BYFA

BALTIMORE GENERATIONS: A COLLABORATIVE VIDEOGRAPHY PROJECT
Ages 16-29
Winter 2023, Online & JHU-MICA Film Centre

In this experimental videography workshop, student fellows will work with a series of instructors to collect and assemble moving images of Baltimoreans at different stages of life--babies, children, teenagers, and adults from 20 to 100--with the purpose of creating a collective portrait of Baltimore generations.  Responding to weekly prompts, fellows will work independently to capture what compels them in their environments even as they collaborate in addressing common ideas.  They’ll create short video clips, 10 to 90 seconds, of people, places, and things that evoke and reflect on life’s passages, hitting a range of emotional and cultural notes, and including a variety of neighborhoods and communities. At the same time, they’ll explore the possibilities of image and audio, experimenting with visual composition, including movement, color, texture; and with recordings of ambient sound, as well as human voices.  Instructors will also contribute clips, the material itself being part of group discussion, expressions of each fellow’s and each instructor’s distinct vision.  Footage will be logged (selected and labeled) as it’s shared, and the workshop will culminate in two in-person editing events, in which a collaborative video will be created by the group working with an editor.  The completed video will be shared through a virtual exhibition and on the program website.  Limited to 10 student fellows.

Gwyneth Anderson is an animator and visual artist exploring themes of invisibility and perception. She has exhibited in galleries, festivals, forests, and vacant lots throughout the US and internationally. She recently moved to Baltimore from Chicago, where she was a teaching artist with the Museum of Contemporary Art and Columbia College.  

Audrey Gatewood is a photographer, director, and facilitator from Baltimore, MD. Their photographic work features elements of fantasy, and is deeply collaborative with the Baltimore arts and LGBTQ community. They are currently working towards a social work degree at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Somer Greer is a writer and photographer who lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, working as a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and other schools in the Mid-Atlantic. He now lives on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a series of candid photos of Cajun musicians.

Kintsugi Kelley-Chung is an activist at heart, artist by trade, combining social justice with innovative multimedia storytelling. A Columbia, MD, native, Kian’s work focuses on race, immigration, gender and class through music, photo, film, XR, and more.

Keith Mehlinger is Director of the Screenwriting and Animation program (SWAN) at Morgan State University.  A producer/writer/director, he produced episodes of the syndicated series, Story of a People, and recently completed a short documentary about parents of sons lost to street violence for the Morgan multimedia project, Mother's Lament. 

David Lee Roberts Jr., an award-winning television producer and documentary filmmaker, is Adjunct Professor in the Screenwriting and Animation (SWAN) program at Morgan State University.  Television credits include Metro Focus and Oh, Gospel; film credits include Credible Messenger, about juvenile justice reform, and Charm City, about Baltimore community reform and engagement. 

Emmet Sheehan is a Baltimore City native with a background in stage and film. He was part of the pilot program that helped launch the film department at Baltimore School for the Arts, and trained at North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Intensive.