MDOCS News
- MDOCS kicked off this semester by turning an eye and an ear towards mass incarceration and its ramifications on our local region and around the nation. Learn more and hear about what's coming up.
- This summer Skidmore senior, Ele Martinez travelled to his home state of Oaxaca Mexico to lead a series of photography workshops for the kids from his childhood school. See some of their photographs featured in his culminating exhibit in Case Gallery this month.
- From Doc film production to participatory community projects to photogrammetery and more - see what courses MDOCS is offering for Spring 2018.
- We are thrilled to begin planning for next year’s Storytellers’ Institute and are excited to share the 2018 theme with you: Surveil/Surveilled.
- The first annual Student Documentary Festival ran this past June during the Storytellers' Institute Festosium weekend. Organized by MDOCS' first offered Festival Programming course taught by Tom Yoshikami, the event featured a screening of short documentary films.
- This summer a student research collaboration project brought young voices on the air in a community radio collaboration designed by MDOCS faculty member Adam Tinkle and Skidmore junior Adam Simon.
- MDOCS' lab is located on the library's first floor and has an array of resources available to students, faculty and staff from student media assistants to project support to specialty production gear, workshops, and more.
- Documentary storytelling doesn't stop with the academic year, MDOCS continues to support students, faculty and practitioners throughout the summer with internship support and the Storytellers' Institute. Hear more about summer project work and what we have planned for this coming Fall!
- Students across academic disciplines explored evidence driven stories this summer both independently and through the Storytellers' Institute. Learn about their experiences and what stories matter to them.
- Immigrant stories, personal memoirs, and ... were just a few of the documentary projects pursued this summer by Skidmore students and faculty, and doc practitioners in the Storytellers' Institute. Learn more about their projects and next year's theme!
- Find out what MDOCS has planned for the Fall semester - take a deeper look into what happens when a prison closes in "States of Incarceration" and experience the work from student and faculty documentarians in a Storytellers' Institute showcase - all coming this September.
- Daphne Feller, '17, reviews One Mind, a film seeking showcase Buddhist philosophy. Asian Studies hosted filmmaker Edward A. Burger and sound designer Douglas Quin in February.
- Jill Moossman, '18, reviews the four Middle Eastern films screened to showcase a different perspective on the region in spring 2017.
- MDOCS wraps up its third year and looks forward to Academic Festival on May 3, the Storytellers' Institute in June, and beyond.
- In Spring 2017, Skidmore hosted a Middle Eastern Film series that drew attention to unexpected stories, a film that asked viewers to consider what a "Buddhist documentary" was, a community history of the Great Migration and Rapp Road in Albany. Students respond.
- Skidmore Alum Teddy Kunhardt returned to his alma mater on March 6th to screen "Becoming Warren Buffet," a production of HBO and Kunhardt Films. Graduating from Skidmore College as an art major, learn how this film producer got to where he is today.
- Over seven weeks, students in Prof. Tom Hart's Mapping as storytelling class dug deep to learn to present data spatially, then applied their skills to a local story: presenting Skidmore's geothermal projects.
- Amber Wiley (American Studies) hosted community members, storytellers from Rapp Road, an Albany community born from the Great Migration. After screening Tod Ferguson's film, she led a lively discussion of space, place, faith, and family leaders of the community.
- Students in Kate Paarlberg-Kvam's class on Latinidades interviewed Latinx students, professionals and homemakers, adding stories of migration, education, family life, and language bias (among others) to the Skidmore-Saratoga Memory Project.
- What's in a wave? Students in Adam Tinkle's Community and Radio class visited Acra, New York's Wave Farm and get a front-row seat to the spatial nature of radio broadcasting.
