Name: What You Get Is What You See: Empathy in the Archives
Start: 2016-09-22T15:30:00-04:00
End: 2016-09-22T18:00:00-04:00
Location: UnionDocs, 352 Onderdonk Avenue

September 2016

Thursday, Sep 22 - 3:30pm What You Get Is What You See: Empathy in the Archives with Irene Lusztig Proposing a feminist politics of archival spectatorship

Sep 22, 2016 at 3:30 pm

What You Get Is What You See: Empathy in the Archives

with Irene Lusztig Proposing a feminist politics of archival spectatorship

Sep 10, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Listening Session Vol. 2 with Ernst Karel

With Ernst Karel Morning and Other Times is a multichannel audio composition that was recorded in the city of Chiang Mai over a period of four weeks in early 2014. Mycological is an audio piece which takes as its subject certain aspects of human encounters with fungi.

Sep 10, 2016 at 3:30 pm

Listening Session Vol. 2 with Ernst Karel

With Ernst Karel the multidimensional nature of the city, inhabited by beings of different species

Friday, Sep 9 - 7:30pm Pilots in Pajamas With Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson A long filmed conversation between Walter Heynowski and US Prisoners of War in Vietnam in 1968.

Sep 9, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Pilots in Pajamas

With Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson A long filmed conversation between Walter Heynowski and US Prisoners of War in Vietnam in 1968.

Sep 9, 2016 at 3:30 pm

Pilots in Pajamas

With Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson a mirror so badly shattered as to be unrecognizable

Thursday, Sep 8 - 3:30pm BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez With Co-Director Sabrina Schmidt Gordon and Sonia Sanchez. raising her voice in the name of black culture, civil rights, women's liberation, and peace.

Sep 8, 2016 at 3:30 pm

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez

With Co-Director Sabrina Schmidt Gordon and Sonia Sanchez. raising her voice in the name of black culture, civil rights, women's liberation, and peace.

August 2016

Sunday, Aug 28 - 7:30pm UnionDocs Editing Retreat Reception and Preview With all filmmakers in attendance Reception and a preview of excerpts from the work at the UnionDocs Editing Retreat at the Pocantico Center of The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Aug 28, 2016 at 7:30 pm

UnionDocs Editing Retreat Reception and Preview

With all filmmakers in attendance Reception and a preview of excerpts from the work at the UnionDocs Editing Retreat at the Pocantico Center of The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

July 2016

Sunday, Jul 24 - 7:30pm The Spectacle of History With Director Sasha Litvintseva A program of short films by Sasha Litvintseva.

Jul 24, 2016 at 7:30 pm

The Spectacle of History

With Director Sasha Litvintseva A program of short films by Sasha Litvintseva.

Friday, Jul 15 - 7:30pm Death in Arizona with Director Tin Dirdamal with director Tin Dirdamal A futuristic documentary of lost love and a tale of a dying civilization.

Jul 15, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Death in Arizona with Director Tin Dirdamal

with director Tin Dirdamal A futuristic documentary of lost love and a tale of a dying civilization.

Thursday, Jul 14 - 7:30pm The New Black This event is part of the BK@24FPS series with Skylight Pictures and Witness
Director Yoruba Richen will be present for discussion following the film. A documentary that tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.

Jul 14, 2016 at 7:30 pm

The New Black

This event is part of the BK@24FPS series with Skylight Pictures and Witness
Director Yoruba Richen will be present for discussion following the film. A documentary that tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.

Friday, Jul 8 - 7:30pm We’re Already Here: A Showcase from the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance Program #2 Filmmakers from DFA will be in attendance for discussion following the programs. The Diverse Filmmakers Alliance (DFA)—a group of documentary, narrative, experimental, and transmedia filmmakers from diverse backgrounds who meet weekly to workshop their media projects—will present two programs.

Jul 8, 2016 at 7:30 pm – Jul 9, 2016 at 9:30 pm

We’re Already Here: A Showcase from the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance Program #2

Filmmakers from DFA will be in attendance for discussion following the programs. The Diverse Filmmakers Alliance (DFA)—a group of documentary, narrative, experimental, and transmedia filmmakers from diverse backgrounds who meet weekly to workshop their media projects—will present two programs.

Thursday, Jul 7 - 7:30pm We’re Already Here: A Showcase from the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance Program #1 Filmmakers from DFA will be present for discussion following the programs. The Diverse Filmmakers Alliance (DFA)—a group of documentary, narrative, experimental, and transmedia filmmakers from diverse backgrounds who meet weekly to workshop their media projects—will present two programs.

Jul 7, 2016 at 7:30 pm – Jul 8, 2016 at 10:30 pm

We’re Already Here: A Showcase from the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance Program #1

Filmmakers from DFA will be present for discussion following the programs. The Diverse Filmmakers Alliance (DFA)—a group of documentary, narrative, experimental, and transmedia filmmakers from diverse backgrounds who meet weekly to workshop their media projects—will present two programs.

Jul 3, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy

with director Richard Brouillette A masterful examination of neo-liberal ideology and the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.

Friday, Jul 1 - 7:30pm Oncle Bernard: A Counter-Lesson in Economics with filmmaker Richard Brouillette Kicking off on Canada Day, RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Film Festival) will take over UnionDocs for three days to show work from filmmaker, Richard Brouillette.

Jul 1, 2016 at 7:30 pm – Jul 3, 2016 at 6:00 pm

Oncle Bernard: A Counter-Lesson in Economics

with filmmaker Richard Brouillette Kicking off on Canada Day, RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Film Festival) will take over UnionDocs for three days to show work from filmmaker, Richard Brouillette.

June 2016

Sunday, Jun 26 - 7:30pm (T)ERROR with David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John A documentary that explores just how far we are going to prevent terror and exactly what liberties we are sacrificing to get there.

Jun 26, 2016 at 7:30 pm

(T)ERROR

with David Felix Sutcliffe and Christopher St. John A documentary that explores just how far we are going to prevent terror and exactly what liberties we are sacrificing to get there.

Saturday, Jun 25 - 7:30pm Shorts after the Flaherty Seminar Kidlat Tahimik, Jon Dieringer, Josh Solondz, and G. Anthony Svatek will be in attendance for discussion following the program.
organized by Steve Holmgren
Event followed by reception in backyard If spectacle demands a taut cinema, with no time for digression, the 2016 Flaherty Seminar is dedicated to a cinema of wandering, of curiosity and wonder. As these films show, cinema at play is not aimless or fanciful but open—the kind of open-endedness that exists in any system with room for variation.

Jun 25, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Shorts after the Flaherty Seminar

Kidlat Tahimik, Jon Dieringer, Josh Solondz, and G. Anthony Svatek will be in attendance for discussion following the program.
organized by Steve Holmgren
Event followed by reception in backyard If spectacle demands a taut cinema, with no time for digression, the 2016 Flaherty Seminar is dedicated to a cinema of wandering, of curiosity and wonder. As these films show, cinema at play is not aimless or fanciful but open—the kind of open-endedness that exists in any system with room for variation.

Monday, Jun 13 - 7:30pm Fear Indexing the X-Files with artists Steve Warwick and Nora Khan The interplay between seminal X-Files episodes, ‘90s Internet culture, and paranoia in the American networked imaginary.

Jun 13, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Fear Indexing the X-Files

with artists Steve Warwick and Nora Khan The interplay between seminal X-Files episodes, ‘90s Internet culture, and paranoia in the American networked imaginary.

Sunday, Jun 12 - 7:30pm DIE JIM CROW Fury Young and James N. Kienitz Wilkins will be in attendance for Q+A following the program. Four short films with Fury Young—a poet and activist who intertwines music, poetry, filmmaking, politics, and history—to examine themes and processes leading to his ambitious Die Jim Crow project, a music album by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated black songwriters from across the country.

Jun 12, 2016 at 7:30 pm

DIE JIM CROW

Fury Young and James N. Kienitz Wilkins will be in attendance for Q+A following the program. Four short films with Fury Young—a poet and activist who intertwines music, poetry, filmmaking, politics, and history—to examine themes and processes leading to his ambitious Die Jim Crow project, a music album by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated black songwriters from across the country.

Jun 10, 2016 at 7:30 pm

What You Get Is What You See: Progress vs Regress with Melanie Bonajo

Part of What You Get is What You See: a series on Spectatorship Melanie Bonajo digs into our internet enthusiasm and watching obsessions, highlighting the funny but grotesque dramatization of nature and reality.

Thursday, Jun 9 - 7:30pm Shorts from The Meerkat Media Collective Part of the series BK@24fps. Filmmakers from Meerkat Media Collective in attendance for discussion following the program. These short documentaries reflect on the group’s unique creative collaboration and consensus process.

Jun 9, 2016 at 7:30 pm

Shorts from The Meerkat Media Collective

Part of the series BK@24fps. Filmmakers from Meerkat Media Collective in attendance for discussion following the program. These short documentaries reflect on the group’s unique creative collaboration and consensus process.

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What You Get Is What You See: Empathy in the Archives

Listening Session Vol. 2 with Ernst Karel

Listening Session Vol. 2 with Ernst Karel

Pilots in Pajamas

Pilots in Pajamas

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez

UnionDocs Editing Retreat Reception and Preview

The Spectacle of History

Death in Arizona with Director Tin Dirdamal

The New Black

We’re Already Here: A Showcase from the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance Program #2

We’re Already Here: A Showcase from the Diverse Filmmakers Alliance Program #1

Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy

Oncle Bernard: A Counter-Lesson in Economics

(T)ERROR

Shorts after the Flaherty Seminar

Fear Indexing the X-Files

DIE JIM CROW

What You Get Is What You See: Progress vs Regress with Melanie Bonajo

Shorts from The Meerkat Media Collective

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