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New York Premiere
with Steve Wetzel and Pacho Velez present for discussion. Steve Wetzel will exhibit several videos never seen in New York—each inspired by observational documentary, ethnographic film and video, and the rich and hugely diverse body of experimental time-based art—and read a few passages from two of his short collections of writings.
Friday, Jan 23 - 7:30pm What You Get Is What You See: Down and Out in San Francisco and Antarctica With artist David Levine David Levine will discuss how a 2004 trip to Berlin’s Volksbuehne led him to conspiracy theories about the transformation of performance into spectatorship, spectatorship into surveillance, and surveillance into transcendence.

What You Get Is What You See: Down and Out in San Francisco and Antarctica

With artist David Levine David Levine will discuss how a 2004 trip to Berlin’s Volksbuehne led him to conspiracy theories about the transformation of performance into spectatorship, spectatorship into surveillance, and surveillance into transcendence.

Providence & Friends

Curated by Faith Holland & Seth Watter of Magic Lantern Providence & Friends ranges from small, unpretentious 8mm love letters to the most advanced digital manipulations, from beautiful abstractions to politicized travelogues, and from the finished form of recorded media to the contingencies of live performance.
Saturday, Jan 10 - 7:30pm FROM DEEP: An Essay in Three Parts With filmmaker Brett Kashmere and Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, in conversation. A new feature-length experimental documentary which explores the three-decade love affair between basketball and rap.

FROM DEEP: An Essay in Three Parts

With filmmaker Brett Kashmere and Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, in conversation. A new feature-length experimental documentary which explores the three-decade love affair between basketball and rap.
Sunday, Nov 16 - 7:30pm The Toxic Edge: A Screening and Conversation with Sarah Kanouse With Filmmaker Sara Kanouse and Guests. AROUND CRAB ORCHARD investigates the deep flows of toxicity in the natural environment and how these shape their materiality and the politics of their existence.

The Toxic Edge: A Screening and Conversation with Sarah Kanouse

With Filmmaker Sara Kanouse and Guests. AROUND CRAB ORCHARD investigates the deep flows of toxicity in the natural environment and how these shape their materiality and the politics of their existence.
Friday, Nov 14 - 7:30pm I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole presented with MIX NYC. Special guest Jeffrey Escoffier. In an era when anyone making, promoting, or appearing in what the US government considered “pornography” could be liable for prosecution and jail time, Wakefield Poole was a remarkably open and honest gay filmmaker.

I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole

presented with MIX NYC. Special guest Jeffrey Escoffier. In an era when anyone making, promoting, or appearing in what the US government considered “pornography” could be liable for prosecution and jail time, Wakefield Poole was a remarkably open and honest gay filmmaker.
Saturday, Sep 27 - 7:30pm Living Los Sures Launch at the 2014 NYFF Convergence Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Filmmaker Diego Echeverria in attendance. Using Echeverria’s 1984 documentary Los Sures as a starting point, Southside-based UnionDocs has created Living Los Sures, a massive mixed-media project that defies easy categorization.

Living Los Sures Launch at the 2014 NYFF Convergence

Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Filmmaker Diego Echeverria in attendance. Using Echeverria’s 1984 documentary Los Sures as a starting point, Southside-based UnionDocs has created Living Los Sures, a massive mixed-media project that defies easy categorization.
Sunday, Sep 21 - 7:30pm Frederick Wiseman: Law and Order (1969) Director Frederick Wiseman in conversation with Kent Jones. Presented on 16mm. Part of NYFF closeding Acts presented byThe Film Society of Lincoln Center. Law & Order surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services.

Frederick Wiseman: Law and Order (1969)

Director Frederick Wiseman in conversation with Kent Jones. Presented on 16mm. Part of NYFF closeding Acts presented byThe Film Society of Lincoln Center. Law & Order surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services.
Saturday, Sep 20 - 7:30pm What You Get Is What You See: The Tabloid With writer Luc Sante. Showing his personal archives of images from tabloids and other materials, and beginning with memories from his childhood in the 60’s, Luc Sante will share his own perception of this culture.

What You Get Is What You See: The Tabloid

With writer Luc Sante. Showing his personal archives of images from tabloids and other materials, and beginning with memories from his childhood in the 60’s, Luc Sante will share his own perception of this culture.
Friday, Sep 19 - 7:30pm Living Los Sures Shorts on the Lawn – Outdoor Screening/Picnic Bring a blanket, snacks, drinks, and friends! Free outdoor screening at Havemeyer Park. A collection of short documentaries from Living Los Sures, the expansive documentary project about the Southside of Willamsburg. An additional preview of the new interactive elements of the project, which will premiere the following week at NYFF's Convergence.

Living Los Sures Shorts on the Lawn – Outdoor Screening/Picnic

Bring a blanket, snacks, drinks, and friends! Free outdoor screening at Havemeyer Park. A collection of short documentaries from Living Los Sures, the expansive documentary project about the Southside of Willamsburg. An additional preview of the new interactive elements of the project, which will premiere the following week at NYFF's Convergence.

Southside Stories: Audio Walk Launch

An audio walk around the Southside of Williamsburg. An immersive audio journey into Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York featuring the residents of Williamsburg’s Southside Community.
Saturday, Aug 9 - 7:30pm Multiplicity: City as Subject / Matter With an introduction from Marco Antonini (NURTUREart). An international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments and exposing the irresistible pull of the similarities—intercultural meeting points, common problems, goals and dreams—around which people converge.

Multiplicity: City as Subject / Matter

With an introduction from Marco Antonini (NURTUREart). An international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments and exposing the irresistible pull of the similarities—intercultural meeting points, common problems, goals and dreams—around which people converge.
Friday, Jul 25 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Sunday, Jul 6 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Sunday, Jun 29 - 7:30pm 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.

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.
Saturday, Jun 28 - 7:30pm 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.

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.

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