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SUMMARY:Artistic Differences — Huw Wahl
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nEVENT TIMING\n[/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=””] \nLOCATIONS\n[/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=”20px”][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-huw-wahl%3Fcategory_id%3D118802″][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/HDF9owWvL_U” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nARTISTIC 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. \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. \nThis November\, we’re delighted to spotlight the work of Huw Wahl! His film The Republics (2020) is anchored in the biography of translator and activist Stephen Watts. It explores the larger truths of being and the calibrations of response to often hard earned\, lived experience. \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! \n[/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 Republics by Huw Wahl\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]83 mins\, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]For four decades\, poet\, translator and activist Stephen Watts has been the quietly urgent\, profoundly committed voice of the marginalised and the overlooked\, whether person or place. Now he has found his collaborative equal in the engaged 16mm filmmaker Huw Wahl\, who has translated the text of Watt’s book-length prose poem Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds into a luminous feature-length documentary essay of remarkable beauty and spirited attention. Anchored in Watts’ biography and lines\, it explores the larger truths of being and the calibrations of response to often hard earned\, lived experience. Considering the changing landscapes of settlement in London’s East End and Scottish islands\, the destruction of working-class culture and an attendant sense of the collective\, the film and its writing are themselves forms of cultural activism: elegy\, celebration and a toolkit for ongoing resistance. Never rhetorical\, always endowed with a profound empathy and a deep sense of relation – to time\, place and human struggle – The Republics is one of the most impressive artists’ films of recent years\, whose own poetry speaks as honestly and eloquently as that of the writer it portrays. \n– Gareth Evans\, Moving Image Curator\, Whitechapel Gallery[/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=”152426″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]The work of Huw Wahl has been screened internationally at film festivals such as CPH:DOX\, Festival du nouveau cinéma and Open City Docs\, in art galleries and museums like Centre Pompidou Metz\, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Whitworth\, as well as in universities\, social centres and at music festivals. \nHe has won several international awards with his films\, and they’ve featured in magazines like Sight and Sound and The Wire\, and received funding from organisations such as Arts Council England\, The Henry Moore Foundation\, and the Royal Photographic Society. \nHis writing has been published in magazines\, academic journals and books. He has also curated film programmes\, been part of international film festival juries\, and taught film & photography courses in university and community settings in the UK and abroad. \nWahl has just completed an arts council and crowdfunded film that explores the art of engineless sailing\, and is currently a Research Associate at the University of Manchester on the AHRC funded project Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes Of Rivers (CASTOR).[/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:1729640126817-c640dca1-da0c-0″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Double or Nothing Expanded
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 be joined by artist\, Madison Brookshire\, to share an expanded version of his work\, Double or Nothing\, and selections from Number Series\, accompanied by live musical performances by LCollective. Through immersive\, expanded cinema and live music performance\, the audience is invited to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. \nIn Double or Nothing\, dual\, offset 16mm projectors create an un-moving image of light\, while a sine tone plays out of nearby speakers. In response to this dissonance of low chords and mechanical hums\, Brookshire\, accompanied by LCollective\, will use instruments and voices to create long tones that harmonize with and amplify the space created by the mechanically established soundscape. Number Series delves into a visual exploration of dissonance and harmony\, utilizing overlapping film projections and offset patterns of colors. \nThese unique performances will investigate hybrid forms of experimental film\, music\, and art; finding the vibrations between these often blending art forms\, and challenging the traditional one-way relationship between the audience and the screen. \nThis will be a night of exciting and one-of-a-kind performances\, be sure to come down![/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=””] \nDouble or Nothing Expanded by Madison Brookshire and LCollective\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Duration variable\, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Offset 16mm projectors create an unmoving image: a field of light with a bright\, inset rectangle. Sine tone\, instruments\, and voices play long tones that harmonize with and amplify the sound of the projectors or else are dissonant\, making vibrations we feel as much as hear. Nothing happens.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSelections from Number Series by Madison Brookshire\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]approximately 30 mins\, 2022-2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Double projection creates an uncanny experience of color as both presence and absence\, creating an array of phenomena in the process.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: Variable \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=”153016″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Madison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles\, where he makes films\, paintings\, and performances. His work invites viewers to become aware of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. Finding sympathies between experimental film\, music\, and art\, he investigates hybrid forms\, often inhabiting the areas at the edges of disciplines\, where they begin to touch and vibrate one another. He frequently works with musicians and composers\, such as Ezra Buchla\, LCollective\, Laura Steenberge\, Mark So\, and Tashi Wada. His awards include being named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts\, an ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation\, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant\, and being an Artist in Residence at the Echo Park Film Center and the Hammer Museum.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153017″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Teodora Stepančić is a composer\, pianist and curator\, founder of Piano+ and Shared Space concert series in Brooklyn\, and core member of Netherlands based ensemble Modelo 62.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153018″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Douglas Farrand is a composer and musician living in Newark NJ. He works at the University of Orange\, a free school and popular education center in Orange NJ\, as a cultural and place-based community organizer. He plays the trumpet\, cassette tapes\, and assorted detritus. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153019″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Assaf Gidron is a composer\, musician and sound designer. Originally from Tel Aviv\, Assaf lived in the UK and the Netherlands before moving to Brooklyn where he writes and performs music\, works in film sound\, runs the Big Family Audio Co. studio and uploads images to the @moreshapes Instagram page.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153020″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Katie Porter plays clarinet\, bass clarinet\, sings\, writes songs and curates performances. She exists mainly in the experimental realm\, but can sometimes be found elsewhere.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153021″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jesse Greenberg is a Queens-based percussionist\, keyboardist\, composer\, and arts educator. He performs with the troubadour-inspired trio Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg\, as a soloist\, and as a glassy ruckus. He is the founding percussionist and composer-in-residence with ensemble ShoutHouse.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153022″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Mexican-American cellist\, Laura Cetilia is at home with in-betweenness\, straddling multiple worlds as cellist / composer / educator / artist while working within acoustic / electronic / traditional / experimental sound practices. Her compositions have been described as “unorthodox loveliness” (Boston Globe) and hailed as “alternately penetrating and atmospheric” (Sequenza 21). Her works have been performed by TAK Ensemble\, loadbang\, Mivos Quartet\, Splinter Reeds\, Dog Star Orchestra\, a.pe.ri.od.ic\, LCollective\, and others.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]JORDAN DYKSTRA (b. 1985\, Sioux City\, Iowa) is a Brooklyn-based violist and composer exploring the performer-composer-listener relationship through the incorporation of conceptual\, graphic\, and text-based elements.[/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:1729082119812-f055da35-fa48-0″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Image Within Another
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://youtu.be/Gb03hwAYU5c” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re thrilled to welcome Austrian artist and filmmaker Lisa Truttmann to UnionDocs for a night of cinema and conversation! \n“In this selection of short films we have a series of works that incessantly asks “Where are we?” because entirely posed by the apparatus of image and sound itself. Truttmann\, who in the years covered here (2009-2022) found herself far-flung in Istanbul\, Val Verde (a Los Angeles outskirts)\, Shanghai\, the woods of southern Estonia\, and the mountains of Santa Cruz California\, before returning to Vienna (her home)\, has extensively and directly treated the subject of “the uncanny” (“Das Unheimliche”\, literally “un-home-like”) in her feature film Tarpaulins (2017)\, and it’s one concept of many ecstatically made concrete and phenomenal – enacted\, embraced\, and even battled in these shorts. \nTruttmann gives us firm locales and solid objects and ideas to grasp\, while vigorously separating their form and content before our eyes. Plays on the solidity and contingency of color\, surface\, word\, sound\, observation\, sociology and ecology\, take flight from their origin and assumed stability\, disperse and recreate themselves before landing back in a reality of changed perception. Figuration itself becomes a means to discover its situation\, its grounds\, both globally and particularly\, within its culture\, and nakedly without it. The placeness of things and thingness of place\, or simply the placement of a color becomes phenomenal\, upending. Human and animal restlessness are united\, ordinary things and situations are given termitic specificity and true characters emerge.” \n– Short adaptation from a text by Andy Rector \nWe’re delighted that Lisa will be in town and in attendance for a conversation following the screening with Filmmaker Anthony Svatek\, come 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=””] \nGolden Boys\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 mins\, 2009[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]“If you speak in a low voice\, no one hears you.”\nTwo narrow alleys in Istanbul. A crowd of men\, yelling. Screaming\, shouting\, chaotic gesticulation\, ­grimacing faces\, a deafening buzz of wild voices. The verbal noise dominates the scene. A communicative situation\, incomprehensible at first to the alien bystander who doesn’t speak the language. ­Apparently they are traders\, I find out. And they call it “the walking stock market”. But what does it really mean? “Today it’s a very quiet day. Everything is still at rest.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAnything Can Happen\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 mins\, 2013[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Nighttime. Dogs are barking in the distance. We hear motor sounds and the headlights of a car clicking on and off\, and see little sceneries along the road briefly illuminated. An unseen driver connects these momentary landscapes. The headlight beams remain the only light source and actual character throughout the approximately four minutes of rhythmic imagery\, in an eerie audiovisual composition. Nothing is incidental\, but at any moment Anything Can Happen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWater Fields\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 mins\, 2013[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Water Fields is a rhythmic audiovisual composition\, taking place in California’s dry landscape.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBabash\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] In collaboration with Behrouz Rae\, 9 mins\, 2014[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Babash is a parrot who speaks mostly Farsi but ­sometimes mixes English and Azeri into his ­conversations. A singular language resulting from the place where he lives: a house in Los Angeles shared with an Iranian family. The same place where Behrouz Rae developed a friendship with Babash over the years. This short film is an associative portrait about a special relationship and the ­domestic surroundings in which it grew. An ­assemblage where household objects\, daily movements and playful intimacies are mixed with a dauntless montage\, precise sounds and a sensitive gaze. Observing this genuine cross-species friendship between Babash and Behrouz\, listening to their shared invented language\, it’s possible to grasp an equally shared and evocative sense of misplacement.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \n6500\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]9 mins\, 2015[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Unconsciously the human eye adapts to different light conditions\, while cameras need adjustment through white balance. The color temperature of different light sources is ­measured in Kelvin. 6500 Kelvin corresponds to the value of overcast daylight and is used as a standard for the neutral registration of white surfaces. 6500 is an essay film on the relativity of words\, ­questioning the application of absolute values in an argument\, visualized through a play on colors\, their spaces\, and their highly subjective perception. Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Remarks on Colour” ­emphasize this rhythmic flickering and slightly absurd ­conversation between colour and language.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Courser\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]12 mins\, 2018[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]We see white stone structures and hear the sound of horses at full gallop\, snickering from afar. The sound volume increases rapidly and sets the large group
 of lithic sculptures in motion. Heavy traffic noises eventually mix with the animal sounds and just when they are about to take over the soundscape entirely\, images and sounds introduce the actual location: Shanghai\, at the intersection of Yan’an Elevated Road and Inner Ring Elevated Road\, two major\, multi-leveled\, urban freeways. Amidst the massive architectural structures and immobile horses underneath it\, we may remember Eadweard Muybridge and his early moving image studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCharacters\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]16 mins\, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Hú Zhǎng Zū writes ancient Chinese poems with water on the ground in Fuxing Park\, Shanghai. After a few minutes\, the characters dry out and disappear. She comes to the park almost everyday and practices her handwriting with her friends and colleagues. Together they have lively discussions about the strokes and shapes – both amongst each other and with the many spectators. Hú Zhǎng Zū is the only woman within the bustling crowd of men\, and due to her calligraphy skills she is respected and highly admired. I come back to see her often\, in order to learn from her and capture these ephemeral moments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCritters Chorus\, Cycle 1\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]14 mins\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Whirring and flashing in the night sky. Wild foliage on a moist forest floor\, rapidly passing by. Nervous encounters at a redwood tree\, gurgling chatter with turkeys at dusk. Casually coiffed horses\, unpredictable flying objects and flapping rotors. Speckled skin scrabbles\, covered in lush ferns. Swirling fog\, dripping haze\, old man’s beard\, light – diffracted. Sassy badgers\, strings and figures. \nCritters Chorus\, Cycle 1 is the first part of an ongoing project\, developed while delving into unfamiliar habitats. Lead by questioning the so-called “species problem”\, Truttmann investigates the (im)possibilities of taxonomic categorization of living organisms from an artistic point of view. This way she creates a fictional ecosystem of rhythmic montage and unruly composition\, in which the species raise their voices against imposed classification. Audio and video recordings have been collected during artist residencies in southern Estonia (Maajaam Project Space\, 2019) and in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California (Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, 2022).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMemorabilien (Excavate)\, excerpt\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In 2019 Lisa Truttmann’s apartment and studio space were destroyed entirely in a major fire. In her work Memorabilien she takes up this decisive life event in order to reflect upon the meaning of personal things and their value as possible art objects. Truttmann rescued fragmentary objects\, archived and staged them as photographic and cinematic still lifes. In a playful and essayistic manner\, Truttmann shares her work and thought processes\, spanning a web in which the relationship between subject and object is continuously re-woven. During this process of medial abstraction\, the memorabilia undergo a spatial transformation as well: Moving images soon detach themselves from the projection screen\, the cinema space opens up\, the stage becomes a temporary photo and film studio and finally transforms into a walk-in exhibition space.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 76 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=”106558″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Lisa Truttmann (born 1983) is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In her practice\, she combines documentary\, essayistic\, and poetic methods to investigate the sociologies and ecologies of landscapes and architectures. She is interested in relationships between human and non-human agents as well as in their spaces of interaction. Truttmann understands her subjective view as an approximation and considers her artistic process as an attempt to playfully comprehend complex systems. Associatively she intertwines collected material in image\, sound and text as well as objects in installations and rhythmic montages. Oscillating between cinema and exhibition space\, her works always reflect the language of their medium. Lisa Truttmann studied Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts\, where she made her first essayistic feature film Tarpaulins (2017). Her films and installations have been shown internationally at film festivals and exhibitions\, including Edinburgh IFF\, CPH:DOX Copenhagen\, New York FF\, Images Festival Toronto\, Ann Arbor FF\, Bertha DocHouse London\, Alianza Francesa Buenos Aires\, Viennale\, Diagonale\, Kunsthalle Wien\, KHM Wien\, MAK Wien\, and Kunstsammlung NRW. She has been teaching in the field of artistic moving images since 2017.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153627″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Having grown up at the foot of the Austrian Alps\, Anthony is deeply awed by the living world\, and the way people’s understanding of nature is informed by our increasingly technological and urban lives. He is based in Brooklyn and Callicoon\, NY. \nAmongst others\, his work has been shown at the NYFF\, IFFR\, Edinburgh IFF\, Ann Arbor FF\, Big Sky\, Prismatic Ground\, DOCNYC\, Diagonale\, and published by Harper’s Magazine and Le Cinéma Club. His work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts\, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York\, and Simons Foundation\, and he is the recipient of the New Visions Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Current directed work includes HUMBOLDT USA (in production)\, TESTUDO HERMANNI (sixpack)\, SOME THOUGHTS ON THE COMMON TOAD (narrated by Tilda Swinton)\, and collaborations CONTRACTIONS (editor\, director Lynne Sachs\, NYT OpDocs)\, and LITTLE\, BIG\, AND FAR (associate producer\, director Jem Cohen\, NYFF). \nAnthony works professionally under the company Kulturfolger Productions\, which includes directing\, producing and editing commissions for NYS Parks Department\, BBC World News\, Deutsche Welle\, and Pioneer Works. He has staffed seasonally at the Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Climate Museum\, and the American Museum of Natural History.[/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:1730498879657-c87f9b59-5efc-1″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/image-within-another-2024-11-07/
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:20241108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241108T193000
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SUMMARY:Wind\, Tide & Oar
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][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/nZ9tN22JqjQ” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Embark on a voyage of discovery at UnionDocs\, with the North American premiere of Huw Wahl’s film\, Wind\, Tide & Oar (2024)\, and explore our relationship with nature through the art of engineless sailing. \nShot on a 1960’s hand-wound analogue camera\, Wind\, Tide & Oar fosters a dialogue between sailor\, boat\, and the elements\, which addresses themes of ecology\, sustainability\, heritage\, traditional skills\, and maritime history\, whilst journeying through the rivers\, coastlines\, and open seas of the UK\, Netherlands\, and France. Made over three years and meeting an array of traditional vessels\, Wahl offers a poetic and intimate perspective on a millennia-old craft\, which has been dwarfed by the invention of mechanized power. \nWriter Sukhdev Sandhu\, who will join us for a conversation following the film\, shared that “like all Wahl’s work\, it’s about breathing\, freedom\, being in the world. A gorgeously shot tone poem\, it reveals life on the water\, under shifting skies\, as tactile\, dream-like\, improvisational. Here are old rhythms that feel thrillingly new. Imagination and intoxication. An antidote to skew-whiff modern life.” \nThrough the film’s reveries\, sailing becomes a means to explore our interaction with\, and responsibility to\, the environment. It invites deep reflection on our relationship with nature\, our understanding of and commitment to sustainability\, and our care for the world around us. \nThe film screening will be followed by a conversation with Huw Wahl\, Rose Ravetz\, and Sukhdev Sandhu. \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=””] \nWind\, Tide and Oar (2024)\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]84 mins\, 2024\, UK/Netherlands/France\nSuper 16mm to 4K[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Wind\, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing\, shot on analogue film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of those who travel solely by harnessing the natural elements alone\, following a diverse array of traditional boats and uncovering the unique rhythms and motivations of engineless navigation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 84 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=”152818″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nHuw Wahl is an artist filmmaker born in London in 1985. His work has been screened internationally at film festivals such as CPH:DOX\, Festival du nouveau cinéma and Open City Docs\, in art galleries like Centre Pompidou Metz\, the Bluecoat and the Whitworth\, as well as in universities\, social centers and at music festivals. Wahl’s work has been featured in magazines like Sight and Sound and The Wire\, and received funding from organizations such as Arts Council England\, The Henry Moore Foundation\, and the Royal Photographic Society. He has also written in academic journals\, magazines\, given papers at conferences\, and taught short film and photography courses in university and community settings. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152819″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nRose’s first sailing experience was crossing the Atlantic Ocean at age nineteen\, having left home with a dream to travel. She spent four years on various ocean crossings and adventures\, eventually reaching New Zealand\, from where she then sailed back to Europe as a professional crew on the famous classic schooner\, Atlantic. Since her return\, she has worked professionally for sail-cargo initiatives and sail-training charities\, and as a traditional rigger on museum ships including the Cutty Sark and HMS Gannet. She owns her 23ft engineless boat\, Defiance\, which she restored herself. Rose is now studying for a BA in Philosophy and Sustainability\, continuing her explorations into how humanity can redeem its relationship with the natural world. Wind\, Tide and Oar came about when Rose shared her knowledge of sailing with her land locked brother\, Huw. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”149370″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nSukhdev Sandhu directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University. A former Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards\, he writes for the Guardian\, makes radio documentaries for the BBC\, and runs the Texte and Töne publishing imprint. \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=”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:1729607874476-561bcd4b-98a9-6″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2024-11-08-wind-tide-oar/
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:20241115T193000
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SUMMARY:Today is a Very Special Day
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_video link=”https://vimeo.com/1028492414?share=copy#t=0″ css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re delighted to welcome Matt Whitman to UnionDocs\, to screen an exciting lineup of his rigorous formal experiments with film! \nMatt Whitman has been making short works on motion picture film since 2010. Mainly silent and often edited in-camera\, his films over the last ten years were largely generated in response to moments of grief and loss\, both private and public – particularly as seen and felt through the mediation of digital interfaces and archives. \nThis program shows his film in chronological order starting with an early film shot in 2013 on a now discontinued Super8 film stock and developed at lab on the Lower East Side that has since closed. While his films have been shown at festivals and other group screenings\, this program of films is his first public solo screening in New York City and in the United States. \nHis film THAT WAS WHEN I THOUGHT I COULD HEAR YOU was called “criminally underseen” by critic Michael Sicinski in MUBI’s Notebook. We’re thrilled to play a part in shedding light on these incredible moving images\, and hope you will come through to join us! \nMatt will be in attendance for a conversation following the screening.[/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=””] \nFilm digitalia\, No. 15\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]3 mins\, 2013[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nLate\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]3 mins\, 2014[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nLate Light\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]3 mins\, 2015[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFilm Digitalia\, Profile Picture\, No. 8\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]6 mins\, 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nHOW MUCH LONGER (ON BALLOONS)\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2.5 mins\, 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCAN’T ANSWER YOU ANY MORE (ON FACES)\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2.5 mins\, 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nTHAT WAS WHEN I THOUGHT I COULD HEAR YOU\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]9 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSOME DAY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]5 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nToday is a Very Special Day\, Nov. 2003\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]7.5 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nToday is a Very Special Day\, Some-times\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]9.5 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 50 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=”151431″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Matt Whitman (he/they) is originally from southeastern Pennsylvania and lives/works in Brooklyn\, New York. In the last year\, his 16mm and Super8 films have recently screened at Winnipeg Underground Film Festival\, Cosmic Rays in Chapel Hill\, NC\, Light Matter in Alfred\, NY\, CROSSROADS in San Francisco\, the Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder\, CO\, the Brooklyn Film Festival and Light Field 2023 in San Francisco. In 2023\, he was an artist in residence in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center at Governor’s Island and at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport\, Maine in June 2024 working with lower-toxicity film processing techniques.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column offset=”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:1731344932661-7334cac6-9daa-9″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/today-is-a-very-special-day-2024-11-15/
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:20241124T193000
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SUMMARY:UNDO Spotlight: A Showcase of Supported Projects
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Doors 7:00p\nShow 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_btn title=”FREE RSVP” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” align=”left” css_animation=”bounceIn” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fpartiful.com%2Fe%2Fa9iSW91T7s7NFnVy7GnZ”][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=””]UnionDocs is thrilled to invite you to a night celebrating the incredible artists supported by our Fiscal Sponsorship program! Come through and tune into a special showcase of work with the following artists in attendance: Yehui Zhao\, Nathan Fitch\, Art Jones\, Amanda Katz\, Roseanne Malfucci\, Jess Shane\, Mitra Kaboli\, Stephanie Kariuki\, Danya Abt\, Alexander Porter\, Mike Crane\,  and Brian Becker. \nTheir work spans rich conceptual terrains – from a Chinese family’s enduring bond with a long-forgotten village\, an exploration of the US’s nuclear legacy in the Pacific\, an experimental oral history about Mount Lebanon\, a multi-year film portrait depicting the ever-changing commercial spaces of Brooklyn’s Nassau Avenue\, and an experimental manifesto of an underground hardcore music community in New York City over the last decade! \nThis is a free community event. Come through and toast these pioneering artists and their budding projects![/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=””] \nMay the Soil be Everywhere by Yehui Zhao\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In a remote Chinese village\, a peasant family survived wars\, revolution\, and a devastating famine. Hardship eventually forced the family to scatter. Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization\, the filmmaker sets out to unearth her family’s enduring bond with this long-forgotten village hidden deeply in the vast mountain range of Loess Plateau.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nOn Essential Lands by Nathan Fitch\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]On Essential Islands (working title) will be a feature length documentary that explores the US nuclear legacy in the Pacific\, and issues of health equity\, through the lens of members of the Marshallese community in Arkansas and abroad. Originally this community was told their islands in Micronesia were essential for the good of mankind for Operation Crossroads\, a series of nuclear tests in Bikini Atoll and beyond commencing in 1946. In a highly choreographed scene photographed by an array of military cameras\, the Marshallese begin the process of leaving their home islands for an exile that has now lasted 78 years. On Essential Islands will explore this topic.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nLive to DIY by Art Jones\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Live to DIY is an experimental manifesto of an underground hardcore music community in New York City over the last decade-plus.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAll the Storefronts of Nassau Avenue by Amanda Katz\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]All the Storefronts of Nassau Avenue is a 60-minute nonfiction film that documents each of the 145 storefronts along a discrete commercial corridor in Greenpoint\, Brooklyn\, New York. Situated within a historically Polish-immigrant enclave\, Nassau’s demographics have been changing since the early 2000s. Now\, with increasing acceleration\, mom and pop spaces quietly close\, giving way to new businesses that cater to wealthier and younger clientele. It’s a street that will look completely different within a year. But if you haven’t been paying daily attention\, you’d never know how.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Sum of Our Parts by Roseanne Malfucci\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Roseanne and Kelly are partners in love and business\, revitalizing old clothes for shoppers of all genders. A new law offers Roseanne a time-limited chance for justice against her abusive childhood neighbor – at the same time Kelly’s gender affirmation surgeries begin. Colliding emotions tear their relationship at the seams. Can love mend the past?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Hand Between Us by Jess Shane and Kristine White\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Hand Between Us is an expanded cinema performance about devalued care work\, which uses the metaphor of touch to explore how the forces of capitalism become embodied in our interpersonal relationships.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMaking Utopia by Mitra Kaboli\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Making Utopia is an experimental oral history about Mount Lebanon in upstate New York. This project spans the history of the mountain from pre colonial times to the present. This documentary weaves the voices of 5 different people who have personal histories with the mountain.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Last of Black Bedstuy by Stephanie Kariuki\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The project is an audio experience featuring various audio stories from Black people who have grown up in or invested into Bed Stuy through the rapid change.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Deep by Danya Abt\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Rockaway peninsula of NYC is the jumping-off point for The Deep\, an experiential documentary about life at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Interconnected stories unfold around the shifting\, ever-changing space between water and land\, testing this boundary and raising questions about our elemental relationship to water.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nStrata by Alexander Porter and Hannah Jayanti\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Strata is an experiential installation set in an explorable virtual landscape. Immersed in a small 3D scanned region of the Badlands of South Dakota\, visitors piece together a chorus of perspectives—from paleontology to foraging\, wildlife management to nuclear arms\, ethnobotany to cattle ranching. What seems like a small patch of barren land is revealed to be a vast and verdant terrain. Built from documentary footage\, spatial sound\, and immersive projection\, Strata combines natural sciences\, deep time\, and personal anecdotes\, inviting the complex narratives embedded in all lands to the surface.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMalls of America by Brian Becker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]When an Albanian immigrant semi-accidentally purchases a Pennsylvania mall in 2023\, he uproots his life and tries his hand at reviving it. Utilizing the aesthetics of 90s Hollywood mall movies and an incredible cache of teenage mallrat archival\, Malls of America creates a thought-provoking and humorous dialogue between the mall’s storied past and its uncertain future.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nLiberty by Mike Crane\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Narcissist: An unsuspecting heiress navigates her recently deceased grandfather’s legacy[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/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_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=”153611″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Yehui Zhao 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 is an Adjunct Professor at Marymount Manhattan College in the Communication and Media Arts Department\, and she currently serves as the Art Director of 128 LIT\, an award-winning international art and literature platform and publisher.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153612″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nathan Fitch is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor at The New School University. A member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective\, Nathan’s award winning films have been published by The New York Times Op Docs\,TIME\, The New Yorker\, PBS/America ReFramed\, and NPR\, to name a few. Nathan’s feature length directorial debut\, Island Soldier\, won a number of film festival awards\, and was broadcast on PBS in 2018. Nathan holds an MFA from the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter college\, where he was the recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism\, and a Picture of the Year International award. Nathan’s most recently completed project\, IN EXILE\, has played extensively at film festivals both in the United States and abroad\, winning the Reel South Award at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in 2023. IN EXILE was broadcast on PBS in April 2024.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153613″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Art Jones works with sculpture\, time-based media\, and installation. His object-based work concerns the inter-relationships between collective memory\, history and power at specific locations. Jones’ work often utilizes mainstream media and popular culture as raw material to be sampled\, remixed\, and re-combined in order to examine implicit meanings or suggest new ones. Working with a particular genre or mode\, the work seeks to explore\, destroy or re-orient the conventions of how information is transmitted and received. Jones was raised and lives in the Bronx\, New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153614″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Drawing from experimental filmmaking traditions and urban studies scholarship\, Amanda Katz’s films observe daily life in New York City\, its built environments and the tensions between its public and private spaces. \nKatz’s films have screened at film festivals\, museums\, galleries and community spaces including the San Francisco International Film Festival\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, DOCNYC\, Antimatter\, FLEX Festival\, EDOCS (Ecuador)\, Athens International Film and Video Festival\, Artists’ Television Access\, UnionDocs\, Sunview Luncheonette\, Astoria Historical Society\, and Microscope Gallery. Her work has been supported by institutions including the New York State Council on the Arts (2024 & 2013) and the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. \nKatz works professionally as a film editor\, and has taught film production courses at Fordham University\, Hunter College and Rutgers University. She holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College– City University of New York\, and a BFA in Film & Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153615″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Roseanne Malfucci is a life-long advocate for equity and access\, using personal stories to illuminate macro issues for marginalized people. She has written on grappling with queerness as a cis person with a trans partner and negotiating privilege in the workplace. In the noughties she balanced time tackling gender justice in an intimate violence non-profit and DJing to crowds of hundreds alongside every D-list queer celebrity in NYC. Her later roles include coaching tech execs and building the platform for the largest global LGBTQ rights organization online. Roseanne has presented at conferences like Lesbians Who Tech and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Currently she keeps restorative justice circles with other survivors of child sexual abuse and is directing her first film. She lives in the Hudson Valley\, where she constantly rearranges furniture with her partner Kelly and their chihuahua-cattle dog mix Wylie.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153607″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jess Shane is an artist and documentarian from Toronto. She is the co-founder of Constellations and creator of the Radiotopia Presents podcast series\, Shocking\, Heartbreaking\, Transformative. Jess teaches film and media studies at Hunter College and Pratt institute.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153606″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Kristine White is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice rooted in visual and installation arts\, as well as live performance. Fascinated by the simplicity of light and shadow\, much of Kristine’s work uses shadow puppetry\, light boxes\, and/or paper-cut shadow castings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153617″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Mitra Kaboli is an award winning documentarian and artist working professionally in audio since 2012. Most recently\, she was the host and producer of the critically acclaimed podcast\, Welcome to Provincetown. Mitra is an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and at Hunter College.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153618″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Danya Abt is a film director and editor living in Brooklyn\, NY\, where she keeps one foot planted in the documentary art world and one in more conventional documentary forms. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and a former Uniondocs Studio Collaborative fellow. Danya’s films have played at the Museum of Modern Art\, the True/False and Camden Film Festivals\, DOC NYC\, and others. Her piece for BBC Reel\, “The Cake That Survived WW2\,” was selected for a Lovie Award “Honouring the best of the European Internet.” Her work as an editor includes documentaries and TV series for Vice\, Showtime\, PBS\, and the History Channel. She is an active member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and the Alliance of Documentary Editors.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153616″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Stephanie Kariuki is an award-winning audio journalist and the founder of Earthtone Media. Stephanie is currently an Executive Producer at Conde Nast. She was previously an EP at Vice News and co-created the documentary unit at Stitcher. Stephanie has contributed to the pilot-making and green-lighting of dozens of award winning podcasts. She has also enjoyed teaching audio storytelling throughout her 10+ years in audio.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153619″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Brian Becker is a New York-based filmmaker who directed and produced Time Bomb Y2K (co-directed with Marley McDonald) which premiered on HBO in December 2023. The film’s lengthy festival run included True/False Film Festival\, Hot Docs\, Sheffield DocFest\, IDFA\, Camden International Film Festival\, and DocNYC. Brian served as archival producer on Free Chol Soo Lee\, MLK/FBI\, Spaceship Earth\, and The Fourth Estate\, and as co-producer on Bobby Kennedy for President. He began his career on the Oscar-winning O.J.: Made in America. Brian is a 2022 Doc NYC 40 Under 40 recipient\, Impact Partners Producing Fellow\, Points North Fellow\, and a FOCAL Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year award nominee. He is a board member of the guerrilla television archive organization Media Burn. Before turning to production\, he worked as a mosquito ecologist.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153620″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Alexander Porter is an Emmy award-winning director and artist who creates documentary films and interactive works using computational photography and immersive tools. He founded a leading immersive studio and created widely-adopted software for volumetric video production. Porter adapts these emerging technologies to explore environmental justice\, mental health\, and ecology\, creating grounded experiences that encourage connection rather than escape. He teaches his approach to spatial production and volumetric production at Johns Hopkins’ immersive film program.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”153621″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Hannah Jayanti is a documentary filmmaker\, organizer\, and educator. Her work centers process-driven and formally expansive nonfiction as ethical and political practices. Through this lens\, she circles around questions of landscape\, listening\, memory\, time\, and interdependence. Her work as an educator is focused on mentorship and low-cost media training through nonfiction art spaces and community centers. Her organizing work includes co-creating spaces that model mutual-aid practices while creating surprising futures.[/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_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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