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    Screenings & Events

    Friday, Jul 21 - 9:00pm

    RIDM TAKEOVER!

    With Sylvain L'Espérance

    Party with RIDM, and Join for a Masterclass and Screening on Approaching Experiments in Form and Politics!

    Thursday, Jul 27 - 7:30pm

    The Vanishing Machine with Evan Calder Williams

    With Evan Calder Williams and Virgil Taylor

    Work inspired by Evan Calder Williams' latest book SHARD CINEMA.

    Friday, Jul 28 - 7:30pm

    Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story

    With Ian Olds, Paul Felten & Ted Hamm

    An allegory of a working class suburb in decline.

    Sunday, Jul 30 - 7:30pm

    Delivered Vacant

    With Nora Jacobson, Ira Karasick & Brandon Harris

    A real life cast of long-time residents, newly arrived yuppies, tenant organizers, real estate developers, immigrants from around the world and the wackiest mayor in America.
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    Workshops & Labs

    Friday, Jul 28 - Sunday, Jul 30

    Sound Ethnographies

    With Peter McMurray, Ben Tausig, Betsey Biggs, Andrew Littlejohn, Stephanie Spray, Jen Heuson & Kevin T. Allen

    This workshop is a three-day immersion in critical sound making for documentarians, sound artists and scholars.

    Monday, Aug 21 - Friday, Aug 25

    The Podcast School

    With producers from 99% Invisible, Reply All, This American Life, Radiolab, The Heart, Panoply & More

    Develop your audio practice and podcasting vision!
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    Productions

    Sit Beside Me: Between Other and Author

    Interpersonal Documentaries from the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio.

    Say Something Bunny!

    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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    Say Something Bunny!

    Get an exclusive ticket to an immersive performance
    based on an unforgettable amateur audio recording made over 60 years ago.

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    Sit Beside Me

    A collection of short documentaries produced at UnionDocs
    on view at Fordham’s Lipani Gallery

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    News
    • Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant Open Aug.1 - Sept. 30
    • Now Accepting Applications for Fall / Winter Interns!
    • Filmshop presents Spoiler Alert themed film screening/party - 7/15
    • JAPAN CUTS 2017 JULY 13-23rd!
    • Firelight Media's First Ever Open Call due 7/14!
    • MONO NO AWARE 2017 Fall 16mm, 35mm, 8mm Film Workshops now open!
    • Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective- Open Calls due August 1st!
    • Love Me: Season 2 launch July 10!
    • ALL THE RAGE screening at Cinema Village- June 23rd
    • BAMcinemaFest 2017 lineup announced! - Jun 14 - 25
    • A World Refugee Day Conversation Featuring POV films- June 20th 7-8:30pm
    • HOME TRUTH premier at Human Rights Watch Film Festival Sunday June 11th and Monday June 12th
    • Split Screens Festival Presents Legacy Award to Lee Grant - June 5th
    • RIDM Call for Submissions - Deadline May 31
    • This weekend our friends at @ridm_festival - Montréal's International Documentary Festival will be TAKING OVER UnionDocs with events both Friday and Saturday. We are excited to welcome the festival back for a second year of midsummer fun, bringing a US Premiere from their festival to our screen. This year we are joining forces to look at the work of award-winning documentarian, Sylvain L'Espérance in a screening and masterclass with the filmmaker. A full pass to the weekend is $20. Link in profile. . . . . #ridm #documentary #quebecois #uspremiere #masterclassThis weekend our friends at @ridm_festival - Montréal's International Documentary Festival will be TAKING OVER UnionDocs with events both Friday and Saturday. We are excited to welcome the festival back for a second year of midsummer fun, bringing a US Premiere from their festival to our screen. This year we are joining forces to look at the work of award-winning documentarian, Sylvain L'Espérance in a screening and masterclass with the filmmaker. A full pass to the weekend is $20. Link in profile. . . . . #ridm #documentary #quebecois #uspremiere #masterclass

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    UnionDocs Programs

    • Collaborative Studio
    • Summer Documentary Lab 2017
    • Editing Retreat
    • Intensive Workshops & Seminars
    • World Records Journal
    • Fiscal Sponsorship
    • Roberto Guerra Award
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    • Living Los Sures
    • un•do•ing podcast

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