Discipline: Film/Video – documentary

Joel Katz

Discipline: Film/Video – documentary
Region: Montclair, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2009

Joel Katz worked on White: A Study in Color, a documentary/essay film on what it means to be white in America. His 2002 film Strange Fruit was broadcast on PBS' Independent Lens series and is in wide distribution.

Studios

Wood

Joel Katz worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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