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SUMMARY:Beyond Resolution: Films By Sabine Gruffat
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG5alzAuchc&feature=youtu.be” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re thrilled to welcome back a profoundly rigorous artistic practice to the screen here at UnionDocs and spend the night focusing on the multivalent work of Sabine Gruffat! \nBeyond Resolution: Films by Sabine Gruffat\, is a touring program spanning her expansive body of work from 2007 to 2025. It’s always a huge honor to spotlight Gruffat’s genre-defying and formally adventurous practice\, which continually invites new ways of thinking about experimentation\, technology\, process\, and systems of representation. \nThis series of films favors ambiguity and resists resolution. The nearer the gaze\, the more obscure the view. Illegibility here is not an escape from politics\, but a way of inhabiting it differently: as a site of tension\, friction\, and possibility. \nThese films draw from a range of genres and layered techniques. Images are processed to draw attention to the hidden logics in software\, hardware\, and materiality. In repurposing media\, the works call attention to the histories from which meaning’s fragile frameworks emerge. \nWe’re so excited to share Sabine’s work with first-time viewers and longtime fans on this special evening dedicated to her ever-evolving body of work. We hope you’ll join us in welcoming her and joining for a conversation following the program as she tours this exciting new program. \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=””] \nDisclaimer\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Marseille\, FR. 2025. 5 mins. Digital Video.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The following film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nHeadlines: BOMB PARTS\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Detroit\, MI. 2007\, 3 mins. 16mm master negative transferred to digital.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A semi-automated animation process of a New York Times article results in sentence recombinations that sometimes made sense while emphasizing certain words and images. The writing from February 27\, 2007 is about bomb parts found in Baghdad that the newspaper speculates were planted by Iran. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nA Return to the Return to Reason\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Chapel Hill\, NC. 2014\, 3 mins. Laser etched BW 35mm film.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A tribute to Man Ray’s 1923 film Le Retour à La Raison. In this film Man Ray’s “original” film was digitized with its scratches\, and splices\, then compiled into digital filmstrips. These filmstrips are used to output a dithered image that the laser engraver may etch onto black film leader.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBrave New World\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Chapel Hill\, NC. 2015\, 7 mins. 35mm Film transferred to HD.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In 1927 Henry Ford bought land in the Amazon for a rubber plantation and called it Fordlandia. In this video\, 35mm archival silent documentary film footage shot by Henry Ford’s own filmmakers is reworked and given a soundtrack revealing the colonial lens through which the filmmakers apprehended unfamiliar nature.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBlack Oval White\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Owego\, NY. 2009\, 3 mins. Mini DV/DVCAM transferred to digital.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A video recording of a computer-generated abstract animation that is keyed\, wiped and matted by electronic oscillators and feedback. The sound of the electronic oscillators is delayed and pitched to produce modulations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nTake it Down\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Chapel Hill\, NC. 2019\, 12.5 mins. Solarized color positive 35mm film.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A last stand for the silent guardians of the old order. Take It Down is a filmic day of reckoning for the Old Confederate South. What is up must come down\, like the Confederate soldier monuments standing in court house squares across the South. Solarized film makes positives bleed into negatives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFramelines\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Washington\, DC and Chapel Hill\, NC. 2017\, 10 mins. Laser-etched Color Negative transferred to Digital.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Framelines is an abstract scratch film made by laser etching abstract patterns on the film emulsion of negative and positive 35mm film. The strips of film were then re-photographed on top of each other as photograms then contact printed. The soundtrack layers the noise made by the etched optical track.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMoving or Being Moved\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Chapel Hill\, NC. 2021\, 11 mins. Digital Video\, 3D Animation\, and Motion Capture.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Post-modern dance theory by Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer is put to work while a woman cleans the house in a motion capture suit. The everyday performance of domestic labor is teleported into a surreal game world where an emotionally responsive AI chatbot provides no answers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSouvenir Statuette\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Ménerbes\, FR and Sante Fe\, NM. 2024\, 11 mins. Digital Video\, 3D Animation\, and MoCap.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Souvenirs of souvenirs. Souvenir Statuettes were animated in real spaces with a custom made augmented-reality application. Whether they be cast from a mold\, or 3d scanned and propagated online\, Souvenir Statuettes aim for virality. Some of the quasi-objects in this video were once objects\, others are non-objects or computer model imaginaries.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 65 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=”161601″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist born in Bangkok\, Thailand. She co-founded and co-programs the Cosmic Rays Film Festival in Chapel Hill\, NC with filmmaker Bill Brown. Currently she lives in Marseille\, France.  \nSabine Gruffat works on experimental\, animation\, and essay forms and exhibits her work as installations\, performances\, and single-channel screenings. By actively engaging with both current and outmoded technology\, Gruffat’s work questions our standardized and mediated world. \nSabine Gruffat’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival\, The Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Migrating Forms\, the Viennale\, MoMA Documentary Fortnight\, Chicago Underground\, Cinéma du Réel\, 25FPS\, Transmediale in Berlin\, and The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.  She has produced digital media works for public spaces as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art\, Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago\, Art In General\, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum\, and Hudson Franklin in New York. Her collected video works are distributed by the Video Data Bank in Chicago\, IL.[/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:1772138076492-7fa64de3-5ac9-2″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:No Parachute
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]​​We are delighted to bring a super special evening together of presence\, writing\, and questioning instigated by artist\, actor and theater producer Rezarta Seferi\, who brings us a preview of her latest work: No Parachute. \nSince the birth of theatrical performance\, monologues have served varied purposes. \nSometimes a bit of exposition is needed to move the plot along\, or the innermost thoughts of a character are exposed. For whatever reason\, a new sense of intimacy is created between actor and audience member. \nDuring our time together; we\, the performer and audience\, will generate an improvised monologue. \nThe final text will be performed by one of us at the end of the program. \nUltimately\, we will ask the question : what are monologues for?\nWe will simply ask the question. We will certainly not answer it. \nDon’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity! Seating is limited\, grab your seat 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=””] \nNo Parachute – Rezarta Seferi\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]We\, the performer and audience\, will create an improvised monologue. The final text will be performed by one of us at the end of the program.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 45 minutes \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_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nRezarta Seferi (b. 1990\, Brooklyn NY) is an actor and theater producer living in New York City. She works in a variety of mediums including drama\, audience expectation and participation\, microphone\, improvised song\, the limits of human memorization\, and chaos. \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:1773415782085-da28fb9d-f7bb-10″ 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:As I Imagine My Body Moving
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Please join us for a very special evening presenting the dynamic and powerful work of filmmaker and artist Elysa Wendi\, here at UnionDocs.  \nFormally trained as a dancer and choreographer\, Wendi approaches her film practice with a strong choreographic impulse. Her work incorporates documentary\, audiovisual essay\, and expanded choreography\, and is heavily influenced by her personal movements across Southeast Asia\, traversing the amorphous boundaries between borders\, languages\, and histories.   \nThe three films in the program range in subject matter – from a journey through Hong Kong’s disappearing urban landscapes\, to a dancer’s reflections on memory and illness\, to an intimate conversation between two filmmakers amidst a turbulent storm – but they are all bound by Wendi’s careful and attuned treatment of movement\, memory\, and cinematic time. \nWendi’s films have been screened widely at film festivals\, including Jihlava\, Berlinale Forum Expanded\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, and Image Forum (Tokyo)\, and awarded in Hong Kong (Gold Award\, 28th ifva) and Taiwan (Best Experimental Film\, 17th South Taiwan Film Festival)\, among others. \nWe’re thrilled to also include Jeremy Chua\, Executive Director of Singapore International Film Festival along with filmmaker\, Elysa Wendi for a discussion following the screening and hope you’ll join us to engage this rich and resonant work.  \nSpecial thanks to Nooks & Crannies\, our partners in the ongoing series for supporting the promotion of this event![/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=””] \n1958 Delivery by Elysa Wendi\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]14’46 mins\, 2017[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]1958 Delivery follows a funeral flower delivery man searching for an address across Sheung Wan—from Hollywood Road to Tai Ping Shan Street. Inspired by Nagano Shigeichi’s photographic book Hong Kong Reminiscence 1958\, the film pauses between condolences and erasure\, reimagining trapped souls in houses destined for demolition\, suspended between past and disappearing landscapes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAs I Imagine My Body Moving by Elysa Wendi\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]30 mins\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Facing a debilitating illness\, a former dancer recounts her life of movement—onstage\, traveling and now through remembrance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nRoom 404 by Elysa Wendi & Lee Wai Shing\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]29’41 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A never-ending typhoon in 2019 Hong Kong transposes two directors into an unsettling existential 404 error. Trapped in their hotel room while gazing out at the chaotic landscape\, the duo begins questioning the role of artists through intimate dialogues and introspections.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 74 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=”161878″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Elysa Wendi is a filmmaker\, artist\, and curator whose practice spans performance and the moving image. Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place\, time\, and biographical traces\, Wendi examines these themes in her live and filmic works. Straddling the amorphous boundaries between borders\, languages\, and cultural practices\, she works through hybrid documentary projects\, audiovisual essays\, and meta-choreographic rituals to explore the auto-fictional narratives of bodies and movements. \nIn 2015\, she co-founded Cinemovement with film producer Jeremy Chua\, a platform facilitating trans-disciplinary film creation through laboratory settings in different cities across Asia. She has served as festival curator for Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival since 2021.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162015″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jeremy Chua is the Executive Director of SGIFF. Previously\, he was the General Manager from 2024 to 2025. Since 2014\, he founded Singapore-based independent film label Potocol to produce the works of distinctive Asian auteurs. His producing credits include Filipinana by Rafael Manuel (Special Jury Prize\, Sundance World Dramatic Competition 2026)\, Some Rain Must Fall by Qiu Yang (Special Jury Prize\, Berlinale Encounters 2024)\, and Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An (Cannes Camera d’Or 2023). He is the recipient of the 2023 FIAPF Outstanding Contribution to Asia Pacific Cinema Award and a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. He is the co-founder of Cinemovement\, an artist-run platform for creative collaborations in moving-image\, new media and performance.[/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:1774640669957-da992ed5-f4e0-9″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2026-04-02-elysa-wendi/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Just A Movement
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]UnionDocs and E-Flux are thrilled to team up for a special co-presentation of Vincent Meessen’s Just a Movement (Juste un Mouvement)\, his critical repositioning of Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise that reframes revolutionary cinema across time and perspective.  \nShot in 1967 in Paris\, Godard’s original film follows a group of French students who embrace revolutionary ideals and eventually turn to violence. Reallocating its roles and characters fifty years later in Dakar\, and updating its plot\, this new version offers a meditation on the relationship between politics\, justice and memory. Although not anymore alive\, Omar Blondin Diop\, the only actual Maoist student in the original movie\, now becomes the key character.  \nMade exclusively with non-professional actors and including Omar Blondin Diop’s brothers and friends\, everyone in this film performs themselves:  a filmmaker\, a rapper\, a poet\, a Chinese worker\, a Shaolin master\, a Senegalese intellectual\, the Minister of Culture of Senegal and the Vice President of the People’s Republic of China. \nJuste un Mouvement seeks out the countershots and off-screen spaces of the Western political imagination\, and unfolds through a narrative that unabashedly borrows and reworks existing commentary. Meessen stages a dynamic exchange between La Chinoise and contemporary Senegal\, where present-day images echo and reverberate with the soundtrack of Godard’s film.  \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation with Vincent Meessen. We hope you’ll join UnionDocs and E-Flux for this collaboration and for a lively post-screening discussion. [/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=””] \nJust A Movement by Vincent Meessen\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]108 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”Omar is dead!”\, a voice cried out in Dakar\, 11 May 1973. The eldest of the Blondin Diop family\, a young militant philosopher\, and the articulate Maoist in Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise had allegedly committed suicide in his Gorée Island prison cell. His family and friends did not believe a word of it\, demanding that light be shed on this political crime. A phantom haunts the Senegalese capital\, itself in a state of unrest.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 108 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=”161649″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Vincent Meessen was born in Baltimore\, USA\, in 1971\, and lives and works in Brussels. His artistic work is woven from a constellation of actors\, gestures\, and signs that maintain a polemical and sensible relation to the writing of history and the westernization of imaginaries. He decenters and multiplies gazes and perspectives to explore the variety of ways in which colonial modernity has impacted the fabric of contemporary subjectivities. Both in his work as an artist and in his paracuratorial activities\, he likes to use procedures of collaboration that undermine the authority of the author and emphasize the intelligence of collectives. Vincent Meessen is a founding member of Jubilee\, a platform for artistic research and production.[/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:1773152660737-3c3204de-40f0-4″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2026-03-29-just-a-movement/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Todo parecia posible
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zy928j0AxU” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Join us for an evening of cinematic viewing with Ramón Rivera Moret’s extraordinary film\, Todo Parecía Posible (Everything Seemed Possible). \nDrawing from a remarkable archive and body of films produced by Puerto Rico’s Division of Community Education\, Todo parecía posible revisits moving-image work made in rural communities from the late 1940s through the 1960s—a period of sweeping economic\, industrial\, and ideological transformation on the island.  \nCreated under a government commission yet animated by a striking creative independence\, these films quietly resist the dominant narratives of modernization\, favoring instead experimentation\, poetic inquiry\, and forms of address rooted in everyday life. \nThe unit behind this work included some of Puerto Rico’s earliest and most prolific filmmakers\, among them Amílcar Tirado and Benjamín Doniger\, whose films reveal a cinema deeply attuned to labor\, education\, and collective imagination. \nRivera Moret approaches this archive not as a closed historical document\, but as a living record. Interweaving these rarely seen works with intimate reflections on his own family’s history\, the film becomes a meditation on inheritance\, authorship\, and the afterlives of images—how cinema travels across generations\, and how the past continues to press upon the present. \nAs curator John Hanhardt writes\, the film is “an essential record of an important chapter in film history and the economic and ideological forces impacting Puerto Rican society.”  \nWe’re honored to welcome Ramón Rivera Moret for a post-screening conversation on the making of the film\, the complexities of working with institutional and community archives\, and the delicate work of weaving historical materials with personal memory. \nCome spend the evening with us and in Rivera Moret’s carefully crafted cinematic space and in conversation together.[/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=””] \nTodo parecía posible by Ramon Rivera-Moret\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]105 mins\, 2025[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In the midst of the Cold War\, Puerto Rico was rapidly industrializing and aligning itself with U.S. interests. Seeking to shape the narrative of a modernized country\, the government sent a group of artists into rural communities to make films about the country’s new direction. But what emerged was something far more unexpected. In close collaboration with residents\, these artists created dozens of films that gained international recognition— works that powerfully questioned the official story of progress. \nFilmmaker Ramón Rivera Moret weaves the stories of these remarkable films with the memories of his own family\, crafting an intimate portrait of the filmmakers\, their collaborations\, and a moment in Puerto Rico marked by profound political and social transformation and the desire to imagine the country anew. \nTodo parecía posible was produced by Oren Rudavsky\, co-produced by Tal Mandil\, with music by Ileana Cabra and Ismael Cancel. It has screened at Rotterdam International Film Festival\, Netherlands; 19th CinemaBH International Film Festival\, Brazil\, The Barbican\, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts\, London; Museo Arte\nContemporáneo\, San Juan. The film support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities was sponsored by New York Founation for the Arts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 105 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=”161595″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Ramón Rivera-Moret’s practice engages an experimental approach to storytelling\, bringing together a multiplicity of stories and situations through a mixture of narrative strategies. He is interested in ways to construct cinematic stories beyond traditional paradigms – including the abstract\, the fragment and the small gesture – within an open ended\, non-linear narrative. \nHis work—often developed through long-term collaborations with communities—spans film\, installation\, and site-specific projection. His projects include La dirección del cielo\, a series tracing astronomical traditions across the Americas; The Ordinal Directions\, a four-channel video installation recorded over a year in Flushing Meadows Corona Park\, whose forward momentum comes from the flow of time and space as it unfolds through a cascade of encounters; On Calloway Street\, a feature weaving together the lives of immigrants sharing an apartment building in Queens; Chishimo: A Lunda Story\, which follows the life of a traditional African doctor in northwest Zambia; and Eyes Upside Down\, site-specific\, outdoor projections of the night sky. \nHis work has been exhibited at The Barbican\, London; The Institute of Contemporary Art\, London; Anthology Film Archives; Millennium Film Workshop; the Queens Museum of Art; the Birmingham Museum of Art; the American Museum of Natural History; Chicago Filmmakers; Amherst College; Hampshire College; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo\, San Juan\, as well as numerous international film festivals. \nHe has received support from the Independent Television Service (ITVS)\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Jerome Foundation\, the New York State Council on the Arts\, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture\, the Puerto Rico Film Development Fund\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nRivera Moret is an Associate Professor in the Film/Animation/Video Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to joining RISD\, he taught at Pratt Institute in New York and Amherst College. \nHe was born in San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, and is based in New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162249″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer is a Mexican-American film critic\, editor\, and film programmer based in Brooklyn\, NY. He is currently the managing director at Le Cinéma Club and managing editor at Screen Slate. His writing has appeared in Film Comment\, Reverse Shot\, and Notebook.[/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:1774566827638-40c44b07-8b8a-10″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2026-03-26-todo-parecia-posible/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cosmic Rays: Field Studies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 10:30a\nProgram 11:00a[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Offsite\nFATWOOD\nIvey Rd\nCarrboro\, NC[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”RSVP” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#FFFFFF” outline_custom_hover_background=”#ADADCC” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000CD” shape=”round” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fairtable.com%2FappZ6m55zlPeIMCB1%2FpagMZXYfs8ITwpmFk%2Fform|title:RSVP%2C%20it’s%20free!”][/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/900240317″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re excited to gather at Fatwood in NC — a collaborative workspace and rural zone for independent media\, art\, and design — with close connections toUNDO — for a special Cosmic Rays Film Festival partner program: FIELD STUDIES. \nPresented by Fatwood as part of the Cosmic Rays Film Festival touring and partner programming\, Field Studies offers a day of in-depth conversations with artists featured in this year’s festival. Across three sessions\, filmmakers and multimedia artists will share insights into their practices\, creative processes\, and the experimental forms shaping their work today. \nThroughout the day\, we’ll move between presentations\, informal exchanges\, and time to explore the space. From reflections on the tools and forms that shape a film\, to discussions of flicker\, rhythm\, memory\, and the complex relationships between humans\, nonhuman animals\, and technology\, these sessions open up the thinking behind the works on screen. \nIn addition to the talks\, visitors are invited to step inside the CINEBUS—a converted school bus functioning as a collectively run mobile microcinema\, gallery\, and workshop space—featuring an installation by Charlotte Taylor. \nBetween sessions\, wander around Fatwood’s grounds\, grab a bite\, and connect with fellow artists\, filmmakers\, and festival-goers before reconvening for the final conversation of the day. \nJoin us for this intimate day of dialogue\, experimentation\, and community around the moving image. \nCome through. \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=””] \nSession 1\nNicky Tavares\n11am\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Nicky Tavares is a multimedia artist whose work sheds light on systemic inequalities through personal storytelling. Her work has evolved through an array of media – photography\, film\, video\, animation\, sculpture\, VR 360\, as well as across film types and presentation formats such as documentary\, installation\, GIFS\, and moving image projections for live performance. Tavares will share insights into her process through a close look at A Telephone for God\, featured in the festival program The Call\, alongside a broader reflection on the tools and forms she draws upon to meet each new idea.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSession 2\nLinda Scobie\n12:30pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]When spending a lot of time at home in isolation\, the walls begin to move. The sense of time fades\, the days pass quietly\, everything seems to repeat itself endlessly. Spaces\, conversations\, visual impressions and sounds merge and make everything seem like a long dream. After her session\, take a moment to wander around Fatwood\, explore the CineBus\, grab a snack\, and enjoy a quick BBQ before our final conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSession 3\nMagdalena Bermudez\n2:45pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Our final session features filmmaker and educator Magdalena Bermudez\, whose essayistic films explore the entangled relationships between humans\, nonhuman animals\, and technology.\nBermudez will discuss her body of work and share more about her film Hiding Places\, featured in this year’s festival\, which examines camouflage and the shifting boundaries between visibility and concealment in the living world.  Join us for this final conversation before we head back to the Chelsea Theater for the festival’s closing evening program.[/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=”162063″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nicky Tavares is a multimedia artist whose work sheds light on systemic inequalities through personal storytelling. Her work has evolved through an array of media – photography\, film\, video\, animation\, sculpture\, VR 360\, as well as across film types and presentation formats such as documentary\, installation\, GIFS\, and moving image projections for live performance. This process of evolution has been intuitive; with each project she simply looks for the best creative tools that will serve the content. Her work has been shown internationally in both gallery and screening room contexts\, including New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center\, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston; TIE: The International Experimental Film Exposition; IMPAKT Festival; the Dallas Medianale Festival; Balagan Experimental Film and Video Series; and Other Cinema. Among other honors Nicky has been recognized as an Artist-in-Residence at the Visual Studies Workshop\, Fine Arts Work Center\, Kala Art Institute\, and the Institute for Research and Dialogue in Islamabad\, Pakistan. She has been awarded grants from the Austin Film Society\, LEF Moving Image Fund\, Massachusetts Cultural Council\, Center for Cultural Innovation\, and Puffin Foundation. She received her MFA in film and video from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and BA in photocommunications form Saint Edward’s University. Nicky is currently an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Grinnell College.  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162064″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]​​Linda Izcali Scobie is a filmmaker\, programmer\, and projectionist living in San Francisco. She formerly served as the Assistant Director of Canyon Cinema\, one of the oldest distributors of experimental and avant-garde film\, and was on the Board of Directors for Artist Television Access. Her 16mm film work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals and venues such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, LA Film Forum\, Antimatter\, Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City and XCÈNTRIC – de Barcelona. In 2018\, she was the Artist in Residence at White Leaves Residency in New Mexico. She is currently a Senior Projectionist at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162068″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Magdalena Bermudez is a filmmaker and educator whose practice examines the entangled relations between humans\, nonhuman animals\, and technologies through essayistic film and video works. Her practice is research-based\, often recontextualizing scientific or operational images to interrogate their formal and political implications. Magda received a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has screened internationally at film festivals such as Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Antimatter [Media Art]\, Athens International Film + Video Festival\, Mimesis Documentary Festival\, Kasseler DokFest\, İstanbul International Experimental Film Festival\, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival\, and Science New Wave Festival. She is an Assistant Professor of Cinema at Binghamton University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”73116″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Bill Brown is a filmmaker living in North Carolina where he is an Associate Professor of Media Production at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill.  Brown‛s films have screened at venues around the world\, including the Rotterdam Film Festival\, the London Film Festival\, the Sundance Film Festival\, and Lincoln Center. A retrospective of his films was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”145649″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist born in Bangkok\, Thailand. She works with experimental video and animation\, media-enhanced performance\, participatory public art\, and immersive installation. In this work\, machines\, interfaces\, and systems constitute the language by which she codes the world. The creation of new ideas means inventing new ways of using existing tools\, crossing signals\, or repurposing old hardware. By actively disrupting both current and outmoded technology\, Gruffat questions the standardized and mediatized world around us. She has produced digital media works for public spaces as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago\, Art In General\, Devotion Gallery\, and more. She is also a filmmaker with a special interest in the social and political implications of media and technology. Her experimental and essay films explore how technology\, globalization\, urbanism\, and capitalism affect human beings and the environment. Sabine’s films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan\, The Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan\, and Migrating Forms in New York\, the Viennale\, MoMA Documentary Fortnight\, Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou\, and more.[/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:1773680184772-cc5d1909-b342-0″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/cosmic-rays-field-studies-2026-03-21/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hand Book: A Manual on Performance\, Process\, and the Labor of Laundry
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re thrilled to host the New York premiere of Muscle Beach\, a lyrical\, kinetic\, and darkly comic journey into the heart of the American weird from filmmaker Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman.  \nMoving uncannily between documentary and dramatic neo-noir\, the film centers on weightlifting influencer Ike Catcher who plays Abe\, a fictional version of himself\, a bodybuilder in search of his missing best friend.  \nOver the course of a day\, Abe finds himself pulled into a paranoid journey of tainted supplements\, supernatural conspiracies\, and naked greed\, set against the sun-bleached streets and back-alleys of Venice Beach – the last true vestige of the American carnival.  \nThe film stars breakout talent Lindsey Normington (Anora\, Hacks\, The Idol)\, two-time Mr. Vienna and ‘King of Muscle Beach’ Ike Catcher\, and 90’s cult movie icon\, Kirk Baltz (a.k.a. the guy who got his ear cut off in Reservoir Dogs). \nWe’ll share a short documentary that Hurwitz-Goodman shot at Muscle Beach a decade ago to precede the film. We hope you’ll come through to experience Muscle Beach across these two works with us\, as we’re absolutely *pumped* to welcome Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman to dig into his film with us following the screening. 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=””] \nMuscle Beach by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]93 mins\, 2026[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]After soaring high and flaming out in Hollywood\, Abe\, a celebrated bodybuilder\, returns home across the 405 to Venice Beach\, where it all started. But Abe’s beloved boardwalk feels different. There’s a nasty bite to the sea breeze\, a slew of unexplained overdoses putting the gym rats on edge\, strange supernatural sightings on the pier hinting at something primordial lurking beneath the surface of sun-dappled Venice. And Jay—his old lifting partner\, his former roommate\, the one person he truly abandoned in his pursuit of fame—has disappeared\, leaving Alice\, his ex\, alone to take care of their infant son. \nThroughout an increasingly desperate afternoon\, Abe searches for his old friend\, navigating an odyssey of local characters\, and unearthing a subterranean war for the soul of this sparkling\, seedy strip of waterfront\, sitting on some of the most valuable real estate in the hemisphere.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Defenders of Muscle Beach by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]6 mins\, 2016[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Originally called the Santa Monica Beach Playground\, California’s Muscle Beach was a soft landing pad for gymnasts and circus and vaudeville performers looking for a place to practice in the 1930s. To employ people during the Great Depression\, the US government funded the construction of a platform for tumbling\, parallel bars\, and rings. Enterprising acrobats—male and female—entertained the masses during those bleak times. \nBodybuilders and fitness gurus eventually joined the fun in the sun. Joe Gold\, founder of Gold’s Gym\, launched his career at Muscle Beach\, and\, before television made him famous\, Jack LaLanne wowed beach audiences by performing 1\,000 pushups in a row. \nThe spectacle was over after a scandal erupted in 1958. Santa Monica dismantled the beachside gym and bodybuilders moved a few kilometers south to what became Muscle Beach Venice. It’s the beach that vaulted a young Austrian bodybuilder\, Arnold Schwarzenegger\, into the celebrity stratosphere. And today\, it’s where the Defenders of Muscle Beach perform feats of strength\, dwarfed only by the power of the waves lapping their oceanside gym.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 99 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=”161769″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman is a Detroit-born\, Los Angeles-based filmmaker. His films\, music videos\, and documentaries tease out the hidden strands\, characters\, and ideologies coursing through tech\, economics\, politics\, emergent AI\, and obscure subcultures. His eclectic\, intimate work has been featured at the Athens Biennale\, New York Times OpDocs\, BBC\, PAF\, NPCC Fest\, San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum\, PBS\, Atlas Obscura\, NBC Left Field\, CPH:DOX\, and in museums and festivals globally. His films have won an Edes Award for Emerging Artists and an Emmy.[/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:1773343688533-65a4c467-73f7-4″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Defectors
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5TaVkvyMv8″ css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We invite folks into the carefully crafted and layered narrative of Hyun Kyung Kim’s Defectors. It will be a special screening of her latest feature that intimately renders the ways in which the Korean War is still not over. \nThe film expands our understanding of “defection” through a multifaceted and generous prism of interpretation from looking to the past across familial trauma\, to the most intimately personal present\, to the observed experiences of those that Kim seeks out for shared understandings. Intertwining these experiences\, she powerfully brings into relief the generational reverberations and hauntings of war with a deft and gentle unraveling. \nThe result is a raw and poignant film about recollection\, aging\, and the generational stories we carry. It’s both a sociopolitical and familial document with ongoing global resonances that only Kim herself could render with such intimacy. \nThe film was honored with a Special Jury Award at Visions du Réel and Best Documentary Award at Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival (FIDBA). We’re delighted to present it here for the first time in New York. \nDocalogue writes\, “the film attests to the capacity of the body to never forget. Kim grew up in a house where\, as she mentions\, the smell of the Korean War was “suffocating.” Recording technologies do not function in this manner. Instead\, they function as prosthetic extensions of our own capacity to recall the past. Aging\, the fear of loss\, and the deterioration of the body\, Defectors seems to suggest\, compel a desire to be surrounded by meaningful things and media so that we will never forget.” \nCinema is certainly a way of remembering together\, and we hope you’ll join us in the act of viewing together and stick around for a conversation with Hyun Kyung Kim following the film![/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=””] \nDefectors by Hyun kyung Kim\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]84 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]South Korean filmmaker Hyun kyung Kim grew up with the inherited burden of the Korean War\, a conflict that left an indelible mark on her family and country. Her mother compulsively fills the house with items she finds on the streets of Seoul while her veteran father devours books about the war. The filmmaker’s encounter with a North Korean defector mirrors the story of her grandfather\, who likely stayed in the North when the country became divided\, never to be seen again by his family. Defectors confronts the impact of a brutal war on several generations of the filmmaker’s family.[/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=”161579″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Hyun kyung Kim is an independent filmmaker from Seoul\, South Korea who has directed and edited four feature-length documentaries about people’s struggles under adverse social and political situations. Kim earned degrees in film at New York University and California Institute of the Arts and went on to direct numerous short documentaries for MBC\, a South Korean TV network. Her films have won a number of awards and were screened in many international film festivals and art venues including The Museum of Modern Art\, Centre Pompidou\, FIDMarseille\, Viennale\, BAFICI\, Busan International Film Festival\, Visions du Réel and many more. She is a recipient of Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship in 2008.[/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:1771450886954-5291911f-a4f0-3″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Imagined Image
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re thrilled to present THE IMAGINED IMAGE\, an evening of animated documentary shorts presented in conjunction with filmmaker and animator Maggie Brennan’s 3-day workshop\, Animating the Real: Documentary & the Imagined Image\, led alongside Jonas Poher Rasmussen\, Kathryn Hamilton\, and Yehui Zhao. \nThe evening’s program will include the expansive work of Yehui Zhao\, Chantal Kassarjian\, Adrienne Nowak\, Maggie Brennan\, and Kathryn Hamilton and ​​​​​​​Deniz Tortum\, each of their films harnessing animation as a radical tool for expressing our realities. Using varied techniques and points of entry\, they probe the form’s capacity to render what is real\, but perhaps not visible or accessible\, and traverse time and perspective to give new shape to our realities. Together\, they ask what animation can offer documentary practice and our experiences of nonfiction\, whether surfacing the desired and imagined or unraveling the poetic\, theoretical\, comedic\, or ethical components of a work. \nFrom a vanished village reimagined through shadow puppetry to speculative virtual worlds that offer hyper-personalized intimacy\, or a table of ghost stories inspired by shared pierogis\, and even a digital Noah’s Ark archived to stave off ecological collapse\, these films reveal how we might remember\, memorialize and reimagine our worlds through the animated form. \nWe’ll welcome artists to introduce their work and hang after for informal conversation and a toast to kick off the workshop. \nCome through for a night that will open minds and imaginations to new worlds and ways of seeing and to meet the artists behind the work too![/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 Grandma by Yehui Zhao\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]7 mins\, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]To Grandma is a shadow puppetry animation that centers around the filmmaker’s grandmother\, Zhang Xiuying\, who grew up in a village on the barren land of Loess Plateau\, in Shanxi\, China. This village has since disappeared. The film adapts Xiuying’s memory to re-imagine life there in the 1940s.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nGusła or the spirits by Adrienne Nowak\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]8:36 mins\, 2016[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]While preparing pierogi\, a traditional Polish dish\, four members of Adrienne’s family tell her ghost stories\, some of them communists.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nRecipe in Exile by Chantal Kassarjian\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 mins\, 2019[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Recipe in Exile tackles a very personal yet universal story about tradition\, family heritage and adaptability. It is a story that spans a hundred years\, juxtaposing the lives of two immigrant women and linking them through a traditional family recipe being passed on from generation to generation. The story is inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis in the context of the Armenian diaspora\, highlighting the importance of holding on to our cultural heritage in order to stay connected to our roots.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nTo You by Yehui Zhao\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]9 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A letter to the filmmaker’s mom about daughtership and memories\, To You frames their diasporic relationship with womanhood and daughtership memories. Using drawings\, cyanotype\, old photographs\, live action\, and stop-motion animation\, To You provides a lens through which home can feel both close and foreign.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nOur Bed Is Green by Maggie Brennan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]7 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Realm\, a virtual reality facility\, is quite transparent about the erotic potential of its services. Wall to wall\, Realm is lined with tempting previews from its menu of stock experiences. But it also offers something more: with the help of powerful data-mining technology\, customers can create virtual facsimiles of real-life places and people. This hyper-personalization is what attracts clientele like Cecily\, a young woman wavering between repression and obsession.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nOur Ark by Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]12 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]OUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world. We are backing up the planet\, creating 3D models of animals\, rainforests\, cities and people. We are archiving as if ecological collapse could be staved off through some digital Noah’s Ark of beasts and objects.[/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=”161390″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nYehui Zhao is an award-winning filmmaker and artist whose work explores migration\, decolonization\, heritage\, and regeneration. Her work takes root in the feminist legacies of the global south\, drawing inspiration from revolutionary history\, womanhood and daughtership\, and undocumented collective memory. Yehui’s films have been shown at True/False\, Dokufest\, DOC NYC\, UnionDocs\, Prismatic Ground\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, Asian American International Film Festival\, and other programs. Yehui has published paintings\, prints\, and writing at Brooklyn Rail\, Brooklyn Review and Action\, 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. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161626″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nChantal Kassarjian is a Lebanese designer and animator of Armenian descent\, based in New York City. Her cultural heritage is intricately woven into her design aesthetic and the polemic subjects she chooses to tackle. Having explored both the realms of graphic design and animation\, her style is a patchwork of disciplines\, techniques\, and ideas. Her work embodies her playful artistic process and conveys her love for illustration\, typography\, photomontage\, and motion arts. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160946″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nMaggie Brennan is a Queens-based animator / director / writer / musician / etc. She is the creator of “Agoraphilia\,” a series for Adult Swim SMALLS\, which she also animated\, directed\, co-wrote\, and scored. She wrote\, directed\, animated\, and scored the short film “Our Bed Is Green\,” which premiered at SXSW and went on to play numerous festivals worldwide. She also wrote\, animated\, and voiced a micro series for A Studio Digital\, and her comics have appeared in publications like The New Yorker\, The Fader\, and Inverse. She is currently working on her next animated short\, “Venerations\,” which has been awarded grants from NYSCA and The Jerome Foundation. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161527″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Kathryn Hamilton aka sister sylvester is a multimedia artist. Her most recent works\, Constantinopoliad\, won the Interactive award at CPH:DOX 2025\, and Drinking Brecht\, an interactive documentary\, premiered at IDFA 2024. Both continue to tour internationally. In collaboration with Deniz Tortum she created the VR documentary Shadowtime\, (’23) which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and toured to festivals including IDFA\, GIFF\, Thessaloniki Film Festival and SXSW; and the film Our Ark which premiered at IDFA (’21) and has screened at festivals internationally. In her live work she creates visual essays and books that become performances\, spatial narratives that play with spoken and written text to create communal reading experiences. Most recently Constantinopoliad (live)\, with a score by Nadah El Shazly\, was commissioned by the Onassis Foundation\, and premiered at National Sawdust in NYC (‘23) as a site specific work in the Onassis Library\, Athens\, and at the Internationaal Theater of Amsterdam; and The Eagle and The Tortoise showed as a work-in-progress at National Sawdust NYC\, and premiered at IDFA On Stage (‘22)\, and in NYC as part of Under The Radar 2024. She is a Creative Capital fellow\, a current resident at ONX Studio; a 2019 MacDowell Fellow; an alumnus of the Public Theater New Works program and CPH:DOX lab. She co-teaches a bio-art class at Colorado College\, and has also taught and lectured at MIT\, Princeton\, UCCS\, Columbia University\, and Boğaziçi\, Istanbul. \nHer work has been called ‘genuinely subversive’ by Time Out NY; ‘imaginative and original’ by New York Times; ‘pulse-raising’ by Exeunt Magazine\, ‘apocalyptic’ by artforum\, and an ‘otherworldly\, intimate\, off-kilter\, queer artistic orgasm’ by Life Magazine\, Greece.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161627″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]​​​​​​​Deniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.[/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:1772141365488-0e87a2f5-244d-7″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Shot the Voice of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nShow 7:30p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re delighted to join hands with curator Yama Rahimi and program partner\, apexart\, to present Zainab Entezar’s remarkable 2024 film Shot the Voice of Freedom alongside a stunning exhibition\, Surviving Shadows – Afghan Art in the Face of Suppression\, selected through apexart’s NYC Open Call. \nThe film tells the story of two sisters in Afghanistan who bravely resist the oppressive restrictions imposed by the Taliban. They protest the loss of fundamental rights — education\, employment\, personal freedom — and are determined to raise their voices and fight for their future. \nSince the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021\, the Taliban have imposed a reign of terror that is particularly brutal towards women. Risking their own lives and those of their loved ones\, groups of women are protesting against the regime\, and standing up for the right to freedom\, education and security. The filmmaker follows and interviews two of these women\, Reshmin and her sister. \nIndoors\, we see them conferring\, preparing for action\, and debating with family members who are afraid. Outdoors\, filmed in secret\, they chant slogans\, often surrounded by armed Taliban soldiers. Not infrequently\, the demonstrations end in bloody violence. \nThe film shows how hard it is to resist the oppression\, and the bravery that is called for. Rashmin is fighting not only the Taliban\, but also her own fears and those of the women around her. There are arrests\, intimidation and forced confessions on television. The demonstrations are in part directed at the international community\, in the hope of eliciting a political response\, but this community remains alarmingly silent. \nEntezar shares this story as a dissident artist\, who is now living in exile. She brilliantly captures the courage\, the necessity to protest and despair in a film that is both personal and \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation between Afghan civil society activist and women’s rights defender Rashmin Joya and curator of our co-sponsored exhibition\, Yama Rahimi. \nThe accompanying exhibition is open on January 16th-March 14th: Surviving Shadows – Afghan Art in the Face of Suppression. \nYou won’t want to miss it! \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nShot the Voice of Freedom\, by Zainab Entezar\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]70 mins\, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]This is a story about two sisters who have decided to fight against the unfortunate fate that has befallen them in Afghanistan. They protest against the loss of their basic rights\, including the right to education\, work\, clothing\, and even the right to walking alone. Now\, these two sisters are striving to make their voices heard to the world and fight for their rights against the Taliban.” \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator css=””][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”156923″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Zainab Entezar is a graduate in journalism with a master’s degree in public management. Her primary focus has been in the realms of writing and cinema\, resulting in the creation of a storybook and the development of several screenplays. Zainab has also directed in the cinematic domain. \nShe has authored and directed five short films and two short documentary films. One of her films\, titled House\, was featured at the Locarno Film Festival. Zainab has successfully published three books\, including “A Man Wore Gentle Like Dad” and “Yusra: The Womanly Voice of Freedom.” \nHer films have garnered recognition globally\, being officially selected in over 140 different festivals across the world\, including Germany\, Spain\, Mexico\, Ireland\, the USA\, Italy\, India\, and more. Zainab has received acclaim for her work\, winning the Best Emerging Storyteller award at the Imagine This Women’s Film Festival and the Best Short Film award at the Golden Femi Film Festival. Additionally\, she has been honored at the UNDP Film Festival in Afghanistan.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”156927″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Yama Rahimi\, artist\, curator\, and activist\, specializes in experimental films\, exhibiting globally in 25+ shows\, including Whitechapel-London\, Venice Biennale\, and UCLA.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Rashmin Joya is an Afghan civil society activist and women’s rights defender. Her journey in social advocacy began during her school years\, when she became aware of the discrimination and restrictions imposed on women and girls in Afghanistan. Even at a young age\, she raised her voice against injustice and sought\, within her capacity\, to challenge inequality and promote change. \nDuring the period of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan\, she became actively involved in human rights movements and organizations\, which gave greater structure and scope to her work. Her efforts focused on raising public awareness\, defending the fundamental rights of women\, and promoting equality and human dignity within Afghan society. After completing her education and returning to Afghanistan\, she encountered increasingly difficult conditions and growing restrictions that profoundly affected the lives of women. \nFollowing the political changes and the return of the Taliban in 2021\, civil activism entered a dangerous and uncertain phase. Despite serious security threats and pressure\, Joya continued to participate in peaceful protests and civic activities advocating for women’s rights. As a result of her activism\, she was arrested and detained for a period of time. After her release\, ongoing security risks forced her to leave the country. \nSince departing Afghanistan\, Rashmin Joya has continued her advocacy through media engagement and collaboration with human rights organizations. She has taken part in public discussions\, campaigns\, and gatherings aimed at amplifying the voices of Afghan women on the international stage. \nCurrently based in France\, she remains committed to advancing the rights of Afghan women. She believes that awareness-raising\, global solidarity\, and steadfast dedication to justice can create the foundation for meaningful change and renewed hope for a better future”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2025-03-05-shot-the-voice-of-freedom/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T190000
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SUMMARY:Sounds Gay:  Gaylors
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://youtu.be/LyF3cTd3yS0″ css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re delighted to invite you for the exclusive premiere of a brand-new audio documentary from Sounds Gay\, a podcast that explores the intersection of queerness and music culture. \nGaylors is a three-year-long journey of interviews\, DMs\, and Tumblr diving that brought a journalist into the world of gaylors: a vibrant\, chaotic\, and devoted community of people who believe that Taylor Swift is queer. \nThrough a conversation\, host Sarah Esocoff (Sounds Gay) and story editor Jazmine (JT) Green (CMD+JAZMINE) will unpack the making of this documentary and the challenges regarding ethics\, privacy\, and covering an ever-changing story that unfolds behind screens. They will be joined by the staff writer from Them\,  James Factora\, for this deep dive\, and unraveling of fandom and fanaticism that can transpire online. \nSounds Gay is a mixtape of documentaries\, hosts Sarah Esocoff and Jazmine (JT) Green take you to rap battles\, mosh pits\, and songwriting sessions. They explore non-binary identity through emo music and trans history through a lost VHS tape. Sounds Gay tells stories of queer people whose lives have been transformed by music. \nCome through![/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=”156108″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Sarah Esocoff is an artist and documentarian based in Brooklyn\, NY. She is the creator and host of Sounds Gay\, an IDA Documentary Award-nominated podcast about queer music culture. Formerly a Senior Podcast Producer at SiriusXM\, she has produced and edited podcasts about the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church\, tribal autonomy in Maine\, and celebrities’ high school experiences\, among other topics. In addition to her audio work\, Sarah is an oil painter and the lead singer of the grunge band The Clots.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161260″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]CMD+JAZMINE (Jazmine (JT) Green) is an audio documentarian by trade and artist by practice. She is the founder of Molten Heart\, a duPont-Columbia award-winning creative and commercial studio focused on the texture of sound. Molten Heart’s collaborators include The Met\, Stitcher Studios\, and Audible. \nHer practice explores the spiritual qualities of improvisation\, the convergence of technology and the human body\, and the intersection of gender and race through visual\, performance\, and sound art. She writes and produces electronic music as CMD+JAZMINE\, performing at venues such as The Lot Radio\, Bossa Nova Civic Club\, and Iklectik in London. Her projects and performances have been exhibited at The University of Chicago and ICU VCA\, received recognition such as the 2021 Third Coast Award for Best Documentary Short\, and featured at festivals such as On Air\, RESONATE\, and Tribeca.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161559″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]James Factora is an award-winning writer and reporter. \nHe was born in Los Angeles and raised in the suburbs\, and currently resides in New York City. They’re a graduate of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University\, and started freelancing while earning their degree in journalism and serving as the opinion editor for the award-winning Hofstra Chronicle. \nHe loves explaining policy in layman’s terms as much as he relishes going deep with an artist on their craft\, and his portfolio runs the gamut accordingly. He has been the staff writer at Them since August 2022\, where he covers queer and trans cultures and politics. Lately\, they’ve been especially honing in on cultural coverage\, helping curate Them’s monthly themed playlists and interviewing the most fascinating queer and trans cultural figures out there right now. \nTheir work has also appeared in other outlets such as Slate\, Refinery29\, Teen Vogue\, VICE and more. He’s also a member of GALECA\, the society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. \nThey also have extensive digital communications and social media experience\, having worked at Planned Parenthood of New York City (now Planned Parenthood of Greater New York)\, The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan\, and Bold Type Books\, a publishing partnership of Hachette Book Group and nonprofit newsroom Type Media Center. \nHe’s also an avid musician\, as a former singer in Transcend\, the first and only trans/gender expansive classical vocal ensemble in the world; as their rock band project\, Lavender Menace; and as a passionate devotee of karaoke.[/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:1770391495307-1ebf9a18-fdc7-8″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][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=”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:1770391495308-1831a1e5-b821-3″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/sounds-gay-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-gaylors-2026-02-08/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T193000
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SUMMARY:Aleph
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re delighted to welcome filmmaker Iva Radivojević for a special screening of her luminous\, genre-defying feature ALEPH\, presented in conjunction with her 3-day workshop It’s All Rhythm: Finding Poetry in the Edit\, led alongside Deborah Stratman\, Corina Copp\, and Jay Rabinowitz. \nLoosely inspired by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges\, ALEPH unfolds as a labyrinthine travelogue across language\, geography\, and time. Moving through ten countries on five continents\, the film gathers the dreams of its protagonists into a constellation of stories that gesture toward what Borges called “the unimaginable universe.” What emerges is not a single narrative but a vivid mosaic: a meditation on presence\, distance\, and the shared rhythms of human experience. \nPremiering at New Directors | New Films in 2021\, Aleph has been celebrated as “a work of philosophy applied to the world of cinema” (Cineuropa) and praised for its breathtaking range of styles\, from austere long takes to psychedelic reverie (Filmmaker Magazine). The film invites viewers not to find themselves\, but to lose themselves—releasing ego and perspective in favor of a cosmic sense of connection. \nFollowing the screening\, Iva will be in conversation with filmmaker\, interdisciplinary artist\, and scholar Andrea Sisson around the film’s making and its deep investment in rhythm\, language\, and form—offering a bridge into the questions at the heart of It’s All Rhythm: Finding Poetry in the Edit. Together\, the screening and workshop form a shared inquiry into how cinema moves\, breathes\, and thinks: how images\, sounds\, and cuts become a kind of poetry. \nAn evening for anyone curious about editing as composition\, filmmaking as dreaming\, and cinema as a way of listening to the world. \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=””]Aleph by Iva Radivojevic[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]91min\, USA\, Qatar\, Croatia\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Loosely inspired by the works of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges\, Aleph is a labyrinthian travelogue\, unveiling like a dreamscape across language\, geography and time. The dreams of protagonists in ten countries spanning five continents are revealed through conversation\, activity and contemplation. These collective stories serve as pieces of a puzzle that lead to what the Borges called ‘the unimaginable universe’.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 92 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=”161095″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Iva Radivojevic is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between Athens and Lesbos. Iva’s films have screened at the New York Film Festival\, Locarno IFF\, New Directors/New Films\, Rotterdam IFF\, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival\, Jeonju IFF\, Museum of Modern Art (NYC)\, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.  She is the recipient of the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, Jerome\, NYFA and Princess Grace Film Fellowship. Her book Avenue of The Living\, was published by Big Black Mountain Press\, while her recent short story When The Phone Rang was is published by red herring press in the UK. She’s a PhD candidate at Villa Arson in Nice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161248″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] Andrea Sisson is a filmmaker\, interdisciplinary artist\, and scholar whose work bridges experimental documentary\, social practice\, and psychoanalytic inquiry. Sisson is a Fulbright Fellow\, and she holds an MFA from Bard College and an MSW from Hunter College\, focused on psychodynamic study. Her award-winning films have screened internationally at the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound and SFE ART TV at the Palais de Tokyo\, and have been recognized by the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival\, The New York Times\, and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Sisson’s film projects move between experimental documentary and narrative invention\, examining systems of memory and the limits of perception. Her work often merges the personal and the structural\, using poetic form and hybrid storytelling to explore thresholds between visibility and erasure. She also writes at the intersection of practice\, filmmaking\, and psychoanalysis\, with work published in Filmmaker Magazine and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.[/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:1768515285587-761d9aeb-4f18-6″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/aleph-2026-02-05/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cette Maison
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re thrilled to welcome filmmaker Miryam Charles for an evening of cinema and conversation centered on her renowned feature Cette Maison\, alongside an intimate sneak peek of a brand new work-in-progress short! \nCette Maison weaves documentary and reenactment into a luminous meditation on loss. Inspired by the life of of Charles’ late cousin\, the film reimagines her as Tessa\, eternally on the threshold between life and afterlife. Moving between Montreal\, Quebec\, and imagined visions of Haiti\, the film follows Tessa and her mother across spaces that blur memory\, theater\, and dream. \nThrough incantatory voiceover and ornate imagery\, Charles conjures a ghost story that is also a reflection on mourning\, inheritance\, and the afterlives of colonial violence. As The New Yorker writes\, the film is “a daring blend of documentary and fantasy that invests a deeply personal drama with a wide historical scope…” \nThe evening celebrates Miryam’s work over her 2022 Fellowship year at UNDO\, culminating in our publication Forms of Errantry\, edited by Charles’ partner in the fellowship\, writer Lakshmi Padmanabhan. Together\, the films and the book consider how experimental documentary can address the legacies of colonization as they are lived today. Between India and Haiti\, the publication follows the routes opened up by this inquiry to explore histories of survival and the aesthetics of errantry with commissioned contributions from Dessane Lopez Cassell\, Christopher Harris\,  Yasmina Price\, Chloé Savoie-Bernard with translation by H. Felix Chau Bradley and from Miryam herself. \nForms of Errantry will be available at the event\, you can also grab a copy online! \nMiryam will be in attendance alongside some fellow contributors to the book who will share some excerpts from their writing. Following the screening we’ll be hanging out for a toast\, and celebration to Miryam and this work. \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=””]Cette Maison by Miryam Charles[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]75 min\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Bridgeport\, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide\, the autopsy report reveals something else.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 90 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=”161002″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Miryam Charles is a filmmaker of Haitian origin living in Montreal. Her films have been shown at various festivals in Quebec and abroad. Her first feature\, Cette maison\, premiered at the Berlinale\, then presented at the AFI Film Festival\, and was included in the TIFF Top 10 and Sight and Sound‘s Best Films of the Year in 2022. Her work has been shown at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal\, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery\, the Everson Museum and the Palais de Tokyo.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161230″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Dessane Lopez Cassell is a New York-based editor\, writer\, and creative producer. Her work spans the intersections of film and visual art\, with a particular interest in artist’s moving image\, documentary\, and experimental film. \nCassell’s writing and cultural criticism has been published in various outlets\, journals\, and books\, including the Los Angeles Times’s Image magazine\, Film Comment\, MUBI Notebook\, The Criterion Collection’s Current\, Metrograph Journal\, and Hyperallergic\, as well as catalogues issued by The Museum of Modern Art\, El Museo del Barrio\, the Studio Museum in Harlem\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. \nAs a producer\, Cassell has worked across disciplines to produce performances\, live events\, and various media projects\, including campaigns and content for Hourglass Cosmetics and Armani\, a live film score at MoMA\, and podcasts and radio shows for Microsoft (in collaboration with Listen)\, Roskilde Festival (Denmark)\, Bay FM and Creative X (both South Africa). \nAn itinerant curator and former museum worker\, Cassell has organized exhibitions\, screenings\, and performances at MoMA\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, Metrograph (in partnership with Abrons Arts Center)\, Anthology Film Archives\, Bartram’s Garden\, and the Black Women’s Film Conference\, among others. Additionally\, Cassell programmed for BlackStar Film Festival from 2018 to 2023\, and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of BlackStar’s journal\, Seen\, where she platformed film\, art\, and visual culture writing by and about people of color\, with an emphasis on nuanced\, slow journalism. Prior to joining Seen\, she was the first dedicated reviews editor at Hyperallergic\, where she focused on growing the publication’s film coverage and championing writers and artists from underrepresented communities. \nCassell is a former Fulbright fellow\, and has received scholarly awards and fellowships from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies\, the Ford Foundation\, CUNY Graduate Center\, and Oberlin College. She was named a DOC NYC Documentary New Leader in 2022 and serves as Vice President of the board of The Flaherty.[/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:1768494066745-fc0410ef-f0ad-0″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/cette-maison-2026-01-23/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:We're Sick to Death of All This Nonsense
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7pm\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Welcome to round two of a quarterly multimedia series combining live performance\, reading\, sound and image selected by poet Christine Larusso & writer and curator Rachael Rakes: We’re Sick to Death of All This Nonsense. It’s not ekphrasis. WS2DOATN is a live series merging words\, sounds\, and moving images\, intended to reframe—or unframe—what constitutes the poetic\, the time-based\, the time-less\, the urgent and endurant in art and discourse. \nIn January\, we’ll be thinking about: Desire \nThis edition features readings from Morgan Parker\, Jameson Fitzpatrick and Jenny Zhang\, whose contributions will shape and respond to the theme in real time. \nEach edition begins with the prompt of one word or phrase —from English and several other languages\, which will be turned about through the program—with the composition of works\, live performances\, and other interjections openly combining with the desperate hells and imaginaries of the day. From this\, we aim to follow the threads that unspool from this combination of fragments\, feelings\, artworks\, and impermanence of the moment\, guests\, and audience. \nSpecial thanks to pals at The Filmmaker’s Coop for their generous collaboration on this program.[/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][/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][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nReading from Morgan Parker\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSundown by Steve Reinke\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]8 min\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A video diary from March 2020 to May 2023: years that cover the diarist’s museum show in Vienna\, Covid\, the death of Gordon Lightfoot and his mother\, what it means to be a queer Nietzschean and why tattoos are always untimely.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nReading from Jameson Fitzpatrick\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_column_text css=””] \nNgüru Ka Williñ (The Fox And The Otter) by Seba Calfuqueo\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 min\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The early 20th century fable “The Fox and the Otter\,” from the Historia y Conocimiento Oral Mapuche: Sobrevivientes de la campaña del desierto y ocupación de la Araucanía (1899–1926)\, tells the story of a homoerotic relationship between two animals – a fox and an otter\, both males – where anal penetration is seen as an offense to masculinity. This 3D animated video proposes a new version of the fable\, where its protagonist is a transgender vixen who\, by means of its charms\, achieves to attract the otter\, unsettling colonial constructions about desire and heterosexuality and allowing to break these paradigms and create new cosmologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFake Fruit Factory by Chick Strand\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]22 min\, 1986[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo boss\, but the factory is owned by his Mexican wife. The focus of the film is on the color\, music and movement involved\, and the gossip which goes on constantly\, revealing what the young women think about men.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 90 mins \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nReading from Jenny Zhang\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_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=”161051″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC\, 2020). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts\, she teaches first-year writing at New York University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161057″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Morgan Parker is the author of five books\, most recently the essay collection You Get What You Pay For\, shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Nonfiction. Previous titles include Who Put This Song On?\, a young adult novel; and the acclaimed poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry at Swarthmore College and lives in Philadelphia with her dog\, Shirley.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161056″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jenny Zhang is the author of Sour Heart and My Baby First Birthday. She also writes for tv and film.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161175″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Christine Larusso holds a BA from Fordham University (Lincoln Center) and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bomb Magazine\, Volume\, the Colorado Review\, Wildness\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Literary Review\, Pleiades\, Court Green\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. She was a Producer for Rachel Zucker’s podcast\, Commonplace\, and was a co-founder of the Commonplace School. She lives in Los Angeles most of the time.\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152994″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Rachael Rakes is a writer\, curator\, educator\, and researcher. She was recently the Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale\, 2023. Currently Rakes is a Committee Member of the New York Film Festival\, an Editor at Large for Verso Books\, and a Contributing Editor for INFRASONICA.With Laura Huertas Millán and Onyeka Igwe\, she organizes the artistic research initiative on co-subjective encounters\, Counter-Encounters. From 2019–2022 she was the Curator for Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst\, Utrecht. Until 2019\, she was the Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. Rakes teaches in the Artificial Times Masters department at Sandberg\, on Curating the moving image at Leiden University\, and taught recently for the Parsons School of Art\, Zine Eskola\, HKU\, KASK\, Eugene Lang College\, and Harvard University. Rakes is editor of the publications This\, Too\, Is a Map (2023\, Sema/[NAME])\, Toward the Not-Yet (2021\, BAK/MIT Press)\, and Practice Space (2019\, [NAME]/De Appel) and frequently publishes as a critic and essayist.[/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:1767992786611-7644c18c-ace3-7″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][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=”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:1767992786612-8ef72950-ba14-1″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2026-01-22-were-sick-to-death-of-all-this-nonsense/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:UNDO Holiday Party  at the Dekalb Tavern
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]8:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]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” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fluma.com%2Fauivu1r5″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”161089″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nYou’re invited! Join us in Ridgewood for this year’s UnionDocs Holiday Party — a speakeasy-inspired evening honoring the secret past of 352 Onderdonk Ave. \n​This winter\, we’re taking our cues from a remarkable piece of history uncovered by friend-of-UNDO Nathan Kensinger (huge thanks\, Nathan!). After spotting our archival photo of the Dekalb Tavern\, he dug deeper and discovered that our building once operated as a Prohibition-era speakeasy\, run by Amelia and Walter Sinus — who advertised “VYNAS\, LIKERIAI\, ALUS”(“wine\, liqueur\, ale”) in the Lithuanian newspapers of the 1930s and ’40s. \n​It’s a lineage too good not to celebrate! And honestly\, if you’ve visited UnionDocs recently\, you might’ve already gotten the full speakeasy experience… finding the entrance on Dekalb Ave has become its own adventure amid construction. \nSo this year’s holiday party leans into that atmosphere: intimate\, low-lit\, a little tucked away\, and rooted in the building’s storied past. We’ll have some holiday treats\, and a full bar\, plus a first round of festive drinks free for UNDO Members or Gift Registry Supporters. (Now’s the perfect time to grab an item!) \n​Come raise a glass with us in a space undergoing transformation\, inside a building that has clearly seen nearly a century of gatherings and celebration. Let’s honor its past\, revel in the present\, and look toward the future we’re building together. Step inside — if you can find the door. 🍸✨ \n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”161110″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=””][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:UnionDocs\, Ridgewood\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, QUEENS\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T193000
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nShow 8:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]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” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fluma.com%2F5zhnf799″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””]UnionDocs is thrilled to present a showcase of live\, audio-driven performance pieces from the exceptionally talented cohort of our first-ever Audio & Performance Lab. Across six collaboratively produced works\, the group explores and transmutes original and archival sounds that illuminate the self\, our loved ones\, and our political consciousness. \nSince mid-September\, the Lab has brought together a multidisciplinary group of seven audio artists\, whose backgrounds range from audio production\, oral history\, and instrumentation to improvisation\, dance\, and new media. Together\, they’ve pitched\, conceived\, researched\, and created a series of audio-first experimentations\, with the rigorous guidance of program director Aaron Edwards\, mentors Jazmine T. Green and Lisa Schonberg\, and an inspiring roster of guest artists with diverse approaches to how sound can be experienced in physical space.  \nThe resulting pieces take on a range of voices and subjectivities\, drawing from personal and public material\, recorded testimonies\, and moments of quiet introspection\, grief\, and play. What does it mean to reshape echoes and fragments of what’s absent or amorphous? How can movement\, presence\, and adaptation help us make sense of memory\, longing\, and political identity? \nWe hope you’ll join us for this remarkable show and help celebrate the deeply talented artists of the inaugural Audio & Performance Lab! \nDoors open at 7:30pm\, show starts at 8:00pm. Hope to see you there![/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”white” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”white” border_width=”3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nto act like it is not there by Ahmed Ashour\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]To pretend that what is broken is actually being fixed. To feign belief that the actions you take have a reaction. To live in denial in the face of complete and utter existential threat. To conceal hopelessness. To question the validity of your hopelessness. To hope that what is there will cease to exist. To hope that what is not there will someday come.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nArtemio’s Birthday Mix by Jonah N. Buchanan & Audrey Chou\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Is an imagined memory worth the same as a real one? Can we hear moments we were not present for? How do we miss someone fully if we only knew them in part? Blending archival mixed media with illusory soundscapes\, this piece explores the confines of recollection within the family\, in loving memory of Artemio Mondala Nebrida. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSequential Disclosure by Warner Meadows\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Sequential Disclosure is an audiovisual performance exploring the transitory moments within the grieving process that are rarely accounted for\, even to ourselves. The project pushes against exploitation and commodification of grief and suffering that has become a touchpoint of the internet age. S.D. features a live musical improvisation responding to an accompanying graphic score and video piece.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re all in this greenhouse together by Reid Jenkins\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Carl Sagan testified before Congress on December 10\, 1985\, about the science of the greenhouse effect and the importance of addressing climate change. Clearly\, something didn’t work. Perhaps the nature of the problem is too complex to solve\, or perhaps our political systems are too balkanized to confront an issue on such a global scale. Or maybe Carl Sagan was… kind of boring.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAdministrative error by Valeria Perez\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Administrative error traces the body’s encounter with the sonic infrastructure of the surveillance state\, using sound and movement to explore how these hidden systems pursue\, infiltrate\, and codify the body. Using telephone mics to expose the hidden frequencies of surveillance systems\, the piece is composed alongside analytical sources\, lived testimonies\, and our sonic interpretations of voyeuristic policing tools to offer a critical meditation on state monitoring. The piece responds to the state’s desire to treat the body as a dataset\, composed of biometric information\, digital footprints\, to maintain control amid waning sovereignty.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nIn her Absence by Hannah Rehak\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]What does a person sound like when they no longer have a body? in her absence is an attempt to surface an answer and communicate a response through effort and audio manipulation. All organic sounds in this piece have been composed through archival audio of Mary Elizabeth Keys Buttitta.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”white” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”white” border_width=”3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161069″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Ahmed Ashour (he/him) is a Bahraini-Egyptian anti-disciplinary artist and journalist based in Brooklyn\, NY. His work focuses on using sound and live performance to trouble dominant narratives of Arab and/or Muslim communities. Select work has been featured on Kerning Cultures\, Sparkler Learning (2023 Signal Award)\, Sowt\, and Al Riwaq Arts Space. For his work\, Ahmed was named one of 50 Young Arab Media Leaders in 2024. He is currently pursuing an MA in Audio Journalism at New York University.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161072″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Born and raised in San Diego\, California\, Jonah N. Buchanan is an audio producer and oral history practitioner based in Queens\, New York. His work explores self-archiving\, shared experience\, and memory work in audio and mixed media forms. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161070″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Audrey Chou is an Audio-Visual Artist and Performer. She works across mediums of sound\, light\, and immersive performances that challenge and question the perception of audience in space and time. She is interested in the research of questioning how an experience will make people feel and engage with culture\, technology\, nature\, as well as navigating the globalization of hybrid digital and physical identities.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161075″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Warner Meadows is a pianist\, musician and composer based out of Harlem\, NY. After graduating from Brown University in 2019 with a BA in Music\, Warner moved back to NYC where he’s been working on his solo musical career\, composing music for podcasts\, short films and audiobooks\, and producing for other artists. Warner is currently pursuing his MFA in Sonic Arts from Brooklyn College. He also teaches piano and production classes\, and is an artist mentor at Recess Art in Brooklyn.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161073″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Reid Jenkins is a New York City based violinist and songwriter. Having an extensive background in classical and jazz traditions\, his eclectic violin playing incorporates elements of bluegrass\, American old time\, rock\, and pop. As a solo artist\, he has released an EP “A Beautiful Start” (2021) and an LP “Hall of Gems” (2023)\, both forays into a blend of confessional bedroom folk-pop songwriting adorned with lush acoustic-electric orchestrations.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161074″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Valeria Perez-Pijuan (they/them) is a Puerto Rican experimental filmmaker and mixed-media animator based in New York. Their practice draws on personal memory\, embodied history\, and societal taboos\, employing visual languages rooted in material and audiovisual deconstruction. Weaving fragmented memories and marginalized histories throughout their work\, they invite communal reflection on identity\, resilience\, and collective experience.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161071″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Hannah Rehak is a performer and storyteller based in Brooklyn. She is the Executive Producer/Co-Founder of Witch\, Please Productions — the folks behind beloved scholarly culture podcast\, Material Girls. She is a teacher and performer at The Second City and the co-producer of Fuck It Film Fest\, a bi-monthly show featuring DIY films. Hannah is currently in post-production for her film\, A Perfect Pair. Other work can be found on her website: hannarehak.com.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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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%2Fluma.com%2Fcw1cu8ko”][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: Isaac Green Diebboll\, Maggie Brennan\, Brit Fryer and Noah Schamus\, Marley McDonald\, sTo Len\, Chloe Prasinos\, Caroline Pahl\, Bohdana Smyrnova\, and Fatimah Asghar. And joining remotely to present their work are Mary Helena Clark\, Lu Olkowski\, Daniel Fishkin\, Derek Howard\, Emily Drummer\, Zoe Beloff\, and Mauricio Arango. \nTheir work traverses extraordinary terrain — resurrecting the electric atmosphere of an early 1900s Yiddish theater\, blurring memory and magic in a meditation on life and death\, and animating the strange intersections of relics\, crime\, and womanhood. These projects span a trans community shaping their stories into performance\, an archival excavation of the American Museum of Natural History\, and a sonic inquiry into a mysterious instrument. They move through New York’s psychic shops\, the city’s long-buried sanitation media archives\, and the inner worlds of dissolving relationships. They revisit the 2003 blackout\, chronicle a Ukrainian family’s return to a war-torn home\, and map a journey toward ancestral reconnection in Pakistan. \nThis is a free community event. Come through and toast these pioneering artists and their budding projects! \nAll of the presenting artists in this program received a 2025 Support for Artists grant\, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature[/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=””] \nLife Forgotten by Zoe Beloff\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Set in New York’s Lower East Side in the early years of the twentieth century\, Life Forgotten centers on a real storefront cinema\, Frank Seiden’s Variety Theater. Here silent movies were anything but. Frank and his sons improvised dialog for the films and sang Yiddish ballads to an audience that didn’t hesitate to join in or argue back. It was a welcoming space for women and the film follows a group of radical young garment workers who gather here to figure out how to fight for women’s rights and change their world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nLonging For The Call of the Spirits Ringing in My Ear by Isaac Green Diebboll\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]This is a magical realism feature-length non-fiction film that draws from a cameraman’s memories of childhood and parenthood to explore the boundaries of life\, death and the imagination.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nVenerations by Maggie Brennan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Venerations is an animated short film about a religious mother and her very online daughter who independently obsess over two different sets of mysterious human remains: the relics of a beloved virgin Saint and the case file of an unidentified murder victim. Surreal and subtly comic\, “Venerations” reflects on things like myth-making\, materiality\, and the strangeness of womanhood.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWITH TIME by Brit Fryer and Noah Schamus\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Blending realism with fantasy\, WITH TIME follows a group of trans people over fifty who have navigated shifting tides of acceptance and backlash as they gather in a storytelling workshop. Over several weeks\, they transform open-ended prompts into scripted scenes\, bringing to life moments of euphoria\, connection\, and mutual recognition.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Elephant in the Room by Marley McDonald\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Elephant in the Room is a cinematic odyssey through the archives of The American Museum of Natural History. This archival adventure doc digs into the creation of the museum through the lens of its extraordinary artifacts and the people behind them. Through rare footage and forgotten narratives\, the film challenges the myths and contradictions embedded in the museum’s quest to define our past.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nTHE ARBRASSON by Daniel Fishkin\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In 2023\, I discovered a new instrument called the Arbrasson—a notched wooden instrument that resonates like a singing bird when you caress its carved notches. When people hear it\, they usually are surprised by how loud and clear its sound is\, which does not seem to match its appearance: it looks like just a piece of wood with mysterious cuts in it—how could it sound like an electronic instrument?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThere in Spirit by Derek Howard\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]There in Spirit is a short documentary about the psychic shops found all over Manhattan. Through readings conducted over the phone and in person in both audio and video\, the film explores how the advice from these predominantly eastern European women helps New Yorkers cope with private and global challenges. Despite claims of prescience\, this age-old fixture in New York is for entertainment purposes only\, however many clients take their advice very seriously. The film examines the innate desire to want to believe predictions of the future\, even when logic saws otherwise.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nDiscard Records by sTo Len\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]As Public Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation\, sTo Len revitalized a dormant municipal television studio inside of a sanitation garage that was home to ostensibly the largest waste media archive in the world. Through watching and digitizing an estimated 500 hours of footage\, Len has found training videos\, union films\, Public Service Announcements\, interviews\, environmental programs\, cartoons\, commercial campaigns\, and TV news broadcasts that collectively tell the history of not only the world’s largest sanitation department but of New York City through the lens of its garbage. Discard Records is a very personal response to a treasure trove of historical material that explores the intimate but often ignored relationship between the public and their waste.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Third Thing by Chloe Prasinos\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Third Thing is an autofiction podcast. The series personifies the intangible losses that happen when a relationship ends. Each episode drops the listener into the microcosm of a different relationship — a couple\, best friends\, a parent and child — and examines the inside jokes between two people that\, over time\, get more specific\, evolving into a voice they do when they’re together\, until that voice coheres into a fully realized character\, complete with mannerisms and a backstory. This character is a third thing — a being who exists only when those two people are together. The series then asks the question: what happens to a third thing when a couple breaks up or friends drift apart? Where do they go? The pilot brings us there: a white\, bureaucratic waiting-room called the Ephemeral DMV\, where third things from around the world are waiting\, telling their humans’ stories\, praying that they reunite.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBLACKOUT by Caroline Pahl\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]On a sweltering August day in 2003\, 50 million people across the Northeast were left powerless\, including a New York still raw from 9/11. Before anyone knew it was an electrical collapse caused by a glitch in Ohio\, terror felt inevitable. Told through archival footage\, BLACKOUT captures those first hours of dread\, and the surreal carnival that followed when New Yorkers realized the grid had simply failed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThere’s No Place by Bohdana Smyrnova\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]When Daryna\, a Ukrainian refugee in the U.S.\, struggles with isolation and dislocation\, she makes the radical choice to return with her children to war-torn Kyiv. There’s No Place is a portrait of resilience\, revealing how community and belonging can feel safer than exile’s emptiness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nDaughter of the Mountains by Fatimah Asghar\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Daughter of the Mountains explores reunion with homeland and alternative forms of family through the lens of grief and spirituality. Orphaned at a young age\, author Fatimah Asghar lost ties to their ancestral homeland of Pakistan. Reuniting with their father’s family for the first time since his untimely death\, the film explores what it means to rebuild family\, ancestral connection and home\, as well as the chosen family Fatimah has built in the United States.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBreeze the Gate by Mary Helena Clark\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Breeze the Gate is an experimental narrative film about horse jockeys.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBook of Esther by Lu Olkowski\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The audio documentary\, Book of Esther\, is named after a handmade\, one of a kind\, art book. It tells the story of two friendships\, each between a woman and her much older friend.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBelly of a Glacier by Ohan Breiding\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Belly of a Glacier is an experimental documentary that braids an ancient ice archive with a community-initiated project that insulates the Rhône Glacier from rising temperatures with a queer\, speculative glacier funeral. In 2019\, Iceland constructed the first memorial to mark the death of its Okjökul glacier. Since then\, funerals have been held around the world to mark the melting of glacier bodies. These ritualized practices of collective grief perform the intimate entanglement of human and environmental well-being\, and amplify the current state of climate emergency.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nIn the Keeping by Emily Drummer\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In the Keeping offers a glimpse into the ponds and tanks where high value koi are bred\, transported\, exhibited\, studied\, and sold by a global community in pursuit of an ideal image in the body of a fish.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nRatas by Mauricio Arango\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In a stark\, imagined world\, outcast rats navigate exclusion and violence. Through their struggle\, this experimental film examines identity\, marginalization\, and what it truly means to belong.[/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_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]All of the presenting artists in this program received a 2025 Support for Artists grant\, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature[/vc_column_text][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=”160943″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Zoe Beloff is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. With a focus on social justice\, she draws timelines between past and present to imagine a more egalitarian future. Her films are built on historical research and imaginative re-enactment. Zoe’s work has been featured in international venues that include the Whitney Museum\, MoMA\, the National Gallery in Washington D.C.\, the Pompidou Center\, the Berlinale\, the M HKA museum in Antwerp\, IFFR and FID Marseille.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160944″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Isaac Green Diebboll is a filmmaker\, artist\, and archivist based in Callicoon\, NY. His films are explorations of the psychological\, emotional\, and spiritual dimensions of our humanity\, looking at relationships to home\, survival\, and our connection with our environment. His creative practice includes drawing\, writing and piano. \nHis current projects look at the destruction and legacy of public housing\, the impact of incarceration on individuals and families\, the intergenerational processes of preserving and cultivating Lenape language and oral tradition\, and the life cycles and relationships that develop between earth\, animals and farmers. \nIsaac is a cofounder of ENGN (engine) an educational non-profit that supports public school students to explore their civic and creative interests. He has an MS in Urban Ecology from Parsons\, The New School\, a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art\, and he works as a box office manager at The Callicoon Theater.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160946″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Maggie Brennan is a Queens-based animator / director / writer / musician / etc. She is the creator of “Agoraphilia\,” a series for Adult Swim SMALLS\, which she also animated\, directed\, co-wrote\, and scored. She wrote\, directed\, animated\, and scored the short film “Our Bed Is Green\,” which premiered at SXSW and went on to play numerous Oscar-qualifying festivals worldwide\, winning “Best Animation” at the Tacoma Film Festival. She also wrote\, animated\, and voiced a micro series for A Studio Digital about mall kiosk owners. Before moving into animation\, she created comics (some of which appeared in The New Yorker\, The Fader\, Inverse\, and other publications).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160947″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Brit Fryer (he/him) is a queer and trans filmmaker originally from Chicago’s South Side. He has directed several films\, including THE SCRIPT\, CARO COMES OUT\, ACROSS\, BEYOND\, AND OVER\, and most recently TESSITURA. His work has been supported by Yaddo\, the Sundance Institute\, Creative Culture\, the PBS Ignite Mentorship\, and HBO/The Gotham’s Documentary Development Initiative. \nNoah Schamus (they/them) is a filmmaker of both documentary and narrative films and an educator. Their first feature\, SUMMER SOLSTICE\, screened at film festivals across the US and Europe before premiering theatrically at IFC Center in New York in June 2024. The film received a New York Times Critics’ Pick. Their most recent hybrid documentary short\, THE SCRIPT\, produced by Multitude Films as a part of their Queer Futures series\, can currently be seen online on The New Yorker and The Criterion Channel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160948″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Marley McDonald is a filmmaker\, animator and painter living in Queens\, New York. She directed and edited her debut feature-length documentary\, Time Bomb Y2K for HBO. She has recently edited Earth to Michael which premiered at Telluride Film Festival 2025 and the generative documentary Eno which premiered at Sundance 2024. In 2021\, she was chosen as a Points North Fellow and worked as an additional editor on Penny Lane’s film Listening to Kenny G. Her associate editor work includes Spaceship Earth which premiered at Sundance 2020\, and the Golden Lion-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary\, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160949″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Daniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Composer of musical instruments. Daniel studied with composer Maryanne Amacher and with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart. Daniel’s lifework investigating the aesthetics of hearing damage has received international press (Nature Journal\, 2014); as an ally in the search for a cure\, he has been awarded the title of “tinnitus ambassador” by the Deutsche Tinnitus-Stiftung. He is the only luthier that studied directly with the daxophone’s inventor\, Hans Reichel; Daniel’s instruments have traveled the world\, including Canada\, USA\, Norway\, Germany\, France\, Japan\, Kazakhstan\, and Australia. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University\, and earned his PhD in Composition and Computer Music at the University of Virginia. He has taught courses on instrument design\, electronic music\, and creative coding at many universities\, including most recently at Ramapo College of New Jersey\, where he is Assistant Professor of Music Production.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160950″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Derek Howard is a New York City based director of photography\, editor\, and director\, whose projects have screened at Venice\, TIFF\, Sundance\, Telluride\, DOCNYC\, IDFA\, and many others. Immersed in the world of creative documentary\, video art\, and hybrid formats\, he established himself as a risk taking and innovative filmmaker with a focus on observational documentary\, LGBTQ+ representation\, dance\, extreme nature\, and climate change stories. He has participated in the IDFA Summer School\, IDFAcademy\, Reykjavik International Film Festival’s Trans Atlantic Talent Lab\, Berlinale Talents\, and the Playlab Filming in the Amazon residency with Apichatpong Weserthat. Recently\, Derek shot celebrated visual artist Alison O’Daniel’s debut hybrid feature “The Tube Thieves” (Sundance 2023)\, and award-winning filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos’ “Plan C” (Sundance 2023).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160951″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]sTo Len is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has centered on collaborations with abused landscapes\, forgotten archives\, municipal agencies\, and invisible communities internationally. Recent works include printmaking with polluted waterways\, 3D scanning Fresh Kills landfill\, recycling waste from coastal cleanups into art materials\, and hosting events at Superfund sites. Len was the first Artist in Residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment facility in Virginia and the Public Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation from 2021-2023. sTo Len is based in Queens\, NY\, with familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia\, and his work incorporates these bonds by connecting issues of their history\, environment\, traditions\, and politics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160952″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Chloe Prasinos is an independent writer\, director\, showrunner\, and story editor working across genres. By day\, she leads teams to report and produce longform audio documentaries\, with clients like Apple\, Topic Studios\, and Wondery. Chloe is a founding producer of The 11th from Pineapple Street Studios\, where her work was recognized with a National Magazine Award in Podcasting and Third Coast’s Director’s Choice Award\, among other honors. Chloe also co-directed\, produced\, and sound designed Marvel Comics’ first ever audio drama\, collaborating on set with the likes of Bob Balaban\, Bill Irwin\, and Celia Keenan-Bolger. Her work has appeared on Love + Radio\, 99% Invisible\, Reply All\, CNN\, NPR\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Bon Appetit\, WBEZ\, and beyond. \nBy night\, Chloe performs longform improv at the Magnet Theater and standup around New York City. She has a degree in Choreography that she mostly uses at weddings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160953″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Caroline Pahl is an Emmy Award-winning producer and documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She’s made things for ABC News\, Hulu\, HBO\, and VICE News.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160954″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Bohdana Smyrnova is an independent filmmaker specializing in intimate\, female-driven narratives. As a writer\, director\, producer\, and editor\, she has developed an improvisational script development technique that creates space for actors to explore authentically on-screen. As a documentarian\, she has been part of an Oscar-shortlisted film; a documentary series by a Sundance winner; and is producing a hybrid queer feature. Over 25 years\, Smyrnova has held key creative positions on 50+ projects that have garnered 70+ awards and screened at 350+ festivals worldwide\, including Rotterdam IFF\, Clermont-Ferrand\, Director’s Fortnight\, Slamdance\, Taipei Golden Horse\, and French theatrical release. She holds an MFA from New York University\, where she was a Dean’s Fellow. An alumna of the Cannes Film Festival Residency and ScripTeast lab\, she currently teaches at Chernivtsi University through Docutribe.\nSmyrnova is developing her debut feature documentary There’s No Place. She is based between New York and Chernivtsi/Kyiv\, Ukraine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160955″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Fatimah Asghar is a poet\, filmmaker\, educator\, and performer whose work includes an Emmy nominated web series\, a National Book Award Longlisted book of fiction\, a critically acclaimed book of poetry\, and they served as the co-producer and writer of Time and Again for Ms Marvel on Disney +.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160968″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Mary Helena Clark is an artist working across film and installation. Her films have screened at festivals and venues including the International Film Festival Rotterdam; Berlinale; New York Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; Cinéma du réel\, Paris; Viennale\, Sundance Film Festival; ICA London; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma\, Helsinki; Contemporary Art Centre\, Vilnius; and the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160969″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]When not hosting CBC’s Love Me\, Lu Olkowski is an independent producer and story editor. Over the last 25 years\, her work has been featured on NPR\, This American Life\, Radiolab and others. She’s known for getting people to open up about uncomfortable things. As a story editor\, she coaches teams of reporters\, producers and hosts to create complex\, multipart\, documentary podcasts. She loves the wind. And is currently mesmerized by the sound of seals singing in the Bay of Fundy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160970″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist and filmmaker. Through photographic and filmic archives\, video and collaboration they employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care by amplifying landscapes as witness. Most recently\, their work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA\, Arts and Letters\, Hesse Flatow\, Oceanside Museum (Getty PST)\, Frac des Pays de la Loire\, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art\, Kunsthaus Zürich\, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and ICA LA. Breiding is a 2025-2026 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Awardee. They have participated in residencies at Triangle Arts\, Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR)\, TBA-21 Academy Ocean Space\, LMCC Governor’s Island\, Millay Colony and Shandaken: Storm King. They are the recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship\, A.I.R. Fellowship\, Hellman Award\, Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award and a DAAD Award. Breiding is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Williams College and is represented by Ochi Gallery\, Los Angeles.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”145846″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Emily Drummer is a filmmaker whose process-driven work is rooted in immersive fieldwork and historical research\, reimagining cinematic conventions to craft meditative worlds that are deeply thought\, felt\, and sensed. She received her MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa and her BA from Hampshire College. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, New York State Council on the Arts\, the LEF Foundation\, the Princess Grace Foundation\, and the Flaherty Film Seminar. Her short films Field Resistance (2020)\, Histories of Simulated Intimacy (2017)\, and Behind the Torchlight (2015) have been showcased by venues including Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center\, The Block Museum at Northwestern University\, London Short Film Festival\, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival\, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive\, among others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160971″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Mauricio Arango was born in Bogotá\, Colombia\, and lives and works in New York City. His films have been shown at festivals and art institutions including New Directors/New Films at MoMA and the Lincoln Film Society (New York)\, Kino der Kunst (Munich)\, FiD (Marseille)\, VideoBrasil (São Paulo)\, Rencontres Internationales (Paris)\, and IndieLisboa (Lisbon). He is an alumnus of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum and has participated in residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco)\, the MacDowell Artist Colony\, and Museo El Barrio (New York). His work has been supported by organizations including The Foundation for Contemporary Art (New York)\, RivieraLab Coproduction Fund (Mexico)\, Filmmakers Fund\, Rooftop Films (New York)\, Matt Roberts Arts (London)\, the Puffin Foundation\, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, the Bush Foundation\, The Jerome Foundation (New York)\, and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).[/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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SUMMARY:Between Borders and Voices:  The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 6:30p\nProgram 7:00p\nTickets $6[/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=””]UnionDocs\, Color Congress — through its Elev8Docs Marketing Initiative — and Cinema Tropical present acclaimed filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz for a special evening of conversation and preview\, part of Between Borders and Voices: The Cinema of Bernardo Ruiz — the first retrospective of the three-time Emmy-nominated director and one of the most incisive voices in contemporary nonfiction media. \nWith over two decades in independent film\, Ruiz will reflect on the collapse of traditional funding\, the rise of the creator economy\, and the challenges of making meaningful work outside legacy systems. Through film clips and personal insights\, he’ll share his “imperfect strategy” for navigating today’s media landscape. The evening includes a sneak peek at Ruiz’s newest project\, The Low Season — a hybrid fiction-documentary about a woman from the future who helps immigrant families in present-day Queens. Blending participatory storytelling and speculative fiction\, the film opens up bold new possibilities for socially engaged cinema. \nJoin us for this timely and thought-provoking conversation — and be among the first to experience Ruiz’s daring new work in progress. \nCome through![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Low Season\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]by Bernardo Ruiz[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A hybrid fiction-documentary about a woman from the future who helps immigrant families in present-day Queens[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 90 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=”160808″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nBERNARDO RUIZ is a three-time Emmy®-nominated documentary filmmaker and a 2024 Documentary Film Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy. Ruiz has directed and produced five feature-length documentaries\, as well as a host of non-fiction television for broadcasters\, streamers\, and social media platforms. \nBorn in Guanajuato\, Mexico to Mexican and American parents\, Ruiz came to the U.S. at age 6 and grew up in Brooklyn\, New York. During the handycam craze of the 1980s\, he made Super8mm films. Ruiz later studied photography with Joel Sternfeld at Sarah Lawrence College\,  where he also studied writing with the novelist Jerome Badanes. \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:1762286867963-61a0b334-e0a8-10″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/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 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 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:1762286867964-6288ed12-c5f3-9″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Said and the Unsaid
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $10[/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=””] \nWe’re thrilled to welcome aemi to UnionDocs for the NYC stop of their 2025 touring program\, an annual selection platforming some of the most exciting moving image work by Irish artists in conversation with key international works. The Said and the Unsaid is a showcase that spotlights these bold new moving-image works and this year’s program includes new Irish films by Frank Sweeney and Jonathan O’Grady alongside work by filmmakers Maryam Tafakory and Stephanie Barber. \nThis eclectic program shifts from an act of deliberate and playful obfuscation (3 Peonies) to a process of attempted rediscovery (In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone) to an uncovering of media artifacts that speak to both deliberate and discrete forms of articulation in the face of state sponsored censorship (Nazarbazi and Few Can See). \nTogether these works describe a variety of creative means of expression borne out of a necessity to speak\, however indirectly. \nWe’re delighted to have Daniel Fitzpatrick from aemi joining alongside filmmakers Frank Sweeney and Jonathan O’Grady for conversation after the program.[/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=””]3 Peonies by Stephanie Barber -[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]3 mins\, 2017\, U.S.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A brief\, poetic 16mm film on a simple sculptural action. An experimental film in which the simplicity of the image is offset by the sonic implications. What becomes apparent is the humour possible in material interactions and the tender and sometimes melodramatic symbolism of cut flowers. What begins as a reverence for natural beauty ends up pointing towards the abstract expressionism and color field work of high modernism which\, in many cases eschewed the banality of such ‘natural’ beauty. The collaged soundtrack suggests weightier concerns\, gently insistent behind the flatness of the utilitarian sounds of ripping tape.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone by Jonathan O’Grady[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]12 mins\, 2021\, Ireland[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]O’Grady’s film records a pilgrimage of sorts\, conducted in search of a hard-to-find menhir or standing stone within the area of Naas\, County Kildare. One of three in the area\, the Forenaughts Longstone is located within the grounds of a large private estate\, inaccessible for visitation\, or indeed\, view from the nearby road. The works traces the artist’s attempt to try and reach the stone on his own accord\, navigating the narrow lanes and looking for openings that might allow access to the monument. In the end the journey is a failure\, leading to dead-ends and obstructed views of the land. The subsequent work becomes a way of speculating about movement through the landscape; its restrictions and potential new access points. Through the use of footage\, graphic and colour interludes and text\, the work mediates on the privatisation of land and heritage\, inaccessibility as invisibility and trespassing as a necessary tactic for cultural reclamation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Nazarbazi by Maryam Tafakory[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]19 mins\, 2022\, Iran/UK[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Nazarbazi [the play of glances] is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema\, where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited. \nThe film focuses primarily on images of women whose bodies have been erased and victimised in post-revolutionary cinema\, alluding to discreet forms of communication that operate within yet circumnavigate the censors. It attempts to touch the spaces we cannot touch\, inner feelings/sensations\, and untouchability beyond bodily experience\, that of unspoken and unwritten prohibitions. The film uses poetry and silence as the only languages with which we can touch these spaces of socio-political ambiguities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Few Can See by Frank Sweeney[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]42 mins\, 2023\, Ireland[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Few Can See examines the legacy of broadcast censorship of the conflict in the north of Ireland and political movements during this era. The project attempts to recreate material absent from state archives due to censorship\, based on contemporary oral history interviews. \nWinner of the Tiger Short Award 2024 at International Film Festival Rotterdam and received a Special Mention from the jury at the FILMADRID Awards.[/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 img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Frank Sweeney is an artist with a research based practice\, using found material to approach questions of collective memory\, experience and identity through film and sound. \nRecent work includes ‘Few Can See’ (winner of the Tiger Shorts Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Second Diamond Award at Alcine 53\, Special Mention at Filmadrid Awards\, commissioned by EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial)\, ‘People enjoy my company’ (Best Documentary at LUFF Switzerland\, IMMA 2021-22\, Transmediale Berlin\, BFI Southbank LSFF 2022) and ‘Made Ground’ (collaboration with Eva Richardson McCrea\, Temple Bar Gallery 2021\, purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2021). \nRecent awards include the Common Ground MARKING 25 Commission\, the Arts Council’s Next Generation and Project Award\, aemi + Sirius Film Commission & a 3 Year Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.[/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=””] \nMaryam Tafakory works with film and performance. She was the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award. \nHer film\, Mast-del\, premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and was among Film Comment’s Best Short Films of 2023 and Sight&Sound’s Best Video Essays of 2023. Her first UK solo exhibition\, I Want To Tell You What I Can’t\, was one of Artforum’s Critics’ Picks of 2023. LUX London distributes her work. \nBorn and raised in Iran\, Tafakory is a visual artist who makes textual and filmic collages that bring together poetry\, speculative nonfiction\, and archival material. \nExploring the different registers through which images speak or refuse to speak\, her work attempts to dissect veiled acts of erasure – of bodies\, intimacies\, and histories. Her research-based projects consider what is often neglected and discarded as trivial or excessive\, looking at historical gaps\, unspoken rules\, and concealed queer stories. She has an ongoing body of films\, performances\, and video essays in dialogue with post-revolution Iranian cinema.  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Stephanie Barber is a writer and artist who has created a poetic\, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media\, often literary/visual hybrids that dissolve boundaries between narrative\, essay and dialectic. Her work considers the basic philosophical questions of human and non-human existence (its morbidity\, profundity and banality) with play and humor. \nBarber’s films and videos have screened nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at MOMA\, NY; The Tate Modern\, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art\, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center\, MN; MOCA Los Angeles\, The Wexner Center for Art\, OH\, among other galleries\, museums and festivals. \nHer videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films can be found at Canyon Cinema. Publishing Genius Press published her books Night Moves and these here separated… in 2013 and 2010 respectively. CTRL+P published a collection of her haiku\, Status Update Vol. 1 in 2019 and her full-length play Trial in the Woods was published by Plays Inverse in 2021 with a second pressing in 2022.[/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:1758894619376-7facad5b-a819-7″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Field Reports
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Join UnionDocs to kick off a three day workshop Contested Realities: From Field Work to Form with a screening and discussion around borderlands and how to navigate research and hybrid forms in the documentary world. The screening will feature four experimental documentary shorts that turn research into poetic interrogations of land and borders\, community and resistance. \nUnder foot & Overstory follows local environmentalists and a park’s changing boundary in Iowa City\, Iowa. terrestrial sea is a poetic picture of the journey through the US/Mexico borderlands. 100 Partially Obscured Views/100 Vistas Parcialmente Oscurecidas resists imperialist policy designed to dissect and obstruct the movement and culture of the interconnected community of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. COMPLEX tells the stories of immigrants and refugees in detention in Eloy\, Arizona as the COVID pandemic began to impact incarcerated populations. \nTogether\, the evening’s program will prompt us to think critically about the process of doing research on contested territories\, or competing narratives and histories\, and transforming that research into art that transcends the boundaries of traditional documentary. \nJoin us for a rare insight into the experience and work of four filmmakers committed to making creative decisions that center the lives of people implicated in their projects. And don’t miss out on the rest of our workshop\, as Cathy Lee Crane continues to guide us through a reimagination of research and project development.[/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=””] \nUnder foot & Overstory by Jason Livingston\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]34:30\, 2005[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]“On the 200th anniversary of Simon Bolivar’s liberation journey across Colombia\, Bicentenario reflects on the far-reaching consequences of the liberator’s legacy\, a legacy kept alive through a wide range of intentional and unintentional rituals of remembrance. Summoning Bolivar’s spirit in the exact landscapes that witnessed the battles\, Bicentenario reveals the contemporary social rituals that perpetuate the ongoing violence residing deep within the social and political unconscious. Two hundred years after his campaign\, Simon Bolivar’s spirit has become a mix of political mysticism\, unquestioned doctrine\, and enigma—or perhaps a curse that has fixed itself in the collective imaginary of an entire continent. It is this curse that Bicentenario seeks to invoke\, and perhaps exorcise.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nterrestrial sea by Cathy Lee Crane\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]15 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]During a poetic meditation on water in the US/Mexico borderlands where actors traverse the Rio Grande by canoe and cross into the Sonoran desert as members of the 1851 Bartlett survey team\, they are confronted with social actors from the present-day.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \n100 Partially Obscured Views/100 Vistas Parcialmente Oscurecidas by Nicole Antebi\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]17:50 mins\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]I was raised in the borderlands of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. In the years since I graduated from high school in 1993\, I watched the two cities\, that once shared the same name and continue to share a community\, become increasingly dissected by federal political\, social\, economic\, and environmental policies designed to obstruct the movement of people\, culture\, and the river with two names. \nEl Paso and Juárez share history\, share people\, share each other’s gaze\, their differences are constructed by imperialist treaties and policies\, and obstructions that insist on their difference.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCOMPLEX by David Taylor\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]13 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]COMPLEX (2021) depicts the vast system of privately operated prisons that incarcerate migrants and refugees under contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the United States. Narrated entirely by refugees who were in detention as the COVID pandemic began to impact prison populations\, this short documentary centers on the La Palma Correctional Facility located in Eloy\, Arizona. In 2019 the average daily population in ICE custody reached a record 50000 with upwards of 70% incarcerated in for-profit facilities. As of 2025 the number has climbed to nearly 60\,000. Functioning as a component within a larger survey project\, the video suggests the pervasiveness of the border security industrial complex in the American geography\, the commodification of human displacement\, and the insinuation of corporate interests into regimes of border surveillance and control.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 80 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=”160691″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Cathy Lee Crane’s speculative histories involve extensive research in the archive and on location field work. Various discoveries have led to development strategies for production\, collaboration\, and ultimately the form of a completed project’s dissemination (single channels\, installation\, on-line interludes). These projects include: critical biography (Pasolini’s Last Words which will be presented at NYU Casa de Italiana on 11/10/25 alongside a new installation iteration of that research Pasolini : Durations with John Di Stefano from 11/3-11/13; prisons (research and cinematography for Farocki’s Prison Images); and the borderlands multi-platform work Drawing the Line which includes Crossing Columbus (2020)\, terrestrial sea (2023)\, and Border Dwellers (2025). This most recent and ongoing side of Cathy’s work in the borderlands explores it as an historical space\, a place and a line of inquiry and is a preoccupation that all the guest lecturers share. Since 2017\, Cathy has been working in various borderland areas\, particularly in New Mexico and Arizona\, while considering various historical\, cultural and scientific perspectives on the subject. This subject has driven Cathy to consider the limitless ways in which particular sets of images can be produced\, combined and reorganized to circulate in different ways in varying circumstances on different platforms\, and how this might redefine the images(s) for different audiences.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160693″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jason Livingston is a media artist and filmmaker\, film programmer\, and writer. His award-winning work has screened widely\, including Sheffield\, Camden\, Rotterdam\, Anthology\, the Austrian Museum\, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Under Foot & Overstory is distributed by the CFMDC\, and Lake Affect is available through EAI’s Experimental Television Center collection. Awarded residencies include the Millay Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has received project support from funders such as the New York State Council on the Arts and the Simons Foundation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160692″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]David Taylor’s artwork examines place\, territory\, history and politics. Exhibited widely\, his projects reveal how borders can function not only as spatial demarcations\, but also as an amplifying device particularly attuned to changing geo-political\, environmental and social conditions. Recent exhibition venues include the Boise Art Museum\, Nevada Museum of Art\, Utah Museum of Fine Arts\, MFA Houston\, Museo de las Artes Universidad de Guadalajara and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Taylor’s work can be found in numerous collections including the Library of Congress\, the Phoenix Art Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. The Guardian\, Places Journal\, Gizmodo and Arquine have recently featured his projects. In 2019 Taylor was awarded a residency at Proyecto Siqueiros: La Tallera in Cuernavaca\, Mexico and an Arizona Commission on the Arts Research and Development Grant. For his work on migrant detention\, Taylor is a nominee for a 2025 Rocky Mountain Southwest Emmy and he has an upcoming solo exhibition at Museo de Arte de Sonora in the fall of 2026. \nDavid Taylor is a member of the Photography\, Video and Imaging faculty in the University of Arizona School of Art and a faculty affiliate with the U of A Center for Latin American Studies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160694″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nicole Antebi is an animator and moving image artist whose work explores the intersection of storytelling\, place\, and belief. Her practice is rooted in a deep curiosity about how different cultures-past and present-assign personhood\, memory and mysticism to the land. Through animation\, Nicole investigates place-based animism and the ways in which landscapes become vessels for knowledge\, spirituality\, and hope\, especially for times of crisis. \nDriven by a desire to expand the language of storytelling\, Nicole uses animation as a tool to bridge the seen and unseen-to animate histories\, rituals and relationships that are often invisible or intangible. Her work invites viewers to consider how a place holds power\, emotion\, and ancestral presence. \nFrom a young age\, Nicole became acutely aware of the inequities facing Mexicans\, Mexican-Americans and Fronteriza/o/x/s who reside in the borderlands of El Paso\, Texas and Ciudad\, Juárez\, the region where she came of age. In the years since she graduated from high school in 1993\, following the signing of NAFTA\, Nicole watched the two cities\, that once shared the same name and continue to share the same community\, become increasingly dissected by federal political\, social\, economic\, and environmental policies designed to obstruct the movement of people\, culture\, and the river with two names. \nNicole is an assistant professor of Animation at The University of Arizona and Co-director of The Wonder Studio at Biosphere II.[/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:1761144755584-4aa22601-5617-1″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Tallest Dwarf
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re thrilled to welcome filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman for a special screening of her powerful and deeply personal new film\, THE TALLEST DWARF screened in conjunction with her participation in It’s Practical\, It’s Tactical: Community-Based Documentary a weekend long workshop led by artist Tara Mateik. \nIn THE TALLEST DWARF\, Wyman charts her journey of discovery within the little people (LP) community at a pivotal moment in the evolution of dwarf identity. As she investigates long-circulated family rumors about “partial dwarfism\,” Wyman learns she has hypochondroplasia—an inherited condition that marks her as part of a disappearing body type. \nWhat begins as a personal inquiry quickly expands into a collective act of resistance. Wyman joins forces with a vibrant group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of spectacle\, objectification\, and the lingering shadows of eugenics. Together\, they reclaim the narrative—laughing\, dancing\, and creating films that speak back to a culture eager to alter bodies it doesn’t understand. \nVisually rich\, emotionally resonant\, and laced with sharp humor\, THE TALLEST DWARF is as much about identity and belonging as it is about medical ethics and social change. It challenges us to think differently about difference—and to question who gets to decide what kind of bodies should exist in the future. \nJulie Forrest Wyman will join Tara Mateik in conversation following the screening to discuss the film’s making\, the politics of representation\, and what it means to stand at the intersection of personal story and collective history. \nThis film will be screened with OPEN CAPTIONS. Venue Accessibility is as follows: The screening room itself is wheelchair & scooter accessible\, but there are 3 steps that lead to the restroom and bar. The venue will provide adaptations to ensure that restrooms and counters are accessible for LP attendees. \nDon’t miss this unforgettable evening of film\, reflection\, and radical visibility.[/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=””]The Tallest Dwarf by Julie Forrest Wyman[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]92 minutes\, English\, United States\, 2025[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]THE TALLEST DWARF charts filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Julie unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she discovers that she has hypochondroplasia dwarfism and that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together\, they embody their full humanity as they dance\, laugh\, and create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Visually striking\, humorous\, and touching\, THE TALLEST DWARF is both personal and political – inviting audiences to rethink identity\, disability\, and what it means to belong in a world that wants to change who you are.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 92 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=”160480″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Julie Forrest Wyman is a filmmaker\, writer\, and Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. Her work engages issues of embodiment\, body image\, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Her 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy Award–winning series Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s films—including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)—have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. Her work has received support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160286″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Tara Mateik is a multimedia performance artist and videomaker whose work critically reenacts historical moments of collective transformation. These reenactments are not passive recreations of the past\, but political interventions into our understanding of history\, working with queer iconography to explore the ways in which history is written on\, and by\, actual bodies. Performing with other gender nonconforming bodies\, his work disrupts participants’ expectations and generates new political potentialities—in essence\, to pervert the audiovisual archive. \nHis current projects include Double Take\, a series of video tableaus restaging archival photographs from significant moments in queer and trans history. Double Take: ACT-UP / Trump Tower\, NY / October 31\, 1989\, for example\, brought together an intergenerational group of artists\, activists\, and housing advocates to reenact a photograph of a protest at Trump Tower by the ACT UP Housing Committee (including the photographer and participants in the original event). Hard Pill to Swallow: A Valley of the Dolls Case Study is a multimedia performance and video project exploring the legacy of the 1967 film based on Jacqueline Susann’s novel. Through reenactments\, video screen tests\, and animation\, Hard Pill provides an intervention into Hollywood’s longstanding exploitation of young stars. \nMateik’s work has been exhibited at venues including SFMOMA\, MoMA PS1\, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, Dixon Place\, The Kitchen\, and Participant Inc.\, and he has been awarded support from Creative Capital (2008)\, Franklin Furnace (2013-2014)\, and the MacDowell Colony (2018). His videos are distributed by Video Data Bank.[/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:1759954850536-37cc3498-072e-3″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/the-tallest-dwarf-2025-10-23/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Performing the Revolution
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 6:30p\nProgram 7:00p\nTickets $15[/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=””]What do a textile worker in Delhi\, a student in a Palestinian refugee camp\, and a farmworker in 1960s California have in common? In the midst of their struggle for freedom\, they all turned to theatre. And some UnionDocs alum have spent the last two years telling their story. Come celebrate the launch of these stories with them. \nPerforming the Revolution is a four part documentary podcast capturing the intertwined histories of theatre groups — yes\, you read that correctly — from around the world who use the performing arts as a tool for revolutionary change. But this isn’t your typical theatre. These artists stage short\, biting\, satirical plays on picket lines\, at factory gates\, in refugee camps\, and in the beds of trucks. Anywhere their work can rally everyday people to join the fight for our collective future. \nIn some ways\, this documentary production started here at UnionDocs. And what an honor it’ll be to celebrate these connections and the power of the documentary arts to build meaningful connections across countries\, languages and cultures. It’s also a rallying moment to have a drink\, dance and meet artists and community members eager to imagine the possibilities of what creative resistance can look like. Join us.[/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=””]Leading the night is someone who’s no stranger to the world of bringing underreported historical stories to the present: the Spotify exclusive podcast Not Past It’s Simone Polanen. She’ll guide us through these histories from India to the West Bank to the California Central Valley– alongside the producers who reported each of these episodes –including former UnDo pod-pod alums\, Ida Hardin and Remoy Philip. Performing the Revolution host and longtime theatre maker Meropi Peponides will also join the conversation to share her experiences that connect these stories spanning across oceans and borders.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 45 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=”160111″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Simone Polanen is a Brooklyn-based podcast host\, writer\, actor\, and film/audio-maker. She hosted Past Perfect\, a time-traveling trivia show from ZSP Media\, and the Spotify Original history show Not Past It\, named one of The Atlantic’s 50 Best Podcasts of 2021. Her work spans acclaimed narrative podcasts including StartUp\, The Nod\, and Reply All\, as well as Trevor Noah’s On Second Thought\, HBO’s The Official Jinx Podcast\, and Spotify’s The Decade Wrapped. In 2023\, she was invited to speak at TEDxCarnegie Mellon University about the lessons she’s learned bringing history to life for contemporary audiences.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”136865″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Ida Hardin (she/they)\, Producer\, is an Oregon based audio producer and reporter with decades of experience leveraging communication for social good. From leading UNESCO projects to crafting impactful NPR documentaries\, she champions diverse voices\, fosters engagement\, and delivers results that empower marginalized groups.\nHighlighting the importance of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion and all the beauty that radiates.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160112″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Navani Otero (she/her) who is a producer on the project\, is a New York based multimedia journalist and audio producer. Her work has been featured in MTV NEWS\, XXL Magazine\, Latina Magazine and Hemispheres Magazine. She has worked on narrative non-fiction podcasts for places like Gimlet Media\, Spotify\, SONY\, CNN\, iHeartMedia and Group Nine Media covering everything from technology to social justice. She is passionate about telling stories that center and uplift WOC and Latinx/e voices. In her free time\, you can find her snapping pics of street art and talking to every dog she passes in the street.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160113″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Flora Kwitman (she/her) who is a producer on the project\, is a writer\, performer\, and media producer based in Brooklyn\, originally from Portland\, Oregon. She holds a BA in Film Studies from Columbia University and brings over a decade of experience across narrative and non-fiction development\, podcasting\, and marketing. Flora began her career at Scott Rudin Productions and Moxie Pictures\, where she supported the development of film and television projects through research and script analysis. She is also a stand-up\, sketch\, and improv performer\, with training from LAMDA and Magnet Theater. Her work explores the intersections of humor\, identity\, and cultural critique.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160114″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Meropi Peponides (she/her)\, co-EP/Host\, is a theater maker\, dramaturg\, podcast producer\, writer\, co-creative director of the 2026 Under the Radar Festival and co-founder of Radical Evolution. She has been creating and producing theatre for 19 years with a focus on devised ensemble work\, site-specific work and community-based performance. Her work explores cross-cultural affinity and seeks to disrupt cultural hierarchies by drawing inspiration from BIPOC and nonwestern traditions. Upcoming with Radical Evolution: Canciones\, an immersive\, site-specific play with music and The Hunger Project (working title\, commission from Soho Rep). BA\, UCLA. MFA\, Columbia University (Dean’s fellow).\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160129″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Remoy Philip (he/him) co-EP/Producer/Engineer on the project is a New York City based editorial journalist and creative producer. His work has taken him around the globe telling stories of underserved and marginalized people groups\, resulting in humanization and audience activism.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Radical Evolution is a producing collective committed to creating artistic events across media that seek to understand the complexities of our multicultural existence in the 21st Century. We collaborate with people from many different identities to build capacity to relate to each other across difference\, platforming practitioners that represent the intersectionality of perspectives and aesthetics of the city around us. Through this approach\, we work to assert a vision for cultural and social equity in our field\, city\, and nation. radicalevolution.org\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Bad Coolie Productions tells intimate\, essential stories that agitates\, plays\, and recenters the role of Asians throughout colonial history. https://badcoolie.mmm.page/[/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:1758578105399-d65a6c62-a1bf-5″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2025-10-19-performing-the-revolution-podcast-launch/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:To Use a Mountain
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Program 7:00p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_btn title=”Get Tickets!” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” css_animation=”bounceIn” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dctvny.org%2Fs%2Ffirehousecinema%2Fseries-and-events%2Fscience-new-wave-2025%2Fto-use-a-mountain|title:Get%20Tickets!|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]Offsite\nDCTV\n87 Lafayette Street\,\nNew York\, NY 10013[/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://vimeo.com/1077107900″ css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re quite moved to come together with the Science New Wave to co-present the NYC premiere of Casey Carter’s haunting and visually stunning documentary To Use A Mountain\, screening as part of the Science New Wave Festival XVIII at DCTV’s Cinema this October. \nThe film asks how we handle our most hazardous byproducts\, and takes this question to the heart of America’s deserts and mountains\, tracing the fallout of decisions made in 1982\, when six potential sites were identified by the U.S. Department of Energy for long-term nuclear waste storage. To Use A Mountain investigates these fraught landscapes of disposal and the people who live among them\, mixing physics\, geology\, and politics in a gripping radioactive travelogue. \nAs Festival Programmer Nate Dorr writes\, this year’s Science New Wave lineup invites us to “look closely\, get beneath the ground and beyond the visible cosmos\, perceiving that which confounds and intrigues in search of deeper truth.” \nWe’re especially excited to note that producer Colleen Cassingham and director Casey Carter first met in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio along with collaborator Magdalena Orellana who was also a part of the project from the start and added her signature artistry via the animation in the film. We’re delighted to also have served as the film’s fiscal sponsor and see it along its trajectory now finally out in the world meeting an audience. The film first premiered this past April at Visions Du Reel\, where it won a Special Jury Award. \nJoin us at for this screening as a part of Labocine’s annual Science New Wave Festival now in its 18th year of redefining how science is seen and told on screen. Remember this event is offsite at DCTV — 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=””] \nTo Use a Mountain by Casey Carter\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]99 min\, 2025\,  United States[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]What do we do with our most hazardous byproducts? Nuclear waste will be with us\, still lethally radioactive\, for millennia\, and we’ve never found a solution for where to keep it. In 1982\, six candidate sites were selected by the U.S. Department of Energy and reviewed for use in long term storage\, to public consternation. To Use A Mountain investigates these fraught landscapes of disposal\, and the people and places that must exist alongside them\, mixing physics\, geology\, and politics in a gripping radioactive travelogue.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 99 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=”160615″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Casey Carter is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary designer whose work engages nonfiction storytelling in film\, photography\, data visualization\, and cartography. Working through a mixture of portraiture\, landscape\, and evidentiary documents and media\, his work centers on themes of governmentality\, geography\, and environmentalism. He was a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Film/Video Artist Fellow\, a 2019 Points North Fellow\, and a 2017-2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow. His work as project director for Maya Lin’s What Is Missing? Foundation\, won the 2023 Webby Awards for Best Activism Website as well as Best Navigation/Structure for desktop and mobile websites. His interdisciplinary background (BS in Physics\, BS in Photography\, M.Arch\, M.S. in Design Health) informs his work across media\, art\, and design.[/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:1759783346601-b7a63f61-44ab-10″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/to-use-a-mountain-2025-10-18/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Very Gentle Work
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $10[/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 kick off our three-day workshop Post Militant Cinema: Documenting in the Wake of Struggle with a screening and conversation that extends our inquiry around post-militant cinema—how the images created in the wake of struggle echo\, instruct\, and complicate the present. The evening features three films mapping intergenerational repair\, cartographies of revolt\, and figures left in history’s undertow. \nAsh Goh Hua’s I’m Free Now\, You Are Free centers repair and return\, tracing how love and organizing can reassemble a life torn apart by state violence while Michael McCanne’s A Minor Figure lingers with those who slip the official record\, testing whether traces can be made legible without closing down their ambiguity. Lastly\, our workshop lead for the weekend\, Nate Lavey’s Very Gentle Work maps a city through its fugitive histories\, asking what an archive of revolt looks like when routed through streets and memory rather than institutions. \nTaken together\, these films probe how images carry struggle forward—through repair\, cartography\, and the ethics of observation—and set the stage for the workshop’s inquiries to continue to unspool. \nJoin us to kick off the conversation and catch these talented filmmakers work and in conversation following the program. [/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=””]I’m Free Now\, You Are Free by Ash Goh Hua[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]15 mins\, 2020[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]I’m Free Now\, You Are Free is a short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9. In 1978\, Debbie\, then 8 months pregnant\, and many other MOVE family members were arrested after an attack by the Philadelphia Police Department; born in a prison cell\, Mike Africa Jr. spent just three days with his mother before guards wrenched him away\, and they spent the next 40 years struggling for freedom and for each other.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]A Minor Figure by Michael McCanne\, Jamie Weiss[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]16 mins\, 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A Minor Figure is a 2021 experimental short (USA\, Spain) that explores the story of a Japanese man\, who snuck into the US under a false passport in 1988 and was arrested several months later in New Jersey with three homemade bombs. Mixing elements of documentary and noir\, the film searches for traces of the protagonist in his aimless road trip around the eastern United States as he built his bombs and was haunted by memories of a revolution that never arrived.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Very Gentle Work by Nate Lavey[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]24 mins\, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Through a fictional protagonist’s psychogeographic research into militant revenge and Jewish tradition\, charting a map of revolutionary violence in New York City\, Very Gentle Work connects Sholem Schwarzbard\, the Black Liberation Army\, FALN and Weather Underground to the ongoing struggle against a proposed police training center near Atlanta\, Georgia. It premiered at the 2024 edition of the Festival de Cannes and won the Manoel de Oliveira award at the Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 55 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=”159796″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nate Lavey is an experimental filmmaker and photographer with a background in documentary and video journalism. He has a longstanding interest in political militancy\, landscape and the avant-garde. His recent short film Very Gentle Work premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159794″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Ash Goh Hua is a Singapore born and raised\, New York based filmmaker. Utilizing both documentary and narrative forms\, Ash tells personal stories that reveal the inherently embodied politics of relation\, society and culture. Named one of the 25 New Faces of Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2022\, Ash is a 2024 Berlinale Talent and a 2025 Creative Capital Award recipient.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160441″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Michael McCanne is an interdisciplinary writer whose work has appeared in Art in America\, The New Inquiry\, Boston Review\, Jacobin\, and The LA Review of Books. In 2020\, he received a grant from the Wave Farm/NYSCA Media Arts Assistance Fund to complete his first film A Minor Figure\, a collaboration with Jamie Weiss. The film premiered at Documenta Madrid and screened as part of Curtocircuito International Film Festival\, MiradasDoc\, and Prismatic Ground.[/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:1758981957562-d01dad52-da5c-2″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/very-gentle-work-2025-10-09/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:To Lebanon\, With Love — Day 2
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nUnionDocs is delighted to come together with ArteEast to co-present the second screening from our program TO LEBANON\, WITH LOVE\, curated by Ginou Choueiri! \nOn October 6\, the program centers on Diaries from Lebanon (2024) by Myriam El Hajj\, a sweeping chronicle of four turbulent years of revolt and resilience in Lebanon. The evening opens with a performance/intervention by Perla Joe Maalouly—artist\, activist\, and protagonist of the film. \nIn Diaries from Lebanon\, El Hajj weaves together the stories of a feminist activist\, a revolutionary youth leader\, and a war veteran haunted by the past. As their lives intersect with the country’s unraveling\, the film becomes both an archive of resistance and an intimate portrait of Lebanon’s enduring contradictions. \nTogether\, the film and live performance testify that despite political collapse and exile\, Lebanon endures in the imagination\, voices\, and visions of its people\, at home and abroad. \nCome through! \nDon’t miss Day 1 of the program on October 5\, featuring Alia Haju’s Ship of Fools and Loulwa Khoury’s We Never Left\, two films that set the stage for this ongoing testament to Lebanon’s resilience and creativity.[/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=””]Diaries from Lebanon by Myriam El Hajj[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]110 mins\, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In 2018\, a fiery feminist writer\, poet and activist named Joumana stands for election to the Lebanese parliament. In doing so\, she is defying a political system that has been suffocating her country for 40 years. Joumana is voted in\, only to be fraudulently ousted the very next day\, leaving her supporters furious. In 2019\, the people’s rage turns into a revolution and the streets swell with thousands of voices. One of them belongs to Perla Joe\, a fearless woman who rapidly becomes a symbol of this uprising. Her unyielding voice echoes the frustration of a youth struggling to find its place in society. But the past looms like a shadow over their aspirations for progress and change. Georges is the guardian of that mysterious and violent past. A veteran of the Lebanese Civil War which lasted from 1975 to 1990\, he lost a leg in the conflict but still clings on to his delusions of “glory”. \nIn the form of diaries\, the film captures four tumultuous years of a nation in turmoil battling to break free from its own chains. As Lebanon is shaken by disruption\, personal quests for meaning and survival unfold. How is it possible to continue to dream when everything around is falling apart?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 110 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=”160041″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Myriam el Hajj is a Lebanese director of documentaries and fiction\, known for her bold and engaged perspective on Lebanese society. She holds a degree in audiovisual studies from the Lebanese American University (LAU)\, as well as in film directing and theater from the University of Paris-8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. Alongside her work as a filmmaker\, she teaches cinema at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA)\, where for over 10 years she has been actively contributing to the transmission of creative expertise to a new generation of Lebanese filmmakers. She is also involved in institutions such as La Fémis in France\, among others. Her cinema\, both intimate and political\, explores themes such as collective memory\, identity conflicts\, corruption\, and the complexity of human relationships in a constantly changing Lebanon. She first gained attention with her debut documentary feature Trêve (2015)\, which follows her uncle and his friends\, former militiamen from the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Her second film\, Diaries from Lebanon (2024)\, is produced by Myriam Sassine (Abbout Productions) and Gogogo Films. Through an intimate lens\, Myriam tells the recent history of Lebanon through three characters she follows from 2018 to 2022. The film premiered at the Berlinale and has since been featured in over 50 festivals worldwide. Myriam is a member of several cinema juries and commissions\, such as the CNC. She is also a founding member of the association Rawiyat-Sisters in Film\, which supports female filmmakers from the Arab world and the diaspora.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160042″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Perla Joe is an Artivist.\nShe activates through her expression. \nHer work is interdisciplinary\, fusing living\, poetry\, music\, film\, performance\, and intimate interactions. Her projects are influenced by real-time events shaping her life. Having started in cinematography and production\, leading as a casting director has offered her a reflection on people\, their emotions\, and the notion of systems and authorities – presented through her short film “Zugzwang” (Yale Student Festival\, Beirut International Women Film Festival\, Berlin Revolution Film Festival\,…). Her practice creates movement between the being and their mirrors\, the conscious and the unconscious – she defines it as her ongoing creative process -> Wujud – Existence. Perla Joe found nourishment through her writings and singing while preserving a visual archive. These mediums\, together\, radiate radical thoughts and safely surf existential questions around social dogmas\, propagating a sense of possibility and maybe even a responsibility. She has performed and intervened through her original work in several cultural venues across the globe\, bringing together a breeze of activism and a sense of creative meaning. During the Lebanese Revolution\, Perla Joe held a raw voice and touched people through her ardent presence\, raising a humanitarian shout – this got the cause noticed internationally\, and her story was featured in the New York Times\, Arte\, Vogue\,… A leading protagonist in the creative documentary “Diaries from Lebanon” premiered this year at the Berlinale and has been circulating worldwide ever since. Perla Joe has been igniting safe spaces for collective and individual reflections\, disclosing mental health issues relating to global awareness\, wars\, and displacement. She’s also been leading and curating creative ateliers as a teaching artist with Materials for the Arts\, a New York City Department of Cultural Affairs program. She has been invited to numerous universities and reputed forums in the Levantine\, Europe\, and the USA (The New School\, American University of Beirut\, Bard College\,…). Her journey advocates and re-questions freedom\, love\, and consciousness through activations\, introspections\, and interconnections\, using multidisciplinary tools of expression\, emphasizing the voice and the being\, using sounds and images\, giving space to emotions\, traumas\, and senses while researching society and the notion of authority. A body of work that breaths and honors the present and acknowledges the scars\, shedding empathy as a mending tool for environmental wellness. [/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:1758355883941-eacd01e6-d401-10″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/to-lebanon-with-love-10-06/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T181500
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SUMMARY:To Lebanon\, With Love — Day 1
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 6:00p\nProgram 6:15p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nUnionDocs is delighted to come together with ArteEast to co-present the first of two screening from our program TO LEBANON\, WITH LOVE\, curated by Ginou Choueiri! \nOn October 5\, the program features two short films by Lebanese filmmakers grappling with the seismic shifts surrounding the 2019 Lebanese uprising\, each reflecting on resilience\, imagination\, and diaspora. \nThe evening begins with Ship of Fools (2024) by Alia Haju\, in which the filmmaker turns to imagination as resistance. Encountering Abu Samra\, a self-fashioned superhero\, Haju captures the surreal humor and vulnerability of a people who persist in creating myths of survival. Through dreamlike encounters with personal and collective “monsters\,” the film suggests that hope and resistance in Lebanon often takes shape within inner worlds as much as in public struggle. \nThe program continues with We Never Left (2024) by Loulwa Khoury\, which shifts to the Lebanese diaspora in New York. Following three young expats as they rally for Lebanon from afar\, the film underscores how political uprisings reverberate across borders and continents. Here\, protest becomes both a transnational act of solidarity and a deeply personal negotiation of belonging. \nThe screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Alia Haju and Loulwa Khoury. \nCome through! \nJoin us again on October 6 for Day 2 of the program where we’ll be screening Diaries from Lebanon by Myriam El Hajj\, with a performance/intervention by Perla Joe Maalouly—artist\, activist\, and protagonist of the film.[/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=””]Ship of Fools by Alia Haju[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]30 mins\, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Alia and the monsters that have accompanied her since childhood are all too familiar with the images of destruction and ruin that surround Beirut. Being born into a context of war forges certain shields – but also leaves behind vulnerabilities and private inner worlds. In one of these worlds\, Alia meets Abu Samra\, a man training to become a superhero in order to save Beirut from its many dangers. Abu Samra carries his own monsters\, but from within the realm of imagination\, he offers glimpses of resistance – even to the filmmaker herself\, who steps into the frame.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We Never Left by Loulwa Khoury[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]83 mins\, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Saying goodbye to loved ones at the Beirut airport has become an unfortunate tradition in Lebanon\, almost a curse. Lebanese emigrants\, driven abroad by decades of turmoil\, are more than double those still left in their homeland. After civil protests erupt in Lebanon on October 17th 2019\, WE NEVER LEFT follows three young Lebanese expats as they take part in the Lebanese revolution from New York fighting for a better country\, each protesting in their own way. As they go through their collective journey\, they all individually confront both their relationship with their homeland and their own complicated identities. This is the story of the Lebanese people and revolutions both political and personal.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Program Duration: 113 mins[/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=”160039″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Alia Haju is a Brooklyn-based musician and filmmaker. Born in 86’ in South Lebanon and lived there until 1994 when she fled\, during the Israeli war on Lebanon\, to the UAE and later the US. In 2005 she moved back to Beirut and worked as a visual-journalist covering SWANA. She is director of award winning Ship of Fools’ short and co-author of award-winning feature-doc Kashkash. Musically\, Alia performed with her Band ‘Taktouka’ and other bands on famous stages like Lincoln Center\, Great American Music Hall\, and the Joshua Tree Music Festival.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160040″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Loulwa Khoury is a New York based film editor\, filmmaker born and raised in Beirut. She edited award-winning feature documentaries Paradise Without People (2019)\, Dusty and Stones (2022). She also edited Traces of Home and Joy Dancer. She is currently directing her first feature documentary\, We Never Left. Her other work includes award-winning documentaries Some Kind of Heaven (2020)\, City of Ghosts (2017) It Will Be Chaos (2018) and An Act of Worship (2022)\, White Sauce Hot Sauce (2018)\, The Joneses (2016) and Look At Us Now\, Mother (2015). She was one of the fellows of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and a fellow in the Sundance Co//ab Art of Editing Fellowship\, in the DOC NYC x VC Storytelling Incubator cohort as well as a winner of the Creative Power Award.\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:1758355884139-b00afe0e-52ff-9″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2025-10-05-to-lebanon-with-love/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Who Can You Trust?
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Come for a night of short docs that explore the many pathways to building trust—between documentarians and their protagonists and subjects\, and between artists and audiences—created by recent graduates of the prestigious\, expansive co-presenters of this night’s program\, The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. \nSince 1973\, the Salt Institute has helped emerging documentarians develop their storytelling through film\, journalism\, ethics\, anthropology\, art\, and design fundamentals\, and is now part of the Maine College of Art & Design in Portland\, Maine. \nThese works traverse the region to form a constellation of Maine stories and the people who live them: a musical leader guiding The Ensemble of Color through a major transition; a tight-knit chess club tucked inside a local grocery store; a study of a man who chooses to forgo romantic attachment; and the uncovering of the “Valentine’s Day Bandit.” Built on time and care\, these relationships unfold in surprising ways on screen and on the airwaves—reaching major film festivals and national radio. \nFollowing the program\, Director of the Salt Institute\, Isaac Kestenbaum will be around for conversation along with the artists in attendance who can share a bit about these projects that capped their time at Salt. Join us for a rare glimpse into the creative processes and stories of an emerging cohort of documentary storytellers.[/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=””]Flowers[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]14 mins\, 2024[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Flowers follows The Ensemble of Color (TEoC) in Portland as they tour the children’s musical\, Beautiful Blackbird around Wabanaki land. After a six-year hiatus\, its co-founder\, René Goddess\, is guiding the Black artistic and political collective through a major transitional period. (Selected for the Camden International Film Festival)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Just Friends[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]How fulfilled can we be without romance? Steve Small has an answer to that. (Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 NPR Student Podcast Challenge)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Shannon’s Tree[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Every Sunday morning\, chess players in Westbrook meet at a local grocery store to play chess. This piece explores the boundaries of the chessboard\, and tries to understand how community is formed from such a silent endeavor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Red Paper Hearts\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Valentine’s Day Bandit has been a tradition in Portland for almost 50 years. What happens when a mythic-level local secret is revealed?\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]The Round Forest[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]After college\, Silvia returns to the off-grid home her parents built by hand in rural Maine. What begins as a temporary stay turns into a struggle with the circular pull of the land\, its quiet mysteries\, and Silvia’s need for connection beyond her family’s homestead. The Round Forest explores family\, memory\, and the weight of inheritance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””][/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=”159950″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Maria Carrasco\, Salt Fall 2024\, (she/they) is a filmmaker from The Bronx. Before attending the Salt Institute\, Maria worked as a Creative Executive at the independent production company\, 30KFT. While there\, she co-produced an upcoming feature starring Los Angeles-based comedy troupe\, The Dress Up Gang. Maria spent a year in Madrid prior to beginning her film career at Imagine Documentaries. An alumna of Duke University\, who graduated with highest distinction in English and Film\, they have a long-standing interest in storytelling\, card games\, and The New York Mets.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159949″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jo Strogatz\, Salt Fall 2024\, likes sounds. A lot. As a baby\, she made “chirping noises” just to play with her voice (doctor’s official diagnosis)\, and by 12 she began classical vocal training before shifting to jazz. Inspired by Bobby McFerrin\, she learned to treat her voice like an instrument – composing\, experimenting\, and improvising. She studied Music and Psychology at Tufts before earning a Graduate Certificate in Radio & Podcasting at the Salt Institute. Since then\, her audio work has caught the ears of NPR\, the New York Festival Radio Awards\, and the International Sound Art Competition. Now a Creative Production Intern at Antfood and a freelance musician and audio producer\, Jo can usually be found chasing down the ice cream truck\, enjoying reality TV (too much)\, and chirping in her bedroom.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159951″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nic M. Neves\, Salt Fall 2021\, is a freelance writer and audio producer based in Brooklyn. He has contributed reporting\, production\, and/or sound design for Planet Money\, Rough Translation\, Invisibilia\, Embedded\, Throughline\, Radiolab\, Future Projects\, and others. Right now he’s pursuing an MFA in Literary Reportage at NYU. He’s working on a longform project about end-of-life work\, and what it can show us about American life—the choices we make\, the reasons we make them\, and what we’re meant to do with loss.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159947″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]When Anisa Vietze\, Salt Fall 2023\, was 13 she roped her friends into making a podcast about their middle school lives\, recorded on her iPod Touch (pink\, 16 GB). Now\, she’s Assistant Producer at Radiolab. In between those things she: refused to get braces\, graduated from Oberlin College\, lived in six different states\, studied audio documentary at The Salt Institute\, reported a couple stories for NPR’s All Things Considered\, and briefly moved to Alaska to make radio about mountain climbers and subsistence fishing. She’s fond of rock climbing\, binge-scrolling TikTok\, and anyone who laughs easily even if the joke wasn’t that funny. Now an Assistant Producer at Radiolab\, Anisa supports the team with Rewinds\, cutting tape\, and social media.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160545″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nichole Whitney is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Portland\, Maine\, where she works as The Nature Conservancy in Maine’s Documentary Storytelling Fellow. She is a graduate of Vassar College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159948″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Isaac Kestenbaum\, Salt Fall 2008\, is the director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at the Maine College of Art & Design\, and is currently leading his 10th cohort of students through the program. He co-created the podcasts Alaska Is the Center of the Universe (2023) and Midnight Son (2019) for Audible Originals\, the latter of which was recently adapted for Hulu as the documentary film Blood and Myth. He is the former production manager at StoryCorps\, and has also worked as a newspaper reporter and a commercial lobsterman.\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:1759429861365-eefdcff3-3edb-9″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2025-10-03-who-can-you-trust/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T220000
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SUMMARY:Discard Records
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Artist sTo Len\, whose work has embodied an in-the-field practice that blends civic stewardship with playful investigations into lesser seen aspects of our human imprint\, will join us to present a fascinating exploration into the history of waste in New York City. \nAs a recent Public Artist in Residence at the NYC Department of Sanitation\, Len stumbled across a dormant municipal television studio which was home to ostensibly the largest media waste archive in the world. Through watching and digitizing an estimated 500 hours of footage\, Len has found training videos\, union films\, Public Service Announcements\, interviews\, environmental programs\, cartoons\, commercial campaigns\, and TV news broadcasts that collectively tell the history of not only the world’s largest sanitation department but of New York City through the lens of its garbage. \nThe Smithsonian described Len’s Art as luring the audience into experiencing the waste systems they live within\, a creative process through which “he embeds himself among places\, people\, and objects that may otherwise lie neglected.” \nFollowing the presentation\, Len will be in conversation with Robin Nagle\, NYC Department of Sanitation’s anthropologist-in-residence\, to discuss the implications of Len’s work on the history and politics of waste within our worsening climate crisis\, diving into the invisible labor of the city’s municipal waste management and the public’s relationship to our ecological footprint. \nJoin us for a rare glimpse into this archive and work-in-progress to witness the evolution of the public’s ecological consciousness as recycling programs and neighborhood litter clean ups became more commonplace. Amidst sobering scenes of our collective detritus are moments of comedy\, whimsy\, insanity\, and of course nostalgia for old NYC. 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=””] \nDiscard Records by sTo Len\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]”Discard Records will be a cumulative work responding to my experience as the Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation. Coupling my experiential research in the agency and my revitalization of their TV studio\, this film is a very personal response to a treasure trove of historical material about waste in our current era of the climate crisis. It is not only the preservation of a long lost archive but a contemporary activation that is to be shared as a public artwork in this moment of ecological awareness. Adapting the aesthetics and recycling the materials of the sanitation department\, Discard Records is a remixed historical film that is intended to spark new conversations that explore the intimate but often ignored relationship between the public and their waste.” \nsTo Len received a 2025 Support for Artists grant for Discard Records\, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 1 hr \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=”157282″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]sTo Len is a genre fluid artist whose work has centered on place-based collaborations with abused landscapes and co-creations with communities and municipal agencies. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len’s practice spans printmaking\, video\, sound\, performance\, installation\, drawing\, and social practice work\, threaded together by a site- responsive process of making. Recent projects have included a Trash Museum in Kyrgyzstan\, a community pirate radio show in New Mexico\, a series of plant-based printmaking while in residence at the Queens Botanical Garden in NY and an interactive\nvideo installation at the Grand Canyon. Len was the first Artist in Residence at AlexRenew Wastewater Treatment facility in Virginia and the Public Artist in Residence at the NY Department of Sanitation. Len is based in Queens\, NY with over two decades of residence in NY and familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”157284″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nagle’s book Picking Up\, an ethnography of the New York City Department of Sanitation\, is based on a decade of work with the DSNY\, which included time on the job as a uniformed sanitation worker. \nHer research fits within the new interdisciplinary field of discard studies. She considers the category of material culture known generically as waste\, with a specific emphasis on the infrastructures and organizational demands that municipal garbage imposes on urban areas. Within this broad perspective\, she focuses on the people\, history\, and politics inherent to labors of waste\, and how garbage is implicated in every contemporary environmental crisis. She also explores how\, when\, and why particular examples of material culture come to be defined as “trash\,” and the varied consequences\, in many contexts\, of such a definition. \nSince 2006 Nagle has been the DSNY’s anthropologist-in-residence\, an unsalaried position structured around several projects.[/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:1769047474390-39fa9471-14b4-4″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2025-09-25-discard-records/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Made in Ethiopia 埃塞制造
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]As our next collaboration with our friends at Nooks and Crannies (犄角旮旯)\, we will be joined in September by co-directors and producers Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan to present a compelling portrait of colonialism\, economic development\, and Chinese influence on Africa: Made in Ethiopia. \nFilmed over four years as a Chinese factory complex entered a region in central Ethiopia\, Made in Ethiopia explores the complex implications of modern economic development\, critiquing Western influence on China and the role of corporate imperial power disguised as progress and prosperity. The subtle documentary zooms in on the lives of three women standing at the crossroads of rapid development. A Chinese businesswoman drives ambitious expansion\, while a local farmer and factory worker grapple with promises of prosperity and the true cost of progress in their transforming community. The International Documentary Association notes that the film embraces complexity as a strength\, “powerfully capturing the emotional toll of colonial legacies” and “invit(ing) viewers to consider subjects who are seldom granted agency and dimension in Western depictions.” \nFollowing the screening\, Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan will join for a conversation about their creative process\, global industrialization\, and the political climate that shapes this work. \nSpecial thanks to the Nooks and Crannies programmer Huilin Chen and the whole crew who helped to bring this together.[/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=””] \nMade in Ethiopia by Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]USA\, UK\, Denmark\, South Korea\, Canada / 2024 / 91 mins[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]When a massive Chinese industrial park lands in rural Ethiopia\, a dusty farming town finds itself at the new frontier of globalization. The sprawling factory complex’s formidable Chinese director Motto now needs every bit of mettle and charm she can muster to push through a high-stakes expansion that promises 30\,000 new jobs. Ethiopian farmer Workinesh and factory worker Beti have staked their futures on the prosperity the park promises. But as initial hope meets painful realities\, they find themselves\, like their country\, at a pivotal crossroads. \nFilmed over four years with singular access\, Made in Ethiopia lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa\, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. The film throws audiences into two colliding worlds: an industrial juggernaut fueled by profit and progress\, and a vanishing countryside where life is still measured by the cycle of the seasons. And its nuance\, complexity and multi-perspective approach go beyond black and white narratives of victims and villains. As the three women’s stories unfold\, Made in Ethiopia challenges us to rethink the relationship between tradition and modernity\, growth and welfare\, the development of a country and the well-being of its people.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 91 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=”159405″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Xinyan Yu is an Emmy-winning journalist and filmmaker with nearly 15 years of experience crafting intimate\, character-driven films across continents. From factory floors in rural Ethiopia to wildfire zones in Hawaii\, she specializes in vérité and investigative storytelling that blends cinematic intimacy with journalistic rigor through a deeply human lens. A former BBC producer and now an independent filmmaker\, Xinyan has directed and produced work for major broadcasters including PBS\, BBC\, Channel News Asia and NHK. She‘s a New America National Fellow\, a Firelight Media Doc Lab fellow\, a Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist fellow and a Yaddo Residency alum.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159453″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Max Duncan is an award-winning filmmaker\, cinematographer and journalist whose work has appeared on platforms including the BBC\, PBS\, The Guardian\, The New York Times and Al Jazeera. He worked for a decade in China\, first as a video journalist for Reuters news agency in Beijing and then independently\, exploring the country’s meteoric rise from many angles. He has since reported widely across Asia\, Africa\, Europe and Latin America. Max has won a World Press Photo Award\, been supported by organizations including Pulitzer\, and is an alumnus of Yaddo and Logan Nonfiction programs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159454″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Isabelle Niu is a New York-based video journalist\, podcaster\, as well as the founder of Baihua Media—an incubator that develops audio projects for and by the Chinese diaspora.[/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:1755199722215-9d337a12-013b-0″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/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 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 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:1755199722215-9cfac1da-b8a0-2″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2025-09-21-made-in-ethiopia/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sound Fields Launch Party
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=””] \n\nWe’re delighted to join hands with Sound Fields\, an incredible publication and event series dedicated to the art of audio documentary in theory and practice! Join us at UnionDocs for a launch party to celebrate Issue 2 of Sound Fields\, and be the first to get your hands on our first ever print issue! \nJoin Sound Fields for a celebration\, live discussion and audiovisual activation of the Archives issue. From AI zombies in the archives\, to Whatsapp voice memos as archival material\, to transforming Black archives into tools for navigating the future\, join us as we explore the intersection between audio documentary and the archive. \nHosted by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Sandhya Dirks and featuring issue 2 contributors Martina Abrahams Ilunga\, Sarah Kate Kramer and Tasha Sandoval. \nDiscussion at 7:30 pm. Party to follow! \n\n\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 offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][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 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:1756827505987-06f28d8c-ead7-1″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/sound-fields-launch-party-2025-09-19/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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