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Saturday, Sep 14 - 7:30pm Season closeding Performance and Party With Hari Kondabolu, Ashok Kondabolu, and Z Behl. Season opening party featuring a live Podcast and lecture-performance, radical wooden sculptures, tasty burritos, DJ sets from some of Brooklyn’s finest, and extreme image/GIF projection.

Season closeding Performance and Party

With Hari Kondabolu, Ashok Kondabolu, and Z Behl. Season opening party featuring a live Podcast and lecture-performance, radical wooden sculptures, tasty burritos, DJ sets from some of Brooklyn’s finest, and extreme image/GIF projection.

Diary of a Bad Year: A War Correspondent’s Dilemma

With Kelly McEvers As NPR’s Kelly McEvers reported from trouble zones across the Middle East she braved gunfire, explosions, and tear gas, but she also recorded diaries. She then turned her reporting skills on her own life, seeking advice from doctors, scientists, and colleagues. Her goal was to answer one question: Why do otherwise intelligent people risk their lives when they don’t have to?

Brilliant Soil

With Sebastian Diaz, Amalia Córdova, and Eric O'Leary An indigenous population grapples with the toxic reality of their craft.
Friday, Aug 2 - 7:30pm HEAT WAVES With Robert Todd and Rachael Rakes Marking the pinnacle of summer, this program features a survey of Robert Todd’s hot-weather films, capturing, interchangeably, the light, oppression, curiosity, and clarity of the East Coast summer.

HEAT WAVES

With Robert Todd and Rachael Rakes Marking the pinnacle of summer, this program features a survey of Robert Todd’s hot-weather films, capturing, interchangeably, the light, oppression, curiosity, and clarity of the East Coast summer.
Sunday, Jul 14 - 7:30pm LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY With 2013 Collaborative Fellows and live music from Nuevo Circo, Lo Primo and Damian quinones y su conjunto. A special public preview to celebrate the creation of nine short documentary projects made this year as part of UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures.

LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY

With 2013 Collaborative Fellows and live music from Nuevo Circo, Lo Primo and Damian quinones y su conjunto. A special public preview to celebrate the creation of nine short documentary projects made this year as part of UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures.
Saturday, Jun 22 - 7:30pm Shorts After the Flaherty Seminar With Wendelien Von Oldenborg, Eyal Sivan, Jean Paul Kelly, Dominique Angeloro, and Joshua Gen Solondz. Featuring film and video works which employ radical gestures in both form and political position, the Seminar will draw upon strategies of performance, collective production, re-speaking, and archival research to consider the ever-shifting contexts and conditions in which images from the past are watched and repurposed.

Shorts After the Flaherty Seminar

With Wendelien Von Oldenborg, Eyal Sivan, Jean Paul Kelly, Dominique Angeloro, and Joshua Gen Solondz. Featuring film and video works which employ radical gestures in both form and political position, the Seminar will draw upon strategies of performance, collective production, re-speaking, and archival research to consider the ever-shifting contexts and conditions in which images from the past are watched and repurposed.
Friday, Jun 21 - 7:30pm I Am Breathing With Neil Shneider I Am Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. Neil Platt ponders the last months of his life. Within a year, he goes from being a healthy young father to becoming completely paralyzed from the neck down.

I Am Breathing

With Neil Shneider I Am Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. Neil Platt ponders the last months of his life. Within a year, he goes from being a healthy young father to becoming completely paralyzed from the neck down.
Wednesday, Jun 19 - 7:30pm Social Agency on Film With Gabriel Long, Nathan Fitch, Alex Mallis, Minos Papas, Nate Lavey and Rachel Tomlinson. Brooklyn Arts Council Presents a survey of new short documentaries on current political and social struggles, all by local filmmakers and videojournalists.

Social Agency on Film

With Gabriel Long, Nathan Fitch, Alex Mallis, Minos Papas, Nate Lavey and Rachel Tomlinson. Brooklyn Arts Council Presents a survey of new short documentaries on current political and social struggles, all by local filmmakers and videojournalists.
Wednesday, Jun 19 - 7:30pm birdsong Presents: A Night of Adaptations With Tommy Pico, Benjamin Samuel, and Kathleen Ossip. An exploration of film and animation adapted from literature, and literature whose chief inspiration is the screen. Where does adaptation meet inspiration?

birdsong Presents: A Night of Adaptations

With Tommy Pico, Benjamin Samuel, and Kathleen Ossip. An exploration of film and animation adapted from literature, and literature whose chief inspiration is the screen. Where does adaptation meet inspiration?
Tuesday, Jun 18 - 7:30pm From New York with Love With Anita Pantin, Rita Barros and Andre Valentim Almeida. Wandering through moving images taken with a tourist camera juxtaposed with classic movies, From New York with Love is an essay on a foreigner’s evolving relationship with his host country.

From New York with Love

With Anita Pantin, Rita Barros and Andre Valentim Almeida. Wandering through moving images taken with a tourist camera juxtaposed with classic movies, From New York with Love is an essay on a foreigner’s evolving relationship with his host country.
Monday, Jun 17 - 7:30pm Paris is Burning with House of LaDosha With Carolyn Lazard and House of LaDosha Double feature: Paris is Burning is an intimate portrait of a time, a place and a community of outsiders finding expression, strength and pride in a world of their own creating. Radical Love examines the world of Cole, a queer Christian teen growing up in the rural South.

Paris is Burning with House of LaDosha

With Carolyn Lazard and House of LaDosha Double feature: Paris is Burning is an intimate portrait of a time, a place and a community of outsiders finding expression, strength and pride in a world of their own creating. Radical Love examines the world of Cole, a queer Christian teen growing up in the rural South.
Saturday, Jun 15 - 7:30pm All the Mistakes I’ve Made With Daniel Cockburn. Daniel Cockburn will discuss his film/video work in terms of the aesthetic and ideological missteps he has made. It will perhaps be shown that his regrets constitute a parallel body of work.

All the Mistakes I’ve Made

With Daniel Cockburn. Daniel Cockburn will discuss his film/video work in terms of the aesthetic and ideological missteps he has made. It will perhaps be shown that his regrets constitute a parallel body of work.
Sunday, Jun 9 - 7:30pm Psychic Sculptures With Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Bill Kouligas, Paul Clipson and Rachelle Rahme. This evening features two sound performances by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Bill Kouligas accompanied by Super 8mm film projections by Paul Clipson and Rachelle Rahme.

Psychic Sculptures

With Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Bill Kouligas, Paul Clipson and Rachelle Rahme. This evening features two sound performances by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Bill Kouligas accompanied by Super 8mm film projections by Paul Clipson and Rachelle Rahme.
Saturday, Jun 8 - 7:30pm Shifting Lives: Photographing the Immigrant Experience in Chinatown With Lynne Sachs, Annie Ling and Alan Chin. Annie Ling presenst a slideshow of her photographs, with an emphasis on 81 Bowery, a project that explores the domestic experiences of immigrants in NYC’s Chinatown. Filmmaker Lynne Sachs screens her hybrid documentary Your Day is My Night followed by a joint conversation.

Shifting Lives: Photographing the Immigrant Experience in Chinatown

With Lynne Sachs, Annie Ling and Alan Chin. Annie Ling presenst a slideshow of her photographs, with an emphasis on 81 Bowery, a project that explores the domestic experiences of immigrants in NYC’s Chinatown. Filmmaker Lynne Sachs screens her hybrid documentary Your Day is My Night followed by a joint conversation.
Saturday, Jun 1 - 7:30pm Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians With Ben Harbert Follow Me Down is a feature-length documentary about music in prison. Shot over the course of two years in three Louisiana prisons, Georgetown ethnomusicologist Ben Harbert weaves together interviews and performances of extraordinary inmate musicians—some serving life sentences, some new commits and one soon to be released.

Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians

With Ben Harbert Follow Me Down is a feature-length documentary about music in prison. Shot over the course of two years in three Louisiana prisons, Georgetown ethnomusicologist Ben Harbert weaves together interviews and performances of extraordinary inmate musicians—some serving life sentences, some new commits and one soon to be released.

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