This documentary short film is about a now 30-year-old transgender man telling his story of growing up queer in a small Arkansas town, from being outed as a lesbian in high school, to ultimately being accepted as a trans man by members of his military and biological families. Be…
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Rendered Visualities: Representation and Detention in the War on Terror examines how representations of detention in documentary, Hollywood cinema, art installations, and US government documents reproduce modern racialized and gendered logics of American Empire. Since 9/11, ther…
For this Thesis project I interviewed seven women of West African descent and documented their unique stories about identity and the tensions they have experienced between their West African and American cultural heritage(s). One important charge of the film is to engage the inf…
This project examines a collection of multicultural, documentary, experimental, and avant-garde media that promotes the radical emergence of a new cut-and-mix aesthetic. This emergent genre promotes a form of remixology that embraces through its language, structure, and content,…
The use of personal testimony in theatre is a central component to the practice of Verbatim Theatre. Verbatim Theatre is a form of documentary theatre and is enjoying an increased popularity on world stages in recent years. The last decade, in particular, has seen both establish…
This practice-based research was born out of the short documentary, My Kosher Shifts, which was made for a Master's in Documentary Practice at Brunel University, London. The film was shot in an ultraorthodox Jewish hotel in London, in which the filmmaker worked as a receptionist…
Discussions about the early films of Humphrey Jennings refer to his artistic and intellectual background to explain the nature and scope of his film work. Such discussions, however, tend to rely on highly selective and partial information from existing accounts. This tendency ha…
In an attempt to address the lack of informative and in-depth media coverage on complex social and political issues, this project provides two short documentary films meant to serve as a model to reporters for addressing such highly-nuanced topics. In particular, these films—“Th…
This dissertation examines the anti-war, anti-militarist tradition of American literature and film from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) to the most recent documentaries about the ongoing Iraq War. This dissident, deeply humanist tradition has been, in Western art, a central feat…
This dissertation investigates the social world of contemporary filmmakers in the Middle East and the way they use visual media to re-imagine existent forms of identity, envision new modes of social agency, and transform public culture in the face of dramatic instability. In the…
Unnecessary Suffering: new treatment cures hepatitis C is a New Media Photojournalism thesis by Imran Khan presents educates the public on the global threat of the hepatitis C epidemic and treatment options: interferon vs. sobosfuvir. The thesis is presented as a website that co…
The film follows Peter Zack, a Marine Corps veteran of the recent War in Iraq. Peter is also a Revolutionary War living historian. He has been reenacting 18th century military life since he was 16 years old. The film follows Peter as he participates in a few Revolutionary War li…
The creative submission for my dissertation includes two of my documentary works: They Will Take My Island, a thirty-minute multimedia collaboration with filmmaker Atom Egoyan for amplified string octet, electronic track, and film, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art;…
In this thesis work, Sand and Dust is an installation containing multiple types of work, including short videos, short film, sound, photograph, and documentary. Sand and Dust title is inspired by the title of the song written by Trinh Cong Son. This song abstracts the concepts o…
Today’s digital environment features a growing circulation of repurposed archival audiovisual material. This dissertation builds on Jaimie Baron’s argument that the repurposing of audiovisual footage forms the contemporary experience of history today. I expand on her framework o…
This dissertation’s primary objective is to interrogate the intersection of virtual realityand nonfiction media, expanding and troubling the rhetorical limits of “documentary” in order tobetter understand what role the concept of “reality” plays in contemporary political and cul…
One of the most popular genres in cinema is concerned with the artistic recreation of history, the biographical picture a.k.a. the biopic. Controversy surrounds these kinds of films when the screenwriter alters the historical facts of the story to serve the narrative. When an au…
The Korean War has served as one of the crucial historical conflicts in China’s relations with other countries, especially with the United States. However, the narrative of the official memory and the meaning of the War in China have changed dramatically from the wartime period …