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    Events & Study Groups

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    Thursday, Oct 5 - 7:30pm

    Moving Audio: A Night of Radio Exchange

    With Lu Olkowski, Sharon Mashihi and more!

    A night of radio exchange

    Friday, Oct 6 - 6:00pm

    “Your umbilical cord is cut twice, once when you are born and once when your mother dies.”

    With Sarah Ema Friedland

    An installation exploring the complex dynamics of family, motherhood, and identity

    Saturday, Oct 7 - 12:00pm

    Artistic Differences:
    WHAT IS A FILM?

    Presented in partnership with DocLisboa

    Reclaiming cinema as a field of possibilities.

    Sunday, Oct 8 - 8:00pm

    Sites of Rehearsal

    With Natalia Lassalle-Morillo & Sophie Cavalacous

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

    Thursday, Oct 12 - 7:30pm

    Embodying the Record: Somatic Approaches to a Primary Source

    With Crystal Z Campbell, Catalina Alvarez & Ruth Estévez

    How might we embody found histories? What stories does the body hold?

    Friday, Oct 27 - 8:00pm

    Healing Portals

    Curated by Ruth Somalo for UnionDocs in collaboration with Storm and Drunk

    How can rituals nourish your artistic practice?

    Workshops & Labs

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    Friday, Oct 27 - Sunday, Oct 29

    Ritual and Magic: Portals for Audiovisual Creation & Healing

    With Ruth Somalo, Andrés Senra, Raisa Maudit, Tiffany Hopkins, Theo Cuthand & Bradley Eros

    How can rituals nourish your artistic practice?

    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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    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.

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    News
    • Open call for CPH:FORUM 2024 Project Submissions is open till November 15!
    • Sarah Ema Friedland's installation exploring family, motherhood, and identity to open at Gallery MC on October 6!
    • UnionDocs Board Member Yael Melamede's film “Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely" to broadcast on September 22!
    • Open Call for Pioneer Works’ Press Play 2023 fair are open till September 29!
    • Submissions for the True / False Film Festival are open till October 31!
    • Applications for Eyebeam’s 2024 Fellowship are open till October 1!
    • Applications for The Gotham's x HBO Documentary Films' Documentary Development Initiative are open till August 31!
    • Caucasus Cinema is accepting applications for their Fall '23 filmmaking intensive!
    • Applications for the Laundromat Project's Create Change Residency are open till August 19!
    • Open call for curatorial proposals to the programming of Doc's Kingdom - International Seminar on Documentary Cinema is open till August 10!
    • Applications for the 2024 Sunroom Project Space are open till July 23!
    • Applications for Center for Performance Research's Artist-in-Residence Program are open till Sept 6!
    • Applications for the Southern Documentary Fund Production Grant will be open Jul 17 - Aug 18!
    • Applications for the NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship are open till June 30!

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