Doors 7:30p
Program 8:00p

UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY

We’re so excited to bring back and work alongside Cosmic Rays Film Festival for their 2025 Touring Program! Cosmic Rays celebrates work that extends the artistic possibilities of cinema and new media technologies; that explores the lyrical and poetic dimensions of media; that speaks with a personal voice; that challenges audience expectations of cinema form and content; that arises from a diversity of life experiences, identities, and communities; and that questions conventional models of production, exhibition, and distribution.

The program features films which are a visual examination of the roles of our bodies, the information that they generate, the identities that are adopted, and the records they leave behind. They are films that ask if we’re evolving into something new, or just heading for extinction.

You won’t want to miss it!

Program

I’m Not Your Monster by Karen Yasinsky

4:33 mins, 2024

Lizzy by Susanna Wallin

14 mins, 2024

Exo Gestus #2 by Yvette Granata

4:30 mins, 2024

Listening In, Resounding Out by Eislow Johnson & Dominic Bonelli

11:23 mins, 2023

Night Music by Edwin Rostron

3:25 mins, 2024

Species of Analogy by J.M. Martínez

13 mins, 2023

File No. 2304 by A. S. M. Kobayashi

5:22 mins, 2024

an egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains by Mohamed Thara

3:50 mins, 2023

ESP by Laura Kraning

2:45 mins, 2024

The Big Day of Coloane by Keng U Lao

17:30 mins, 2023

Program Duration: 82 mins

Bios

Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist born in Bangkok, Thailand. She works with experimental video and animation, media-enhanced performance, participatory public art, and immersive installation. In this work, machines, interfaces, and systems constitute the language by which she codes the world. The creation of new ideas means inventing new ways of using existing tools, crossing signals, or repurposing old hardware. By actively disrupting both current and outmoded technology, Gruffat questions the standardized and mediatized world around us. She has produced digital media works for public spaces as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, and more. She is also a filmmaker with a special interest in the social and political implications of media and technology. Her experimental and essay films explore how technology, globalization, urbanism, and capitalism affect human beings and the environment. Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, The Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan, and Migrating Forms in New York, the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou, and more.

Bill Brown is a filmmaker living in North Carolina where he is an Associate Professor of Media Production at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Brown‛s films have screened at venues around the world, including the Rotterdam Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and Lincoln Center. A retrospective of his films was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.