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...true enthusiast,” Guzzetti said, recollecting Saran as a prodigy, and the only VES concentrator who understood psychoanalyst Lacan, a famous name in film studies, “better than...
Rogers’s approach to filmmaking was a perfect fit for the university environment: he displayed a boundless intellectual curiosity and a desire for experimentation. According to colleague Alfred Guzzetti, Rogers had “a passion for learning about a subject,” and “what he liked about filmmaking was where it took him.” Rogers engaged intellectual arguments and left his own personal stamp on his work, all with a constant forward energy. Guzzetti characterizes Rogers’s filmmaking as “like packing a suitcase?...
When he returned from England, Rogers enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Education in a now defunct Visual Education program, where he met his future wife, the photographer Susan Meiselas, and his friend and collaborator Alfred Guzzetti, who was assigned to him as a faculty advisor. Soon after, Rogers would assist Guzzetti in the shooting of the cross-country road trip film Evidence...
...Guzzetti describes Meiselas’s initial opposition to appearing in the film, saying that he and Dick argued that they had to get the viewer from one picture to another, and that the only real common thread between all of these pictures was the photographer who took them. Meiselas says that she was ambivalent about her presence in the film, believing that “history was so important,” she wasn’t needed. But her appearance in the film is what really sets it apart, especially the way in which Rogers is able...
Perhaps the greatest tribute to Rogers is the respect he garnered from students and colleagues. Guzzetti recalls Rogers’s willingness to teach and work with students in styles of filmmaking completely different from his own. Rogers did not withhold criticisms of student work, and students always said that they found him to be demanding but also very supportive. Kyle Gilman ‘02 was enrolled in a course with Rogers when he was diagnosed with cancer in fall of 2000, and said that Rogers was distressed about having to miss classes because of treatments for his illness...