This dystopian dark comedy, “Pin Drop Silence,” follows the story of a school teacher who quits his job to start a private academy.

Acquiring training and practice of the “invisible art.” A 6-week online Manhattan Editing Workshop provides a walkthrough of post-production techniques with courses and resources.

A bilingual screenplay that tackles the issue of immigration—featuring narratives of refugees from Ukraine and Russia—was composed within a four-week summer intensive workshop at the Pargue Film School.

Taoyuan Jin’s thesis sequence is a short film about being in transit and moving through the illegible American landscapes. Integrating sources from the digital and natural worlds, the film is an account of fragmented memories, momentary spectacles, and the personal journeys of a directionless traveler and narrator.

Shirin Maleki's thesis 30/900 is a video installation exploring concepts such as separation, language attrition, memory, reflections on the past and present. The videos read the fragmented experience of an immigrant going through temporary residencies in a forever-liminal otherness between departure and a promised arrival.

Emily MacDiarmid's MFA EDA thesis Approved for Release is a short film visualizing psychological experimentation conducted by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency.

This program brings together works by Pedro Lasch that are as varied as their settings. Projected in large scale at museums and galleries, all works have been meticulously co-edited with Michael Blair to become video art in its own terms—as opposed to simply documenting Lasch’s social and site-specific art.

Sights and sounds of the Southwest is documentary project that explores landscape of Albuquerque, NM. The project seeks to point out the acute observations that make this land and culture so unique.

A documentary that uncovers a prevailing nostalgia for the countryside, specifically in the American West, as the rural landscape undergoes rapid transformation by urbanization, climate change, and development.

“Usya” is a short film project centering on my great-grandmother’s reflections on home and motherhood as she remembers fleeing her native city in the south of Russia and having children in the wake of the Second World War.

I took a six-week film intensive at NYU Tisch this summer called Sight and Sound Filmmaking with Professor Vondie Curtis Hall. During the course, I made seven short films.

Alexa Dilworth interviews Moriah LeFebvre, MFA EDA '21, about her use of drawing and animation to tell highly personal stories, including those in her thesis film, by & by and Works in Rough Going: Recovery Community and Communication During the Pandemic, currently on view in the Keohane-Kenan Gallery and online.

Jade Chuyu Xiong’s film “Mutual Players” juxtaposes movie clips from early English films that feature actors of Chinese descent in Chinese roles. By reediting the original footage, Xiong aims to craft a new narrative that challenges the stereotypical ways in which Asian and Asian American actors are portrayed in Western cinema.

Bree von Bradsky's “Lavender Vista” is a short experimental film that depicts the disorientating effects of coming out. Through the style of collage, the film weaves together archival home movies, educational films, and commercials to create a landscape that spans from the suburban USA to the celestial.

Yang Xu’s exhibit “Outset” explores her feelings about and understanding of the college entrance examination, which is taken by tens of millions of Chinese students each June. The exam is not only the starting point for students to realize their dreams, but also a battle that requires all-out efforts.

Katelyn Auger's thesis film “Paradise in the Pines” is the culmination of two years exploring complicated feelings around family, environment, and memory. Auger shares how she reappropriated home movies alongside 16mm footage to create a meditation on forgiveness and understanding.

"false chronology" is an extension of my film by the same name. It is an exploration of the lingering French colonial consciousness in Algeria and the fading traditions of the Algerian Amazigh people, specifically the custom of facial tattoos.

My project is a screenplay that follows Philip Ahn, the first Korean-American movie star, as he rises to stardom while pandering to Hollywood discrimination. This year, I will continue to refine the project through the Studio Duke program in conjunction with UTA literary partner Julien Thuan.

Leyla McCalla Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever WORLD PREMIERE: WED, MARCH 4 – FRI, MARCH 6, 2020 Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever is a multidisciplinary performance ...

Simon Shaheen & The Arab Orchestra, Ibrahim Azzam, Sonia M’barek, Khalil Abonula, Rima Khcheich ASWAT (Voices) DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: THU, MAR 5, 2009 On Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Duke ...

William Tyler Corduroy Roads DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: THU, NOV 20 – SUN, NOV 23, 2014 For its 2014/2015 season, Duke Performances commissioned guitar virtuoso William Tyler — who occupies the ...

Gerald Clayton, The Assembly, René Marie Piedmont Blues DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: FRI, DEC 2 & SAT, DEC 3, 2016 Gerald Clayton “has proved himself one of the standout jazz pianists ...

Hiss Golden Messenger & William Gedney Heart Like a Levee DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: FRI, NOV 13 & SAT, NOV 14, 2015 Hiss Golden Messenger is the indie folk project of ...

Bill Frisell & Bill Morrison The Great Flood DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: SAT, NOV 5, 2011 Rock, country, jazz, the blues, experimental music — guitar genius Bill Frisell has done it ...

DJ Spooky Wattstax to the Avant-Garde DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: SAT, FEB 9, 2008 DJ Spooky (a.k.a. Paul D Miller) is a writer, conceptual artist, and pioneer in the field of ...

Ari Picker Lion and the Lamb DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: FRI, MAR 27 & SAT, MAR 28, 2015 Ari Picker is best known as the front man for the acclaimed orchestral ...

Inspired by Plato and the concept of media gatekeepers, Mao Wei’s installation is a fairy tale of projections that prompt the viewer to reconsider reality. With spring thesis presentations postponed, Duke Arts honors the MFA EDA Class of 2020 with interviews that dig into the projects and their makers.

Lauren Henschel was finishing her thesis exhibition—a complex, multi-layered installation that speaks to mortality—just as the whole world was confronted by its theme: how our bodies fail us. With spring thesis presentations postponed, Duke Arts honors the MFA EDA Class of 2020 with interviews that dig into the projects and their makers.

A portfolio of LGBT-themed short films and feature screenplays-in-development, with the broad goal of raising the LGBT awareness of mainstream audiences.

I completed a 15-minute film that uses the relationships between my extended family and the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 to consider the ways ideology is passed down through the family.

A month-long installation by Duke filmmaking professor Shambhavi Kaul allows her to create a more immersive experience of her 15-minute video loop that distills the essence of "airplane space."