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LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY

Outdoor Screening at Sternberg Park + Music by Rich Bologna, Juan Wauters & Ashok Kondabolu. A special public preview to celebrate the creation of seven new documentary projects made this year as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures.

MK2 Expanded: Another Idea of Cinema in the City

With Marin Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, and Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films). Marin Karmitz introduces his rare short NUIT NOIRE, CALCUTTA (1964), and Elisha Karmitz talks about MK2’s expanded cinema projects.

NYFVC Graduating Film Student Mixer

Free Reception with Student ID. Mingle and forge connections while also meeting members of the oldest film non profit in NY, the NYFVC whose members represent EAI, Screen Slate, Janus Films, SVA, Maysles Films and more.

The Traffic of Illusions

With Jean-Christian Bourcart, Pawel Wojtasik, and Nan Goldin. Using photography, writing and moving pictures, Jean-Christian Bourcart explores what constitutes an image: a significant surface that questions our relationship to ourselves, to society, to history, to reality.

Bridge High + Short Circuit

Director Manfred Kirchheimer with Jacob Perlin (Cinema Conservancy) in person. Bridge High examines a passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip ­expanded; Short Circuit has a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with.

When I Walk

With Director Jason DaSilva, Executive Producer Yael Melamede, Aubrey Gallegos (POV). A candid and brave chronicle of one young man’s struggle to adapt to the harsh realities of M.S. while holding onto his personal and creative life.

Grit & Grind + Kate Bornstein

Featuring Kate Bornstein and Dara Messinger with filmmakers Sasha Wortzel, Felix Endara, & Sam Feder. Grit & Grind is a short documentary about the Clit Club, an edgy lesbian party set in New York City’s Meatpacking District in the 1990s, as this large metropolis struggled with the AIDS epidemic. Kate Bornstein Is A Queer and Pleasant Danger captures the many facets of a queer hero and pioneering gender outlaw.

Crazy, Quirky, Scary, and True

Presented by Emon Hassaon (Narratively) with a performance by Ken Butler with the filmmakers in attendance. A shorts program presented by Emon Hassan (Narratively) with a performance by Ken Butler.

Ne Me Quitte Pas

Presented by the Dutch Consulate with Eric Kohn (Indiewire). A tragicomic ode to failure: set in a village on the edge of Belgium, Bob (Flemish) and Marcel (Walloon) share their solitude, sense of humor and carving for alcohol.

Seventeen

With Matt Wolf (Teenage) and Clinton Krute (BOMB Magazine). A film about coming of age in the working class, following a group of teenagers — girls and boys, white and black — whose lives intertwine during their last year in high school.

Transexual Menace

With Karl McCool, Justin Vivian Bond, and Chris E. Vargas (MOTHA). Transexual Menace gives viewers remarkable insight into the home and work lives of transsexuals from many cultures and countries, including female­-to­male transsexuals and those with families and children.

Shorts After the Flaherty

With Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, Johan Grimonprez, Gibbs Chapman, Sean Hanley, Gabriela Monroy, and Caspar Stracke. An evening of film and video featuring some of the presenting artists from the 60th annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar as well as some additional artists who attended the Seminar.

THIS PLACE (Preview)

With filmmakers Stanzi Vaubel and Damon Logan in attendance. THIS PLACE weaves together an ensemble, who bridge the worlds of filmmaker and subject. The film encapsulates the dynamism of experiences that originates at UnionDocs as a place.

Liveness and Cinema: An Illustrated Lecture

A presentation by filmmaker Sam Green. In this wide-ranging talk, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green will explore a history of the commingling of performance and cinema — with many fascinating detours along the way.

I Dream of Wires: The Ultimate Modular Synthesizer Documentary

Introduced by Synthhumpers with Director Robert Fantinatto and Producer Jason Amm & Oliver Chesler in attendance. An independent documentary about the history, demise and resurgence of the modular synthesizer, featuring interviews with over 100 modular musicians, inventors and enthusiasts.

An Evening with Jem Cohen

With artist Jem Cohen and UnionDocs' Programmer Steve Holmgren. This evening will feature a wide-ranging selection of works, works-in-progress, and excerpts, which Cohen has stubbornly evaded identifying in detail.

Sweet Work. Shorts on Labor at the Domino Brooklyn Refinery

Post-screening discussion with filmmakers moderated by Filip Noterdaeme. On the cusp of the Domino Sugar Brooklyn Refinery’s demolition, UnionDocs presents a program of mostly unseen work that examines the effect the refinery had on the surrounding neighborhood as well as addressing broader themes of sweetness and power.

LIVING LOS SURES: SELECTIONS

On display through October 5th.
An exhibition at Fordham University'sIldiko Butler Gallery, curated by UnionDocs
A collaborative documentary about the Southside neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where the organization has been situated for nearly a decade.

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