"I am sharing my story of mental illness because I hope it's a tale worth telling. My dad might have been ashamed, but I am not," the associate professor of film and media studies writes in "The Atlantic" of his struggles with depression and suicide.
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June 21, 2021
The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth will be showing Prof. Jeff Ruoff's documentary Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty (2012) on-demand on YouTube from June 18 to July 2, 2021.
June 03, 2021
Samantha Knowles' film career began her senior year at Dartmouth, after her culminating project, the documentary short "Why Do You Have Black Dolls?", was accepted into the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and later played at four other festivals.
February 12, 2021
Professor Jeffrey Ruoff joins Episode 1 of the new podcast Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV. The premiere episode centers on the landmark 1973 PBS docuseries An American Family.
November 06, 2020
An Evening of New Student Films! At 5pm we will present the Found Footage screening followed at 6pm by a Q&A with the student filmmakers- at 7pm, we will present the Video Mashups screening followed at 8pm by a Q&A with the Video Mashup student filmmakers. During both Q&As, viewers will be able to submit written comments and questions....
May 07, 2020
A documentary produced in the fall FS30: Documentary Videomaking class was selected to screen at the Global Impact Film Festival in Washington, DC. Under the Bridge looks at a homeless camp in Hartford, VT, through the life of one of its inhabitants.
June 25, 2018
This years Department of Film & Media Studies FSP program is under way with Professor Jeffrey Ruoff in Edinburgh. On June 19th, Artistic Director of the Edinburgh Film Festival wsa the guest lecturer- read more about it at the Screen Academy Scotland page!...
November 04, 2016
Don't miss this night of student documentaries produced in Film Studies 30 Documentary Video on Wednesday, November 9th at 7PM in the Loew Theater, Black Family Visual Arts Center...
October 29, 2015
"Liberal arts colleges teach many valuable skills, but collaboration is not often among them" writes Professor Jeffrey Ruoff in his essay published by The Conversation......
October 03, 2015
In a Huffington Post opinion piece, Dartmouth’s Jeffrey Ruoff writes that Abbas Fahdel's Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) is “the most significant work of art to come out of the Iraq war.”