News Archive
- Over the past year, SSMP students worked with the Saratoga Adult and Senior Center to research and tell the Center’s story for its 60th Anniversary. They drew on photos and archival clippings and combined them with interviews to connect the local story to the history of senior centers across the country, and to create a video and exhibit displayed during the gala celebration.
- The MDOCS Academic Festival session highlighted student collaborative documentary work with a spotlight on seniors' documentary video projects.
- Students from The Artist Interview, an Art History/ MDOCS spring course, describe learning how to conduct an interview and see how oral histories connect with a museum exhibition and archive.
- 2016 Storytellers' Institute Faculty Scholar Erika Schielke describes developing a podcast to make science accessible to everyone.
- Follow MDOCS student Sam Grant through the April 23 trip to New York City to see Prof. Cecilia Aldarondo's feature documentary, "Memories of a Penitent Heart," premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
- We reached our funding goal to help create a student-run, student-curated documentary festival of student work!
- Prof. Rik Scarce's life changed when he learned that he might never run again. Instead of getting discouraged, this Sociology professor learned an alternative approach and is now making a documentary film about it.
- April is the coolest month. Storytellers' Institute plans are springing, field trips and documentarian visits blooming, and summer and fall classes are open for registration.
- First day of registration is April 5! Check out MDOCS Documentary Studies classes for Fall 2016.
- In late March, the Principles of Documentary class hosted New York City activist and documentary filmmaker Dave DeSario to speak about his creative process in making "A Day’s Work," a film about the controversial and often hidden topic of safety for “temporary” workers.
- Hear MDOCS' audio faculty member views on the popular "Serial" podcast and if it's a big reason for the rise in podcast popularity.
- MDOCS announces its June 2016 Stortytellers’ Institute Fellows, Skidmore Scholars and schedule of public events (free and open to the public!) addressing the Institute theme of the hard-to-define border between fact and fiction in documentary work.
- There's a lot of documentary work happening in the Capital District. High school filmmakers and the director of Youth FX, whose films have screened at film festivals around the nation stopped in to campus to talk with students about their work and the NextDoc program in May.
- Students in Interview 101 talk about the oral histories they recorded of retired Skidmore faculty, staff, and alumni for the Skidmore-Saratoga Memory Project. For many, this was their first experience interviewing.
- Students from the History/Doc Studies Cuba Travel Seminar stopped through Miami en route to Cuba. While there, they caught up with Skidmore alumna Laura Juncadella '11.
- With spring semester underway, MDOCS students, faculty and staff are hard at work on this semester's projects, planning for Storytellers' Institute (2016), and engaging with a wide range of documentarians on campus and in the community.
- MDOCS student Emma Foley '16 discusses her documentary film project which reveals the female perspective of first time sexual experiences. Maybe losing your virginity isn't all it's built up to be?
- Two doc filmmakers, two different views, two different ways to "make it" in the documentary industry. Learn more from the intimate lunch discussion with these two award-winning filmmakers.
- What is the last piece of documentary work you experienced? Would you recommend it? Find out what 4 members of the Skidmore community have to say.
- On December 11, MDOCS, Arts Administration, Project Vis, and Media & Film Studies hosted a creative industry networking night for students and local practitioners.
