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Break Out ’23 — Artistic Differences

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Thursday, Oct 5 - 7:30pm

Moving Audio: A Night of Radio Exchange

With Lu Olkowski, Sharon Mashihi and more!

A night of radio exchange

Friday, Oct 6 - 6:00pm

“Your umbilical cord is cut twice, once when you are born and once when your mother dies.”

With Sarah Ema Friedland

An installation exploring the complex dynamics of family, motherhood, and identity

Saturday, Oct 7 - 12:00pm

Artistic Differences: WHAT IS A FILM?

Presented in partnership with DocLisboa

Reclaiming cinema as a field of possibilities.

Sunday, Oct 8 - 8:00pm

Sites of Rehearsal

With Natalia Lassalle-Morillo & Sophie Cavalacous

How are our histories and myths made or inherited? Where do we find catharsis?

Thursday, Oct 12 - 7:30pm

Embodying the Record: Somatic Approaches to a Primary Source

With Crystal Z Campbell, Catalina Alvarez & Ruth Estévez

How might we embody found histories? What stories does the body hold?

Friday, Oct 27 - 8:00pm

Healing Portals

Curated by Ruth Somalo for UnionDocs in collaboration with Storm and Drunk

How can rituals nourish your artistic practice?

Friday, Oct 27 - Sunday, Oct 29

Ritual and Magic: Portals for Audiovisual Creation & Healing

With Ruth Somalo, Andrés Senra, Raisa Maudit, Tiffany Hopkins, Theo Cuthand & Bradley Eros

How can rituals nourish your artistic practice?

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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Sharp Ear, Soft Throat

with JT Green, Fil Corbitt & Jemma Rose Brown

Exploring the elusive threshold between listening and hearing, documentary and fiction.

2 workshop sessions

Threading Frames: Creative Editing for Non-Fiction

with Rebecca Adorno & David Teague

Stuck in an editing rut?

2 workshop sessions

First as Tragedy, then as Farce: The Act of Reenactment

with Zoe Beloff & Tara Mateik

How can reenactments help us rupture time and write history anew, opening up a space for what has been forgotten, suppressed, or left out?

2 workshop sessions

Playing Fields: Documentary as a Form of Sport

with Nellie Kluz & Simon Liu

How can we think of documentary as a form of sport?

Practice Thing

Featuring Nellie Kluz, Avery Trufelman & more.

A generative ritual to encourage playing around, applying your skills, & getting unstuck.

Tour 352 Onderdonk

with Christopher Allen

A tour through the new building at 352 Onderdonk Avenue.

Artistic Differences:
WHAT IS A FILM?