Cinematic Arts

The first of two lectures bridging narrative media by David LaRocca, author or contributing editor of twenty books, including Metacinema, The Philosophy of Documentary Film, and Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind. In today’s talk, LaRocca reacts to an episode of Black Mirror in which a streaming platform offers a metacritique of its own existence—and a possible near-term future for its wares. In the midst of an emerging AI takeover, the refractive parable forecasts the further...

The second of two lectures bridging narrative media by David LaRocca, author or contributing editor of twenty books, including Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker, The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman, and Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind. In today’s talk, LaRocca responds to an episode of Documentary Now! in which the parody series weighs in on the aesthetics of Werner Herzog’s persona, including tests of the epiphenomenon’s ethics, (faux) gravitas, and self-aware humor. Here metafilmmaking...

The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS) is an annual event run by students at the University of Iowa. Our mission is to engage local audiences with the exhibition of recent short films that explore the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking. We seek innovative new works of 30 minutes or less that both complicate and expand upon conventional approaches to nonfiction and documentary.The festival runs from April 25th at 3:00 PM to April 27th at 9:00 PM with 7 different...

The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS) is an annual event run by students at the University of Iowa. Our mission is to engage local audiences with the exhibition of recent short films that explore the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking. We seek innovative new works of 30 minutes or less that both complicate and expand upon conventional approaches to nonfiction and documentary.The festival runs from April 25th at 3:00 PM to April 27th at 9:00 PM with 7 different...

The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS) is an annual event run by students at the University of Iowa. Our mission is to engage local audiences with the exhibition of recent short films that explore the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking. We seek innovative new works of 30 minutes or less that both complicate and expand upon conventional approaches to nonfiction and documentary.The festival runs from April 25th at 3:00 PM to April 27th at 9:00 PM with 7 different...