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SUMMARY:Geographies of Belonging: Resistance and the City
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p[/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_video link=”https://vimeo.com/1002723701″ css=””][/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=””]As history is mythologized to reinforce national imaginaries\, what becomes the role of memory\, of lived and imagined experience\, in transforming and disrupting master narratives? \nUnionDocs is delighted to present GEOGRAPHIES OF BELONGING\, a series of film screenings and conversations programmed with Senjuti Mukherjee\, PhD student of Film and Media Studies at University of Pittsburgh \nIn RESISTANCE AND THE CITY\, the first of these programs\, we’re thrilled to share a selection of works from artists Utsa Hazarika and Priya Sen. \nPosturing as exceptions\, scandalous emergencies light up our phone screens\, when in fact the twenty-first century has been marked by a world caught in a permanent state of crisis. The last few decades have witnessed mass protests against global democratic erosion\, generating a constant flow of amateur videos\, photographs and sounds produced by citizens living in multi-screen ecosystems. \nAs fatigue and forgetting are mobilized for diplomatic strategy\, we turn to sites of counter-memory and forgotten histories to unsettle mainstream narratives of history\, social memory and community. This screening and conversation will explore local and transnational inquiries into ideas of the self\, place\, belonging\, remembering\, resistance\, and solidarity. With this selection of works\, we hope to probe the dynamics of networked media and publics as they shape new futures.\n\nPriya Sen’s video essay No Stranger at All was written\, filmed and recorded during and after the protests against the discriminatory amendments to citizenship laws in India\, which were cut short by pandemic lockdowns.  Sen explores the city through a series of images and narratives as the anger\, joy and euphoria of collective action settles into the loneliness and isolation of the pandemic. In a world of intractable images\, Sen’s work explores the obligation faced by artists to make meaning of our times.\n \nUtsa Hazarika’s Two Yards of Delhi: naam is a two-channel video series that traces narratives around identity\, belonging and defiance in Delhi. From Sufi singers to street-theater artists\, student activists and children working in the informal economy\, the work explores the fears\, anxieties and desires of the city’s many protagonists. Round Two\, previously shown in multi-channel installation contexts\, uses archival footage\, contemporary reporting\, music videos and literary excerpts to reflect on historical landmarks of postcolonial resistance and immigrant narratives from the British Commonwealth. \nUtsa Hazarika will be joined in conversation with writer and programmer Bedatri Datta Choudhury following the screening. Come through! \nSpecial thanks to the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for coming on board as contributing partners for this series! [/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=””] \nTwo Yards of Delhi: naam by Utsa Hazarika\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]10 mins\, 2019 (excerpts & artist presentation)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nRound Two by Utsa Hazarika\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]7 mins\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nNo Stranger at All by Priya Sen\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]40 mins\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 57 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=”152233″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Priya Sen is interested in eclectic\, itinerant\, and egalitarian film forms and the manners of presence accompanying each work. Her work has been screened at festivals and venues in India and globally including the 65th Flaherty Seminar\, 2019 and Berlinale 2023. She received an MA from Jamia Millia Islamia\, Delhi\, an MFA in film and media arts from Temple University\, Philadelphia\, and was a Radcliffe Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute\, 2023-24.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152234″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Utsa Hazarika is an artist and writer based in New York. Her research-based practice ranges across video\, installation and sculpture\, and explores how an interdisciplinary dialogue between art and social research can push us to think about power\, memory and resistance. Her work has exhibited internationally\, including at the Queens Museum\, Hessel Museum of Art\, and Museum of the City of New York in the United States. She has attended the Whitney Independent Study Program\, and residencies including Pioneer Works (US)\, Lijiang Studio (China)\, and Khoj (India). She is currently an artist fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park in New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152235″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Bedatri Datta Choudhury is The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Arts and Entertainment Editor. Before this\, she worked extensively with documentary films\, particularly in the areas of program management and commissioning. She was most recently the Managing Editor of Documentary magazine\, and is a programmer with DOCNYC and SFFILM. An alumna of the NYFF Critics Academy\, Sundance and SXSW Press Inclusion Initiatives\, the National Critics’ Institute\, and Berlinale Talents\, she shuttles between New York City and Philadelphia\, and can often be heard on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152648″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Senjuti is a PhD student of Film and Media Studies at University of Pittsburgh working on new media environments\, dissident citizenship\, video activism and the transforming art and politics of twenty-first-century documentary. She did a Master’s in Art History from Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi and a Bachelor’s in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University\, Kolkata. She has worked as an archivist\, editor and curator in India for over a decade. During this time\, she led archival projects at Osian’s\, Eka and Delhi Art Gallery and edited publications\, including long-form research on visual and performance arts for the Serendipity Arts Foundation and multi-media research on South Asian film\, video and photography for Alternative South Asia Photography.[/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:1729585143274-144abe1d-b39e-6″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Artistic Differences — Dora Garcia
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]EVENT TIMING[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] \n11 am — IRL Doors at UNDO\n11:30am —  Screening begins\n(in-person & online)\n1pm —  CineClub Conversation\n(in-person & online)\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=””]LOCATIONS[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] \nIRL @ UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY\n  \nONLINE – 11:30AM\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_btn title=”Sign up” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#61FF00″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#61FF00″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#000000″ shape=”round” align=”center” css_animation=”bounceIn” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fmembership.uniondocs.org%2Fprograms%2Fartistic-differences-dora-garcia%3Fcategory_id%3D118802|title:Sign%20up|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][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=””]ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES\, produced by UnionDocs and hosted by Cíntia Gil\, is an online cineclub\, hosted on the first Saturday of every month! Join in to add your voice to the cineclub conversations! All UnionDocs members can join in person in Ridgewood\, and if you’re tuning in from afar\, you can join our livestream or sign up for a link to stream on your own time. \nThis September\, we’re delighted to spotlight the work of Dora Garcia! In her film Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something)\, Dora García together with singer La Bruja de Texcoco together propose a soundtrack to the incredible feminist demonstrations that have modified and appropriated public space and public discourse – in Mexico City in the last 5 years. \nWe think of our gatherings as an open brain trust of folks from all around the world\, who gather regularly to thoughtfully consider challenging documentary works and generate brave questions and candid responses that fuel dialogue around the work of some of the most poetic and powerful filmmakers exploring the documentary form today. Join us to WATCH urgent and expressive films\, DISCUSS new contexts\, voices\, visions\, and ideas across many differences\, and LISTEN to open and honest conversations with the artists. \nAfter our convening\, we produce a longform interview with the filmmaker in question as a podcast episode. We bring to them the many questions\, ideas and thoughts that emerge from our meeting with all of you. If this community-based generative format of dialogue and exchange piques your interest\, join the club today![/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=””] \nSi Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something) by Dora García\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]68 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Dora García proposes a soundtrack to the incredible feminist demonstrations that have been taking place – modifying and appropriating public space and public discourse – in Mexico City in the last 5 years.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 68 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=”152437″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Dora García is an artist\, teacher and researcher who draws on interactivity and performance in her work\, using the exhibition as a platform to investigate the relationship between artwork\, audience\, and place. She has participated in numerous international art exhibitions\, including Münster Sculpture Projects (2007)\, the Venice Biennial (2011\, 2013\, 2015)\, the Sydney Biennial (2008)\, the São Paulo Biennial (2010)\, dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) and the Gwangju Biennial (2016). Recently\, she participated in osloBiennalen (as part of the collective Rose Hammer)\, Art Encounters Timisoara (Romania)\, and AICHI Triennale\, Japan. García lives in Oslo.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”149545″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Born in Portugal\, Cíntia Gil studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon Theatre and Film School) and holds a degree in Philosophy from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto)\, where she has also taught seminars on aesthetics. From 2012 to 2019\, Cíntia Gil served as co-director and then director of Doclisboa\, Portugal’s most important and steadily expanding documentary film festival\, where she launched the Ibero-American lab Arché. From 2019 to 2021 she has directed Sheffield DocFest.[/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:1724959133282-97973ca8-c220-6″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Flowers Blooming in Our Throats
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p[/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 thrilled to welcome audiovisual artist Eva Giolo to UnionDocs to screen and discuss five of her stunning 16mm works\, all produced between 2019 and 2023. Using film\, video\, and installation\, Giolo’s work employs experimental and documentary approaches to examine personal and family histories with a focus on women’s experiences. At times combining vibrant 16mm footage with her personal home video archives\, these works use gesture\, observation\, and lyricism to carefully engage questions of domestic fragility\, semiotic and linguistic analyses\, urban mundanity\, intergenerational memory\, and corporeal connections with nature. \nGiolo’s 2020 film\, Flowers blooming in our throats\, was nominated for the European Film Award and awarded the Top Prize at THIS IS SHORT 2021\, a collaborative online event co-presented by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen\, Vienna Short Film Festival\, and other European organizations. She is co-founder of elephy\, a production and distribution organization for film and media art\, with Rebecca Jane Arthur\, Chloë Delanghe\, and Christina Stuhlberger. \nFollowing the screening\, Giolo will be joined by NYC-based programmer Edo Choi for a conversation during which we’ll delve deeper into the themes embedded in Giolo’s work\, from grapplings with permanence and memory to the analysis of language and semiotics. \nThis is one not to miss\, we hope to see you there![/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=””] \nA Tongue Called Mother\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]18 mins\, 2019[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A Tongue Called Mother depicts the relationship between language\, gestures and affiliation. It slowly captures the actions and words of three generations of women in the same family and children learning to read\, meditating on words learnt and forgotten through the body.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nStone\, Hat\, Ribbon and Rose\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]16 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A map – a world – unfolds on a table. We take an audiovisual tour through Brussels\, which at the same time forms a cinematic message to Chantal Akerman. Gray morning light reveals parked cars in quiet streets\, a swimming pool without visitors\, an empty metro platform. We’re taken to places where people spend a gray day: a gymnasium\, a museum\, a lost and found\, a library\, a cinema. Like Akerman often appeared on camera in her own films\, we see Giolo\, resting in a hotel room – the open window subtly lets in the sleeping city. Stone\, Hat\, Ribbon and Rose celebrate the passing of time in stillness and movement. Between the sounds and images of the city\, silent\, surreal scenes with objects are shown in a sky-blue studio: an inflated swimming ring\, a red toy car\, a still life\, a vase\, a rolled-up movie screen. An image of a subway corridor is suddenly reminiscent of an empty cinema screen\, an open window\, and the frame of a painting. The alternating\, associative images function as absurd\, critical\, and poetic comments on everyday life. \nText by Natalie Gielen[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBecoming Landscape\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]20 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A lyrical portrait of Fogo Island in Canada\, Becoming Landscape re-situates the viewer in nature\, in the activity of watching and waiting\, as we meditate on the relationships between our bodies and the landscape\, dreaming and looking\, consciousness and the circular rhythm of time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFlowers Blooming in Our Throats\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]8 mins\, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Filmed in 16mm just after the lockdown caused by COVID-19\, Flowers blooming in our throats is an intimate\, poetic portrait of the fragile balances that govern everyday life in a domestic setting. The artist films a group of her friends in their own homes\, performing various small actions in accordance with her instructions. Giolo chooses to walk a shifting line where gestures remain symbolically ambiguous\, expressing a kind of violence that is not immediately recognizable. Hands try to support or escape\, but also to grip or strike\, in a subtle interweaving of sounds and references that adds to the viewer’s sense of tension and unease. A dialogue of gestures\, made up of repeated visual sequences where time is marked by the spinning of a small toy top\, as unstable and precarious as the balance of a relationship. The artist repeatedly uses a red filter on her lens\, creating a conceptual device that relies on an element of abstraction to conceal and transfigure the image. The mechanical insertion of the filter over the lens thus becomes the simulation of a violent act\, immediately changing the way we perceive and remember an action we have seen before. This coexistence of opposites can also be found in the title\, which metaphorically suggests how the beauty of a natural phenomenon—and implicitly\, love – can turn into a suffocating force. \n(Text by Leonardo Bigazzi)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSilent Conversations\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]7 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Hand-processed and self-printed 16mm reversal and negative color films\, Silent Conversations is a study of twenty-second sequences of embraces that unfolds as a series of time-based portraits.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 69 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=”152532″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Eva Giolo (b. 1991 in Brussels) is an artist specializing in film\, video\, and installation. Her work explores the female experience through experimental and documentary techniques\, focusing on intimacy\, permanence\, memory\, and language. Her captivating films and installations have been showcased at prestigious venues such as WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art\, MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art\, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts\, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp\, Kunsthalle Wien\, and major film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Media City Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, and Vision du Réel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152650″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Edo Choi is a film programmer\, critic\, and projectionist based in New York City. Since 2019\, he has worked at the Museum of the Moving Image as its Associate Curator of Film. His critical writing has been published in Reverse Shot\, Film Comment\, and other online film journals. He was formerly a programmer at the Maysles Documentary Center and has projected at venues in New York City and Chicago.[/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:1724936237378-82bc7eb8-b6bd-2″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2024-09-22-flowers-blooming-in-our-throats/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240926T193000
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SUMMARY:Texture\, Document & Eternal Time: Selections from Lewis Klahr
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p[/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=””]Please join us for a night of re-animation with collage artist and filmmaker Lewis Klahr\, whose enigmatic and affective films converse in what film curator Chris Stults calls the “infrathin”\, moments existing outside of time.  For this night’s program\, we’ve pulled a selection of docu-centric shorts from his oeuvre\, in the spirit of UnionDocs! \nKlahr’s collage animations borrow found images and sound to “traffic in modes that are pitched just beyond the realm of reason”\, engaging audiences in an interstitial space of consciousness. His work has been described as “uncanny”\, “mythical”\, and “exquisitely melancholy” – those who are unfamiliar with his films are invited to dive into a night of elliptical narratives between reality and fiction\, mythopoetics\, melodrama\, ephemeral talismans and more! \nWe’re delighted to host Klahr at UnionDocs for the first time for a program of his eclectic films across his far-ranging body of work and to have him join following the program for a conversation with beloved filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh. \nA night that is sure to inspire – come through and bring your friends![/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 Aperture of Ghostings\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]13 mins\, 1999-2001[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Includes Elsa Kirk (1999)\, Catherine Street (2001)\, and Creased Robe Smile (2001). \nIn the mid 1990’s I unearthed three photographic contact sheets of 3 different women in a thrift store in the East Village. Only one was named and dated– Elsa Kirk\, Feb 22 ‘63\, but all looked like they were from the same photographer and time period. There were 12 images per sheet of these Models/Actresses and I found myself moved by the strong sense of aspiration in their poses; a poignant blend of fiction and document. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCandy’s 16\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]3 mins\, 1984[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Uses a suburban sweet 16 invite my older sister received in 1966 as it’s soundtrack to which I edited a montage of super 8 highlight film clips (including Spiderman’s origin story) to tell this teen coming of age story.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nApril Snow\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]10 mins\, 2010[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Another from my ongoing Prolix Satori series. I thought up the juxtaposition of these two pop songs while creating a mix-tape back in 1988 but never thought I’d work with them as a film soundtrack. Back then the taboo in experimental film circles about using music was so strong it seemed permanent.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAmbrosia\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4:30 mins\,  2014[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]From my feature length series 66\, this film uses pics taken from my older brothers 1962 Bar Mitzvah to create a filmic ‘still life.'[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCapitulations Promise\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]6:34 mins\,  2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]It took me 5 years to complete this film– the “hit single” from my recent feature length series The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness. This degree of difficulty is just what I expected\, however\, when I chose to montage to such a memorable pop song as Lana Del Ray’s “Honeymoon”. What attracted me to this music is that it sounds both new and old\, which allowed me to integrate contemporary imagery with the mid 20th century sources that my films are known for. “Honeymoon” also sounds like the romantic theme song to a James Bond film that has not and never will exist.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nVirulent Capital\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]9 mins\,  2018[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]From my feature length series Circumstantial Pleasures (2020) which is a portrait of the environmentally challenged contemporary world. With music from David Rosenboom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nHigh Rise\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]3 mins\, 2016[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Also from Circumstantial Pleasures (2020). I shot this on my phone on a high speed train from Beijing to Shanghai in 2016.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nUntitled (The Life of Naomi Lang)\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]21 mins\,  1991[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Originally shot on B&W and Color Super 8 but here presented in a new digital transfer. \nThe climactic film of my 4 part feature length Super 8 series Tales of the Forgotten Future\, this film is a chronological transposition of 8 photo albums of a woman’s life I found abandoned in a Los Angeles bookstore in the summer of 1990.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFalse Aging\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]15 mins\,  2008[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A 3 act “melodrama” that\, among my large filmography\, probably gets the closest to capturing what attracted me to film collage.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 85 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=”152545″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Lewis Klahr is a Los Angeles based collage artist who uses found images and sound to explore the intersection of memory and history. He is primarily known for his uniquely idiosyncratic films which have screened in such venues as New York’s Museum of Modern Art\, the Whitney Biennial\, the New York Film Festival\, the Toronto International Film Festival\, the Hong Kong International Film Festival\, The Wexner Center for the Arts\, The Tate Modern\, the Pompidou Center\, Redcat and the LA County Museum of Art. Lewis Klahr teaches in the Theater School of the California Institute of the Arts and is represented by The Anthony Reynolds Gallery\, London.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152369″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Since the 1970’s\, Peggy Ahwesh has traversed a variety of technologies and styles in her work that forms the basis of her inquiry into feminism\, cultural identity and genre. Ahwesh’s art practice insists on political and social topicality and theoretical rigor\, while incorporating humor and the absurd in an open embrace of the inexplicable. Ahwesh studied with Tony Conrad\, Paul Sharits and Janis Crystal Lipson at Antioch College. Recent exhibitions include: Two Serious Ladies (2015) Murray Guy\, NYC; Plagiarist of My Unconscious Mind! (2015) Château Shatto\, LA and Kissing Point (2014) Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn.[/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:1724097361299-c7fe2861-ec3b-7″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2024-09-26-lewis-klahr/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T193000
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SUMMARY:The Forgotten Sense: How Does Touch Define Our Stories? + Needle Felting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Workshop Doors 6:00p\nWorkshop 6:15p \nScreening Doors 7:30p\nScreening 8:00p \n[/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=””]In an increasingly digital world\, how do our hands continue to shape art and life? And in a visually driven era\, what role does physical creating play in shaping our stories? \nUnionDocs and Nooks & Crannies犄角旮旯 are thrilled to invite Chinese filmmakers Yehui Zhao\, Charlene Xu & Tianlin Xu to explore these questions while examining both the beauty and significance of human touch and handmade craft. \nBefore the screening\, join a Needle Felting Workshop hosted by Moor\, designed to explore the themes of connection\, touch\, and memory which are examined by the presented films\, through the lens of art-making. In this hands-on workshop\, participants will learn foundational needle felting techniques and be invited to recreate an object from memory; something that brings warmth\, comfort\, and a sense of belonging to the maker. Space for this workshop is limited–only 20 spots are available–so make sure to grab tickets while you can![/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=””] \nTo You 给你的信 by Yehui Zhao赵晔晖\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]9 mins\, 2021\, USA[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A letter written by a daughter to her mom about their diasporic womanhood and daughtership. Using drawings\, cyanotype\, old photographs\, live action\, and stop-motion animation\, the film provides a lens through which home can feel both close and foreign.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nHow Small! 小孩 by Charlene Xu徐夏琳\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]7 mins\, 2022\, USA/China[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A young woman reminisces about her deceased grandmother\, whose volatile personality troubled and confused her as a child.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Thing with Feathers有羽毛的东西 by Tianlin Xu徐天琳[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]20 mins\, 2022\, Germany[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A young woman reminisces about her deceased grandmother\, whose volatile personality troubled and confused her as a child.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]\nProgram Duration: 36 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=”152827″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Yehui Zhao赵晔晖 is a multi-media artist whose work explores migration\, decolonization\, heritage\, and regeneration. As an immigrant born in China and living in the US\, Yehui thinks of film as her third language. Her work takes root in the feminist legacies of the global south\, drawing inspiration from revolutionary history\, womanhood and daughtership\, and the community’s undocumented collective memory. Yehui’s films have been featured at UnionDocs\, DOC NYC\, Prismatic Ground\, Microscope Gallery\, Asian American International Film Festival\, Spain Moving Images Festival\, Timeless Awards\, Festival of Animated Objects\, and other programs. Yehui has published paintings\, prints\, and writing at Brooklyn Rail\, Brooklyn Review and Action\, and Spectacle. She is a recipient of the IDA Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund\, the New York State Council on the Arts grant\, and the York Women in Film and Television Scholarship. Yehui holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. Yehui currently serves as the Art Director of 128 Lit\, an award-winning international art and literature magazine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152828″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Charlene Xu徐夏琳 is an award-winning animation filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. She works across independent animation\, illustration\, and design. Her work often explores the unnamed layers of emotions in meandering dreamscapes. She holds a BFA in Film & TV from New York University and an MFA in Animation from the University of Southern California.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152829″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Tianlin Xu徐天琳 is a Chinese filmmaker and media educator based in Hattingen\, Germany\, and Hangzhou\, China. She has an academic background in German studies and Journalism. After making documentaries for a decade\, she directed her debut narrative short FEDERDING (THE THING WITH FEATHERS). She is also engaged in film education and is the co-founder of the Studio Klasse Story Lab in Yunnan\, dedicated to running youth film workshops in China.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152951″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jess嘉嘉\, the founder of Moor\, is a feminist thinker dedicated to creating inclusive spaces for gatherings and expressions.[/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:1727198308395-0da4c146-fff5-7″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/the-forgotten-sense-how-does-touch-define-our-stories-needle-felting-workshop/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T193000
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SUMMARY:Sansón & Me
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p[/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 thrilled to be joined by filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes to share his latest feature\, Sansón & Me\, which challenges the boundaries of traditional documentary filmmaking with a singular collaborative approach. Following the screening\, Reyes will be joined by Michèle Stephenson\, award-winning filmmaker and former human rights attorney\, for a conversation that will include the film’s protagonist\, Sansón Noe Andrade. \nBringing together the voices of Reyes\, Andrade\, and Stephenson is an invitation to open up a discussion about the myriad ethical dilemmas inherent to collaborative documentary filmmaking\, and we invite a conversation about how we might looks towards ways to constructively approach these issues in discussion during the event. \nSansón & Me brings together the stories of two Mexican migrants\, one being director Rodrigo Reyes\, a Spanish criminal interpreter\, and the other an incarcerated young man named Sansón Noe Andrade. Together\, they take a collaborative approach to the director-subject relationship as they — with the help of community-members and family — tell the story of Sansón’s upbringing\, his migration to rural California\, and the circumstances that led to his incarceration. Taking inspiration from a decade worth of written correspondences between the two men\, Reyes invites the participation of Sansón’s real-life family members to recreate pivotal moments from his story. The resulting film is a vibrant portrait of a friendship navigating immigration and the depths of the criminal justice system\, pushing the boundaries of cinematic imagination to rescue a young migrant’s story from oblivion. \nSansón & Me premiered at Tribeca before going on a whirlwind festival tour\, and was described as “an ever-engaging\, innovative and moving treatment of race\, class\, and the criminal-justice system.” \nThe film rejects the often heavy-handed conventions of the social-issue documentary\, calling for a more sensitive interpretation of character and story; Critic Michael Fox writes\, “It is refreshing — and challenging — to be left without pat answers or emotional catharsis\, and trusted to examine one’s expectations and biases. Eighty-three minutes in the company of Sansón and Reyes\, contemplating larger issues than crime and punishment\, is an invaluable experience.” \nWe know it’ll be a special night — don’t miss it![/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=””] \nSansón & Me\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]83 minutes\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California\, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a young man named Sansón\, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Sansón and Reyes worked together over a decade\, using hundreds of letters as inspiration for recreations of Sansón’s childhood — featuring members of Sansón’s own family.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 83 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=”152476″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]The films of Mexican-American Filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes challenge the traditions of cinema to examine the contradictory nature of our shared world while revealing the potential for transformative change. \nRodrigo has received the support of The Mexican Film Institute\, Sundance and Tribeca Institutes\, and is a recipient of the Guggenheim and Creative Capital Awards\, as well as the Rainin Artist Fellowship\, the SF Indie Vanguard Award and the Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. \nIn 2020\, his film 499 won Best Cinematography at Tribeca and the Special Jury Award at Hot Docs. Sansón and Me won the Best Film Award at Sheffield DocFest\, which opened the 2023 season of the prestigious documentary series Independent Lens. That same year\, Rodrigo was named a Visiting Artist at Stanford University through the Mellon Foundation. In 2024\, he was honored to participate in the DocX Lab\, “Otherwise Histories\, Otherwise Futures” with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152318″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Michèle Stephenson is a filmmaker\, artist\, and author who pulls from her Panamanian and Haitian roots\, and experience as a human rights attorney to tell compelling\, deeply personal stories that are created by\, for\, and about communities of color. In her most recent film\, American Promise\, Stephenson and her partner Joe Brewster tell the story of their son and his friend\, two African-American boys whose struggles through the education system tell complicated truths about America’s struggle to come of age on issues of race\, class\, and opportunity. \nStephenson’s film American Promise was nominated for three Emmys including Best Documentary. The film also won the Jury Prize at Sundance\, and was selected for the New York Film Festival’s Main Slate Program. Her collaborative film series with New York Times Op-Docs\, A Conversation on Race\, won the 2016 Online Journalism Award for Commentary. Stephenson was awarded the Chicken & Egg Pictures Filmmaker Breakthrough Award and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her current work\, Hispaniola\, is supported by the National Film Board of Canada and the Sundance Documentary Fund. Her community engagement accomplishments include the PUMA BritDoc Impact Award for a Film with the Greatest Impact on Society\, and she is a Skoll Sundance Storytellers of Change Fellow. Her book\, Promises Kept\, written along with co-authors Joe Brewster and Hilary Beard\, won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.[/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:1727292197477-a4a4b4fb-acd5-3″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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