2019 Fall In Review

 

MDOCS started off the Fall semester with what has become one of our favorite Fall traditions - The Arts Quad Party. Students posed in our boomerang-photobooth while learning more about the arts programs Skidmore has to offer.

In October, four MDOCS-affiliated films headed to the Adirondack Film Festival - How to Tell a True Immigrant Story, Directed by Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz (a 2016 MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute Fellow); Chinese Breakfast, Directed by Liv Fidler,’19; Home: The Children of the Interstices, Directed by Sarah Maacha, ’20; Time-Out, Directed by Mary Brimmer, ’19 and Sarah Jensen, '18.

The Adirondack Film Festival hosted a special event with the team behind How to Tell a True Immigrant Story, including a Q&A onstage discussing the regional issues of labor, migration, and social inequality that motivated the film, as well as the process of creating a 360˚ VR documentary film around them. (L to R: Krystle Nowhitney Hernandez (Saratoga County EOC); Ana Gomez (photographer and filmmaking participant); Emily Rizzo '18 (Co-Producer); Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz (Director); Chad Rabinovitz (ADK Festival Director))

MDOCS partnered with the festival to provide discounted passes to Skidmore community members along with a few selected sponsored student spots that were able to enjoy the festival activities all weekend.

MDOCS celebrated the film premieres with the filmmakers, Skidmore community, and festival goers. (Storytellers' Institute Director Sarah Friedland with Liv Fidler '19)

 

MDOCS Director Adam Tinkle (L) and Storytellers' Institute Director Sarah Friedland (R) at the premiere party.

How To Tell A True Immigrant Story hosted a Saratoga community screening at Caffe Lena in partnership with the Saratoga Immigrant Coalition.

The screening was followed by an audience dialogue facilitated by students from Skidmore's Intergroup Relations Program (IGR) and moderated by Co-Producer on the film Emily Rizzo '18.

MDOCS wrapped up the Fall semester with a pop-up exhibit in the Schick Gallery created by students in Angus McCullough's Creative Research/Multimedia Expression course. (above: installation by Claire Maske '21; below: installation by Aarushi Jain)