Storytellers' Institute: 2018 Fellows and Public Program
The MDOCS Storytellers' Institute is thrilled to announce its 2018 Student, Faculty and Visiting Fellows. These fifteen documentarians will participate in a month-long intellectual and creative residency to engage with the theme Surveil/Surveilled and make documentary work at Skidmore College in June 2018.
2018 Fellows
Skidmore student Fellows include: Julia Cavicchi ’18, Clara-Sophia Daly ’20, Jamerly De La Cruz ’18, Emily Egan ’20, Adèle Fantasia ’19 , Hannah Fowler ’18, Tuli Kuckes ’20, and Amanda Peckler '20. This year we will also be welcoming Vassar College Senior Sophia Burns to share in the experience.
Institute Faculty Fellows are Scott Mulligan, Teaching Professor in International Affairs, and Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Associate Professor in Environmental Studies and Sciences.
Five incredibly talented Visiting Fellows will bring a range of media andaddress surveillance in complex and divergent ways while they are in residence: filmmaker, creative director, animator, and educator Javier Barboza; journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui; photographer Jeremy Dennis; filmmaker and transmedia producer Jacqueline Olive; and radio producer, sound artist and journalist Sylvia Ryerson.
2018 FORUM
Image by Hasan Elahi, "Thousand Little Brothers"
The Institute invites the community to get to know the Fellows and their work during
the weekend of June 7-10 when all of our Institute Fellows will join an international line up of presenters for the 2018 MDOCS FORUM: Surveil/Surveilled(formerly Festosium).
This annual event series brings together makers, scholars, activists and students to present artistic works, panel discussions, workshops and conversations that engage with the yearly theme and documentary practice. This year's Forum welcomes two keynote speakers Hasan Elahi and Assia Boundaoui.
Hasan Elahi is a Guggenheim Fellowship and Creative Capital recipient whose work examines issues of surveillance, citizenship, migration, transport, and the challenges of borders and frontiers.
Still taken from "The Feeling of Being Watched"
Assia Boundaoui works as a journalist and filmmaker. She has reported for the BBC, NPR, AlJazeera, VICE, and CNN. She will be joined by the editor Rabab Haj Yahya and director of photography Shuling Yong of her debut feature documentary film, The Feeling of Being Watched, which will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival this fall and addresses the surveillance of Muslim Americans in the Chicago area.
In addition to our keynotes, MDOCS Forum will feature workshops with the collective Our Data Bodies and Ines Hofmann Kanna on how to protect communities and documentary sources from surveillance. We will also feature a student exhibition, works in progress presentations, and much more.
All FORUM events are free and open to the public. We hope that you will join us for what is bound to be a generative and inspiring weekend.
Registration is now open and please keep an eye out for the full schedule in April.
-- Sarah Friedland, Director, Storytellers' Institute
