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Teacher Richard Robinson Awarded VMFA Fellowship
Photography and filmmaking teacher Richard Robinson of Orange, Virginia, recently received a visual arts fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The award, based on three of Richard's experimental films, offers him the opportunity to pursue a new film project when he visits Barcelona, Spain, this summer. Richard has taught elective photography and filmmaking courses at Woodberry Forest School since the 1990s.
About the films:
Rothstein's First Assignment is a feature-length documentary about a New Deal photographer assigned to photograph families displaced by the construction of Shenandoah National Park. The film was selected by the Seattle International Film Festival.
Mimetic Tales of Ragged Mountain is a fictional short film that combines archival footage from the Blue Ridge Mountains with voice-over narrative taken from Edgar Allan Poe's story "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains."
American Hero is an experimental short documentary about the 2009 homicide case of a soldier who dressed as The Joker, killed his roommate, and fled to the Shenandoah National Park. The film includes audio from police dialogue during the car chase that resulted in the perpetrator's death and internet commentary about the breaking news story.
To learn more about Richard's award, click here.
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