cinema verite

Jean Rouch, Chicago, and Kartemquin

January 23, 2013 2:22 pm

"For him, he became a camera-man, literally, and the camera became a celebrant in a possession rite. People could transform with it, and you could [use it] to see inside their souls and various truths."

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:00 pm

UChicago Booth Gleacher Center

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive

Chicago, IL

Filmspotting co-host and executive producer Adam Kempenaar invites KTQ Artistic Director Gordon Quinn to talk cinéma vérité at the University of Chicago.

Kempenaar's seminar Point of View: Cinéma Vérité, the Documentary, and the Problem of Truth traces the evolution of the documentary form and examines the relationship between cinema and truth. Films to be screened include Nanook of the North, Don’t Look Back, The Thin Blue Line, and Kartemquin's very own Hoop Dreams.

HUM 255 radical featured in NY Times magazine

January 17, 2012 12:10 pm

The New York Times Magazine cover story last Sunday, January 12th, "Judith Clark’s Radical Transformation", was about Judith Clark, a reformed militant 70's left-wing radical currently serving life imprisonment for being involved with an 1981 armed robbery and murder.

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