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    Screenings & Events

    Thursday, Oct 19 - 7:30pm

    Karrabing Film Collective’s NIGHT TIME GO with INAATE/SE/

    With the Karrabing Film Collective, Elizabeth Povinelli, Vivian Ziherl, Zack Khalil and Adam Khalil

    A night of uprooting indigenous narratives from the past and centering them in the present.

    Sunday, Oct 22 - 7:30pm

    RESIST, REFORM, REPEAT: Vietnam: The Secret Agent

    With Jacki Ochs

    As soldiers return home, plagued by physical and psychological illness, should we question political decisions?

    Thursday, Oct 26 - 7:30pm

    THE OTHER HALF OF THE SKY: A CHINA MEMOIR

    with Claudia Weill, Herb Hoi Chun Tam and Steve Macfarlane

    An utterly exceptional glimpse at a goodwill interaction between American privilege and Communist discipline, made during the height of what we now understand to have been the Cultural Revolution.

    Sunday, Nov 5 - 7:30pm

    Revisiting Genesis

    With Oreet Ashery and Johanna Linsley

    The living are under pressure to represent and promote themselves online. For the dying and the dead the same expectations apply.

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    Workshops & Labs

    Thursday, Oct 26 - Saturday, Oct 28

    RADIO BOOT CAMP

    With Sally Herships

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

    Friday, Nov 3 - Sunday, Nov 5

    TO SPEAK OR NOT TO SPEAK?

    With Jill Godmilow, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Kirsten Johnson, Jane Gillooly, Zac Stuart Pontier and Pooja Rangan

    Using Voice to Narrate, Observe, and (Re)Create Non-Fiction Worlds

    Sunday, Nov 12 - Sunday, Nov 12

    LEGAL 101 FOR DOCUMENTARY

    With lead instructor David Morrison & Sarah Hack

    A unique one-day intensive covering legal tips for short and feature documentary works!

    Friday, Dec 8 - Sunday, Dec 10

    A Letter to the World: Experiments in Essay Filmmaking

    With Lynne Sachs, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Jacqueline Goss, Jim Finn & Sky Hopinka

    In this three-day workshop, participants will explore the history, theory and practice of the essay film.

    Monday, Dec 11 - Friday, Dec 15

    Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive Winter 2017

    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!

    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!

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    WORLD RECORDS

    Volume II now accepting submissions.Learn more at www.worldrecordsjournal.org

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    News
    • Deep Dish TV: Call for Participation and Collaboration 10/24
    • Audio Interference Hosts "Advocacy On-Air" Panel 10/16 and Calls for Volunteers!
    • Flaherty NYC - MIGRATION with Kimi Takesue and Terron Jones - 10/16!
    • Submissions Open for the Rooftop Films Summer Series 2018!
    • Call for Entries 2018: Pitching du Réel, Rough Cut Lab, Docs in Progress
    • Screening FOR AHKEEM at BAM Cinematek: October 13th
    • BDC's Women's Film Series: Shorts Night Oct. 4th-14th
    • Urban Omnibus Launch for Cassim Shepard's New Book Oct 18
    • I AM ANOTHER YOU Opens in NYC Sep 27
    • SFFILM Announces Two New Fellowships: Apply Sep 26-Oct 12
    • WMM October Webinars Line-Up
    • Women's Filmmaking Workshop at Bronx Documentary Center Oct 14
    • Summer Doc Lab alum, Jessica Kingdon, featured in 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2017
    • CoLab project “The Williamsburg Houses” to be screened at Film Festivals
    • Still glowing with gratitude for the discussion we had here this Friday as a part of HYPERVISIBILITIES. Big thank you to Sondra Perry [ @sondraperry02 ], for a stellar program and a generous glimpse into her processing, and to Ja'Tovia Gary [ @j_______g_______ ] and James T. Green [ @jamesteagreen ] for sharing their work, practice and experiences with the rapt crowd in a lengthy conversation around the circulation of visual material depicting blackness, including their own work, and the apparatus and platforms they engage. We had such special energy with our first time double screening in the backyard and big thanks to @veralistcenter for all of their work to pull this together!Still glowing with gratitude for the discussion we had here this Friday as a part of HYPERVISIBILITIES. Big thank you to Sondra Perry [ @sondraperry02 ], for a stellar program and a generous glimpse into her processing, and to Ja'Tovia Gary [ @j_______g_______ ] and James T. Green [ @jamesteagreen ] for sharing their work, practice and experiences with the rapt crowd in a lengthy conversation around the circulation of visual material depicting blackness, including their own work, and the apparatus and platforms they engage. We had such special energy with our first time double screening in the backyard and big thanks to @veralistcenter for all of their work to pull this together!

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