“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 ...

Shift your perspective. Join the Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) for our annual celebration of student documentary work and new creative visions! ->| Explore exhibitions featuring work from CDS ...

Visual Arts, Cinematic Arts, and Documentary Studies would like to cordially invite you to the 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition! Please join us at the Rubenstein Arts Center this Monday, April ...

Film Screening and Q&A for Edhi Alice Keeping the camera close, the film follows two transitioning women, Edhi and Alice, as they seek to reconcile their bodies and identities. Through ...

The 28th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival returns to downtown Durham, NC April 16-19, 2026. Join us to hear from the boldest new voices in nonfiction cinema- plus parties, ...

A special program of short films by Kevin Jerome Everson. Presented by the Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, and Screen/Society. Program Description ...

Join Screen/Society for a special community screening at NorthStar Church of the Arts: TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2017, 80 min, USA, B&W, 16mm transferred to digital) “November 8, 2016. ...

Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Screen/Society, and Center for Documentary Studies present: “Black Box Diaries” (Shiori Itō, 2024, 103 min, Japan, Japanese and English with English subtitles, DCP) Join us for ...

Join MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts candidate and Kenan Graduate Arts Fellow April Fan for an exhibit opening, reception and artist’s talk in the Frederic Jameson Gallery in the ...

Every time we sit down to a meal, we rely on a workforce that is increasingly at risk. This National Farmworker Awareness Week (NFAW), we invite you to look beyond ...

The Black Archival Imagination Lab @FHI & Screen/Society present: “Milisuthando” (Milisuthando Bongela, 2023, 128 min, South Africa, in Xhosa & English, DCP) “In her poetic and galvanizing essay film, Johannesburg-based ...

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 ...

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) ...

–Thandi Cai, 2024, 47 min, USA, in English– Introduction and post-screening discussion moderated by Professor Eileen Chow. ***Two storytellers, one community, and 150 years of untold history.*** “Bluff City Chinese” ...

The Duke Turkish Program & Screen/Society present: “Şerafettin Can Atalay” (Nebil Özgentürk, 2025, Turkish with English subtitles, Digital) This documentary film portrays the life and public struggle of Can Atalay, ...

The Rights and Humanities Annual Series is jointly sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI. The series was launched in ...

Film Screening: “Joonam” (Sierra Urich, 2023, 103 min, USA, English and Persian with English subtitles, DCP) Filmmaker Sierra Urich grew up in rural Vermont, a place and an upbringing far ...

What happens behind the scenes – with access, funding and distribution – to bring a creative documentary vision to life? In this free talk, acclaimed independent producer Rebekah Fergusson shares ...

You’re invited to CDS for the February meetup of Photobook Dummies, a monthly, in‑person gathering of local photobook collectors, creators, and enthusiasts. What is a photobook? This month will be ...

Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, MISTRESS DISPELLER (dir. Elizabeth Lo, ...

Documentary Film Screening: A Road Out This documentary tells the remarkable story of six South African health pioneers who transformed community medicine in North Carolina, the United States and beyond. ...

The Experimental Film Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute and Screen/Society present: “Dry Ground Burning” (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, 2022, 153 min, Brazil, Portuguese with English subtitles, DCP) Just ...

Join us for a free talk and reception with Natalie Bullock Brown, director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG) and a leading advocate for ethics‑driven, justice‑centered nonfiction storytelling. Brown ...

Thursday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. SEEDS/ U.S. (Director: Brittany Shyne; Producers: Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Brittany Shyne) Seeds is a portrait of Centennial farmers in the geographical south. ...

The Infiltrators (2019, 95 min.) is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center ...

Thursday, February 5 at 7:00 p.m. MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN / Denmark, Czech Republic (Directors: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin; Producer: Helle Faber) As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ...

Join us for the opening of “Bound/Unbound: From Page to Wall,” an exhibition bringing together the work of eight North Carolina-based photographers who have recently published, or are in the ...

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 + ...

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT/ U.S. (Director: Ryan White; Producers: Jessica Hargrave, Ryan White, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen) An unexpectedly funny and joyful love story, poets Andrea Gibson ...

Film Screening: “Nostalgia for the Light” (Patricio Guzmán, 2010, 90 min, Chile, Spanish with English subtitles, DCP) Master director Patricio Guzman travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest ...

The Imaginary of Disobedience is a one-day workshop to be held at Duke University on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 19, 2026. The workshop aims to conceptualize the lineaments ...

Join us on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for a free workshop exploring how visual practices – especially photography – shape, record and reimagine a century of global dissent. Organized ...

** 6-6:30pm, Curators’ Walk-Through ** Registration for this event is kindly requested (but not required) at: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1AEc1aSoAScnoge Join us for the closing reception of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930-31,” an exhibition ...

Cate Knothe (T’24) returns to Duke to screen her documentary film: “Now It’s a Strange House” with Ethan Grossman. Cinematography by Lilit Danielyan. Through interweaving recently captured digital footage and ...

Full Frame is proud to host a special early screening of THE NEW YORKER AT 100 ahead of the film’s release on Netflix later this year. For the first time, ...

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 ...

Join us for the opening of “Disobedient Subjects: Bombay 1930 – 31,” a new exhibition presented by Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) and The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, ...

Join us for a presentation of “Computing the Lens: Research Driven Images for Machine Entangled Lives.” Part of Click! Photography Festival, this event will showcase work from 28 artists and ...

Visual artist and UC Berkeley Professor Stephanie Syjuco presents a lecture exploring her research-driven practice. Followed by discussion and reception.

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 ...

The Center for Documentary Studies & Screen/Society present: “The Hellstrom Chronicle” (Ed Spiegel & Walong Green, 1971, 90 min, USA, English, Digital) “Perhaps one of the strangest films to ever ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

Duke Human Rights Center’s Rights! Camera! Action! Series presents a screening of When I Say Africa, a documentary which “turns the lens on the West’s stereotypes of Africa from the ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

5:00 PM. Expanding Sanctuary. Kristal Sotomayor. USA. 21 minutes. English and Spanish with subtitles. The NCLAFF is proud to add to its line-up of events: 5:30 pm. Stopping the Deportation ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

The Center for Documentary Studies & Screen/Society present: “Henry Fonda for President” (Alexander Horwath, 2024, 184 min, Austria/Germany, English & German w/ English Subtitles, DCP) “The story of Henry Fonda, ...

Join us for an artist talk by Jennifer 張 Crandall, the director behind “Whitman, Alabama” – a 52-part documentary that blends journalism, poetry and art to offer a portrait of ...

Join Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) for our Fall Open House! Housed in an 1880s farmhouse, CDS has been a groundbreaking institution for documentary arts since 1989. Meet us ...

A maverick photographer provokes the art world and activists with confrontational images. Film screening, discussion, Q & A

the first Text + Pix gathering of the 2025-26 schoolyear is NEXT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 6-8PM, CDS LIBRARY. We will have updates on the zine! Also: Paul Batchelor (Durham University, ...

“Heartworn Highways” (James Szalapski, 1976, 92 min, USA, English, DCP) In the mid-70’s, James Szalapski captured lightning in a bottle, a fleeting moment in music history. Namely, the birth of ...

Celebrate the debut of “Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined,” a new exhibition by artist and cultural pollinator Marie T. Cochran, with an opening reception and luncheon. This special event ...

Be part of the creative process of “Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined,” a community-centered exhibition by artist and cultural pollinator Marie T. Cochran, a voice of the Affrilachian movement. ...

Be part of the creative process of “Those We Thought We Knew: Reimagined,” a community-centered exhibition by artist and cultural pollinator Marie T. Cochran, a voice of the Affrilachian movement. ...

Join Full Frame at the Main Branch of the Durham Public Library on Wednesday, July 16, 5:30 p.m., for a free screening of the documentary film STORY & PICTURES BY, ...

Join us for the opening reception for “Boys Will Be Men,” a new exhibition by Bill Bamberger, a renowned photographer, CDS instructor and Duke Lecturing Fellow in Art, Art History ...

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.

The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, ...

The Black Feminist Working Group, co-convened by Jazmin Maço (Duke University, PhD, Art History) and Rukimani PV (Duke University, PhD, Literature), will be hosting the 2025 Black Feminist Graduate Symposium, ...

Join Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) for a celebration and showcase of emerging documentary work. Everyone is welcome – students, faculty, staff and community members. View exhibitions of CDS ...

Experience new documentary work by more than 80 students enrolled in CDS undergraduate and graduate courses during the 2024-25 academic year. From striking black-and-white darkroom prints by new photographers to ...

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 ...

Exploring the intersections of art, documentary, and social justice, panelists Mattison Bond, Movement History Initiative Coordinator, and Brandee Newkirk, Art, Art History & Visual Studies PhD candidate, are in conversation ...

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 ...

FREE, ticket required Sunday, April 6, 5:30 p.m., Carolina Theatre: Fletcher Hall Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure was ...

FREE, no ticket required. Saturday, April 5, 8:30 p.m., Durham Central Park Fred Rogers transformed children’s television with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister who believed that ...

FREE, no ticket required. Friday, April 4, 8:30 p.m., Durham Central Park. From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly ...

FREE, ticket required. Thu, April 3, 10:30 a.m., Carolina Theatre: Fletcher Hall THE APOLLO (Dir. Roger Ross Williams) chronicles the legacy of New York City’s landmark Apollo Theater, covering the ...

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of nonfiction cinema. Each spring, Full Frame welcomes filmmakers and film lovers from around ...

Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) is excited to host the March Meetup of Photobook Dummies, a monthly in-person gathering of photobook collectors, creators and enthusiasts that happens in Durham ...

Join us for a discussion and book signing with James Robinson. Kelly Alexander will interview Robinson about his new illustrated novel “Whale Eyes,” journalism, disability and getting people to care. ...

Can’t Stop Change follows the production team on a road trip across Florida (and the new Florida diaspora) to meet with 14 LGBTQ2S+ artists, organizers, and activists, uplifting their stories ...

Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) is excited to introduce our DocX Residency Fellows to campus and invite you to join us for a Welcome Reception. DocX is a CDS ...

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 ...

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 ...

Presentation of 2 projects in the Documentary Studies Work-in-Progress series: Prof. Ernest Grant presents on his project, “Equity in Action: Breaking Barriers in Nursing Leadership for The Future of Healthcare,” ...

Join us for the closing reception of “Jamaican Mascs,” an exhibition of documentary portraits and mixed-media collages that contest any singular representation of Jamaican masculinity. Curated by Jazmin Maço, this ...

Mary Berridge’s award­-winning series of pho­tographs is paired with narratives written pri­marily by the subjects or their parents. The exhibition, “Visible Spectrum,” offers an intimate view of life with autism, ...

Come learn about Duke in L.A.! The Duke in L.A. experience includes two seminars taught by Duke faculty, a student-selected course at the University of Southern California and a practicum ...

Join Duke undergraduate and graduate students for a gallery talk on their co-curated exhibition, Climate Hope: Photographic Works from the Nasher Collection, on view in the Academic Focus Gallery. The ...

Presentation of 3 projects in the Documentary Studies Work-in-Progress Series: Professor Jenny Lion’s experimental documentary video is one of a series of video installation and cinematic works that explore landscape ...

Prof. Raquel Salvatella de Prada’s project explores the impacts of climate change, human activity and invasive species on global ecosystems. Featuring mixed media prints and augmented reality, the exhibit will ...

Join us for a party to welcome renowned artist Marie T. Cochran and kick off her 2025 Visiting Artist Residency at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies (CDS). Cochran is an ...

Professors Ouma and Mkhize are working to retrieve, document and examine an archive of photographs documenting social life in Polokwane, South Africa, between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. Their ...

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary HOLLYWOODGATE. This screening is free and open to the public, though attendees ...

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 Professor Stan Abe ...

Professors Wallace and Smith present their work-in-progress, a documentary film about the role of sports at Duke through the story of Claudius (C.B.) Claiborne, the university’s first Black student-athlete. The ...

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary UNION. Winter Road Show screenings are free and open to the public, ...

An event featuring South African photojournalist, Paul Weinberg, on his upcoming retrospective called “Between the Cracks.” He will tell the story of his journey and journeys that took him to ...

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary DAUGHTERS. All Winter Road Show screenings are free and open to the ...

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 Professor Stan Abe ...

A multimedia presentation, to be followed by a Q&A session and book signing. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo’s pioneering podcast, The Memory Palace, has turned to the past to make ...

Rob Amberg will read and show work from “Little Worlds,” the third volume in his trilogy of books from Madison County, North Carolina. This hybrid book intertwines Amberg’s journal entries ...

Gallery talk with artist Mary Berridge at 6:00 pm. Mary Berridge’s award­-winning series of pho­tographs is paired with narratives written pri­marily by the subjects or their parents. The exhibition, “Visible ...

Mary Berridge’s award-winning series of photographs is paired with narratives written primarily by the subjects or their parents. The exhibition, “Visible Spectrum,” offers an intimate view of life with autism, ...

Register for a powerful screening of “Inheritance” Dive into the heart of America’s opioid epidemic with an exclusive screening of “Inheritance,” a compelling new documentary that traces the roots of ...

This talk will demonstrate a practical approach to exploring generative visual artificial intelligence. Methods of shaping the visual outcomes will be discussed and demonstrated. Criticality, caution, and curiosity will be ...

The Duke Program in American Grand Strategy invites you to a screening of and panel for the film: War Game on Wednesday, September 25th from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM ...

Jenny Stratton Lewis Hine Fellowship Presentation While Still Tender Monday, September 23 6:00 pm Center for Documentary Studies Please join us Monday, September 23 for a presentation and artist talk ...

Join Kris Graves for a discussion on his project “American Monuments” on view in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Refreshments and exhibit viewing will begin at ...

Felicity Palma Cassilhaus Travel Fellowship Presentation Friday, August 30 6:30pm Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Please join us Friday, August 30 for a screening and artist talk from 2022 Cassilhaus ...

Please join CDS for a celebration and showcase of recent work by students. Everyone is welcome to attend – students, faculty and staff as well as community members and visitors. ...