Rodrigo Dorfman has made over 500 shorts in the span of his career as a community centered visual storyteller.
The latest. A little bit of everything…
A short film in two parts commissioned by the Duke Music Department showcasing the work of a group of students during the two years of the Pandemic as they prepare to perform Shubert’s Trout Quintet. PLAY PART 1 PLAY PART 2
Rayos del Sol/Rays of the Sun
El Futuro is a one-of-a-kind place where Spanish speaking immigrants can come for culturally informed behavioral health treatment. This video showcases the creation of a community mural as a means to move from individual healing to communal healing. (7 minutes)
Harvest of Justice 2021: Farm Workers and Food Justice
Short documentary commissioned by the National Farm Worker Ministry. The overwhelming irony of the US agricultural system is that the agricultural workers face environmental, political, economic, and structural barriers that prevent them from being able to sustainably feed their families in affordable, healthy, and culturally appropriate ways. In the U.S., farm workers uphold the agricultural industry while simultaneously being 400 times more likely to experience food insecurity than the general public. They work long, arduous hours under the most punishing of conditions, and are literally unable to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Filmmaker Rodrigo Dorfman on COVID-19’s impact on his communities. YES! Weekly.
Rodrigo Dorfman, exile and son of exiles, is no stranger to catastrophe. When he was a child in Chile, his family’s life was threatened by a murderous U.S.-backed military coup. Now, it’s disrupted by a pandemic. Like his father, novelist, playwright, essayist and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman, Rodrigo is haunted by history.
CIOMPI QUARTET
Experimental music video for the Ciompi Quartet. The string quartet of French pianist/composer Marie Jaëll was written in 1875, but was never performed or published in her lifetime. In 2009, Sébastien Troester discovered her unpublished manuscript in the archives of the National and University Library of Strasbourg. The Ciompi Quartet gave the North American premiere in February of 2019 in Baldwin Auditorium. 144 years after it was written. (9 minutes)
NFWM - Farm Workers and the Environment
Produced during the pandemic. Video created using zoom interviews with farm workers across the USA, and archive materials for the National Farm Worker Ministry on the impacts of climate change on Farm workers felt all over the U.S. As climate change forces significant agricultural adaptations and farmers continue to feel pressure to make shortcuts concerning labor, farm workers will feel the first and most severe impacts on their working and living conditions.
(5 minutes)
