouse Campbell Street Savior An audio-visual representation of the lives of skateboarders in Durham Elizabeth Bishop Exodus: Void A photographic definition of “good-bye” Hiram Rogers Dear Mary: Stories from Buffalo, Alabama Fictionalized letters and poetry about the career of my grandfather, a brakeman on the Florida East Coast Railway Laura Pyatt Disa-Piers North Carolina Fishing Piers, a photographic exploration of a disappearing culture Gul Tuysuz Audio Portrait of a Disbeliever Each of the students has completed a minimum of four elective and two required documentary studies courses—including the Capstone seminar this semester—to finish the Certificate in Documentary Studies program at CDS. In completing their work, the students were required to conceptualize a documentary project and carry it out over several months, determine the form the final projects should take, figure out how to solve technical issues that might keep them from successfully rendering what they saw and experienced, and come to terms with complicated ethical issues. For their public presentations, students decide on a narrative voice to employ, and on whether and how to present conclusions about their documentary fieldwork. In short, Capstone students faced the same contradictions and difficulties all photographers, filmmakers, and writers face outside the university as they take on documentary projects. More about the Certificate in Documentary Studies  banner image: Professor Alex Harris during a slide lecture accompanying the fall 2003 exhibition, Walker Evans at 100. Photograph by Christopher Sims.
Center for Documentary Studies 1317 W. Pettigrew Street Durham, NC 27705 telephone: (919) 660-3663 fax: (919) 681-7600 email: docstudies@duke.edu See: directions to the Center for Documentary Studies top |
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