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TODAY and TOMORROW!!!!

Soapbox-It’s a mass performance revolving around issues of free speech. Everyone who wants to speak is given a soapbox and one minute of free speech….

SOAPBOX EVENT
CONVERGENCE CENTER AT PARK AVENUE ARMORY

643 PARK AVENUE BETWEEN 66TH AND 67TH STREETS

One Box = One Minute of Free Speech
Come and speak your mind!

26th September 12-3pm
27th September, 3-6PM

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Thanks to Standby.org for partnering with us on this event and video!

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Still Lost Bird Music performs “French Lessons”
From the album Sargent Egyptian Girl (on iTunes).

Through Saturday, May 3…

Make sure to check this out before it closes.

And also, be sure to catch Mary Billyou presenting her own video works at UnionDocs on May 19.
High Risk Citizen
Films curated by Mary Billyou and Eva Díaz

High Risk Citizen explores forms of political resistance and public engagement today, as considered by contemporary artists working in film and video. In this heated year of presidential electioneering, an ongoing, costly war in Iraq, and growing economic recession, both the precarity and possibilities of the moment are incredibly high.

The exhibition examines the stakes of active civic participation in an era of increased privatization and market- or wealth-driven access to state power. The works in High Risk Citizen move between depressed responses to the ways in which collective, political efficaciousness has been intentionally curtailed, and euphoric re-imaginings of sites of robust social and civic culture. While other forms of community affiliations (religious, military, or perhaps even consumer) are frequently invoked as possible substitutes, this exhibition revisits the role and affect of citizenship as one of potential tendentiousness, and questions how what we are told about our relationship to government may be in conflict with how we constitute ourselves as a public.

The program includes films by artists Peggy Ahwesh; Harun Farocki; Glass Bead Collective; Sabine Gruffat; Leopold Kessler; Les LeVeque; Jeanne Liotta; Keith Sanborn; and many, many more.

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See what the legendary Albert Maysles has to say in our first Full Frame Day One UnionDocs video!

A series of interviews with directors from the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in
Durham, North Carolina. We asked directors (including the legendary Albert Maysles) about their takes on film festivals, being a filmmaker in 2008, what makes a good story, being daring, and when to end your film.

The result is some amazing insights into making a documentary film: the highs, the lows, the last minute editing sessions, the struggle for funding, inspiration, and what makes a compelling, sucessful film.