Handball Court
Across the street from UNDO
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY

We’re back with our annual Preview in the Park that this year debuts a new collection of 7 fresh new short films grounded geographically in our relatively new neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens.

You’re invited to join us in celebrating with us on the Handball Courts across from UnionDocs on Dekalb Ave to take in this dynamic and far-ranging collection of new local stories from the artists in our Collaborative Studio (CoLAB).

We’ve found our proximity to the borough boundary of Brooklyn and Queens notable and a good starting place for local engagement. This cross-section opens many questions around what the New York Times has called a, “historic interborough murkiness” and with a wave of media attention calling Ridgewood one of the hippest neighborhoods in the world, the never-ending rise of median rents in Brooklyn creeping to Queens, these demarcations and questions of neighborhood and borough identity are brought into sharper relief.

The short documentaries in this program were developed by twelve artists over six months in response to some of the questions we’ve been discussing around this prompt with inputs from important community members too. Stay tuned for the full lineup!

After the films, we’ll invite folks across the street back to UNDO to celebrate and keep the party going with festive drinks, dancing, and music ‘til late.

Program

ABOUT THE UNIONDOCS COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

The UnionDocs Collaborative Studio is a fellowship program for non-fiction media research and group production. It seeks to bring together individual talents, voices, and stories to create multi-dimensional documentaries. For the past 10 months, fellows have been immersed in research, idea generation, planning, recording, edits, critiques, and re-edits. Teams were formed around a set of select proposals, which all moved through the stages of production in tandem. In addition to this production work, fellows engage in masterclasses, seminars, and workshops on the history, theory and practice of documentary arts.