STATEMENTS OF FACT
Documentary In Performance
Placed among the scarred brick warehouses of Durham, North Carolina are the world’s leading institutions for exploring the links between real life and art.
This springtime festival takes place during the season that brings Full Frame Documentary Film Festival to Durham, and presents to the Duke community five startlingly original takes on the relationship between art and life, aesthetics and lived experience. Statements of Fact takes its cue from the fact that Durham is now the nexus of documentary art in America, home to both Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies and the Full Frame Festival.
These events push the tensions of documentary to their most thrilling extremes. What happens, they ask, when classic folk music is re-cut as modern, when photographs of rural farmers share space with live performance, when news items about race, love, and murder are flipped into contemporary dance?
Squaring up to these and other live questions, the five genre-crossing events comprising Statements of Fact show what can happen when creativity and actuality get mixed. Relentlessly innovative, they also respond to their place, helping prove why Durham matters to documentary now.