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SUMMARY:The Lost Season
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re delighted to kick off our workshop Uneasy Arrangements: Collage\, Animation & the Archive with a special screening and conversation with workshop lead\, the brilliant Kelly Sears! \nSeasons vanish mid-frame. A telephoto lens reveals a spirit dimension. A cross-species rebellion is sparked by instigators in plain sight. \nKelly Sears’ films traverse the uncanny terrain between documentary and speculative fiction. Using experimental animation techniques\, Sears reconfigures archival and original imagery through collage and layering\, opening portals to alternate narratives. Each frame becomes a site of possibility\, where histories are reexamined and futures imagined. \nThis program spans nearly two decades of cutting\, collaging\, and merging thousands of filmic and photographic fragments into worlds at once familiar and fantastic. Kelly will be in conversation with writer\, educator and editor Catherine Taylor following the screening. \nCome through![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Lost Season\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2023\, TRT 6:09\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Earth is experiencing its final winter. A giant streaming company hires all available camera operators to document the last weeks of this soon-to-be-lost season. As the workers begin to view their footage as a form of ecological extraction\, they refuse to further commodify climate collapse through their labor. The film was created from thousands of photographs gathered during weeks of walking through snowy landscapes in New Hampshire and eroding beaches in Florida.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMaximum Umbra\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2021\, TRT 3:09\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Shot on location in Scottsbluff\, Nebraska\, during the 2017 total solar eclipse\, the film captures an unexpected celestial disaster.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nVoice on the Line\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2009\, TRT 6:45\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Figures from archival films from the 1950s are recast in a large-scale secretive telephone operation\, drawing on troubled relationships between the areas of national security\, civil liberties\, and communication corporations. The covert project in this film transforms from one of surveillance into one of discovery.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Body Besieged \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2009\, TRT 4:00\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Animated instructional photographs from yoga and exercise books explore themes of possession that distort and mirror our daily routines. These bodies point toward haunted forces that may lie behind a broader sense of cultural unwellness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nOnce It Started It Could Not End Otherwise \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2011\, TRT 7:30\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Figures from discarded mid-1970s high school yearbooks are recast in a minimalist horror story. A malevolent force seeps into the high school walls\, and the student body breaks down one extra-curricular activity at a time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nApplied Pressure 2018\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]TRT 6:20\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Sequential images sourced from dozens of massage books are altered and reordered to shift the emphasis from actions performed on the body to the body’s reception of touch. The animation channels conversations surrounding bodies\, massage\, and power to explore the hidden nature of sexual assault.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Drift\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2007\, TRT 8:20\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A mysterious disappearance during a 1960s space journey launches the counterculture revolution\, the government blocks contraband radio broadcasts\, and American fervor for conquering space finally goes too far.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nPattern for Survival\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2015\, TRT 6:27\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Pattern for Survival channels the frenetic energy and aggression of security protocols. Potential threats are rendered as routine directives. As you read the rest of this manual\, keep in mind the need for a survival strategy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Call \n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2025\, TRT 7:06\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]An eco-rebellion film featuring unlikely instigators who were observed and filmed over three years at airports across the United States. My home airport sits within a major migration corridor\, creating constant conflict between expanding infrastructure and migratory birds. It’s one of the fastest-expanding airports in the world\, with new terminal additions and increasing air traffic each year.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nHigh in the Grass\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2021\, TRT 4:04\, US[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In this music video commissioned by Sleater-Kinney\, imagery that could read as horrific transforms into something euphoric. In this hybrid live-action and animated world\, I imagine liberatory forms of healing and ecstatic collaboration. Dozens of layers of hand-painted film reverberate across bodies and landscapes\, rebuilding them in a kinetic world where figures pass heads between one another and CPR-inspired dance movements become gestures of collective care.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 61 mins \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nWatch the conversation between Presenter1\, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Watch” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” align=”center” css_animation=”bounceIn”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”165236″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Kelly Sears uses experimental animation to reconfigure familiar source imagery. Her films move between documentary and speculative fiction\, reimagining social and political pasts and possible futures. Through cutting and collage\, she untethers images from their intended use\, creating slippages between the familiar and the fantastic. \nHer films have been screened at festivals such as Sundance\, Slamdance\, South by Southwest\, the American Film Institute\, the International Film Festival Rotterdam\, and museums such as MoMA\, the Hammer Museum\, and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. She is an Associate Professor in the Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts Department and Director of the Brakhage Center at the University of Colorado Boulder.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166094″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Catherine Taylor is a writer\, editor\, and educator who works in a wide range of forms—from documentary and literary journalism to hybrid-genre texts. She is the author of Image Text Music (MACK Books); You\, Me\, and the Violence (Mad Creek-21st Century Essays)\, on puppets\, drones\, and power\, and of Apart (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, a mixed-genre memoir and political history that combines prose\, poetry\, cultural theory\, and found texts from South African archives. Her first book\, Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam)\, won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Taylor was a co-founder and producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival and is a founding editor of Essay Press\, an independent press dedicated to publishing innovative essays in book form. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University and is the Co-Director of the Image Text Ithaca MFA and Press at Cornell University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_media_grid style=”pagination” items_per_page=”1″ element_width=”12″ arrows_design=”vc_arrow-icon-arrow_01_left” arrows_position=”outside” arrows_color=”white” loop=”yes” item=”136647″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1792520673271-482335a8-0de2-6″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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