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    Sunday, Sep 21 - 7:30pm

    Made in Ethiopia 埃塞制造

    with Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan, & Isabelle Niu

    The human cost of China’s industrial growth in Ethiopia.

    Thursday, Sep 25 - 7:30pm

    Discard Records

    with sTo Len and Robin Nagle

    A secret sanitation archive that tells NYC’s history through its trash, its workers, and their TV studio.

    Friday, Oct 3 - 7:30pm

    Who Can You Trust?

    with Maria Carrasco, Jo Strogatz, Nic M. Neves & Anisa Vietze

    A constellation of Maine stories and a window into the trusting relationships between the people who live and made them.

    Friday, Nov 14 - 6:00am

    A Symposium of Sorts: Radical Inquiries with the UNDO Fellows

    Hosted at EMPAC

    A mix of artists, writers and curious minds to think together about the evolving shape of documentary art.

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    Friday, Sep 26 - Sunday, Sep 28

    Yesterday’s News,
    Tomorrow’s Cinema:
    The Afterlife of Historical Images

    With Stephanie Jenkins, Juanjo Pereira and Brian Becker and JT Takagi

    When does an image transcend its moment to become history and who authors its afterlife?

    Friday, Oct 10 - Sunday, Oct 12

    Post Militant Cinema:
    Documenting in the Wake of Struggle

    With Nate Lavey, Ash Goh Hua, Sasha Tycko and Ben Russell

    How do militant filmmakers continue to make politically engaged work after a cycle of struggle has ended?

    Productions

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    Artistic Differences

    A new Break ꩜ut that asks how we can generate a public space for a better conversation around documentary film.

    Break Out 2022

    A symposium of sorts exploring the research of the UNDO fellows

    Carceral Screens and the Abolitionist Imagination

    The UnionDocs Collaborative examines, contextualizes and dismantles scripts of the carceral state from the archives of popular culture.

    Feral Domesticity

    an exploration by the 2021 Collaborative Studio

    Break Out 2021

    a symposium (of sorts)

    COLAB 2020: Unmute Please

    Six Short films made by the 2020 Collaborative Studio.

    COLAB 2019: Take The L

    Short Docs Lost on NYC Transit

    Sanctuary City

    8 SHORT FILMS MADE BY THE 2018 COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

    Say Something Bunny!

    An immersive performance based on an unforgettable amateur audio recording made over 60 years ago.

    COLAB 2016: Just To Get By

    Short films made by the 2016 Collaborative Studio.

    Living Los Sures

    An expansive documentary project about the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

    Documenting Mythologies

    A simple escape from the city becomes the frame for a series of collaborative video essays.

    Inductive Thread

    An investigation of myth in contemporary society

    The Commons Berlin

    The Commons describes the space where private spheres intersect - where the relationship of the one to the many, the individual to the collective, is negotiated.

    The Commons Radio

    A monthly series broadcast on WKCR 89.9 fm in 2005.

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    News
    • Maria Aparicio's Undefined Things Screens at Anthology Film Archives on August 27!
    • Squeaky Wheel's Workspace Residency is accepting applications 'til October 3!
    • The British Council's Travel Grant Fund is accepting applications on a rolling basis!
    • The 2025 Catapult Development Grant is now open for submissions through September 8!
    • The Kodak Short Film Fund is now accepting applications!
    • Visual AIDS' Research Fellowship Program is open for applications through October 5!
    • LMCC’s Manhattan Arts Grants are open for applications through September 16!
    • The 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships are now open for applications!
    • Pioneer Works' Music and Visual Art Residency is open for applications through August 31!
    • Meet Neighborhood Organizations at the Friends of Ridgewood Library 2nd Annual Community Day on Saturday, August 9!
    • Two films from the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio—The Night the Lights Went Out and Intersection—screen tonight at Rooftop Films!
    • August 1, Join Lynne Sachs, Lizzie Olesker and Jasmine Holloway to celebrate their new book Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry, newly published by punctum books!
    • BAVC Media’s Versed summer series presents an online workshop titled Is Your Sample Working? on July 31!
    • Applications open for the Grierson DocLab: Archive Producers programme 'til July 31!

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