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                       SUMMER DOCUMENTARY INSTITUTE
                              ANTIOCH COLLEGE
                            Yellow Springs, Ohio
                                July 8-31

The 1998 Summer Documentary Institute (July 8 - July 31) offers an
intensive month of film, video and audio documentary study and screenings.
Distinguished visiting documentary makers and Antioch faculty will meet
with students in a seminar setting to consider contemporary issues and
technologies, explore the interview process, and address production and
with students in a seminar setting to consider contemporary issues and
technologies, explore the interview process, and address production and
distribution strategies.

The Documentary Institute will host the acclaimed "Margaret Mead Traveling
Film & Video Festival" created by the American Natural History Museum in
New York.  Documentary makers will be on hand to lead a discussion after
the screening of each program.  The Margaret Mead is open to the public and
will be screened on July 11th, 18th, and 25th from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM at
the Little Art Theater located in downtown Yellow Springs.

For more information about the Antioch Documentary Institute:

        Call:   937-767-6406
                Toll Free 800-543-9436
        e-mail:  summer@antioch-college.edu
        web site: http://www.antioch-college.edu/summer?Visiting

documentarian participants include:


-Dena Aronson, an independent video producer for the last 10 years, has
been collaborating with schools, artists and a variety of non-profit
groups.  She is currently working on a documentary called "These Troubled
Fields" and will share her work and teach Video Production in Block 1.

-Steven Bognar will present "Personal Belongings," which showed at the
Sundance Film Festival and other international film festivals.  He is one
of four filmmakers selected by the Wexner Center to make a documentary
about the class of 2000, and is currently co-producing a narrative feature,
"The Dream Catcher."

-Anne Bohlen, Antioch Faculty member and co-director of the Documentary
Institute will show her latest film "Blood in the Face."  Her previous work
includes Academy Award Nominee "With Babies and Banners," and national Emmy
Award winner, "Global Assembly Line."

-Marie-HËlène Cousineau, Canadian videomaker, will present her work with
Igloolik producers Zach Kunuk, Norman Cohen, and the Tariagsuk Video Center.

-Daniel Friedman, Antioch Faculty member whose new documentary "Miss India
Georgia" premiered on PBS in May, will be on hand to screen his film and
help facilitate special documentary events.

-Marlon Fuentes, West Coast filmmaker, will present his most recent work
along with "Bontoc Eulogy," a profound documentary meditation on history,
anthropology, truth and reality based on the story of the Filipino
"natives" who were exhibited at the 1904 World's Fair.

-Jill Godmilow has been an internationally known independent groundbreaking
feminist documentary filmmaker for over twenty years.  Her films include
the documentary "Far from Poland" and her feature film, which won First
Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and in the Houston International Film
Festival, "Waiting for the Moon."  She will be on campus to share her most
recent film "What Farocki Taught."

-Chris Hill, Antioch Faculty member and co-director of the Documentary
Institute, is currently working on a videotape and web site about
independent media in the Czech Republic, and recently curated an
internationally touring exhibition, "Surveying the First Decade:  Video Art
and Alternative Media in the U.S., 1968-1980."

-Art Jones, a member of the video collective Not Channel Zero, uses his
work to look at the culture and politics of African-American music.

-Richard Kaplan, an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker and Antioch
Alumnus, will be on campus to show and discuss his new film "ASSIGNMENT:
RESCUE; the Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee."

-George King played an important role in the British Community Arts
Movement in the 70s and is currently teaching at the Atlanta Art Institute.
He is best known for his work on the radio documentary "Will the Circle be
Unbroken," a thirteen hour history of the Civil Rights Movement, which has
won many  awards including the Peabody Award, the Golden Reel for Best
Public Affairs Programming, and the Oral History Association Non-Print
Media Award.

-Jim Klein, an Antioch graduate and a two time Academy Award nominee, will
hold a screening of his latest documentary, "Taken for a Ride."  He has
been a independent filmmaker for over twenty years and his works include
"Letter to the Next Generation," and Oscar nominees, "Union Maids,"  and
"Seeing Red."

-Susan Muska, a New York based documentary filmmaker, is an independent
film and video producer who has for the last ten years worked in
independent documentaries on social issues. Her work has been shown on
Independent Focus, Dyke TV, Manhattan Neighborhood Network and Afrique
Vision in NYC.  She recently collaborated on an award winning documentary,
"The Brandon Teena Story," which premiered this year at the Berlin
Festival, winning two Teddy awards, for best documentary and the
Siegelsaule Readers' Award.

-Greta Olafsdottir, a New York based documentary filmmaker, is a
photographer who does commercial and fine art work. Her work has been
published in several different fine art publications.  She recently
collaborated on an award winning documentary, "The Brandon Teena Story,"
which premiered this year at the Berlin Festival, winning two Teddy
awards, for best documentary and the Siegelsaule Readers' Award.

-Rick Prelinger is a film archivist and researcher.  He's published the
guide to "Footage '89- '92," a guide to film and video collection in North
America, "My Secret Century," a twelve volume CD ROM series based on his
collection of educational and industrial films, "Monitor U.S.A.," a guide
to frequency use and allocations in North America, and "Suburbia," his most
recent CD ROM also based on his film collection.

-Julia Reichert, also an Antioch grad, is a Wright State University
Professor of Film Production.  Her critically acclaimed films include
"Growing up Female," "Emma and Elvis" and the Oscar nominees "Union Maids"
and "Seeing Red."  Julia is currently co-producing a narrative feature,
"The Dream Catcher," a documentary about the history of female sexuality,
and directing and producing a featured documentary about children with
cancer.

-Marty Rosenbluth, Antioch alum and acclaimed filmmaker, will screen his
film, "Jerusalem:  An Occupation Set in Stone?", which won a Gold Award for
the best Political Documentary at the Charleston Worldfest and a Silver
Award for the best International Documentary at the Houston Film Festival.

-Brian Springer is a videomaker whose work has frequently incorporated
satellite feeds, public access TV and other transmission technology.
"Spin" (1995), competed with the support of Channel 4 (UK), has been shown
at the New York Film Festival, the ICA in London, the LA Film Forum,
Dokumenta (1997), Kassel, and many other venues.

-Jon Stout is the Program Director for Free Speech TV, a part-time cable
network dedicated to progressive and alternative media.  Stout previously
served as Executive Director of the Los Angeles Film Forum, a non-profit
showcase of independent and experimental cinema.

-Elisabeth Subrin, Assistant Professor of film and video at the Five
Colleges in Western Massachusetts, is an experimental film and video
artist.  Her most recent film, "Shulie," premiered in 1997 at the New York
Film Festival and in 1998 at the International Film Festival, Rotterdam.

-J.T. Takagi, filmmaker and Antioch graduate, will show her film, "The
Women Outside:  Korean Women and the US Military," and lead a discussion
about Third World Newsreel:  30 years of progressive filmmaking.

-Igor Vamos is an independent multimedia artist who is currently teaching
at the California school of the arts.  He will present his recent projects
and interventions including "The BLO Nightly News."

-Yvonne Welbon, filmmaker, writer and critic whose film "Remembering Wei Yi
Fang, Remembering Myself..." aired nationally on the PBS series P.O.V. will
be here to present her film and her work in progress.

-Barbara Zahm is an anthropologist and film and video maker who has made
numerous award winning films and videos for public television and
educational distribution over the last 20 years. Her most recent film, "The
Last Graduation," documents the closing of higher eduation programs in
prisons.  Zahm has recently won the 1998 Juror's Choice Award from the
Black Maria Film Festival.

For more information about the Antioch Documentary Institute:

        Call:   937-767-6406
                Toll Free 800-543-9436
        e-mail:  summer@antioch-college.edu
        web site: http://www.antioch-college.edu/summer?Visiting

Rachel Moulton
Summer Coordinator
President's Office
Antioch College
(937) 767-6490
email:  rmoulton@antioch-college.edu