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    Thursday, Nov 30 - 7:30pm

    UNDO Spotlight: A Showcase of Supported Projects

    A glimpse into the incredible work supported by UNDO's Fiscal Sponsorship Program!

    A free community event toasting the wonderful artists from our 2023 Fiscal Sponsorship Cohort!

    Thursday, Dec 7 - 7:30pm

    Lost Highways, Embodied Travels

    With Kornelia Boczkowska

    Exploring past and current practices of experimental road movie making

    Workshops & Labs

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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 film & a conversation

    Active Visions

    with Emilija Škarnulytė & Mathilde Walker-Billaud

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

    5 films & a conversation

    Healing Portals

    with Ruth Somalo, Andrés Senra, Raisa Maudit, Theo Cuthand & Bradley Eros

    How can rituals nourish your artistic practice?

    1 workshop session

    Recycling the Screen: Sourcing Materials for Nonfiction Art

    with Leslie Thornton

    The infinite potential towards a practice of remixing.

    a film & 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.

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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.

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    UnionDocs Collaborative Studio

    A 6 month program for shared research and collaborative production.

    Apply by Nov 19

    Artistic Differences

    ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES, co-programmed and produced with Cíntia Gil, is a monthly sequence online CineClub, that gathers a diverse, international audience to journey to many places and new contexts, inviting groundbreaking films, voices, ideas and visions and welcoming our differences.  The first Saturday of every month.  Join the club!

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    News
    • 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!
    • 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!

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