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    Screenings & Events

    Thursday, Mar 21 - 7:30pm

    Refracting Realities: Performance and Presence as Documentary

    with Lynne Sachs, Walis Johnson, Lizzie Olesker, & Miao Jiaxin

    How can we interpret reality through a lens of presence, refraction and invention?

    Saturday, Mar 30 - 10:00pm

    Astral Turf: A Spring Space Dance Party

    with UNDO Collaborative Studio

    Magnolias on the Moon. Martian Seedlings. Space Gardeners. Crooning Cosmos.

    Sunday, Mar 31 - 7:30pm

    There is a Gaze Thrust Upon Me

    with Joiri Minaya & Mathilde Walker-Billaud

    An examination of tropical pattern design and its roots in exploitation and labor.

    Friday, Apr 5 - 7:30pm

    Tell Me When You Die: Politics, Performance and Queer Love in the Time of Capitalism

    with Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados, Ruth Somalo and Almudena Escobar López

    A trilogy of performative films that reframe porn as a genre to traverse the space between physical limitations and freedom politically and corporally

    Thursday, Apr 11 - 7:30pm

    Potato Gardens Band: Art as Knowledge Repatriation

    with Krista Belle Stewart and Mathilde Walker-Billaud

    Challenging the colonial archive and Western systems of representation to renew the way we document, interpret and remember human experience.
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    Workshops & Labs

    Friday, Mar 22 - Sunday, Mar 24

    Reality in the Making: Documentary and Performance

    Led by Lynne Sachs

    An Intensive Dedicated to Investigating the Confluence of Performance and Documentary

    Friday, Apr 12 - Sunday, Apr 14

    Sound Ethnographies

    Led by Amanda Gutierrez

    A three-day intensive on the theory and practice of sound for non-fiction media.

    Friday, Apr 26 - Sunday, Apr 28

    Archiving with the Ear: Oral History for Documentary Art

    Led by Nyssa Chow

    A three-day intensive on the theory and practice of oral history for art practice.

    Friday, May 3 - Sunday, May 5

    Worlds Made Real: Storytelling for Immersive Documentary

    Led by Sean Flynn

    A three-day intensive on the theory and practice of interactive story-telling

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    Productions

    Say Something Bunny!

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

    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!

     

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

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    News
    • True/False & Catapult's 2019 Rough Cut Retreat; Deadline 4/5
    • Island of the Hungry Ghosts screening now at MOMI 3/8–3/17!
    • Screen Slate is Seeking Help With Some Important Roles!
    • SVA Documentary Summer Residency Applications Due April 1st!
    • BlackStar Film Festival 2019 Submissions Are Open!
    • Now accepting applications for 2019 summer interns!
    • Call for Submissions: 2019 Margaret Mead Film Festival
    • Info sessions on NYSCA funding – 2/21 and 2/28
    • Minding the Gap in NYC: Preview and Panel Discussion 2/15
    • Oral History Summer School: Mini-Intensive at Verso Books
    • Call for Filmmakers: Good Pitch USA – Deadline 2/21/19
    • Host a Screening, Event, or Party at UnionDocs!
    • Applications open for Forecast Forum- Deadline 3/1/2019
    • Applications open for Workspace Residency at Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center; Deadline- 2/16/2019
    • We brought together Sable Elyse Smith, Brett Story, and Travis Wilkerson to discuss going beyond the traditional bounds of story / character-driven narratives in #documentary as a response to Alexandra Juhasz & Alisa Lebow’s recent #manifesto published in #worldrecordsjournal. Read more over at WR: https://vols.worldrecordsjournal.org/02/03We brought together Sable Elyse Smith, Brett Story, and Travis Wilkerson to discuss going beyond the traditional bounds of story / character-driven narratives in #documentary as a response to Alexandra Juhasz & Alisa Lebow’s recent #manifesto published in #worldrecordsjournal. Read more over at WR: https://vols.worldrecordsjournal.org/02/03

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