News

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  Prison Portraits: Photographic Self-Representation in an Image Desert
  December 7
  As the Docs Program undertakes visual work on behalf of lifers incarcerated for decades because they are ineligible for parole, we confront a ban on photographing and filming in prisons.  Prison Portraits may be useful in providing not only a way to deal with the ban, but also an argument why it is wrong.
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  Collective Trauma, Transitional Justice and Two Documentaries about Philadelphia’s Confrontation with MOVE
  July 3
  As “Let the Fire Burn” (2013) and “The Bombing of Osage Avenue” (1987) show in very different ways, May 13, 1985 was a traumatic day in the history of police/citizen relations in Philadelphia.  Its legacy is reflected in contemporary controversies over race relations in America.
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  “A Civil Remedy” Backstory: How Law Professor Kate Nace Day Came to Make a Documentary Short about Domestic Sex Trafficking
  July 17
  After analyzing numerous documentaries about sex trafficking, Law Professor Emerita Kate Nace Day decided to make one that focuses on a vision of civil justice for survivors.
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  “The Look of Silence”: Vicarious Fear, Transitional Justice, and Documentary Practice
  June 8
  Like “The Act of Killing,”  Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence” examines the 1965 Indonesian genocide; this time the focus is Adi Rukun, the brother of a victim, who pursues his own mission of truth and reconciliation.
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  The Lived Experience of an Oxymoron: Harry Reicher’s Visual Approach to Law & the Holocaust
  November 10
  The late Harry Reicher, Adjunct Professor at Penn Law, made extensive use of visual material in teaching Holocaust Studies in the Law.  His talk at the Shoah Foundation explains how and why.
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  Documenting Social Justice Protests #3: The Supporting Roles of Three Different Kinds of Lawyers
  May 27
  Lawyers play a supporting role in protecting and assisting protesters who interact with digital visual technology. The lawyers may be practicing criminal law, civil liberties, or international human rights.