Surveillance: Documentary and the Hidden Camera

Presented by Full Frame and the Screen Society

Lunch with Filmmaker Eva Weber and Producer Samantha Zarzosa

Tuesday, February 27, 12 – 1:30pm, Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center

The John Hope Franklin Center host a special lunch with The Intimacy of Strangers filmmaker Eva Weber and producer Samantha Zarzosa. The filmmakers, who currently reside in the UK, come to Durham for a Full Frame Documentary Film Festival event Tuesday Evening at the Nasher Museum of Art.

This lunch session will be an opportunity to hear the filmmakers discuss their work on the film that won the 2006 President’s Award sponsored by Duke University at last year’s Full Frame festival. Both filmmakers have incredible backgrounds in film, radio, and television and now work independently on projects that range from documentary to fiction, from kidnapping in Colombia and animation to a fiction feature on the private/public nature of cell phone conversations.

We invite the community to exchange ideas and dialog with these talented artists. All members of the public are welcome to join us. A delicious lunch will be provided.

Contact shilyh.warren@fullframefest.org with questions.

For more information about the filmmakers and their work see www.theintimacyofstrangers.com

February 27th at 7:00 pm the The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

This event is free and open to the public.

Introduction: Ken S. Rogerson, Research Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy

Tajne Tasmy SB (Secret Tapes)
(Dir. Piotr Montwski, 2002, 35min, Polish w/ English subtitles, Poland)

In 2001, surveillance films made by the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs between 1966 and 1985 were found and form their own documentary history of the decline of a paranoid regime. These films record the different forms of social protests of those days: street fights, hunger strikes, meetings in churches, demonstrations, self-immolations. Former secret service operatives chill you with their pride in accurate filmmaking and hidden cameras. A very creepy film, indeed.

The Intimacy of Strangers
(Dir. by Eva Weber, 2005, 20 min, color, English, UK)

Cell phone conversations have the ability to collapse the distinctions between public and private space. In these conversations, intimate moments are performed for strangers in public spaces and director Eva Weber captures these moments, recording cell phone conversations in the public sphere. Masterfully edited by Emilio Battista, the film weaves these seemingly unrelated conversations into a cohesive documentary narrative. The Intimacy of Strangers is a love story of the modern age, transmitted for all to hear.

Panel:

Moderator: David Paletz, Professor of Political Science and Director, Film/Video/Digital Program at Duke University

Panelists:

Eva Weber, Filmmaker (The Intimacy of Strangers)
Samantha Zarzosa, Producer (The Intimacy of Strangers)
Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature, Professor of Latin American Studies and Spanish
Timothy Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University

Sponsored By: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the Screen Society with support from the Film/Video/Digital Program and the Visiting Artists Fund of the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies.

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