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    Saturday, Apr 15 - 3:00pm

    Artistic Differences:
    BODY OF THE BODY, BODY OF THE MIND

    Presented in partnership with Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

    Workshops & Labs

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    Friday, Apr 21 - Sunday, Apr 23

    Spaces of Interdependency: Performance and Movements in Non Fiction Practices

    With Lucy Kerr, Yara Travieso, Georden West, Xavier Cha & Derek Howard

    How can we use the body and gestures for conceptual and narrative purposes?

    Monday, Jul 3 - Tuesday, Jan 16

    Summer Documentary Labs

    Apply by Apr 14

    Be challenged. Get inspired. Move your project forward leaps and bounds.

    Monday, Apr 3 - Sunday, Jun 25

    Pod Pod

    Apply by Feb 12

    3 month program for AUDIO MAKERS

    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.

    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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    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.

    Artistic Differences

    Ghosts of A Damned Earth

    Presented at Berlin Critics Week (Woche der Kritik)

    What is a sur/realist form of documentary? Can you film ghosts?

    Tour 352 Onderdonk

    with Christopher Allen

    A tour through the new building at 352 Onderdonk Avenue.

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    Peek in the window of our bustling building in NYC and tune into the ideas and energy bubbling up from the UNDO Center.

    Tune into cutting-edge, powerful and poetic documentary programs and connect to conversations with the artists and thinkers passing through.

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    Break Out ’23 — Artistic Differences

    Can we generate a public space for a better conversation around documentary film?

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    Summer Documentary Labs

    Join a select group of emerging filmmakers to think through every aspect of your work-in-progress in this tightly structured program.

    Applications due by Apr 14
    News
    • From March 24 - 28, Abigail Child's INTRUSIONS OF DESIRE, a retrospective at Anthology Film Archive!
    • REJEITO, a film produced by UNDO CoLAB alum Bronte Stahl, is premiering at Cinéma du Réel on March 29!
    • Applications are open for two incredible fellowship opportunities from Points North, join their Info Session on April 14!
    • Applications for the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival's Emerging Producer program are open till March 31!
    • Submissions for the 2023 IDFA Film Festival are open till July 3!
    • Applications for the 2023 Sandbox Fund: Spring Grant Cycle are open till April 3!
    • Cosmic Rays Film Festival announces their lineup for 2023, running from March 30 - March 31!
    • Applications for Creative Capital's “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Grant 2024 are open till March 31!
    • Applications for IDA's Enterprise Documentary Fund 2023 are open till April 4!
    • Applications for the Franklin Furnace's FUND for Performance Art are open till April 1!
    • Applications for the Jerome Foundation's NYC Film, Video and Digital Production Grant are open till April 13!
    • Applications for Visual Studies Workshop's Project Space Residency are open till April 2!
    • MoMA announces the lineup for Doc Fortnight 2023, running from February 22 through March 7!
    • Triple Canopy and BAM co-present True to Life from Feb 17 through 23, a series featuring film programs that ask how people compose and comprehend themselves through cinema!

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