Surveillance: Documentary and the Hidden Camera
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival presents a special program of short films at Duke University followed by a panel discussion
Tuesday, February 27
7:00 p.m.
Nasher Art Museum.
This program is co-sponsored by the Visiting Artists Fund of the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University
Introduction: Ken S. Rogerson, Research Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
Tajne Tasmy SB (Secret Tapes)
(Dir. Piotr Morawski, 2002, 35min, color & b&w, Polish w/ English subtitles, Poland)
In 2001, surveillance films made by the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs between 1966 and 1985 were found and form their own documentary history of the decline of a paranoid regime. These films record the different forms of social protests of those days: street fights, hunger strikes, meetings in churches, demonstrations, self-immolations. Former secret service operatives chill you with their pride in accurate filmmaking and hidden cameras. A very creepy film, indeed.
The Intimacy of Strangers
(Dir. by Eva Webe, 2005, 20 min, color, English, UK)
Cell phone conversations have the ability to collapse the distinctions between public and private space. In these conversations, intimate moments are performed for strangers in public spaces and director Eva Weber captures these moments, recording cell phone conversations in the public sphere. Masterfully edited by Emilio Battista, the film weaves these seemingly unrelated conversations into a cohesive documentary narrative. The Intimacy of Strangers is a love story of the modern age, transmitted for all to hear. The film received the President’s Award (Duke University) at the 2006 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
PANEL--Surveillance: Documentary and the Hidden Camera
Moderator: David Paletz, Professor of Political Science and Director, Film/Video/Digital Program at Duke University
Panelists:
Eva Weber, Filmmaker (The Intimacy of Strangers)
Samantha Zarzosa, Producer (The Intimacy of Strangers)
Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature, Professor of Latin American Studies and Spanish
Timothy Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University
Please visit www.fullframefest.org for more information about Full Frame and the upcoming festival, April 12-15.