Teen Doc Authors Showcase is taking place #IntheCinema for FREE on June 7 at 7pm. 

This year's TDA workshop focused on ways of seeing together. We explored the different tenets of documentary making using a non traditional model of centering literature and more specifically Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man." Using Ellison's text, we delved into themes like existentialism, self perception and identity, and surrealism to name a few. Students used these themes as well as other supporting texts and analyses from the likes of bell hooks, Dick Gregory as well John Berger and Maya Deren's film work to help them explore the breadth of making film. Once students were able to identify their own ideas around art and their identities, they were extended to tools to help them explore the surrounding neighborhood working collaboratively and expand their ways of seeing together. They were able to work with film cameras (disposable), and digital cameras to help sharpen their gazes and provided feedback and commentary to each other's processes as well as that of the artists' works we explored. 

We welcomed guest artists who are budding documentary arts practitioners from Indonesia, Brazil and New York who extended their techniques in audio research and documentary and interviewing to help steer the group work of our teen artists. Their showcase will give way to the breadth of their experiences at critics and makers thinking through themes of identity, selfhood and place.