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SUMMARY:A Symposium of Sorts: Radical Inquiries with the UNDO Fellows
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SUMMARY:Faraway My Shadow Wandered
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 are delighted to invite you to a special screening of Faraway My Shadow Wandered\, co-directed by Liao Jiekai and Sudhee Liao\, presented in collaboration with Cinemovement! \nThe wintry wind moves through the coastal town of Anamizu\, where Junya once promised his grandfather he would inherit the family’s centuries-old Shinto shrine. Years later\, that promise remains unfulfilled. In the time between leaving and returning\, Junya has drifted far from home. \nAn unexpected encounter with Sara — a dancer born on the same day as him — gently guides him back toward the place he once left behind. As Junya photographs his hometown with an analogue camera\, he observes quietly: swallows always return to their nests. \nBlending dance\, photography\, and cinema\, this deeply introspective hybrid documentary gives form to emotions that often remain unspoken. As the film unfolds\, language gradually recedes\, making space for gestures\, movement\, and presence. Sara appears almost like an apparition\, accompanying Junya through landscapes of memory\, longing\, and return. \nPremiering to international audiences at festivals including Cinéma du Réel 2021 and International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021\, the film has been recognized for its delicate merging of choreography and cinema. \nDon’t miss this quietly powerful work that asks how the body remembers\,  and how images can hold time. Filmmaker Liao Jiekai will be in attendance for a conversation with filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong following the program. \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=””] \nFaraway My Shadow Wandered by Liao Jiekai and Sudhee Liao\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2021/ Singapore & Japan / 70 min [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 70 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_single_image image=”162051″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Liao Jiekai (Singapore) is a filmmaker\, visual artist and educator based in Tokyo. He holds a Master’s degree in Film Directing from Tokyo University. His debut Red Dragonflies (2010) won the Special Jury Prize at Jeonju International Film Festival\, and As You Were (2014) competed at film festivals in Tokyo\, Torino and Nantes. His work lingers between cinema and the visual arts\, often investigating the “hidden history of places” and drawing out “the relationship between people and places”. Faraway My Shadow Wandered (2020)\, co-directed with choreographer Sudhee Liao\, premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162052″ css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Sudhee Liao is a Singapore based interdisciplinary choreographer\, movement artist\, and educator. She holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Her work intricately weaves movement\, identity\, and socio-political themes\, often integrating materials with movement to create multidimensional performances that reflect on the nuances of existence. Sudhee is an alumna of Cinemovement Lab I and II. Her film Faraway My Shadow Wandered\, co-directed with Liao Jiekai\, was incubated under the Cinemovement Residency programme in 2020.[/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:1773846316721-b6b91144-ede3-8″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities
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 invite you to join UnionDocs and our friends from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art for a screening of Raed Rafei’s Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities\, which premiered at IDFA in 2024 to an outpouring of praise. After the screening\, Raed will be in conversation with multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Sinan Tuncay\, whose work is on view at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through April 12.  \nTripoli / A Tale of Three Cities tells the story of a queer filmmaker’s homecoming to Tripoli\, Lebanon\, a place where he’d previously been cast to the margins. Against the backdrop of revolutionary limbo and economic crisis\, he sets out to find the people and beliefs that shape the city’s evolving identity.  \nThe resulting film is made up of strung-together portraits framed by Rafei’s curious and patient eye. Whether brief or extended\, his interactions fill up with meaning\, opening space for politics and identity to be discussed openly and for dreams and fears to be held.  \nAs he moves through the city\, he’s also drawn towards the quiet\, more poetic encounters that frame his path\, like anonymous passerbys\, the built environment\, and its ephemera.  \nIn his searching attempt to understand a home marked by personal and political complexity\, he weaves together a loving portrait of a place that is both familiar and estranged.  \nBusiness Doc Europe writes\, “Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities celebrates this enigmatic place and its people with an open mind and through a loving\, compassionate lens\, with nostalgia but also hope for the future\, and with an exceptional eye for detail and the humanity in everyone.” \nSince premiering at IDFA\, the world’s largest documentary film festival\, Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities has gone on to screen at queer film festivals internationally\, like Queer Lisboa (Lisbon)\, Xposed (Berlin) and Mix Milan (Italy). \nWe’re thrilled to have Raed with us for the screening and to welcome multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Sinan Tuncay\, who will lead the post-screening discussion.  \nSinan’s work is on view at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art as part of Soft Spaces\, a series of installations featuring works by alumni of the Museum’s Fellowship program\, curated by Chloe Ming\, Assistant Curator / Exhibitions Manager. The exhibitions unfold over time\, presenting works spanning digital art\, painting\, photography\, filmmaking\, performance\, and installation by more than three dozen artists. Together\, the works respond to the ever-changing landscape of LGBTQIA+ experience\, informed by queer and trans histories\, liberatory frameworks\, and reclamations of identity. \n  \nCome through for a night you won’t want to miss![/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=””] \nTripoli / A Tale of Three Cities by Raed Rafei\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]88 mins\, 2024\, Lebanon.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A queer director returns to Tripoli\, Lebanon to confront a hometown that once rejected him. He interviews the city’s inhabitants about their cultural and social beliefs and their embrace of new ideas. This contemplative urban symphony paints a picture of a city trapped in a self-spun web\, paralyzed by a deep economic crisis\, a faltering revolution\, and a looming doomsday.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 88 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=”161765″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nRaed (El) Rafei is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and multimedia journalist working across cinema\, criticism\, and queer cultural studies. His award-winning films have been screened at international festivals and institutions including IDFA (Amsterdam)\, the Centre Pompidou (Paris)\, and the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley). Rafei is currently an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161962″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Sinan Tuncay (b. 1986\, Istanbul) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based between Istanbul and New York. Through photography\, video\, and installation\, his work explores queer identity\, masculinity\, and collective memory\, often using self-portraiture and digital collage to examine gender representation and cultural belonging. His practice also draws from the visual language of popular culture—particularly music and cinema—to construct theatrical and layered narratives. \nTuncay holds a BA in Visual Communication Design from Sabancı University and an MFA in Photography\, Video\, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been recognized with a NYFA Fellowship in Photography (2016) and the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2020)\, and he served as a panelist for the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (2018). \nHis work has been exhibited at United Photo Industries (New York)\, Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland)\, Arter (Istanbul)\, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art\, among others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””] \nOn the occasion of this program\, we invite donations from folks to support relief for those displaced and impacted by the war and ongoing violence and displacement in Lebanon. \nWe have two organizations here below as suggested spaces for sending funds if you are able to support\, please do!\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=”162195″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Beit Aam is a shared community space in Beirut\, open all week for artists\, students\, collectives & more\, hosting classes\, screenings\, workshops & discussions. Due to the volatile situation in Lebanon\, Beit Aam is serving as a relief hub during crises\, a coordination point for food distribution and shelter\, and\, in more stable moments\, a cultural and political gathering space.  You can learn more and send SUPPORT HERE.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162196″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]MOSAIC-MENA The MENA Organization for Services\, Advocacy\, Integration & Capacity Development\, is a holistic program committed to improve the health and well-being of marginalized groups in Lebanon and beyond. \nThrough its presence and networks in Lebanon and the MENA region\, MOSAIC’s strategic goal is to achieve the coexistence of people in their respective communities and national systems. \nLGBTQIA+ individuals\, as usual\, face some of the most severe consequences\, adding to the structural marginalisation they already experience in the Lebanese context. Queer people often cannot access mainstream shelters because those spaces are often unsafe or hostile\, and in many cases\, they are not welcome at all. \nThey are collecting donations to support the LGBTQIA+ community in Lebanon in these times via GoFundMe. You can learn more and SUPPORT HERE.[/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:1774386511087-fbf8d643-d6ee-8″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2026-04-10-a-tale-of-three-cities/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Whole Shebang: Celebrating Ken & Flo Jacobs — Living Archive
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 4:00p\nProgram 4:30p\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_column_text css=””]We’re so happy to be a part of the monthlong city-wide celebration of Ken and Flo Jacobs: The Whole Shebang! It’s a fourteen-venue expanded cinema salute to two of experimental cinema’s most beloved icons. \nFor this occasion\, UnionDocs will present a two-part screening organized with Hanna Rose Shell who will be joined by the city-wide celebration instigator Andrew Lampert\, on Sunday April 12th featuring three monumental films from the Jacobs’ ouevre. \nThis program\, LIVING ARCHIVE\, mines the depths of historic actuality in film and home movies to reveal perceptual histories of surveillance\, displacement\, family\, and communication across three works by Ken Jacobs: New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903 (2006)\,  Urban Peasants (1975)\, and Jerry Takes a Back Seat\, Then Passes Out of the Picture (1987). \nKen (1933–2025) and Flo (1941–2025) were inseparable sweethearts and creative partners from the day they met in 1962\, and while their passing last year leaves us bereft\, it also provides a welcome opportunity to survey their enormous and extraordinary film and digital oeuvre. The Whole Shebang represents an unprecedented aligning of venues across the city\, all of whom presented and championed the Jacobs’ uncompromising output during the last six-plus decades. Featuring key works\, many theatrical and world premieres\, and plenty of deep cuts\, this sweeping festival serves as both a remembrance and an introduction to the duo’s remarkable achievements and impossible-to-categorize genius. \nAs a heralded filmmaker\, distinguished professor at Binghamton University\, and undeniable presence for so many decades\, Ken Jacobs majorly impacted global cinema culture with anarchic wonders like Blonde Cobra (1963)\, Little Stabs at Happiness (1963)\, Star Spangled to Death (1956/2004)\, and the structuralist classic Tom\, Tom\, the Piper’s Son (1969). Beginning with Flo Rounds a Corner (1999)\, he went on to produce an unprecedented array of space- and mind-bending digital videos that\, in many ways\, brought him full circle to his early days as a painter. Florence Jacobs née Karpf was Ken’s partner at every turn and his prime collaborator in the trailblazing live cinema and shadow-play performances they began presenting in the mid-1960s. Whether reworking early silent film footage with the 16mm double-projection “Nervous System” or projecting phantasmagorical 3-D images with their “Nervous Magic Lantern\,” Ken and Flo produced unfathomable\, homespun works that pushed the possibilities of film and digital cinema beyond all expectations. \nCome through for this evening that unfolds in two parts. We invite some milling about and toasting to Jacobs’ impact on the cinematic form during the lengthy yet kinetic and absorbing New York Ghetto Fish Market. We will then conclude with the iconic New York feature Urban Peasants\, preceded by Jerry Takes A Back Seat\, with a conversation led by Hanna Rose Shell & Andy Lampert to follow.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]This collective tribute organized by Andrew Lampert  will unfold over April across 30 days with screenings at partner venues like: \nL’Alliance New York\, Anthology Film Archives\, BAM Cinema\, Film-Makers’ Cooperative\, Film at Lincoln Center\, Light Industry\, Metrograph\, Millennium Film Workshop\, The Museum of Modern Art\, Museum of the Moving Image\, Rockaway Film Festival\, The Roxy Cinema\, Spectacle Theater. \nEach venue has created its own unique program\, and works will not repeat between theaters. Information on individual screenings\, as well as guest presenters\, will be available on their respective websites and calendars. \nThe festival also helps celebrate the publication of Ken Jacobs: I Walked Into My Shortcomings\, the first book to gather this seminal artist’s writings\, teachings\, and interviews. Published by The Visible Press\, in association with Anthology Film Archives\, the book will be available in April 2026. \nExtra special thanks to Andrew Lampert\, Nisi Ariana\, Aza Jacobs\, and Diaz and. to The Filmmakers Co-op for supporting 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_text css=””] \n4:30pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The film will be introduced by Hanna Rose Shell. We invite folks to circulate a bit in and out during this durational work for a social viewing. The bar will be open. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nNew York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 by Ken Jacobs\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2006\, 132 min\, b&w\, sound[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] \n\nWARNING: This work contains throbbing light. Should not be viewed by individuals with epilepsy or seizure disorders. \nIn New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903\, Jacobs uses archival film footage of New York’s Lower East Side as his source material. The vintage film\, shot by Thomas Edison in 1903\, documents immigrant Eastern European Jews at a crowded marketplace. Digitally manipulating the original film\, Jacobs crafts a performative\, improvisational investigation; he focuses on individuals\, slows down and reverses the footage\, and creates illusions of three-dimensionality through stroboscopic effects evocative of his Nervous System performances. Jacobs considers the social and cultural context of the original film\, as well as the materiality of film as a medium. \n\nProduction\, Image and Sound Organization: Ken Jacobs. Cello: Tom Cora. Voice\, Toy Instruments\, Electronics: Catherine Jauniaux.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \n8pm\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]This program will be introduced by Hanna Rose Shell and she’ll be joined by Andy Lampert for a conversation following the program.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nJerry Takes a Back Seat\, Then Passes Out of the Picture by Ken Jacobs\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]1987\, 16mm\, color\, silent\, 11 min[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975\, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nUrban Peasants by Ken Jacobs\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]1975\, 16mm\, color and b/w\, sound on separate reel(s)\, 60 min[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Filmed by Stella Weiss and family\, chanced assembled by Ken Jacobs from uncut 100-foot lengths. Alternating sound and image. Image must travel at silent speed. Sound o tape precedes and follows silent image. 40 minutes film plus ca. 12 minutes sound. My wife Flo’s family as recorded by her Aunt Stella. The title is no intended put-down but a simple statement of fact\, as I see it. Brooklyn was a place made up of many little villages; a near-shtetl is pictured here all in the space of a storefront[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration:\n4:30PM Screening — 132 min\n8PM Screening – 71 min \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=”162003″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]One of the founders of the American avant-garde cinema\, Ken Jacobs (1933 — 2025) worked ceaselessly and boundlessly in film\, video and moving image performance for over fifty years. Jacobs began working in a mode of guerilla cinema\, shooting anarchic and exuberant – yet also politically astute – theatrics in the streets of his native New York in the early 1950s\, including a number of prescient and Beat infused works – Little Stabs at Happiness\, the shorts included in The Whirled – made with a very young Jack Smith. \nFascinated with early cinema and experimental film from a young age\, Jacobs gradually turned to found footage as a dominant inspiration\, a breakthrough marked by his seminal deconstruction of cinematic narrative and illusionism Tom\, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969)\, which famously manipulates and expands a 1905 film of the same name to create a breathless and revelatory work of pure cinema. Early “primitive” cinema\, and increasingly\, nineteenth century photography\, has remained a touchstone in Jacobs’ work and a principal tool to launch an extended critique of the aesthetic\, ideological and technological limits defining film and the cinematic apparatus itself.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162000″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Hanna Rose Shell studies aesthetics\, media archaeology\, textiles\, and the interface of art and science; her scholarship takes the form of text and film. Shell’s book on camouflage\, Hide and Seek: Camouflage\, Photography\, and the Media of Reconnaissance\, published by Zone Books in 2012\, has since been translated into French (Zones Sensibles) and inspired her own and others’ multimedia works. Shell has published widely in scholarly and popular journals on subjects including taxidermy\, waste processing\, and the history of chronophotography. She served as co-editor for a volume on science studies published Princeton University Press and previously released an edited reprint of The Extermination of the American BisonTechnology and Culture\, her scholarship has appeared in the publications Journal of Visual Culture\, Configurations\, History and Technology\, Bidoun\, Technology and Culture\, Natural History and Cabinet among others. \nShell’s 2020 book\, SHODDY: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags (University of Chicago Press)\, examines recycled textiles as transformative media forms through the lenses of aesthetics\, material culture\, history\, and critical theory. It dovetails with a series of experimental documentary shorts and a textile installation in the Czech Republic on the subject of waste\, recycling and old clothes. Her films and media works have appeared worldwide\, at art and film venues including The Museum of Modern Art\, Anthology Film Archives\, the ZKM Center for Art and Media\, Machine Project\, Slamdance\, Black Maria Film and Video Festival\, Machine Project\, the Zimmerli Art Museum. \nPrior to her arrival at UC-Boulder in 2018\, she was Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, before which she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Shell also taught previously at the Rhode Island School of Design. Jointly appointed in the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts and the Department of Art & Art History\, she teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162004″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nAndrew Lampert has been making films\, videos\, performances and photographs since the late 1990s. His work is regularly presented in international contexts with past shows including: The Whitney Museum of American Art\, Centre Pompidou\, The Getty Museum\, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, PS1/MoMA\, The New York Film Festival\, The Toronto Film Festival\, The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen\, and The Art Gallery of Ontario among many other venues. \nA frequent writer on art and cinema\, Lampert edited THE GEORGE KUCHAR READER (Primary Information\, 2014)\, co-edited two volumes of HARRY SMITH COLLECTIONS CATALOGUE RAISONNE (J&L Books\, 2015)\, co-edited MANUEL DE LANDA: ISM ISM (J&L Books\, 2018)\, TONY CONRAD: WRITINGS (Primary Information\, 2019) and WILLIAM WEGMAN: WRITING BY ARTIST (Primary Information 2022). He co-writes the monthly advice columns HARD TRUTHS and HARD CHOICES for Art in America with Howie Chen. He is co-publisher and co-editor of The Further Reading Library imprint with Christine Burgin. \nFrom 2002-2015\, Lampert served as Archivist and Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives\, where he was responsible for managing the archive\, preserving films and videos\, and programming public screenings. He has restored over 300 classic and obscure moving image works by iconoclastic artists like Vito Acconci\, Stan Brakhage\, Robert Breer\, Bruce Conner\, Tony Conrad\, Maya Deren\, Hollis Frampton\, Robert Frank\, Ken Jacobs\, Danny Lyon\, Marie Menken\, Carolee Schneemann\, Paul Sharits\, and Stuart Sherman to name only a few. \nLampert has taught at CUNY City College\, Purchase College\, The New School for Social Research\, Cooper Union and NYU. He is one half of the creative firm Chen & Lampert\, and his videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. \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:1775567647137-7d37fcae-d104-7″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Community: Ceres Food Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:30p\nProgram 8:00p\nTickets $18\n(+$2 Processing Fee)[/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://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=””] \nUnionDocs is delighted to collaborate with Ceres Food Film Festival and Push Projects for a special evening of films and conversation exploring the stories\, systems\, and sensibilities that shape how and why we eat. \nCeres brings together films that reveal the layered realities of the global food system\, where food is not only a source of joy\, but also a site of politics\, climate urgency\, culture\, and memory. Through storytelling\, the festival invites us to look more closely at the unseen forces behind everyday consumption\, and to consider our place within a deeply interconnected cycle. \nThe program features a selection of short films spanning intimate community portraits and global perspectives. Barriga Llena\, Corazón Contento (Full Belly\, Happy Heart) made by Jordana Rubenstein-Edberg and Marshall Hanig during UNDO’s 2025 CoLAB traces a Ridgewood food pantry through stories of migration\, care\, and shared meals. Lonely Whale: Seaweed Stories by Jake Sumner looks at seaweed’s potential through voices from Indigenous communities\, science\, and industry. Astrid Malter’s Ice Cream Window captures a neighborhood ritual that grew from a pandemic pop-up into a lasting community tradition. In Guguta\, Anita Volker connects dessert-making with memory and post-Soviet identity. Alison Bartlett’s Zen Brownie explores Greyston Bakery’s Open Hiring model rooted in inclusivity. \nThe evening will conclude with a panel featuring Barriga Llena\, Corazón Contento co-director and producer\, Jordana Rubenstein-Edberg and Natalia Fuentes respectively\, moderated by Molly Surno\, founder of Push Projects. \nThe evening will also include a special drink tasting by Acid\, whose botanical spirits are made through vacuum distillation\, preserving the natural aromatics of ingredients at low temperatures. By upcycling citrus peels and surplus botanicals\, they create bright\, expressive spirits that highlight both sustainability and experimentation. \nDon’t miss this evening of films\, shared flavors\, and conversation that invites reflection on the food systems that nourish us! \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=””] \n*Special Preview*\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] \nBarriga Llena\, Corazón Contento (Full Belly\, Happy Heart) by Jordan Rubenstein-Edberg & Marshall Hanig\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A chorus of stories from the organizers of a grassroots food pantry in Ridgewood\, Queens—interweaving migration journeys\, home-made meals\, and the everyday acts of care that bind a community together.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSeaweed Stories by Jake Sumner\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Seaweed Stories is a vibrant\, global look at the wonders of seaweed\, and some of the extraordinary stories and characters whose lives have been entangled by this often overlooked marine plant which may hold answers to some of humanity’s biggest challenges. Seaweed Stories includes insights from a Silicon Valley startup creating plastic alternatives from macroalgae\, to the Indigenous Shinnecock Kelp Farmers using seaweed to prove their sovereign right to coastal land\, and a scientist in South Korea supporting seaweeds’ sexual reproduction to create new species that can withstand the effects of a changing climate.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nIce Cream Window by Astrid Malter\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In August 2020\, in the midst of Covid\, we started offering scoops of ice cream from our studio’s service window—a 3-week pop-up to share the joy of ice cream with our neighbors. We were back the following year. In 2022\, 2023\, and 2024 we were back again for long and hot summers\, every Saturday and Sunday. Now it’s 2025\, our fifth year already\, still here to share the joy of ice cream. BedStuy’s beloved LadyMooMoo still helps us greatly and we’re proud to continue to serve their delicious gourmet ice cream and sorbets\, and of course we continue to work together on our own highly popular exclusive ice cream flavors.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nGuguta by Anita Volker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In the heart of Moldavia\, a dessert tells the story. In her kitchen\, Maria prepares Guguță\, a cherry cake inspired by a mythical figure from Soviet culture. As the pancakes pile up\, archive images resurface: those of Guguță wearing an oversized hat\, symbolizing a shared past. Between culinary tradition and collective memory\, the film weaves a link between generations\, revealing a country at the crossroads of memory and transmission.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nZen Brownie by Alison Bartlett\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Zen Brownie tells the tale of Buddhist Monks and how leading with inclusivity\, kindness\, and compassion has created a well-known business in Greyston Bakery. Filmmaker Alison Bartlett in partnership with Michael Pirson (Stoner Chair for Global Sustainability – Gabelli School of Business\, Fordham University) delve into the Humanistic Model Management and the philosophy behind and applying it to real world business through Open Hiring.[/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=””] \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=”156204″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Marshall Hanig (he/him) is a socially-engaged mediamaker and journalist based in Chicago. His path to documentary filmmaking was forged through involvement in grassroots organizing and community radio. Marshall co-produced the feature documentary film Homegrown\, which premiered at Venice Critics’ Week. He also served as an Impact Producer for the award-winning short film Water Warriors (POV).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162498″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jordana Rubenstein-Edberg (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker and community-engaged artist; she collaborates with activists and policymakers to share narratives that challenge dominant histories and imagine liberatory futures. Jordana holds a degree in Human Rights Journalism from Bard College and an MFA in Social Practice from the Corcoran School of Art. Through her documentary production company\, Understory Docs\, she shares stories as tools of resilience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162497″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Natalia Fuentes Amaya (they/them) is a filmmaker currently creative-developing and producing for the narrative non-fiction production company Signpost Pictures. A screenwriter originally\, Natalia seeks to create experimental cinema that blends the boundaries between reality and fiction to challenge meaning and discover unexpected solutions on an ailing planet. They most recently served as an associate producer\, contributing writer and archival researcher for the feature documentary Time and Water\, which premiered at Sundance in early 2026.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162106″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jake Sumner is the award-winning director of acclaimed documentaries Fantastic Man: Who is William Onyeabor? (VICE\, 2014) Channel 4’s I Was There When House Took Over The World (2017)\, and DOC NYC Jury prize winning short Bob of the Park (2019). Other films include The Plastic Age (2015) with Pharrell Williams and multiple film collaborations with contemporary artist KAWS. As a commercial director\, Jake has created work with brands such as Nike\, Tiffany’s\, Moncler\, Google\, Mastercard and Pepsi.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162108″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Anita Volker is a documentary filmmaker. A former operating room nurse\, she notably took part in the world’s first face transplant. She now develops documentary projects focused on disability\, in collaboration with foundations and associations.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162109″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””] \nAstrid Malter is a documentarian. She graduated from Carleton College with a degree in Cinema & Media Studies. Her nonfiction work is interview based and revolves around urban and environmental change. \nHer films have screened across the country at the Coney Island Film Festival\, New York Climate Film Festival\, Better Cities Film Festival\, Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival\, Downstream Environmental Film Fest\, McMinnville Shorts Festival\, Sidewalk Film Festival\, Better Cities Film Festival and more. In 2024\, her film Fl*shing Injustice won the Social Impact Award at the World Water Film Festival. \nShe lives and works in her native Brooklyn.  When she’s not working\, she enjoys listening to The Brian Lehrer Show\, snacking\, and knitting tiny animals … sometimes all at once. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162111″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Alison Bartlett is an Award Winning Writer\, Emmy Nominated Actress\, and Director. She made her Off Broadway acting debut at the age of 12 in “Landscape of The Body” directed by Gary Sinise. Her Broadway debut was in David Rabe’s “Hurly-burly” directed by Mike Nichols. From 1986-2015 she starred as the role of Gina on the world wide acclaimed television show “Sesame Street”. Known for her recurring roles on HBO’s “The Sopranos”\, & FX’s “Rescue Me”\, she has guest starred on numerous TV shows and received an Emmy Nomination for “Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Special” for her lead performance in ABC’s Afterschool Special “It’s Only Rock & Roll”. As a screenplay writer Alison has won a Silver Remi at the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival; was a Semi-Finalist at Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition\, and was an Official Selection of the Atlanta International Screenplay Awards. Alison is a lifelong New Yorker.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162338″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Molly Surno Davis is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural producer who creates immersive\, multi-sensory experiences across installation\, performance\, curation\, and cultural strategy. She consults on the future of creativity\, bridging contemporary art\, sound\, and experience design to deepen public engagement and support artist-centered models. Her performance We of Me\, presented at BAM and the Getty\, transformed domestic rituals into sonic instruments using custom-built microphones. She has produced projects with the Met\, MoMA/PS1\, TEDx\, Kickstarter\, and Meow Wolf. Molly mentors artists through Strategic Planning Partners\, teaches at UC Santa Cruz\, mentors at NEW INC\, serves on the selection committee for the Lumen Prize\, and is co-developing a new creativity institute in Colorado with Theo Edmonds.[/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:1775488519836-dde64483-2b7c-9″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/ceres-film-festival-2026-04-14/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:Muscle Beach
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 width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162259″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Joshua Citarella is an artist and writer. He is the founder of Do Not Research. He is the host of Doomscroll\, a talk show that explores online culture and politics in the 21st century.[/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:1774635331296-a77a9592-ef64-10″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:One Thousand and One Journeys
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_video link=”https://vimeo.com/941430034?share=copy” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]We’re delighted to partner with ArteEast to co-present ONE THOUSAND AND ONE JOURNEYS. The program traces the history and legacy of Arab-American migration across the United States. Borrowing its title from Abe Kasbo’s sweeping documentary\, this program follows the layered journey of Levantine migration in America that began in the late 19th early 20th centuries and continues today. \nFrom establishing the enclave of Little Syria\, to peddling goods to remote areas\, to settling in various states across the country\, the films show us how early Arab immigrants shaped the landscape of now thriving communities in major cities. Through documentaries from a variety of perspectives and locales\, this program explores the stories\, contributions\, and ongoing realities of Arab-Americans\, painting a rich portrait of the diversity of Arab identity and how it continues to shape contemporary cultural life in America. \nIn Beirut on the Bayou (2022)\, Lebanese author\, Raif Shwayri\, travels to Louisiana to trace the life of his grandfather who once worked as a peddler serving the Cajuns on Bayou Lafourche. Alfred “Sweet Papa” Nicola spent nearly two decades\, in the early 20th century\, selling his wares to the French-speaking melting pot that was developing on the edge of civilization. His years of traveling to these isolated villages would eventually\, and surprisingly\, lead to substantial aid for tens of thousands of disabled and impoverished children in Lebanon. This film celebrates the rarely told story of early Arab-American immigrants and includes never-before-seen 16mm footage of South Louisiana and Beirut from the 1950s\, as well as rare photos of early Cajun life. It also features an original Arabic score and a cover of a Cajun classic using Arabic instruments. \nA Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab Americans (2015)\, from which this program borrows its title\, is a documentary offering a broad historical lens on Arab migration to the U.S. It follows the formation of early communities such as Little Syria in lower Manhattan\, the rise of peddling routes that took immigrants deep into the American South and Midwest\, and the ways Arab Americans built lives\, businesses\, and cultural networks across the country. The film grounds the program in a foundational national history while highlighting New York City as one of the earliest and most significant sites of Arab-American settlement. \nThe films will be followed by a talk on the history of Little Syria in lower Manhattan with Linda Jacobs scholar & author of Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City\, 1880-1900.  \nThis program is collaboration with curator Nanor Vosgueritchian and is part of ArteEast’s Unpacking the ArteArchive series\, which highlights curated selections from the ArteArchive\, ArteEast’s film and video collection in dialogue with contemporary voices. The full program\, including additional films and a recorded discussion with filmmaker Abe Kanso\, will be presented online on artearchive.org from April 23- May 3. \nThis program is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.[/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=””] \nBeirut on the Bayou by Brent Joseph\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2022\, 28 mins.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nA Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab Americans by Abe Kasbo\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]2015\, 20 min excerpt[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 48 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=”162345″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Linda K. Jacobs is a New York-based scholar and author. She holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology/Anthropology and spent many years working on archaeological excavations and economic development projects in the Middle East. Dr. Jacobs is committed to promoting Middle Eastern culture and knowledge in the United States\, founding KalimahPress in 2011 and sitting on the board of several Middle Eastern organizations. All four of her grandparents were members of the New York Syrian Colony. She is the author of two books on the nineteenth-century Syrian diaspora in the United States.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162346″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Brent Joseph is a filmmaker from New Orleans who got his start as an assistant in the cutting rooms of David Fincher\, Seth Rogen\, and David Simon. He went on to edit several feature films and documentaries including “La Gloria” (starring David Morse) and “Shell Shocked” (PBS). His directing work — from Beirut on the Bayou\, which traces a little-known chapter of early Arab-American life in Cajun Louisiana\, to his Katrina portraits Holdout and A Loud Color — is tied together by stark visuals\, original music\, and a persistent curiosity about how people find meaning when the familiar fades away.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162347″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Abe Kasbo is a Syrian-American entrepreneur\, author\, and filmmaker best known as the Founder and CEO of Verasoni Worldwide\, an integrated marketing communications advisory and agency based in Fairfield\, New Jersey. Born in Aleppo\, Syria\, Kasbo immigrated to the United States in 1980 at age 10. After growing up in Paterson\, NJ\, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations and a Master’s in Public Administration from Seton Hall University\, where he was later inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_media_grid style=”pagination” items_per_page=”1″ element_width=”12″ arrows_design=”vc_arrow-icon-arrow_01_left” arrows_position=”outside” arrows_color=”white” loop=”yes” item=”136647″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1775569989288-6b9d1f6f-136e-5″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/one-thousand-and-one-journeys-2026-04-26/
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SUMMARY:Portals In Between
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 delighted to join with Airtime and Speciwomen to present PORTALS IN BETWEEN\, a pair of short films that dance with hybridity to experiment with time\, memory and the concept of home. \nWe invite Aslı Baykal’s Darkroom (2023) and Kim Torres’ Solo la Luna Comprenderá (2023) into a lyrical conversation that reimagines the transportive potentials of our everyday surroundings: nature\, water\, corn fields\, windows\, children’s games\, red lights\, stars and the moon. \nThese works invite the audience to the makers’ open archives that unfold alongside their making\, bringing viewers into process as it develops. \nAs part of this responsive approach\, we are inviting a third film into the program\, shifting from a singularly selected viewing experience toward a community gathering where the boundaries between maker and audience are more porous\, and the night is positioned more as an evolving encounter. \nIn the collective spirit in which both films were made\, the team behind this night decided to put forth an open call to find an additional short film that may continue and expand their dialogue. Please find the prompt below and submit a film to join the lineup if you are inspired and feel like your work is a part of this conversation. \nWe invite you to join us for this expansive program that offers how imagination builds resilience and to join the conversation that these films begin. \nSpecial thanks to program partners for tonight. Airtime\, and Speciwomen. This program is organized in conjunction with the Magnet Residency\, a funded artist-in-residence program hosted by Speciwomen welcoming artists from outside of New York to spend time and make work in the city.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””] \nOpen Call Prompt \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””]We invite you to submit a film to be screened for this evening! \nWe’re requesting submissions for a hybrid film that offers a portrait of home that constructs an alternate reality to reimagine time and memory. \nPlease fill the form here to share your work for consideration: SUBMIT FILM \nMax runtime 30 min. | Deadline April: 18th | Selected films will receive a $50 honorarium for their inclusion in the program.\n[/vc_column_text][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=””] \nSolo la Luna comprenderá / The Moon Will Contain Us by Kim Torres\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]18 min\, 2023\, Costa Rica\, U.S\, 16mm[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In the small coastal town of Manzanillo\, Costa Rica\, filmmaker Kim Torres enlists the local teens and adolescents to share their stories\, lies\, and fantasies on the cusp of a cataclysmic event. Playing amid ruins and wreckages\, and voicing their boredom at the lack of change\, Manzanillo’s children engage in a collective fabulation\, finding strategies for building a new world from the old. \n— NYFF Programming team.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nDarkroom by Aslı Baykal\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””] 14 min\, 2023\, Turkey\, U.S\, 16mm[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]At the modern-day crossroads of Turkey and Syria\, the ancient city of Istasyon is taken over by children with cameras. Through their gaze\, they transform cinder block villages into portals and roam freely across abandoned train tracks to Sirkhane Darkroom\, an oasis of red light and pomegranate trees\, where their images are born. Darkroom is an experimental and celebratory portrait of Istasyon’s youth and their capacity to forge an alternate reality within a conflict zone. Embedded in 16mm film\, a co-creation between the film crew and these photography students is a reverence for the mysterious power and intimacy of analog image-making.[/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=”162321″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Kim Torres is a Costa Rican filmmaker. Through light\, gesture\, and atmosphere\, her work investigates questions of transformation and becoming. Working across fiction and non-fiction\, her films shift in form\, drawing poetry from the natural world while forming deep connections with diverse communities and landscapes. Her films have screened at Festival de Cannes\, Locarno Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, San Sebastian International Film Festival\, New Directors/New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center\, and the Eye Filmmuseum. She was a Guest Artist at CalArts University (2022)\, a Berlinale Talents participant (2023)\, and an alumna of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy (2024).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”162329″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Aslı Baykal is a Turkish filmmaker and visual artist based in New York\, working between documentary and experimental forms\, often blending personal narratives with collective memory. She holds a BFA in Film & TV from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her short film Darkroom (2023)\, co-created with children from the Sirkhane Darkroom photography workshop along the Turkish-Syrian border\, premiered at MoMA Doc Fortnight and screened internationally at festivals including Visions du Réel (Doc Alliance nominee for Best Short Documentary)\, Camden IFF\, Ji.hlava\, and Dokufest. She has collaborated with musical artists such as Sampha\, Nick Hakim\, Nourished by Time\, and Karen O. Her work has been featured in MIT Press\, Taschen\, and Harvard Design Magazine. In 2018\, she founded the Airtime Screening Series\, later expanding into Airtime Online\, a global hybrid platform focusing on curated screenings and artist collaborations.[/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:1774984485090-35c4d0de-5a15-6″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””] \nAbout \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]About Speciwomen & Magnet Residency\nSpeciwomen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization committed to giving space to women and LGBTQIA+ artists for retreat\, research\, and making.  \nMagnet is a funded artist-in-residence program hosted by Speciwomen welcoming artists from outside of New York to spend time and make work in the city. Our commitment is to provide a supportive environment where artists can delve into their work with unencumbered time\, developing their practice and fostering relationships.  \nAbout Airtime\nAIRTIME is an artist-run film initiative dedicated to reimagining how we experience the moving image. Founded in 2018 as a pop-up screening series and expanded in 2023 with an experimental online global platform\, it presents artists whose work pushes form and opens new ways of seeing and feeling. The initiative works closely with artists\, valuing collaboration and dialogue throughout the process.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2026-05-01-portals-in-between/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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