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    Events & Study Groups

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    Thursday, Feb 1 - 7:30pm

    Cosmic Rays: Sightings

    With Sabine Gruffat, Bill Brown, Merete Mueller & Camila Moreiras

    A program that probes the limits of representation from the out of this world festival of experimental short films COSMIC RAYS.

    Sunday, Feb 4 - 7:30pm

    Still Film

    With James N. Kienitz Wilkins & Jess Barbagallo

    Have you ever had a memory of a memory?

    Thursday, Feb 8 - 7:30pm

    Question / Answer / Question

    With Sayre Quevedo and Avery Trufelman

    A night of review and self-scrutiny

    Thursday, Feb 15 - 7:30pm

    Sound Fields Launch Party

    With Sound Fields

    Launching Issue 1 of Sound Fields, a new online publication dedicated to the art of audio documentary!

    Thursday, Feb 22 - 7:30pm

    Long Haulers

    With Amy Reid

    Workshops & Labs

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    Monday, Jul 1 - Friday, Aug 30

    Summer Documentary Labs

    Apply by Apr 7

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

    Friday, Feb 9 - Sunday, Feb 11

    Podcast School

    With Chloe Prasinos, Brendan P. Baker, Sharon Mashihi, Zakiya Gibbons, Jasmine Romero & Richard Parks III

    Come together and return to craft, to dive deep into process.

    Friday, Mar 8 - Sunday, Mar 10

    Mediating the Mirror: Autofiction on Film

    With Jessica Bardsley, Su Friedrich, Laura Huertas Millán, Caveh Zahedi and Jennifer Montgomery

    How does autofiction help us to question the narratives through which selfhood emerges?

    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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    1 workshop session

    Depths of Field Cinematography

    with Alejandro Mejía

    What are the ways to build visual relationships between different worlds, different characters and different stories to tell?

    1 artist talk

    Hearing is Touch at A Distance

    with Deborah Stratman

    An artist talk by 2022 UNDO Fellow, Deborah Stratman

    1 workshop session

    Beyond Reality

    with Marley Mcdonald

    Go deep into the process of editing an all archival film.

    highlights from 2023

    UNDO 2023

    with the UNDO team

    2023 in review from the UnionDocs team.

    1 conversation

    Active Visions

    with Emilija Škarnulytė & Mathilde Walker-Billaud

    Exploring the psychological influence that our environment and invisible global powers hold over us.

    1 workshop session

    Recycling the Screen: Sourcing Materials for Nonfiction Art

    with Leslie Thornton

    The infinite potential towards a practice of remixing.

    1 conversation

    Sites of Rehearsal

    with Natalia Lassalle-Morillo & Sophie Cavoulacos

    How are our histories and myths made or inherited? Where do we find catharsis?

    3 performances

    Sharp Ear, Soft Throat

    with JT Green, Fil Corbitt & Jemma Rose Brown

    Exploring the elusive threshold between listening and hearing, documentary and fiction.

    2 workshop sessions

    Threading Frames: Creative Editing for Non-Fiction

    with Rebecca Adorno & David Teague

    Stuck in an editing rut?

    2 workshop sessions

    First as Tragedy, then as Farce: The Act of Reenactment

    with Zoe Beloff & Tara Mateik

    How can reenactments help us rupture time and write history anew, opening up a space for what has been forgotten, suppressed, or left out?

    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.

    Tour 352 Onderdonk

    with Christopher Allen

    A tour through the new building at 352 Onderdonk Avenue.

    Support UnionDocs’ next phase and new building by becoming a member

    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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    FORMS OF ERRANTRY delves into the mesmerizing and haunting films of Miryam Charles and is edited by Lakshmi Padmanabhan. GEOLOGIC LISTENING centers the monumental and expansive work of filmmaker Deborah Stratman and is edited by Sukhdev Sandhu.

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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 Open
    News
    • Applications for the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art are open till April 1st!
    • Applications for the The Whickers Film & TV Funding Award are open till January 31!
    • Applications for Harvestworks' New Works 2024 Residency Program are open till December 20!
    • Applications for Light Work's Urban Video Project Residential Commission are open till January 8!
    • Applications for Wavefarm's Radio Art Fellowships are open till February 1!
    • Submissions for New York International Children's Film Festival 2024 are open till December 15!
    • Applications for Wavefarm's Transmission Art Residencies are open till February 1!
    • Applications for the Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) for Artists 2024 are open till January 15!
    • Catch Nathan Kensinger and Nate Dorr's Wetland Shadows on December 2, a project supported by UNDO's Fiscal Sponsorship Program!
    • Applications for the 2024 Points North Fellowship are open till February 12!
    • Lina Soualem's film Bye Bye Tiberias comes to DOC NYC for it's New York Premiere on November 13 & 14!
    • Open call for Locust Project's 2023 Project Room is open till November 30!
    • The Raindance Film Festival will take place October 25 – November 4 2023 in central London!
    • Open call for CPH:FORUM 2024 Project Submissions is open till November 15!

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