Documentary Lab
The Documentary Lab - CMDP 5600 (3) Documentary Lab Seminar - is the cornerstone of the graduate certificate in Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices offered by the Department of Critical Media Practices in partnership with the Center. With each offering, the Lab brings artists and scholars together from any discipline who want to incorporate documentary methods in their research and creative work.
The Lab provides opportunities for workshopping projects, receiving feedback and critique from faculty and peers, networking and professional development, critical discussions of contemporary documentary practice and theory, technical training, and experimentation with new technologies. Friends of the Lab include a wide range of acclaimed artists and scholars who have engaged with the CU Boulder community. Sessions include individual study, screenings, one-on-one meetings, and group conversations.
Themes
Lab explores themes in contemporary documentary scholarship and practice, which have included Necropolitics, Fiction as Method, Documentary Poetics, Documentary Resistance, and Immediation.
Friends of the Lab
Friends of the Lab are prominent figures in the field who visited the seminar to engage with participants and give feedback and critique on projects. Friends of the Lab include:
Angela Aguayo, Documentary Scholar
Kirk Ambrose, Art Historian
Reece Auguiste, Artist and Scholar
Daniel Boord, Documentary Video Artist
Emett Casey, Filmmaker and Sound Mixer
Donagh Coleman, Filmmaker and Anthropologist
Carmel Curtis (XFR Collective), Archivist
Myron Dewey (Digital Smoke Signals), Journalist
Nabil Echchaibi, Media Scholar
Shae Frydenlund, Geographer
Roberto (Bear) Guerra, Photographer
Christian Hammons, Filmmaker and Anthropologist
Steven Hoggard, Journalist
Ernst Karel, Sound Artist
Daniel Junge, Filmmaker
Patty Limerick, Scholar
Roddy MacInnes, Photographer
Louis Massiah (Scribe Video Center), Filmmaker
Timothy S Oakes, Geographer and Filmmaker
Joshua Oppenheimer, Filmmaker
Pooja Rangan, Documentary Scholar
Larissa Rhodes, Producer
Jen Shannon, Anthropologist
Thorsten Trimpop, Filmmaker
Luis Valdovino, Documentary Video Artist
Patricia Zimmerman, Scholar