Summary - Individual Project Review

Get focused, one-on-one feedback on a creative project through two individualized 75-minute sessions with filmmaker and artist Elizabeth M. Webb. Open to artists and filmmakers working at any stage of development, this offering begins with a fall studio visit in November centered on your submitted materials, creative questions, and goals for the project. Elizabeth will review your work in advance and use the session to offer thoughtful feedback, identify areas for further exploration, and help you consider possible next ste

You'll then have several months to develop the work before reconnecting for a follow-up session in February. Together, you'll revisit the project, discuss what has shifted, and consider how to continue moving it forward.

Whether you're developing an early idea, navigating a work in progress, or looking for an outside perspective on a project nearing completion, these sessions offer dedicated space for sustained, individualized conversation about your work.

Takeaways & Participation Requirements

Receive two 75-minute, one-on-one sessions focused specifically on your project, creative questions, and goals.
The two sessions will occur in November 2026 and February 2027. Sessions can be in-person at CDS or online.
After registering for the sessions, you will receive a confirmation email and a link to schedule your first session.
Get individualized feedback and actionable next steps for developing, refining, or completing your work.
Use the time between the fall and spring sessions to apply feedback, experiment, and advance your project, then return for a follow-up conversation about its evolution.
Submit your project materials at least one week before each session, along with 2–3 questions or areas where you would particularly like feedback.
Participants may submit work at any stage of development; submission guidelines and limits will be provided after registration.

Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker whose work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders. She has screened and exhibited at venues including Viennale, BlackStar Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and her film Proximity Study (Sight Lines)won Best Experimental Short at the 2022 New Orleans Film Festival and the Marian McMahon Award at the 2023 Images Festival. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation (JustFilms), the Allan Sekula Social Documentary Award, and the Graham Foundation. Webb holds a dual MFA in Film/Video and Photo/Media from CalArts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She is co-editor of Future/Present: Arts in a Changing America (Duke University Press, 2024) and was the 2024-26 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor of Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and UNC.

Webb is currently working on her first feature documentary, Artificial Horizon, which borrows its title from a land surveying instrument that uses celestial reflections to create a horizon line when none is visible to the naked eye. The film traces the layered racial and ecological histories of a tract of former plantation land in eastern Alabama — an origin point for family members who live on either side of, and sometimes cross, the color line. Drawing on plant life as a model of resilience and adaptation, the film asks: how might repair happen to land, to relationships, and to systems?

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