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Summer Documentary Labs

Be challenged. Get inspired. Move your project forward leaps and bounds. Join a select group of emerging filmmakers to think through every aspect of your work-in-progress in this tightly structured program.

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Pod-Pod – A new UNDO Audio Residency

Six active podcasters are invited to enter a protective bubble in our artists residency in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to create a safe and supportive community for deep listening, intentional living and creative podcasting from April through June.

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Cop shows, prison films, and true crime docs have a long history of glorifying the criminal justice system, naturalizing its inherent violence, and narrowing the imaginative possibilities for abolition.

In a new iteration of our Collaborative Studio, co-designed with esteemed experimental filmmaker Christopher Harris, we invite a collective to examine, contextualize and dismantle scripts of the carceral state from the archives of popular culture.

Apply today!

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Center for Documentary Art

Find artists, projects, and media by keyword.

Tuesday, Apr 27 - 7:30pm

Practicing Abolition Futures

with Christopher Harris, Alex Rivera, Pooja Rangan & Brett Story

How can we make abolitionist media?

Tuesday, May 4 - 11:00am

Beyond Story

A series of UNDO Study Groups with Sheffield Doc Fest!

Why has story become today’s pre-eminent mode for documentary? What gets lost when storied structures prevail?

Tuesday, Jul 6 - Friday, Aug 27

SUMMER DOCUMENTARY LABS

Deadline to Apply April 21

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

Monday, May 17 - Friday, Aug 6

CARCERAL SCREENS AND THE ABOLITIONIST IMAGINATION

Deadline to Apply April 30

examine, contextualize and dismantle scripts of the carceral state from the archives of popular culture

Unmute Please

Six Short films made by the 2020 Collaborative Studio.

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.

Summer Documentary Labs

Pod-Pod – A new UNDO Audio Residency

Cop shows, prison films, and true crime docs have a long history of glorifying the criminal justice system, naturalizing its inherent violence, and narrowing the imaginative possibilities for abolition.

In a new iteration of our Collaborative Studio, co-designed with esteemed experimental filmmaker Christopher Harris, we invite a collective to examine, contextualize and dismantle scripts of the carceral state from the archives of popular culture.

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