John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative

MDOCS Forum 2021: For the first year ever: we are virtual, synchronous and asynchronous, presented in five different languages, and with co-presenters in four continents. Forum is free and open to the public. Register here to join us June 6th-13th, 2021.

DEADLINE FRIDAY: Student submissions for the Golden Acorn Awards!! Welcoming media works spanning all genres (even outside of doc), created independently or in non-DS courses, in a variety of medium from music videos to animation to social media content (even TikToks!). All submissions will be voted on by our student panel of judges. Write to [email protected] with your 1. Name; 2. Title of your work; 3. Brief description of the type of project (course assignment, indepen...dent project, etc.); and 4. Share link to download the file from box.com or other file-sharing site (Google Drive). The awards show will be on Saturday, May 8 @ 6:30pm on Zoom.

Tuesday, April 20, 8:30 PM Whole Grain: On Collaboration This program of short experimental works features collaborations between filmmakers and a painter, a multimedia artist, a musician, and an engineering research center.... Superdyke Meets Madame X (dirs. Max Almy & Barbara Hammer, 1975, US, 21 min., video) Rhythm in Light (dirs. Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth, & Melville Webber, 1934, US, 5 min., video) Warm Objects (dir. Peggy Ahwesh, 2007, US, 6 min., video) Emaki/Light (dir. Takashi Makino, 2011, Japan, 16 min., video) Learn more about this program and register to watch it here: https://tang.skidmore.edu//1406-whole-grain-on-collaborati

The Logan Nonfiction Program is accepting apps through February 1 for the Spring 2021 Virtual Fellowship. Open to documentary filmmakers & reporters. Check it out! #SkidmoreAlum #Documentary

Open to filmmakers from across continental North America, so that includes parts of Latin America, the Caribbean, Greenland, and territory islands, among other places -- Check out this incredible opportunity! Field of Vision’s IF/Then Shorts Launches Documentary Grant Partnership with Hulu. #SkidmoreAlum #DocumentaryFilm #Hulu

MDOCS invites you to visit the online exhibition Medium Rare an installation of creative works (interviews, films, zines, performance, writing) by students in the Doc Studies course Creative Research and Multimedia Expression. Creative Research explores the shared fabric uniting the practices of research and creative making, and how these two workflows, when combined, can produce unknown mixtures of multidisciplinary or multi-modal projects. The course runs on parallel, ...complimentary tracks: each student pursues and develops one self-guided project over the course of the semester, while the class collectively surveys the work of professional researchers and makers across a variety of disciplines. The goal, for me, is to steer them away from goal-oriented knowledge-production and towards a cyclical ecology of practice. This online showing (usually a site-specific installation in Skidmore’s Schick Gallery) is part of that endless cycle of finding and showing, finding and showing, and the work will continue beyond this exhibition. -Professor Angus McCullough Medium Rare opened Friday, December 11 and will stay up through the winter break. We hope this digital space offers inspiration as you consider the possibilities for public presentation of creative and academic work during the pandemic. Works created by: Jonah Amron, Isaac Appel, Olivia Arthen, Malchijah Hoskins, Riley Mallory, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, Elise Partain, and Keshawn Truesdale To view the exhibition: http://mdocs.skidmore.edu/mediumrare/

In an interview with Skidmore Student Darren Zeng, MDOCS Storytellers' Institute Director Sarah Ema Friedland talks about what the Institute means to her. Applications to be an MDOCS Storytellers' Institute Visiting Fellow close on December 15th. Learn more and apply at mdocs.skidmore.edu/storytellers