The Extravagant Shadows: A Screening and Talk with David Gatten

Date: Friday, November 30th, 2012
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Biddle Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke University

David Gatten’s new work of digital cinema. Gatten is an award-winning filmmaker and Guggenheim fellow, and is currently a Lecturing Fellow and Artist in Residence with Duke University’s Program in Arts of the Moving Image.  Earlier this year he was named one of the fifty best filmmakers under fifty by Cinema Scope magazine.

Fourteen years in the making, The Extravagant Shadows is a film concerned with libraries, reading, letters, and lovers.  It premiered at the 50^th annual New York Film Festival and has received widespread acclaim.

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New Day Films Collection Comes to Duke

April 13, 2012-April 14, 2012
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the New Day Films Collection.

In celebration of this and New Day's 40^th anniversary, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will showcase a selection of the founders' films on Friday, April 13, 2012 at 4:50 pm, and host a panel conversation with all four founding members about New Day's exceptional history on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 9:30 am. 

Specializing in social-issue documentaries, New Day Films is a unique distribution company that has been run as a participatory, democratic filmmakers' cooperative for four decades; today, the company distributes 250 titles for 120 member filmmakers. The four founding New Day members, Liane Brandon, Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, and Amalie R. Rothschild, were inspired to form the organization by the conviction that reaching their audiences was as much a political act as the act of making films. 

The Women's Movement was in its early years and the filmmakers believed that film was an important way to spread the word. They also felt it was important for women to tell their own stories, rather than have their message distorted by the mass media and their identities represented by Hollywood.  They knew there was a huge demand for their films, though most mainstream distributors did not. The founders also wanted to create an organization dedicated to cooperation, independence, innovation and social change - a radical model of distribution.

The New Day Films Collection coming to the Rubenstein Library includes the founding films and organizational records of New Day founders. Documenting a pioneering film distribution company and collective, the first to distribute feminist films, the collection is also an important record of the Feminist Movement. New Day films have been effective vehicles for social change, helping to expand consciousness about human rights, sexual roles in society, environmental concerns, aging, and other issues. 

The collection includes Academy Award winners and nominees, Emmy award winners, and hundreds of winning entries from film festivals around the world.  They have been frequently seen on HBO and POV. These films continue to shape opinions and provide an important voice for those who seek social justice, and the New Day cooperative continues its dedication to its founding ideals of cooperation, independence, innovation, and social change.

The Rubenstein is committed to preserving the New Day Films Collection for future generations to make this record of the evolution of progressive independent American filmmaking available for teaching and research.

For more information on the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, including a complete schedule and ticket information, see: http://www.fullframefest.org/

For more information on New Day Films, see: http://www.newday.com/

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series

12th and Delaware

March 13, 2012, 7:00 pm
The Garage, Smith Warehouse Bay 4, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd.

Co-Director Heidi Ewing and Carey Pope (Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina) will lead a discussion following the film

12^th and Delaware takes its name from an intersection in Fort Pierce, Florida, where an abortion clinic named A Woman’s World sits across the street from the pro-life Pregnancy Care Center. Pregnant teenagers and women often mistake the pro-life center for the abortion clinic, and are patiently and persuasively counseled by its staff, often with deceptive tactics, to keep their pregnancies. Meanwhile, the medical staff of the clinic try to counsel patients to make their own choices and to perform their work as pro-life protesters walk the sidewalk in front of the clinic day and night. Turning a non-judgmental lens on both camps, filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing use the extraordinary access they gained to practitioners, protestors, and patients to show us a conflict with seemingly no possible resolution.

The screening will be followed by a discussion panel.  Heidi Ewing has been making critically acclaimed documentary films and television programs with co-director and -producer Rachel Grady for over ten years.  Their film Jesus Camp, a candid look at Pentecostal children in America, was nominated for a 2007 Academy Award for best documentary feature.  Two years earlier, The Boys of Baraka, about a group of “at-risk” pre-teens from Baltimore who attend an experimental boarding school in Kenya, was nominated for an Emmy.  12th and Delaware premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and, among other honors, won the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights at the 2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Carey Pope is the Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina. She has worked in the fields of reproductive and sexual health education, research and advocacy for more than eight years in Houston, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. She holds a master’s degree in public policy and women's studies from The George Washington University and a B.A. in English and women’s studies from North Carolina State University.

Free and open to the public, with free parking and popcorn

Co-sponsored by the Rubenstein Library’s Human Rights Archive, Archive of Documentary Arts, and Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture; the Duke Human Rights Center; the Franklin Humanities Institute; and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series

Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary

January 24, 2012, 7:00 pm
The Garage, Smith Warehouse Bay 4, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd.

Join us and special co-sponsor Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) for a screening of Arturo Perez Torres’sWetback: The Undocumented Documentary. A panel discussion with North Carolina Rep. Paul Luebke (D), 2011 SAF Fellow Nandini Kumar, and SAF Advocacy and Organizing Director, Nadeen Bir will immediately follow the screening. 

Winner of the 2005 Full Frame Spectrum Award, Wetback follows undocumented migrant workers from their home in Nicaragua across Central America and Mexico to the U.S.-Mexican border, meeting many other migrants along the way. They encounter gangs, vigilantes, corrupt law enforcement, physical danger, and safe havens in their attempt to be among the 10% of migrants who actually make it all the way into North America. The migrants, those who aid them, and those who turn them back all give their own perspectives on how this vast, illegal system trafficking in cheap labor and dreams actually functions, and what its terrible costs and perils are.

Cosponsored by Student Action with Farmworkers and BorderWork(s). This screening is part of a year-long celebration of Student Action with Farmworkers’ 20th Anniversary.

Free and open to the public, with refreshments.

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Rural Mexico: the People, the Land, and the Music

December 5, 3-4:30, Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room, Rubenstein Library

Chris Vail shows photographs and video from his work documenting the people of rural Mexico, the land they inhabit and the music and cultural traditions that weave them together.

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening

Good Times (Alessandro Cassigoli and Dalia Castel, 2004, 31 minutes)

November 15, 2011, 7:00pm
The Garage, Smith Warehouse Bay 4, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd.

Ben Lowy Reception, Artist Talk & Book Signing

November 10th,  5:30-7:30 p.m.
Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room, Rubenstein Library

For Exhibit:

Iraq|Perspectives: Photographs by Ben Lowy

October 24 - December 11, 2011
Rubenstein Library Gallery

Gallery is open Monday-Sunday
Hours: Mon-Sat 9-9, Sun 10-9

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Duke Performances Film Screening: 

Bill Morrison's Decasia
followed by a Q & A with Bill Morrison

Monday, November 7, 2011, 7:00pm 
Carolina Theater (309 W. Morgan St., Durham) 
Tickets $5

Made from deteriorating reels of film, Bill Morrison’s experimental film Decasia, a symphony in decay. With a score composed by Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon, this “haunting modern masterpiece” (The Guardian) will be presented in a rare screening, followed by a Q&A with Morrison.

“Bill Morrison’s Decasia is a rare thing: a movie with avant-garde and universal appeal…The film is a fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude.” 
—Village Voice

Co-sponsored by the Rubenstein Library Archive of Documentary Arts

To purchase tickets:

Tickets on-sale through the Carolina Theatre box office starting Friday, September 30. You can purchase tickets over the phone or in person. Tickets will also be available the night of the film screening. Please call 919-560-3030 for more information.

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Triangle Home Movie Day

Saturday, October 15th, 2011, 1pm - 4pm
North Carolina State Archive in downtown Raleigh

109 East Jones Street, First Floor Auditorium
Free & easy parking in lot across the street or street parking

What hidden treasures lie in those old home movies that you have in the closet? Come to Home Movie Day and find out the value of these unique cultural and historical documents and how to save them for future generations. Spend the day watching old films and playing Home Movie Day bingo. Go home with prizes and a free DVD transfer of your film!

For more information about Triangle Home Movie Day, see: http://www.avgeeks.com/hmd.html

For more information about Home Movie Day worldwide, see: http://www.homemovieday.com/

Brought to you by A/V Geeks, NCSU Film Studies, Duke's Archive of Documentary Arts, and NC State Archives. 
Skip Elsheimer, A/V Geek skip AT avgeeks.com, 919-247-7752 
Marsha Orgeron, Associate Professor, Film Studies, NCSU, 919-515-4149, mgorgero AT unity.ncsu.edu 
Devin Orgeron, Associate Professor, Film Studies, NCSU, 919-515-4138, devin_orgeron AT ncsu.edu

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath, 2008, 95 min.)

September 13, 7:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, 114 S. Buchanan 

Join us for the first film in the 2011-2012 Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Screening Series. Filmed over the course of 23 years, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is the epic story of a Lao soldier family’s journey from war-torn Laos to New York City. Co-directed by Thavisouk Phrasavath, who describes his own life as a young man struggling to survive both a war and the hardships of immigrant life, and renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras in her directorial debut, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) shows the hidden, human face of war’s collateral damage.

Free and open to the public, with free drinks and popcorn

Cosponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke’s 2012 Winter Forum.

About Rights! Camera! Action!: Featuring award-winning documentaries about human rights themes from Durham’s annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the series explores issues ranging from the immigration and refugee rights to the justice system and the environment. All films featured in the series are archived at the Duke Library and are part of a rich and expanding collection of human rights materials. Co-sponsors include Duke Library’s Archives for Human Rights, the Duke Human Rights Center, theArchive of Documentary Arts, the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (Zach Niles and Banker White, 2005, 78 minutes)

July 14, 2011, 7:00pm
Duke Gardens (Parking available at Duke Gardens Lot)

In the wake of Sierra Leone's civil war, a group of refugees formed an Afro-pop band, the Refugee All Stars, bringing solace to their compatriots and helping the musicians survive; Compelling personal stories and the infectious music itself suffuse this look at a band of survivors determined to use music to establish a new community.  In English and local languages with English subtitles. Panel discussion will follow screening.

Series is presented by Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, the Archive of Documentary Arts (Full Frame Archive), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.

Free and open to the public, with refreshments

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (Alan Dater and Lisa Merton, 2008, 80 minutes)

March 24, 2011, 7:00pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai transformed the simple act of planting trees into Kenya's Green Belt Movement, a nationwide political movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy, as Kenya recovered, politically, culturally and environmentally from colonial exploitation. Panel discussion will follow screening.

Series is presented by Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, the Archive of Documentary Arts (Full Frame Archive), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.

Free and open to the public, with refreshments

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Working with Words:
Historical Documents, Systems of Knowledge and Text-as-Moving Image Art in the films of David Gatten

April 7, 2011, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Reception at 6:30pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

Award winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow, David Gatten, will give a talk and present a program of three of his films exploring the intersection of the printed word and the moving image, while investigating the shifting vocabularies of experience and representation within intimate spaces and historical documents.  The films include:

"Secret History of the Dividing Line" (2002) - one of nine parts in Gatten's ongoing investigation of the life and library of William Byrd.

"The Matter Propounded, of its possibility or impossibility, treated in four Parts" (2011)- makes use of an early 19th century 'tablet of Jupiter' system for attempting to tell one's future.

"Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 323: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST" (2010) - the latest in Gatten's austerely beautiful "Invisible Ink" series; this film actually served as Gatten's own wedding vows.

For more information, see full event description.

Gatten is a Visiting Associate Professor and Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence in the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University.

Contact: Kirston Johnson, 919-681-7963, Kirston.johnson@duke.edu

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Opening Reception for "al margen"
Photographs by Petra Barth; Latin America and the Carribean, 2004-2010

February 24, 2011, 4:00pm
Frederic Jameson Gallery, Friedl Building (East Campus)

Join photographer Petra Barth for a gallery tour of "al margen," a photography exhibit premiered last November at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C.  A reception and panel session on issues of poverty, marginalization, environmental degradation, and responses to disaster and crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean will precede the tour.  Panelists will include Dennis Clements, Erika Weinthal, and Sandy Smith-Nonini precedes the tour.

“al margen” was organized by the Archive of Documentary Arts and the Archive for Human Rights. The exhibit is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Department of Cultural Anthropology, International Comparative Studies, and the Duke Human Rights Center.

Contact: Karen Glynn, 919-660-5968 or karen.glynn(at)duke.edu, or Patrick Stawski, 919-660-5823 or patrick.stawski(at)duke.edu

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
Citizen King (Orlando Bagwell and W. Noland Walker, 2003, 112 minutes)

January 13, 2010, 7:00 pm.
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. 

In the last five years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., broadened his scope beyond race issues to fight poverty and oppose the Vietnam War, alienating many of his closest associates. This carefully researched film weaves together archival footage and interviews with his contemporaries to offer new insights into King's moral purpose and commitment to social justice.  Panel discussion to follow.
Free and open to the public.

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
Rain in a Dry Land (Anne Makepeace, 2006, 82 minutes)

November 16, 2010, 7:00 pm.
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. 

Two Bantu refugee families, displaced by the Somalian civil war, struggle with daily life in America and try to balance their old way of life with the new.  In Somali, Mai Mai and English, with English subtitle.  Discussion with director Anne Makepeace and Kenan Institute of Ethics Associate Director Suzanne Shanahan following.
Free and open to the public.

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Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series:
A Conversation with James Longley

October 29, 2010, 6:30pm
The Nasher Museum of Art

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Cine-East: East Asian Cinema Series
The Ants / Ari No Heitai (Ikeya Kaoru, 2005, 101 minutes)

October 5, 2010, 8:00pm
Richard White Lecture Hall

Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
After Innocence (Jessica Sanders, 2005, 95 minutes)

September 23, 2010, 7:00pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

After Innocence tells the dramatic story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully
imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. Series is presented by Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, the John Hope Franklin Humanities
Institute, the Archive of Documentary Arts (Full Frame Archive), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.
Free and open to the public.

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Opening Reception for “Deena Stryker: Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964″

September 16, 2010, 4:00pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, 2008, 90 minutes)

July 13, 2010, 7:00pm
Sarah P. Duke Gardens

A street-level account of Hurricane Katrina with footage by Ninth Ward resident and rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts of the rising floodwaters. The film follows Roberts and her husband for two years, telling a story of remarkable people surviving not only failed levees, bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers, but also their own past.

Series is presented by Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, the John Hope Franklin Humanities
Institute, the Archive of Documentary Arts (Full Frame Archive), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.

Free and open to the public.

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“The Library, The Archive, The Collection” with David Gatten

April 6, 2010, 12:30pm
Rare Book Room Perkins

Award-winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow David Gatten will present his 2004 film, “The Great Art of Knowing.”  Gatten is the 2010 Distinguished Visiting Filmmaker for Duke’s Program in the Arts of the Moving Image.

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
The Self-Made Man (Susan Stern, 2004, 58 minutes)

March 16, 2010, 7:00pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

The right-to-die debate goes West in this riveting portrait of a man and his family grappling with a darker side of rugged individualism. At 77, self-made man Bob Stern, the filmmaker's father, finds out that he is terminally ill and decides to cheat fate and take his own life.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring director Susan Stern.

Series is presented by Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, the John Hope Franklin Humanities
Institute, the Archive of Documentary Arts (Full Frame Archive), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.  This screening is cosponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics.

Free and open to the public.

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
Escuela (Hannah Weyer, 2002, 53 minutes)

January 26, 2010, 7:00pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

Hannah Weyer follows a teenage Mexican-American farm worker, Liliana Luis, and her family on their back-and-forth migrations between their home in Texas and the California agricultural fields. Despite the best efforts of the school systems to accommodate students like Liliana, the social and emotional life of this young woman is constantly in flux.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion.

Series is presented by Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, the John Hope Franklin Humanities
Institute, the Archive of Documentary Arts (Full Frame Archive), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.

Free and open to the public.

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“The Bathers”: Exhibit Opening and Reception

November 12, 2009, 5:30pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

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Rights! Camera! Action! Human Rights Film Series Screening
No Umbrella: Election Day in the City (Laura Paglin, 2006, 26 minutes)

Please Vote For Me (Weijun Chen, 2007, 58 minutes)

November 3, 2009, 7:00pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

Series is presented by Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, the Archive of Documentary Arts (Full Frame Archive), and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image.

Free and open to the public.

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Beyond Beauty: Conversations about Photography

October 2, 2009, 1–6 PM
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Free and Open to the Public

Internationally known artists and photography experts will share their experiences as they explore the idea of beauty and its relationship to, and representation in, the photographic image.

The conference complements the exhibition Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library, on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University through October 18, and the publication Beyond Beauty: The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Speakers include photographers Dawoud Bey, Bill Burke, Eric Gottesman, Laurel Nakadate, Susan Meiselas, Tom Rankin, and Deborah Willis, as well as Philip Brookman of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Alison Nordström of the George Eastman House, and Paul Hendrickson, Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.