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Closing Screening of “Til Íslands”

Join us for the closing reception of “Til Íslands,” an exhibition by artist and Duke alum Emma Geiger, and an outdoor screening of her experimental documentary short. Schedule • 7 …

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Ben Brody || Artist Talk

With the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, photographer Ben Brody will present his work documenting and interpreting the wars that followed. Working at the intersection of photojournalism, art, …

Archived Events

Person photographing a grassy Icelandic landscape with misty mountains, overlaid with text “Til Íslands” and “Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Exhibition.”

Til Íslands

June 10, 2026

“Til Íslands” presents images of dislocation and reconnection with the Icelandic landscape after over a century of separation. In the summer of 2025, Emma Geiger returned to the land left …

Exquisite Corpse

MFA|EDA Salon #3 Exquisite Corpse

April 21, 2026

MFA|EDA Salon #3 Save The Date Details TBA Co-presented by Duke Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts program and Duke Screen/Society

Cine Victoria

Cine Victoria

April 9, 2026

CINE VICTORIA By Victoria Guillem (’26) Film Screenings April 9 at 6:00PM and 8:00PM Shadowbox Studio After witnessing my grandmother struggle with dementia, I realized the fleetingness of memories as …

Mushroom Mountain

Mushroom Mountain

April 5, 2026

MUSHROOM MOUNTAIN By April Fan (’26) Film Screening April 5 at 5:00PM Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater In Mengku, Yunnan, located in Southwest China, the rainy season soaks through the whole month of July. …

The Night Operator

The Night Operator

April 5, 2026

THE NIGHT OPERATOR Film Screening April 5 at 3:00 PM Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater The Night Operator follows a train station surveillance operator seen her memory on the monitors. …

St. Tula's Blessings

St. Tula’s Blessing

April 4, 2026

ST. TULA’S BLESSINGS Film Screening April 4 at 4:00PM Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater St. Tula’s Blessings is a collection of five short films-Worm Church, Personality Changes, Benny, If a …

Sleepwalking in Eternal Nap

Sleepwalking in Eternal Nap – Film Screening

April 4, 2026

SLEEPWALKING IN ETERNAL NAP By Lala Luo (’26) On View April 3-13 – Rubenstein Gallery 235 Film Screening April 4 at 12:00PM – Rubenstein Film Theater My work explores how …

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seguimos aquí

April 4, 2026

seguimos aquí Film Screening April 4 at 12:00PM Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater seguimos aquí is a short documentary film that reflects on how the parallels between present and past …

1.282s

1.282s

April 4, 2026

Guess 1.282s Film Screening April 4 at 12:00PM Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Digital Video/S8mm I like land, time, and horizon. The resistance of landscape; the contingency of passing time; …

Sleepwalking in Eternal Nap

Sleepwalking in Eternal Nap

April 3, 2026

SLEEPWALKING IN ETERNAL NAP By Lala Luo (’26) On View April 3-13 – Rubenstein Gallery 235 Film Screening April 4 at 12:00PM – Rubenstein Film Theater Rubenstein Arts Center Multimedia …

This Has Always Been a Portal

This Has Always Been a Portal

April 1, 2026

THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PORTAL By Allison “Sunny” Dean (’26) On View April 1-13 – Murthy Agora Rubenstein Arts Center I am a writer and artist fixated on using …

The Feel Phoneme

The Feel Phoneme – Artist Talk + Performance

March 28, 2026

THE FEEL PHONEME By Lauren Neefe (’26) On View March 20-28 Artist Talk + Performance March 28 at 12:30PM featuring the Atlanta Improvisers Choir Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery 235 Interactive …

This is (Not) Home – Artist Talk

March 27, 2026

THIS IS (NOT) HOME By Xiaomeng Yan (’26) On View March 20-April 10 Artist Talk March 27 at 4:00PM Duke Center for Documentary Studies Juanita Kreps Gallery This is (not) …

Junkyard Tornado

Junkyard Tornado

March 26, 2026

JUNKYARD TORNADO By Claire Rosemary Lewis (’26) Live Reading March 26 at 6:00PM Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium The novel Junkyard Tornado follows twelve college students as they navigate grieving …

One Road Town

One Road Town – Artist Event

March 23, 2026

ONE ROAD TOWN – Listening Event By Caleb Alexander Rivera (’26) March 23 at 7:00PM Rubenstein Arts Center Agora Doors at 6:30pm Multimedia Installation Archival Pigment Prints on Transparency Paper …

The Feel Phoneme

The Feel Phoneme

March 20, 2026

THE FEEL PHONEME By Lauren Neefe (’26) On View March 20-28 Artist Talk + Performance March 28 at 12:30PM Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery 235 Interactive Sound Installation “Sh.” It’s the …

This is (Not) Home

This is (Not) Home

March 20, 2026

THIS IS (NOT) HOME By Xiaomeng Yan (’26) On View March 20-April 10 Artist Talk March 27 at 4:00PM Duke Center for Documentary Studies Juanita Kreps Gallery This is (not) …

One Road Town

One Road Town

March 19, 2026

ONE ROAD TOWN By Caleb Alexander River (’26) On View March 19-23 Artist Event March 23 at 7:00PM Rubenstein Arts Center Agora Multimedia Installation Archival Pigment Prints on Transparency Paper …

Soundboard

MFA|EDA Salon #2 Room Tone

February 27, 2026

MFA|EDA Salon #2 Save The Date Details TBA Co-presented by Duke Master of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts program and Duke Screen/Society

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text+pix collective

February 23, 2026

The Text + Pix Collective (est. Fall 2024) is a group of Duke faculty, Duke students and Triangle community members who share an artistic interest in the relationship between the …

Flyer for text-pix collective 2026

text+pix collective

February 23, 2026

The Text + Pix Collective (est. Fall 2024) is a group of Duke faculty, Duke students and Triangle community members who share an artistic interest in the relationship between the …

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Text + Pix Collective

February 2, 2026

experimenting with words + images across mediums Mon., Feb. 2, 6-8pm CDS Library, Bridges 113 *RSVP to lauren.neefe@duke.edu* + Alexa Dilworth/Mesha Maren-Hogan + plus, your projects, archives, and practice + …

Flyer for text-pix collective 2026

text+pix collective

January 26, 2026

The Text + Pix Collective (est. Fall 2024) is a group of Duke faculty, Duke students and Triangle community members who share an artistic interest in the relationship between the …

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Text+Pix Collective

November 17, 2025

Mon., Nov. 17, 6-8pm CDS Library, Bridges 113 *RSVP by Nov. 14 to lauren.neefe@duke.edu* experimenting with words + images across mediums + ft. Nasher curator Ellen Raimond and MFA|EDA student …

MFA|EDA Salon: Baby Geniuses

MFA|EDA Salon #1 Baby Geniuses

November 14, 2025

Looking back at our earliest cinematic sparks! Baby Geniuses is a collection of moving images we made between the ages of 0 -18, when everything felt possible and nothing had …

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Text + Pix Collective

October 20, 2025

The next Text + Pix gathering is MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 6-8 P.M., CDS LIBRARY. Bring yourself. Bring your friends. Bring your questions. Kindly RSVP to lauren.neefe@duke.edu, so we know how …

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MFA|EDA 2025 Commencement Celebration

May 10, 2025

Join us as we celebrate the MFA|EDA Class of 2025 at the Center for Documentary Studies. Family, friends, colleagues, mentors, partners, diplomas, food, drink, revelry, his, high-fives. Come on by.

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MFA|EDA MicroCinema and Open House

May 9, 2025

Join us for an evening of short films, printed works, and pre-graduation fellowship at our home base, The Shop. Family, friends, MFA|EDA community are all welcome.

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MFA|EDA Spring Salon

April 25, 2025

Please join us at the MFA Carpentry Shop on Friday, April 25th 6-9PM to connect with and celebrate one another in the spirit of experimental and documentary media. The MFAEDA …

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Text & Pix April Gathering

April 16, 2025

Students, faculty and community members are welcome to join the MFA|EDA and English/Creative Writing programs for the next gathering of the Text & Pix Collective! Hear from Tom Rankin and …

AKind of Performance

A Kind of Performance: Artist Hangout

April 9, 2025

March 17-April 9 Center for Documentary Studies Lyndhurst Gallery Multimedia Installation Photography, digital video, generative media Artist Hangout, April 9, 4:00pm Ziwen Liu (1999, China) is a multimedia artist working …

Memorial Service: An Artist Talk

Memorial Service: An Artist Talk

April 7, 2025

April 4-13 Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery 235 Multimedia Installation Memorial Service: An Artist Talk, April 7, 5:00pm Those who died return again again human documents a return in search of …

Key to Timeless

Key to Timeless: Artist Hangout

April 4, 2025

April 4-13 Rubenstein Arts Center Murthy Agora Multimedia Installation Artist Hangout April 4, 4:00pm Key to Timeless is an interactive exhibition that frames a conversation between two generations, on family, …

Key to Timeless

Dingyi Xu: Key to Timeless

April 4, 2025

April 4-13 Rubenstein Arts Center Murthy Agora Multimedia Installation Artist Hangout April 4, 4:00pm Key to Timeless is an interactive exhibition that frames a conversation between two generations, on family, …

Thesis Film Premieres

April 2, 2025

Premieres of thesis films from MFA|EDA Class of 2025 filmmakers: Bren Vienrich-Felling – Full Moon Over Palcazú Christopher Verstandig – The Work Behind the Wonder Clara Zhu – in 40 …

The Child Within

The Child Within: Artist Talk

March 21, 2025

March 17-April 9 Fredric Jameson Gallery Artist Talk March 21, 5:30pm How did a hopeless street kid from Brooklyn grow up to be an artist, a teacher, a husband, and, …

When will I go blind?

Hannah Schneider: When will I go blind?

March 20, 2025

March 20-29 Rubenstein Arts Center Murthy Agora Artist Talk March 28, 5:30pm If a camera can be compared to an eye, a disintegrating negative can be compared to a diseased …

Free Space

Suanne Han: Free Space

March 20, 2025

March 20-29 Rubenstein Arts Center Gallery 235 Multimedia Installation Free Space focuses on how a group of young cosplayers in China transform an abandoned commercial mall into a vibrant hub …

Ziwen Liu: A Kind of Performance

Ziwen Liu: A Kind of Performance

March 17, 2025

March 17-April 9 Center for Documentary Studies Lyndhurst Gallery Multimedia Installation Photography, digital video, generative media Ziwen Liu (1999, China) is a multimedia artist working as a filmmaker, photographer, and …

Katelyn Lester: Western Semiotics

Katelyn Lester: Western Semiotics

March 17, 2025

March 17-April 9 Center for Documentary Studies Juanita Kreps Gallery Artist Talk March 27, 7:30pm Throughout my life, I have been immersed in the western community, from horseback riding to …

The Child Within

Sai Varadan: The Child Within

March 17, 2025

March 17-April 9 Fredric Jameson Gallery Artist Talk March 21, 5:30pm How did a hopeless street kid from Brooklyn grow up to be an artist, a teacher, a husband, and, …