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    Saturday, Jun 13 - 8:00pm

    Collaborative Studio:
    Preview + Party!

    Free Outdoor Screening of 7 new shorts from the UNDO CoLAB!

    7 new short films that explore sanitation, waste streams, discard culture, labor, and the hidden infrastructures that move material through and out of New York City every day.

    Thursday, Jun 25 - 7:30pm

    Eastern Anthems

    With Jean-Jacques Martinod & Rebecca Shapass

    From a New Mexico desert to the East. What the road finds when it stops trying to arrive.

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    Friday, Jun 26 - Sunday, Jun 28

    Embracing Adrift:
    The Documentary Travelogue

    With Jean-Jacques Martinod, Khalik Allah, Antes Muerto Cine & Tiffany Sia

    Looking anew at the documentary travelogue as a speculative, political, and poetic form.

    Tuesday, Oct 6 - Wednesday, Jun 16

    UnionDocs Collaborative Studio

    Apply by Jun 21

    A program on the theory and practice of documentary art.

    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
    • The Grierson-Percy Documentary Grant is accepting applications 'til June 30!
    • The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund is accepting applications 'til June 15!
    • The Made of Truth: BFI Doc Society Short Film Fund is accepting applications 'til July 1!
    • The SFFILM Rainin Filmmakers with Disability Grant is accepting applications 'til July 7!
    • Catskills Art Space is accepting exhibition proposals 'til July 1!
    • The Palestine Film Fund is accepting applications 'til May 24!
    • The Grierson Documentary Awards is accepting entries 'til May 22!
    • Interaction Doc Workshop 2026 is accepting applications 'til May 20!
    • CoLAB alum Irene Bartolomé’s Dream of Another Summer wins the Next Wave award at CPH:DOX!
    • CoLAB alum Shawn Wen's new podcast Foundering: The Killing of Bob Lee is now streaming!
    • The 2026 Gotham Week Project Market is accepting applications 'til May 7!
    • James N. Kienitz Wilkins opens First Look at MoMI with The Misconceived on Apr 23!
    • Chicken & Egg Films' (Egg)celerator Lab is accepting applications 'til April 29!
    • The Science New Wave Fund is accepting applications 'til April 15!

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