https://documentarylab.org The Documentary Lab Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:43:23 +0000 https://documentarylab.org en https://documentarylab.org/SP22 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:43:23 +0000 The Documentary Lab https://documentarylab.org/SP22 Documentary&nbsp; PoeticsSpring 2022 The Documentary Lab is the cornerstone of the graduate certificate in Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices offered by the Department of Critical Media Practices in partnership with Center for Documentary &amp; Ethnographic Media. The Lab brings artists and scholars together from any discipline who want to incorporate documentary methods in their research and creative work. A wide range of acclaimed artists and scholars regularly visit the Lab to engage with Lab participants through critique and professional development. Participants: Nima Bahrehmand, Bentley Brown, Emma Piper-Burket, Laurids Andersen Sonne, Josh Westerman &nbsp; Guests: Abraham Ravett, Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino, Dara Waldron, Gideon Koppel, Lynne Sachs &nbsp; https://documentarylab.org/SP21 Mon, 03 May 2021 16:25:26 +0000 The Documentary Lab https://documentarylab.org/SP21 Annelida Unfutures Works in-progress from the Documentary Lab - Spring 2021 Cold Futures Emma Joy Lawrence Every year, a handful of people--scientists, military, cooks, pilots--winter over in the American Antarctic bases.&nbsp; Inspired by efforts to find a sense of intimacy and belonging during these long winters, Cold Futures imagines a dorm at McMurdo Station in an unspecified past. Bounded by the sounds of howling wind and the light of The Thing (1982) projected over the rumpled covers, the room is filled with odds and ends that encourage exploration, investigation, and an invitation to consider how one might find comfort in a continent known for desolation. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a18367b271b1c4d3aa008f4c08499354db2ce05c2cef2b28e5083a8ba8362d4/PXL_20210509_002940601.jpg" data-mid="107849630" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a18367b271b1c4d3aa008f4c08499354db2ce05c2cef2b28e5083a8ba8362d4/PXL_20210509_002940601.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b47bb47762c470729cc7878668bdbe6d49907dc1c56ddd04c0deec0d29c9e345/PXL_20210509_0034286332.jpg" data-mid="107849631" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b47bb47762c470729cc7878668bdbe6d49907dc1c56ddd04c0deec0d29c9e345/PXL_20210509_0034286332.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/958f80d1044a2027e5857b3aaa0d4c0a33ce2adfac81fb7779b298ba327c1990/PXL_20210509_0034544752.jpg" data-mid="107849632" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/958f80d1044a2027e5857b3aaa0d4c0a33ce2adfac81fb7779b298ba327c1990/PXL_20210509_0034544752.jpg" /> (UN) BE COMING Constance Harris "(Un) Be. Coming is a visual mediation on the journey one takes to defining freedom on their own terms." Trailer for an unfinished film Bentley Brown “Sizzle reel” edited this semester for a feature-length, archive-assembly documentary project that serves my dissertation within the department of Critical Media Practices. The film will run approximately 100 minutes and features footage from 16 cameras accumulated over the past 33 years, and is centered around my family’s move from the United States to Chad where my father worked as a missionary doctor. Along the way, I discover previously forgotten footage of everyday life, captured after I bought my first video camera to shoot amateur movies with friends. Shooting formats: DV, VHS, miniDV, HD To some- the digital doors are closed Colette Czarnecki COVID-19 expedited public awareness of the ‘Homework Gap’ and ‘Digital Divide.’ In this piece, education is covered, however the analysis of how communities think of technology and what is their place in the digital divide will be explored and documented beyond what is shown. This is chapter one of a collection of interviews and stories covering education. Here, Boulder Valley School District discussed how they expedited closing the divide and challenges. On a national level, the non-profit organization Schools, Health, Libraries and Broadband (SHLB) talks of how the divide affects communities. This by no means is a finished product, and will be continued. Walking on Sol Nima Bahrehmand How do the ancient beliefs and tales, or lullabies, become manifestations of what is happening before our eyes? -- The whispers of the past are signals of today’s events -- The Walking on Sol is a two-channel video projection (6’59”). Using digital transportation and reconstruction, it represents documentation and investigation of the truth and fiction of the shambles of a Persian myth -- a giant gluttonous worm. The destruction of the worm is believed to have sealed a permanent curse on the city, which causes drought, and the city would eventually be destroyed. [area no.1](dakota ridge)Josh Westerman area no.1 is an audiovisual meditation concerned with Dakota Ridge and the remains of Dakota Ridge Sanitarium. The sanitarium was founded on the principle of strict dietary habits and idyllic settings. The piece considers the impact of this institution on the often neurotic food habits of Boulder, CO and the regions focus on “clean eating”. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6c2c33c2c8f3e54c7fb16df0e650d1524d8206b35e76613b87b13dd6c4135fc/PXL_20210509_000844522.jpg" data-mid="107846220" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6c2c33c2c8f3e54c7fb16df0e650d1524d8206b35e76613b87b13dd6c4135fc/PXL_20210509_000844522.jpg" /> This is our religion Lisa Guinther This is our religion is a small part of a larger project to document Local Boulder dance group and the annual ceremony to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe. Food, Farmland &amp; Finance of the Future - Michael Worchel Four interviews with a varied group of food, farm, and finance experts/professionals.&nbsp; These interviews, were all captured during the COVID-19 pandemic and leading up to or after the 2020 elections.&nbsp; They provide insight into the future of food, and the bizarre financial and technological levels influencing the future of our food systems. https://documentarylab.org/FA20 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 23:15:04 +0000 The Documentary Lab https://documentarylab.org/FA20 University of Colorado Boulder Fall 2020 Immediation StationWorks in-progress from the Documentary Lab - Fall 2020 Samah Abaza SURAYA Stories are passed on from generation to generation and in this way the past continues to live… Samah is a filmmaker and a PhD student who explores filmmaking as a therapeutic practice. <img width="1920" height="660" width_o="1920" height_o="660" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/381ed5e95839548f9a0b257cb8f251d0d6fd26b3b2cde85d9f3495e016135ec8/SURAYA.jpg" data-mid="91764874" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/381ed5e95839548f9a0b257cb8f251d0d6fd26b3b2cde85d9f3495e016135ec8/SURAYA.jpg" /> Laurids Andersen Sonne Via, &nbsp;a road movie, follows the labor of making and maintaining the American roads. The modern road system of interlocking conveyance carries our bodies, dreams, desires, memories, materials and goods across vast space. But what happens in these recurring invisible commas of progression, construction, and repair. We only notice these as ghostly traces along the way, if we notice them at all. Whose physical labor embodies this monumental network that&nbsp; allows us to rhythmically march forward, as the milestones pass by? Laurids Andersen Sonne is a Danish born artist. Laurids’ work spans film, video, installation, sculpture, performance, and socially engaged art. <img width="863" height="1052" width_o="863" height_o="1052" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61a95cd2dd96edbf867be46937a088a9015a0e4577cabce2d353206fff468078/SONNE_VIA_.gif" data-mid="91175066" border="0" data-scale="67" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/863/i/61a95cd2dd96edbf867be46937a088a9015a0e4577cabce2d353206fff468078/SONNE_VIA_.gif" /> Nima Bahrehmand Before the rise of the Sassanids, at the time that Ardeshir, the founder of the Sassanid dynasty, conquered all regions of Persia one after another, only one mighty family succeeded in standing against Ardeshir. Stories tell of a giant gluttonous worm kept by this family as the familiar and guarantor of their power. The worm was eventually destroyed by an assassin sent by Ardeshir who poured molten metal into the acephalous mouth of the worm. The destruction of the worm is believed to have sealed a permanent curse on the city, according to which the city would eventually be destroyed. Walking on Sol is an immersive video art (in-progress) project that uses digital teleport/Tayy al-Arḍ to document, investigate, and represent the history, fiction, and myth of the region. Nima Bahrehmand (b. Kerman, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist who deals with video installation, performative action, and technology outcomes. <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb2e89862f68b0a708150d074954c23ceadfef7c1fb346745da309c677237822/WalkingOnSol.gif" data-mid="139854967" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb2e89862f68b0a708150d074954c23ceadfef7c1fb346745da309c677237822/WalkingOnSol.gif" /> Renata Carvalho Barreto “Inductive Experience” is an experimental film structured around the work with 16MM found footage film and original Super 8 material. The main elements/characters of the film are the buildings and the epistemologies being discussed inside of those buildings. Through edition and image processing, a plot is being delineated in the direction of a discussion over how our current ways of knowing and doing are tied to the Positivist methodologies born in the 18th and 19th centuries. A hybrid experimental film, that questions normalized common sense and constituted beliefs by our society. Renata Carvalho Barreto is an artist and a historian preoccupied with the archive and the violence it contains. <img width="720" height="480" width_o="720" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9aa19be2c271843e80f57381572d15f26e85aacc17d3cacc4c09e8426adba721/RCBarret_InductiveExp.jpg" data-mid="91705857" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/9aa19be2c271843e80f57381572d15f26e85aacc17d3cacc4c09e8426adba721/RCBarret_InductiveExp.jpg" /> Bentley Brown Souk Corona (or Why the Covid Lockdown Reminds Me of Life as a Kid in Chad) A video project exploring the presence of infectious disease from my childhood in Chad, where my father was a physician, to today’s COVID-19 pandemic. I set out to make a video contemplating coronavirus in Chad, where I grew up, with a careful navigation through old VHS/miniDV home video and modern HD footage. Since the onset of the pandemic, friends in Chad had been on my mind. After all, it was the lack of medical access and resources that led my father to move our family there at the end of the 1990s. I accompanied him on polio vaccination campaigns, such as one depicted at the start of this film. Lockdown in America reminds me of life as a teenager in Chad, nothing to really work towards, just living the day to day, exhibited in water fights and the construction of a basketball goal. The presence of Covid on the minds of Americans reminds me of the immediacy of disease in Chad. We see footage from the first film I made with friends, as a teenager, which dealt with conceptions surrounding AIDS and the quest for a cure. A market in Chad’s capital Ndjamena was named Souk Choléra after an outbreak. During the current pandemic, Chad has been completely ignored by the international community, even as it reports a low number of cases amid prevention efforts, conveyed by childhood friends of mine who have since become journalists. But perhaps there are valuable lessons we can learn from a country that has navigated more than one epidemic in recent times? Bentley Brown, a PhD candidate in Critical Media Practices, is a film director and producer. <img width="1914" height="1422" width_o="1914" height_o="1422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/434fd563987852183d8ad26b07b9b992deadcce9799d8f844ebf7e94dcfc9fc1/SoukCorona3.png" data-mid="91175440" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/434fd563987852183d8ad26b07b9b992deadcce9799d8f844ebf7e94dcfc9fc1/SoukCorona3.png" /> <img width="1966" height="1430" width_o="1966" height_o="1430" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ad152c625b2c76b18f24e06c7197616804790395eb88008b7aab7b55224cac6/SoukCorona6.png" data-mid="91175441" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ad152c625b2c76b18f24e06c7197616804790395eb88008b7aab7b55224cac6/SoukCorona6.png" /> <img width="1932" height="1264" width_o="1932" height_o="1264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de1b04edce03a01649f86218a779f493ace2e4a60aa68c514ac569672714320f/SoukCorona7.png" data-mid="91175442" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de1b04edce03a01649f86218a779f493ace2e4a60aa68c514ac569672714320f/SoukCorona7.png" /> <img width="1904" height="1396" width_o="1904" height_o="1396" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/777f5b72219be31d709a6a8dea8950f2f89de9411d5b63e448719280f3e040c6/SoukCorona8.png" data-mid="91175443" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/777f5b72219be31d709a6a8dea8950f2f89de9411d5b63e448719280f3e040c6/SoukCorona8.png" /> <img width="1914" height="1432" width_o="1914" height_o="1432" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e695e9fb9e0481da9c893c656022872e4e8e8979db2336f7154b4236346c49c6/SoukCorona10.png" data-mid="91175444" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e695e9fb9e0481da9c893c656022872e4e8e8979db2336f7154b4236346c49c6/SoukCorona10.png" /> <img width="1832" height="1436" width_o="1832" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a10a18cd23b56d7d99a18674e42cc216ed0e18862fb6c3f7a9d2426e312ad164/SoukCorona11.png" data-mid="91175445" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a10a18cd23b56d7d99a18674e42cc216ed0e18862fb6c3f7a9d2426e312ad164/SoukCorona11.png" /> <img width="1926" height="1436" width_o="1926" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f039aeea31409a4faf38136acd53de21790c472df7a01529dd3edeb12a7b9c0/SoukCorona14.png" data-mid="91175446" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f039aeea31409a4faf38136acd53de21790c472df7a01529dd3edeb12a7b9c0/SoukCorona14.png" /> <img width="2054" height="1250" width_o="2054" height_o="1250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f406aabd6be56c53bbedb5bc05a4138287fd041cff90c78957d7ccd812c776a7/SoukCorona16.png" data-mid="91175447" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f406aabd6be56c53bbedb5bc05a4138287fd041cff90c78957d7ccd812c776a7/SoukCorona16.png" /> <img width="1916" height="1442" width_o="1916" height_o="1442" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b274f9ce546162deccaffdf7ec714d6f99caa6c002b5a4a776b81742f920746/SoukCorona19.png" data-mid="91175448" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b274f9ce546162deccaffdf7ec714d6f99caa6c002b5a4a776b81742f920746/SoukCorona19.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1444" width_o="1920" height_o="1444" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24791f94c61e6d0692dea7c6232edf69752e7caf5b02b93f42e45f44b5233826/SoukCorona22.png" data-mid="91175449" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24791f94c61e6d0692dea7c6232edf69752e7caf5b02b93f42e45f44b5233826/SoukCorona22.png" /> Douglas Deuitch Explaining Conspiracies I am conducting research about why people decide to embrace COVID-19 conspiracies or not.&nbsp; I am planning to do a documentary which focuses on a variety of people, their motivations, their decisions, and the impact of conspiracy beliefs on themselves and their families.&nbsp; My research will take a multi-media approach, with a heavy emphasis on interviews.&nbsp; My last decision to make, before beginning production, is whether it will be a traditional or interactive documentary. Doug is a second year MA in Journalism student.&nbsp; He returned to college after a work career in National Security spanning 36 years.&nbsp; Doug is focusing on documentaries and enjoys looking at why people decide to make decisions that often don’t make sense to the rest of us. <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d44675e4c48c01f55cb7e2226b64b56253f5afcf5b2d0b3c02bbbf247bef0fd/Slide1.jpeg" data-mid="91628517" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/2d44675e4c48c01f55cb7e2226b64b56253f5afcf5b2d0b3c02bbbf247bef0fd/Slide1.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/711b15bafaf950d5ab4280b277b85fd4e49ff1100d6a72ea46a25a0153cc0f13/Slide2.jpeg" data-mid="91628518" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/711b15bafaf950d5ab4280b277b85fd4e49ff1100d6a72ea46a25a0153cc0f13/Slide2.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37d9c6e7d2e4ecccfd7087663982b8955115873612b5dfbca15b7e083435f659/Slide3.jpeg" data-mid="91629152" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/37d9c6e7d2e4ecccfd7087663982b8955115873612b5dfbca15b7e083435f659/Slide3.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/599b05874e0e101cf7b31c3326be99c201476bf837180ade152f28624528e460/Slide4.jpeg" data-mid="91628521" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/599b05874e0e101cf7b31c3326be99c201476bf837180ade152f28624528e460/Slide4.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ce2e6c622f2cdc0405fde073b39e3b150f436d9fa41132560f0a9f747aa72e6/Slide5.jpeg" data-mid="91629751" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/1ce2e6c622f2cdc0405fde073b39e3b150f436d9fa41132560f0a9f747aa72e6/Slide5.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76fd7bca5735be6a3f7795bc0bce50a5de2f388587b89c161b5ca3cd574972b1/Slide6.jpeg" data-mid="91628524" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/76fd7bca5735be6a3f7795bc0bce50a5de2f388587b89c161b5ca3cd574972b1/Slide6.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7716450dec208ca8fa552c08222ac078723bd73c5f1b7d41be18ac6db92bd099/Slide7.jpeg" data-mid="91628526" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/7716450dec208ca8fa552c08222ac078723bd73c5f1b7d41be18ac6db92bd099/Slide7.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac71e4e6e378d445e0bb2702e61a09c579770fda159410f00bd66b8391467f98/Slide8.jpeg" data-mid="91628527" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/ac71e4e6e378d445e0bb2702e61a09c579770fda159410f00bd66b8391467f98/Slide8.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0da5f7160b40ee279c2a0c2e90f4adbf0549c1384f703976d8c6e3959c879c6b/Slide9.jpeg" data-mid="91628528" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/0da5f7160b40ee279c2a0c2e90f4adbf0549c1384f703976d8c6e3959c879c6b/Slide9.jpeg" /> Nicollette Laroco Where are You From (languages English, Catalán, Spanish) follows a conversation with Byoli, a Barcelona-born Spaniard with Korean descent and Eric, a Mallorca-native of Chinese descent on their experiences growing up in cross-cultural environments and most recently, navigating microaggressions associated with the surge of Covid cases in Spain. Nicollette Laroco is an Environmental Engineering PhD student and a documentary filmmaker. Her most recent work, Where Are You From, was inspired by her Fulbright tenure in Spain, which explores conversations in self-identity in Spain’s contemporary society. <img width="1264" height="710" width_o="1264" height_o="710" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8deea1fafe1bcba5ef47b69b6df8460249126ce156231d525b5414e5aa7786d6/Where-are-you-from---Still-.png" data-mid="91451007" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8deea1fafe1bcba5ef47b69b6df8460249126ce156231d525b5414e5aa7786d6/Where-are-you-from---Still-.png" /> Emma Piper-burket PROCESSES IN PROCESS Echoing footsteps in an abandoned munitions bunker, uncovering a 50-million year old crystallized worm, and a house fire at a film set that perhaps wasn’t meant to be. Some of the fragments I’ve been carrying around during the Fall of 2020 while my body has been busy doing other things. Someday these fragments will become a film, or two, or three. Expanding and contracting many times before actualization, the final form nothing like the idea originally conceived. Emma Piper-Burket is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer working in fiction, non-fiction, and collected media. Her work is process-based and research driven, incorporating social trends, ancient history, science, politics, ephemera, and the natural world into her creative practice. https://documentarylab.org/Friends Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:11:47 +0000 The Documentary Lab https://documentarylab.org/Friends Kirk Ambrose, Art HistorianReece Auguiste, Filmmaker and Scholar Daniel Boord, Media Artist and DocumentarianCarmel Curtis (XFR Collective), ArchivistMyron Dewey (Digital Smoke Signals), JournalistNabil Echchaibi, Media ScholarShae Frydenlund, GeographerRoberto [Bear] Guerra, PhotographerSteven Hoggard, JournalistErnst Karel, Sound Artist Gideon Koppel, FilmmakerDaniel Junge, FilmmakerPatty Limerick, ScholarRoddy MacInnes, PhotographerLouis Massiah, FilmmakerTimothy S Oakes, Geographer and FilmmakerJoshua Oppenheimer, Filmmaker&nbsp;Pooja Rangan, Documentary Scholar Abraham Ravett, FilmmakerLarissa Rhodes, Producer Lynne Sachs, Filmmaker and PoetJen Shannon, AnthropologistThorsten Trimpop, FilmmakerLuis Valdovino, Video Artist Dara Waldron, Scholar Patricia Zimmerman, Scholar https://documentarylab.org/Home Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:01:42 +0000 The Documentary Lab https://documentarylab.org/Home Necropolitics “It is the death of the Other, the Other’s physical presence as a corpse, that makes the survivor feel unique. And each enemy killed makes the survivor feel more secure.” ― Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics Participants: Naim Aburaddi, Eric Drasin, Kitty Mcchesney, Emma Piper-Burket, Nandi Pointer, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, Robyn Tomiko, Anel Villalobos Special Guests: Donagh Coleman, Emett Casey &nbsp; Spring 2023