Photo by Natasha Lehner
BIO
Madison Hill is a filmmaker and photographer based out of Durham, North Carolina. She received a B.A. in Cinema Studies from Virginia Tech and an M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. Currently, Madison is an Instructor for Cinematic Arts at Duke University teaching theory and production in Documentary Arts, 16mm Film, Experimental Darkroom, and Moving Image Practice.
Through her film practice, Madison explores how the documentary medium can be transformed in an evolving 21st-century landscape. Madison utilizes various techniques such as 16mm filmmaking, digital cinematography, archival research, and photography to create work that blurs the boundaries of genre and cinematic expectations. Such work includes processing film in environmental contaminants to emulate their effects on the human body; utilizing fiction production techniques in the documentary genre; and manipulating archival material in an attempt to question memory and subjectivity. Madison’s work has screened at festivals in New York, Kansas City, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. Her latest documentary, Fallout, premiered in season 9 of Reel South on PBS.