Digital filming has transformed documentary, says John Ellis, offering new potentials to filmmakers and at the same time transforming audience attitudes.
How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
John Ellis will argue that “Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact.”
12th Annual Media Spectacle
The event, founded by late CMS program administrator Chris Pomiecko, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty.
Exit Zero: Documentary Filmmaking, Historical Memory, and Personal Voice
Filmmakers Chris Boebel and Chris Walley on the making of Exit Zero, an in-progress documentary film about deindustrialization, community, class, and family in a former steel mill region in southeast Chicago.
MIT/Harvard Cool Japan Project presents “Summer Wars”
The New England premiere of the anime feature film “Summer Wars” (2009, Director Mamoru Hosoda, Madhouse / Kadokawa). The director and producer of the film, both based in Japan, will be present at the screening and will participate in a Q&A/discussion after the film.
Podcast: Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, “Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media”
Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, MIT’s Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11), will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable, the old-fashioned, the re-fashioned.
Podcast: Richard Rouse, “Cinematic Games”
Many people talk about “cinematic” games, but what does this really mean? Richard Rouse tells us.
