Bull City Summer had a fantastic opening last night at CAM Raleigh. Major thanks to Marjorie Hodges, Gab Smith, Jeff Bell and the whole CAM staff. The exhibit features work by Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Adam Sobsey, Leah Sobsey, Alec Soth, Tim Telkamp, Hank Willis Thomas, Hiroshi Watanabe, Ivan Weiss, and Jeff Whetstone. […]
Snapshots from Big Ears
We returned from Big Ears in Knoxville on April 1 and have been distracted by various things (preparations for various new Bull City Summer outcomes including our book publication, the second BCS exhibition opening at CAM Raleigh on May 22, and finishing a feature documentary film on BCS, to name three). Now we’re starting the process […]
Rock Fish Stew Seeks Summer Interns
RFS seeks two self-starting interns for the summer months of 2014. Interns will help support current documentary projects, help manage the website and social media, contribute ideas and material, research and help write grants, transcribe interviews, and participate on a Kickstarter campaign. An interest in literature, film, and/or other creative endeavors is a plus. Video, […]
Big Ears 2014: The Song Is Over…
We had a fantastic time documenting Big Ears 2014! Huge thanks to Knoxville, @BigEarsFestival and everyone who made our stay remarkable. As we organize and take stock of all the materials collected over the weekend, we’re putting up photos you all contributed via #bigearsdoc. If you have anything else you’d like to contribute – photos, […]
The Big Premiere
Last night I premiered The Education of Ida Owens — about the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D from Duke University — at the Nasher Museum in Durham. The Duke Graduate School really stepped up to the plate. It was a lovely event, thanks to Dean Paula D. McClain, Sondra Ponzi, and above all […]
Slate: Capturing the Quiet Beauty of Baseball
Jordan Teicher gets it really right in this article in Slate magazine. It features images from Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Alec Soth, Leah Sobsey, and Hiroshi Watanabe.
The Taste of Rock Fish Stew
Documentaries are not just composed from our senses of sight and sound, or even of touch or smell — but also taste. Obviously you can’t record a taste, but we did the next best thing. We asked our friend Ricky Moore over at Saltbox Seafood Joint to cook us a pot of rock fish stew and […]
Bull City Summer… Is Here!
The North Carolina Museum of Art’s Bull City Summer exhibition opened this past weekend. We are very excited and encourage you to go check it out. In the meantime, watch our latest trailer, with footage by Kate Joyce, edited by Ivan Weiss…
BIG EARS (multi-media)
Big Ears in Knoxville — arguably the most important experimental music festival in the country right now — serves as the backdrop for this ongoing documentary exploration of how artists create, how audiences listen, and the connections between them. Rock Fish Stew embedded a team of documentarians in downtown Knoxville for Big Ears 2014 and 2015, covering shows but also seeking […]