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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 ?...
Rogers began his long connection with Harvard first as an undergraduate in the 1960s. Born in 1944 to a privileged family in New York, Rogers attended Dalton High School before coming to Harvard, where he ended up rooming with film critic David Ansen and actor John Lithgow. Documentary filmmaker Janet...
After Harvard, Rogers studied in England for two years on a Fulbright scholarship, where he learned about cultural studies from one of its founders, Stuart Hall. This was a different approach for Rogers given the Harvard English department’s emphasis at the time on New Criticism, which focuses...
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...
Rogers’s first film was Quarry (1970), a documentary about a swimming hole in Quincy, Massachusetts interlaced with references to the Vietnam War. This was the first of many documentary films for Rogers, whose various films are linked by an emphasis on personal autobiography and a focus on...