by Raza Ahmad Rumi | Oct 11, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
According to the latest estimate from the United Nations, the Russia-Ukraine war has displaced 6.6 million people within Ukraine. It further has led to a recorded total of 6.3 million people crossing international borders from that nation to neighboring countries,...
by Masha Shpolberg and Patricia Zimmermann | Oct 4, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
The continuing Russia-Ukraine War demands new ways of thinking both about media coverage that seeks to inform in real time and new strategies about how to document it in order to build alternative archives. For instance, the news coverage of the Russia-Ukraine War...
by Patricia R. Zimmermann | Sep 5, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
A huge hole in the world has opened up with the untimely death of Brian Winston, a foundational scholar whose writings defined the field of documentary internationally. Brian electrified us with his commitment to the politics and ethics of documentary and journalism,...
by Elizabeth Miller and Patricia R. Zimmermann | Aug 25, 2022 | Commentary
We are living in one of the most exciting times in the history of independent documentary. The entire field is undergoing massive shifts in form, interface, technology, conceptualization, use, and topics. Documentary is at a turning point of radical disruption. This...
by Brad Hougham and Patricia R. Zimmermann | Aug 1, 2022 | Commentary, Featured
Dedicated to David Turkon (1953-2022) A colleague floated a wager. Who can spot the most faculty in a day? Someone reported eight sightings in our three-story campus building. They won. Another colleague texts pictures each week of the empty parking lots on...
