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    Screenings & Events

    Friday, Apr 27 - 7:30pm

    May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France

    With Mitchell Abidor & Steve Macfarlane

    Annotating documentation of the 1968 social movements and workers' strikes in France.

    Sunday, Apr 29 - 7:30pm

    El General

    With Natalia Almada, Sebastian Diaz, & Melissa Saucedo

    Weaving memory: Two documentaries that inquire on remembrance to construct the present.

    Friday, May 4 - 7:30pm

    To See Clearly, Look Through a Stencil

    With Bambitchell, Sable E. Smith & Jason Fox

    Finding the historical connection between military and art through camouflage.

    Thursday, May 10 - 7:30pm

    time/ OUT OF JOINT

    With Caspar Stracke & Jacqueline Goss

    Can film defy death?

    Thursday, May 17 - 7:30pm

    Auditory Time Travel

    With Cathy FitzGerald & Lu Olkowski

    Two international radio documentaries that confront the ageing process head-on.

    Sunday, May 20 - 7:30pm

    Reexamine, Reclaim, Redefine: Joe and Maxi

    With Maxi Cohen, Liane Brandon & Deirdre Boyle

    Self-exploration in the face of societal expectations and stereotyping.

    Thursday, May 24 - 7:30pm

    Time Let Me Play

    With Paul Rekret, Sukhdev Sandhu & Dhanveer Singh Brar

    Can children be more than vessels for adult desires? An exploration of popular culture’s negotiations with childhood, innocence, and coming of age in an epoch of social and economic crisis.

    Sunday, May 27 - 7:30pm

    Home Movies

    With Latham Zearfoss

    Is identity a negotiation?
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    Workshops & Labs

    Tuesday, Apr 24 - Tuesday, May 29

    RADIO BOOT CAMP LEVEL TWO

    With Sally Herships

    Explore audio storytelling for radio or podcast

    Friday, May 4 - Sunday, May 6

    BRANDED DOCUMENTARIES: An Intensive 3-day Seminar on Creative Content

    Led by Brian Newman

    Technical tools and strategies for working with clients while developing and maintaining a creative voice.

    Friday, May 11 - Sunday, May 13

    Assembling Reality

    Led by Caspar Stracke

    Is the inclusion of written or spoken language as a guiding principle for imagery inevitable?

    Friday, May 18 - Sunday, May 20

    Making Meaning: A 3-day Intensive on Writing for Documentary

    Led by Michael Gitlin

    How do we use writing to shape ideas and create the formal architecture of a film?

    Saturday, Jun 16 - Sunday, Jun 17

    RADIO BOOT CAMP

    With Sally Herships

    Learn how to produce a radio story from start to finish.

    Monday, Jun 25 - Friday, Jun 29

    Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive Summer 2018

    co-presented by AIR

    Learn skills from an interdisciplinary group of specialists, positioning yourself for the bright and exciting future of radio.
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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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    UnionDocs is grateful for support from:

    Into My Life

     

    Collaborative Studio film premiering at Tribeca and HotDocs! A rich, overlooked archive paying tribute to the work of a mother-daughter duo

    Learn more here!

    World Records

     

    We’ve launched our new peer-reviewed documentary journal World Records. Volume I, The Documentary Camera, is now online!

    Read it here!
    News
    • Women Make Movies Webinar May 4
    • MONO NO AWARE June and July 2018 Filmmaking Workshops Open
    • CoLAB Fellow Adam Khalil's "Empty Metal" Selected as Closing Night for Art of the Real 05/06
    • CoLAB fellow Sebastián Díaz + Maria Rosa Badia release Short Doc "Dear Mr. President" from March For Our Lives
    • Peripheral Visions Film Festival - 4/20-4/21
    • Past CoLAB Fellows Adam + Zack Khalil to Present "The Informants" at Images Fest 04/14/2018
    • UnDO CoLAB Alum Doc "Pure Flix and Chill" Investigates Evangelical Cinema
    • Docs In Progress Residency Applications Due April 20th
    • Oral History Summer School Workshops in May and June
    • Women's Film Preservation Fund Preservation Grant Call for Applications Deadline 06/15
    • SVA MFA 2-Week Documentary Intensive 06/11- 22
    • Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship Applications Closing 3/24
    • DCTV Presents DO DONKEY'S ACT? 03/19
    • Women Make Movies Webinar with Independent FIlmmakers Project - 3/22/18
    • This week we launch a new ongoing series, FROZEN REVOLUTIONS, that looks to the archive to reexamine images and stories produced in the heat of the 1968 worldwide political and social upheaval. These documents of dissent ask us to assess the impact of their collective movements, foregrounding the challenge of looking directly into the extinguished promises (and lingering romanticisms). Friday, we open the series with MAY MADE ME: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE 1968 UPRISING IN FRANCE. Organized with programmer Steve Macfarlane who will join for a conversation with writer Mitchell Abidor who just completed a book on this subject and will present his research and a short program. Special thanks for support from UnionDocs advisor Amélie Garin-Davet and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy who helped make this evening possible.This week we launch a new ongoing series, FROZEN REVOLUTIONS, that looks to the archive to reexamine images and stories produced in the heat of the 1968 worldwide political and social upheaval. These documents of dissent ask us to assess the impact of their collective movements, foregrounding the challenge of looking directly into the extinguished promises (and lingering romanticisms). Friday, we open the series with MAY MADE ME: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE 1968 UPRISING IN FRANCE. Organized with programmer Steve Macfarlane who will join for a conversation with writer Mitchell Abidor who just completed a book on this subject and will present his research and a short program. Special thanks for support from UnionDocs advisor Amélie Garin-Davet and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy who helped make this evening possible.

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