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Professor/Artist Tony Bingham who I met recently in Atlanta, is looking for documentary films by black students to share with his students as they begin a documentary film project. Please announce/forward this information to your black students who have done doc work in film/video. Bingham was not specific about the student's affiliations (high school, undergraduate, MFA/MA, community-based, media art center programs, etc) so I'm interpreting student rather broadly. Read below or check out the story on the new black visual culture site "Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now"
http://www.codezonline.com
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University of Alabama at Birmingham professor Tony Bingham is taking a learn-by-doing approach to teaching African American film history to his students. Part of his "Black Image: Screen and Television" class for the spring 2007 semester will have students make their own documentaries using local history and personal interviews as a foundation.
To help his students get over the hump of first-time film production, Professor Bingham is seeking to acquire documentary films made by other black film students from around the world. He hopes the peer-to-peer approach will prove less daunting for his students than concentrating only on works by established filmmakers.
Bingham hopes to receive 20 to 30 student films for his students to consider. Although the class will focus on films that explore community history, a broad range of subjects is needed to explore all the technical and creative aspects of filmmaking.
"I like the idea of observing how visual ideas are being worked out all across the land by African American film students, " says Bingham. "This generation is the first to comfortably embrace video production and documentary production as a means of personal expression."
Professor Tony Bingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
African American Studies
1055 Bldg Room 102
1530 3rd Ave S.
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-4480
205-939-3713 home
tonymbingham@yahoo.com
Professor/Artist Tony Bingham who I met recently in Atlanta, is looking for documentary films by black students to share with his students as they begin a documentary film project. Please announce/forward this information to your black students who have done doc work in film/video. Bingham was not specific about the student's affiliations (high school, undergraduate, MFA/MA, community-based, media art center programs, etc) so I'm interpreting student rather broadly. Read below or check out the story on the new black visual culture site "Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now"
http://www.codezonline.com
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University of Alabama at Birmingham professor Tony Bingham is taking a learn-by-doing approach to teaching African American film history to his students. Part of his "Black Image: Screen and Television" class for the spring 2007 semester will have students make their own documentaries using local history and personal interviews as a foundation.
To help his students get over the hump of first-time film production, Professor Bingham is seeking to acquire documentary films made by other black film students from around the world. He hopes the peer-to-peer approach will prove less daunting for his students than concentrating only on works by established filmmakers.
Bingham hopes to receive 20 to 30 student films for his students to consider. Although the class will focus on films that explore community history, a broad range of subjects is needed to explore all the technical and creative aspects of filmmaking.
"I like the idea of observing how visual ideas are being worked out all across the land by African American film students, " says Bingham. "This generation is the first to comfortably embrace video production and documentary production as a means of personal expression."
Professor Tony Bingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
African American Studies
1055 Bldg Room 102
1530 3rd Ave S.
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-4480
205-939-3713 home
tonymbingham@yahoo.com
