Deadline: 14 October 2024
The DocX Residency–Another World is Possible is an opportunity for documentary artists, independent scholars and knowledge-keepers whose work and practice centers counter knowledges, counter imagination and otherwise possibilities to be supported in their imagining.
Three to five fellows will be selected for the DocX residency program to support projects (installation, film, photography exhibit, XR project, audio work, etc.) in a pivotal stage of late development or production. The residency is an invitation for documentary artists working across disciplines – filmmakers, photographers, multimedia artists, audio artists and independent researchers – to take space to breathe and create.
Fellows will be asked to reside in Durham, North Carolina, for a month, be offered a workspace at Duke University, and have access to campus resources to further their projects.
In the following weeks, fellows will focus on their projects and are expected to engage with students at least once during their residency. They will also receive passes to the 2025 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival to take advantage of screenings, panels and networking events. At the end of the residency, fellows will participate in a public roundtable discussion about their questions and discoveries and contribute a short written piece about their practice for publication on the Center for Documentary Studies website.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: $20,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. and be at least 25 years old. Applicants can be from any demographic background, but they highly encourage Black, brown, queer, trans and disabled artists and researchers to apply. Applicants must not be currently enrolled in a full-time degree-granting program. Duke University students, faculty and staff, and previous DocX fellows, are not eligible to apply. Duke alumni must have graduated at least two years ago.
- Artists with an active documentary art practice who, through their practice or proposed project, are investigating or posing questions, thinking deeply/meaningfully/intentionally about imagining new worlds or dismantling oppressive frameworks. They invite artists who are eager for a space to pose questions and think deeply alongside a like-minded community. Projects that are in early development or ready for distribution are not eligible.
- Independent scholars and knowledge keepers who have begun to turn their research into a documentary arts project are also welcome to apply. Perhaps you have been quietly preserving the archive of a community, an under-recognized lived history of a movement or even an intimate family archive and have a vision that you have begun to realize as a documentary arts project (installation, film, photography exhibit, XR project, audio work).
For more information, visit Duke University.
