Duke Documentary
Hadda Condino
The program includes introductory courses in documentary mediums, special topics courses, and cross-listed courses in other departments. All coursework is intended to guide students toward completion of their final documentary projects.
Department-Specific Application Requirements (submitted through online application)
Each applicant must submit a portfolio consisting of representative examples of their work, as well as a statement of purpose detailing their practice and relationship to documentary and experimental visual arts. Portfolio applications are submitted electronically via the program's Slideroom portal. For a more detailed description of application requirements, please visit the program website at
We work to ensure collections are available and accessible to a diverse group of individuals. We strive to expand and strengthen avenues of access that are equitable and open. We balance this with the appropriate privacy restrictions. While we try to honor these limits requested by creators or donors of collections, we also seek to foster accountability and will conduct a through review of restrictions prior to accepting materials. We support teaching and access by campus users as well as welcome those that come from beyond our campus community.
A number of our collections are tagged with physical/technical restrictions due to the fragility of the original media, such as cassette tapes, 16mm film, and negatives among others. They are available to view either on the Digital Repository, or via use copies or digital copies in the Reading Room.
We recognize there are times when viewing the original media is warranted for research. In order to request access to the physical media or to inquire about any restrictions on collections in the Archive of Documentary Arts please email Caitlin Margaret Kelly, curator, at caitli...@duke.edu, or via phone at 919-681-7963, or you may reach out to J. Andrew Armacost, head of collection development for the Rubenstein Library.
Thank you to everyone that submitted. We had over 80 submissions, and the final choice was difficult. All submissions were reviewed in full by staff in the Archive, who created a short list. We then enlisted faculty and staff across Duke to narrow it down to the final four.
The philosophy of the program is guided by a belief in the intersection of personal artistic work with interpretive knowledge and of the relevance of the individual documentary/experimental artist within the cultural history and life of communities. A key component to the program is the notion of creative engagement through the arts and the role of the artist in society. Graduates are expected to generate work that has impact both within and outside the academy.
A stroke is like a heart attack but in your brain. When a blood vessel in the brain gets blocked or constrained, it starves nerve cells of oxygen and nutrients, and leads to blood pooling in the brain. Someone in the US will experience a stroke every 40 seconds, making it the fifth leading cause of death nationwide. For those fortunate enough to survive a stroke, there can be serious side effects, such as communication impairments that make it difficult to understand or produce speech.
Obvious speech problems usually follow from strokes that occur on the left side of the brain. Because of that, Minga explained, clinical education, practice, and research have been on the overt communication impairments from left hemisphere stroke, leaving a whole other half of the brain and population of stroke survivors under identified and underserved.
The documentary played to a packed house filled with a wide range of community members, including many of the stroke survivors featured in the film, their loved ones, stroke awareness groups, speech pathologists, and more.
Minga will now take the documentary on tour to help get word out about RHD. It was recently screened at the Longleaf Film Festival in Raleigh. And in the future, Minga hopes to get into the homes of everyone across the U.S. possibly by broadcasting it with PBS.
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In 1996/7 the DDbDP migrated its authoritative version from the PHI CD to the web-based Perseus Project (now Perseus Digital Library), from Beta Code to TEI SGML with Beta Code text. For the next decade the DDbDP was funded as part of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), supported by the NEH, with technical support generously provided by Perseus.
In 2004/5 the DDbDP and Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden gyptens (HGV) commenced mapping their two largely overlapping data-sets--Greek texts and descriptive metadata, respectively--to each other. Concurrent with these discussions, a collaboration between DDbDP leadership and the Duke University Libraries obtained a planning grant from the Scholarly Communications Division of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, "Planning the Future of the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, 2005"). Papyrologists, information technology specialists, and librarians and administrators concerned with issues surrounding sustainability came together to map out a sustainable future for the DDbDP. The way forward was clear: open source, standards-based development, greater collaboration, increased vesting of data-control in the user community, greater interoperability with other projects. (Around this time, and for no particular reason, project leaders started referring to the resource as the DDbDP, with lower case 'b'; colleagues have occasionally wondered).
In July 2013 papyri.info, including the DDbDP, came under the stewardship of the Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3), a digital classics R&D unit within the Duke University Libraries which was merged into Digital Strategies and Technology in July 2020.
Please feel free to direct questions regarding the DDBDP to Rodney Ast (ast AT uni-heidelberg DOT de), James Cowey (james.cowey AT urz.uni-heidelberg DOT de), and Joshua Sosin (joshua.sosin AT duke DOT edu); best to email all three, since inevitably all three will discuss.
The documentary has been selected to be shown at four film festivals in 2023: the North Carolina Film Festival, the Longleaf Film Festival, the Raleigh Film & Art Festival, and the Foothills Film Festival.
Students will research and present strategies used by journalists, documentarians, policy makers and technologists to reckon with societal debates around these topics, against a backdrop of increasing calls for transparency. Students will explore how media creators balance responsibilities to audiences, industry norms, accountability to communities and moral concerns. The range of works studied will include long-form written reportage, photography essays, documentary shorts and feature films, podcasts and innovative technology tools and platforms.
The Human Rights Audio Documentary Award is sponsored by the Human Rights Archive and the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The award seeks to support outstanding documentary artists exploring human rights and social justice and expand the audio holdings in the Archive for long-term preservation and access. Winners receive $2,500 and are invited to present their work at Duke University, where a team of archivists will preserve their work.
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Library has a strong commitment to human rights and the documentary arts through collecting and making available works by creators from around the world. Its collections document the impact that organizations and individuals have to motivate the thinking of others and influence private and government policies.
Elizabeth Anne Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and author of Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece, also published by Duke University Press.
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