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Saturday, Feb 9 - 7:30pm Oscar Nominated: Inocente with Yael Melamede With Yael Melamede Inocente is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. We will be screening this documentary in honor of it’s Academy Award nomination for best short documentary.

Oscar Nominated: Inocente with Yael Melamede

With Yael Melamede Inocente is an intensely personal and vibrant coming of age documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. We will be screening this documentary in honor of it’s Academy Award nomination for best short documentary.
Saturday, Feb 2 - 7:30pm Hasta Nunca: An Uruguayan Odyssey with Mark Street With Mark Street and Uzi Sabah. Hasta Nunca follows Mario Ligetti, a middle aged hipster DJ who produces an underground radio show in Montevideo, Uruguay. On his show “Secrets and Stories”, he invites listeners to share their intimate thoughts with him and a live radio audience.

Hasta Nunca: An Uruguayan Odyssey with Mark Street

With Mark Street and Uzi Sabah. Hasta Nunca follows Mario Ligetti, a middle aged hipster DJ who produces an underground radio show in Montevideo, Uruguay. On his show “Secrets and Stories”, he invites listeners to share their intimate thoughts with him and a live radio audience.
Thursday, Jan 31 - 7:30pm New York Film/Video Microcinema Summit With Thomas Beard, Jessica Green, Steve Macfarlane and Christopher Allen The New York Film/Video Council kicks off 2013 with a panel of owners, organizers and programmers representing some of these venues, all with varying kinds of programming and operating models.

New York Film/Video Microcinema Summit

With Thomas Beard, Jessica Green, Steve Macfarlane and Christopher Allen The New York Film/Video Council kicks off 2013 with a panel of owners, organizers and programmers representing some of these venues, all with varying kinds of programming and operating models.
Sunday, Jan 27 - 7:30pm Israeli Settler Kitsch and Stolen Beauty WIth Alex Gallafent, Aliza Simons and Ian Munro, Audrey Quinn & Pierre de Gaillande, & Karen Michel. Journalist Kiera Feldman will present a curated selection of propaganda movies and youtube ephemera produced by suburbanite American Jews who become settlers in the West Bank. Then, film critic Tom McCormack will introduce a screening of Israeli video artist Guy Ben-Ner’s “Stealing Beauty,” a Marxist family sitcom set in an Ikea that takes as its subjects property, the family, and revolution.

Israeli Settler Kitsch and Stolen Beauty

WIth Alex Gallafent, Aliza Simons and Ian Munro, Audrey Quinn & Pierre de Gaillande, & Karen Michel. Journalist Kiera Feldman will present a curated selection of propaganda movies and youtube ephemera produced by suburbanite American Jews who become settlers in the West Bank. Then, film critic Tom McCormack will introduce a screening of Israeli video artist Guy Ben-Ner’s “Stealing Beauty,” a Marxist family sitcom set in an Ikea that takes as its subjects property, the family, and revolution.

Modern Wars with Michal Kosakowski

With Michal Kosakowski and Bill Morrison. Special screening of work by Sam Ball on cartoonists Joann Sfar and Ben Katchor.
Sunday, Jan 13 - 7:30pm Pasolini’s Language of Reality: Digesting a Polemical Life With Cathy Lee Crane, Louis-Georges Schwartz and Homay King. In an effort to entice “the angel of history” to look over its shoulder towards the future, this open discussion takes on many current issues at the intersection of politics, poetics and cultural critique.

Pasolini’s Language of Reality: Digesting a Polemical Life

With Cathy Lee Crane, Louis-Georges Schwartz and Homay King. In an effort to entice “the angel of history” to look over its shoulder towards the future, this open discussion takes on many current issues at the intersection of politics, poetics and cultural critique.

In the Valley of the Uncanny: Humans and Humanoids

With Laurie O'Brien, Allison de Fren, Asif Ghazanfar, John Bell and D. Graham Burnett. In the 1970s, Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori first used the term “The Uncanny Valley” to describe the profoundly unsettling sense of the non-human in these human-like beings. Building on Freud’s definition of the uncanny as the feeling of strangeness in something familiar, Mori’s theories have since become influential in fields as diverse as puppetry, psychology, animation and video games.
Sunday, Jan 6 - 7:30pm Sans Soleil presented with the Cinema Eye Honors With David Sterritt. Sans Soleil dissolves the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction film, offering the viewer the extraordinary sensation of simultaneously spanning the globe and being enclosed within someone’s mind.

Sans Soleil presented with the Cinema Eye Honors

With David Sterritt. Sans Soleil dissolves the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction film, offering the viewer the extraordinary sensation of simultaneously spanning the globe and being enclosed within someone’s mind.
Sunday, Sep 30 - 7:30pm Prologue with Raed Rafei With Raed Rafei The current furor over dramatic shifts that continue throughout the Middle East and North Africa often obscure the significant political protest and social actions that have set the stage for contemporary revolutionary fervor. Prologue is a film that offers audiences imagined yet intimate portraits of young activists in 1974.

Prologue with Raed Rafei

With Raed Rafei The current furor over dramatic shifts that continue throughout the Middle East and North Africa often obscure the significant political protest and social actions that have set the stage for contemporary revolutionary fervor. Prologue is a film that offers audiences imagined yet intimate portraits of young activists in 1974.
Sunday, Sep 23 - 7:30pm Poetry Was My Gateway Drug: Leigh Stein and Alexander Chee read and discuss the relationship between fiction and non-fiction writing With Leigh Stein and Alexander Chee Poet/Novelist Leigh Stein (author of the poetry collection Dispatch From the Future and the novel The Fallback Plan) and Novelist/Essayist Alexander Chee Author of Edinburgh and the forthcoming novel Queen of the Night) discuss ever-present tension between poetry, fiction and non-fiction writing and how one often leads to another and whether or not they should.

Poetry Was My Gateway Drug: Leigh Stein and Alexander Chee read and discuss the relationship between fiction and non-fiction writing

With Leigh Stein and Alexander Chee Poet/Novelist Leigh Stein (author of the poetry collection Dispatch From the Future and the novel The Fallback Plan) and Novelist/Essayist Alexander Chee Author of Edinburgh and the forthcoming novel Queen of the Night) discuss ever-present tension between poetry, fiction and non-fiction writing and how one often leads to another and whether or not they should.
Saturday, Sep 22 - 7:30pm WILLiFEST: Justice Shorts I The Domino Effect I Priceless Things with 3 Days of Normal Justice Shorts, The Domino Effect, Priceless Things, 3 Days of Normal, and Erroll Garner – No one can hear you read. Documentary screenings with WILLiFEST.

WILLiFEST: Justice Shorts I The Domino Effect I Priceless Things with 3 Days of Normal

Justice Shorts, The Domino Effect, Priceless Things, 3 Days of Normal, and Erroll Garner – No one can hear you read. Documentary screenings with WILLiFEST.
Saturday, Sep 22 - 7:30pm Running Stumbled With Kimberly Reed Rarely in filmmaking does the theory meet the practice, but in the case of the powerful, gritty Running Stumbled, director John Maringouin manages to take us into the heart of the matter in a dramatic exploration of family, life, art, drugs, murder, love, and legacy.

Running Stumbled

With Kimberly Reed Rarely in filmmaking does the theory meet the practice, but in the case of the powerful, gritty Running Stumbled, director John Maringouin manages to take us into the heart of the matter in a dramatic exploration of family, life, art, drugs, murder, love, and legacy.
Sunday, Sep 16 - 7:30pm Images of Asian Music and At Sea with Peter Hutton With Peter Hutton and Jem Cohen. Peter Hutton’s unforgettable films, typically shot and exhibited on 16mm, often portray landscapes and cityscapes from around the world. Here we present his sublime, At Sea, which overviews the life cycle of a container ship (recently awarded the top spot on Film Comment’s Best of the Decade: Avant-Garde list).

Images of Asian Music and At Sea with Peter Hutton

With Peter Hutton and Jem Cohen. Peter Hutton’s unforgettable films, typically shot and exhibited on 16mm, often portray landscapes and cityscapes from around the world. Here we present his sublime, At Sea, which overviews the life cycle of a container ship (recently awarded the top spot on Film Comment’s Best of the Decade: Avant-Garde list).
Friday, Aug 3 - 7:30pm Dani Leventhal and Samita Sinha: Salt With Dani Leventhal and Samita Sinha This evening will start with a captivating solo vocal performance by Samita Sinha and then Dani Leventhal will present three acclaimed recent short videos.

Dani Leventhal and Samita Sinha: Salt

With Dani Leventhal and Samita Sinha This evening will start with a captivating solo vocal performance by Samita Sinha and then Dani Leventhal will present three acclaimed recent short videos.
Saturday, Jul 14 - 7:30pm Living Los Sures- Preview in the Park Free outdoor screening & concert. Event live-streamed on BBOX Radio. In the late seventies and early eighties, South Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. It was troubled by drugs and violence, full of abandoned real estate, and badly under-served. Los Sures, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverria, skillfully represents the challenges of this time, while also celebrating a community that was connected, coherent and full of culture.

Living Los Sures- Preview in the Park

Free outdoor screening & concert. Event live-streamed on BBOX Radio. In the late seventies and early eighties, South Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. It was troubled by drugs and violence, full of abandoned real estate, and badly under-served. Los Sures, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverria, skillfully represents the challenges of this time, while also celebrating a community that was connected, coherent and full of culture.
Wednesday, Jun 27 - 7:30pm UnionDocs Collaborative Studio at the Austrian Cultural Forum With Emma Brenner-Malin, Josh Solondz, Stephanie Chang, Claire Richard, Daniel Terna, Michael Kugler, Meg Kelly, Annie Berman, Laura Mayer, Matt Yoka, and Sonia Gonzalez. UnionDocs is teaming up with Change Administration as a part of OUR HAUS, a project by Vienna-based group WochenKlausur who is taking part in the Austrian Cultural Forum’s tenth anniversary exhibition. OUR HAUS focuses on contemporary positions and practices for housing and public space.

UnionDocs Collaborative Studio at the Austrian Cultural Forum

With Emma Brenner-Malin, Josh Solondz, Stephanie Chang, Claire Richard, Daniel Terna, Michael Kugler, Meg Kelly, Annie Berman, Laura Mayer, Matt Yoka, and Sonia Gonzalez. UnionDocs is teaming up with Change Administration as a part of OUR HAUS, a project by Vienna-based group WochenKlausur who is taking part in the Austrian Cultural Forum’s tenth anniversary exhibition. OUR HAUS focuses on contemporary positions and practices for housing and public space.
Saturday, Jun 23 - 7:30pm More closed Wounds: Shorts After The Flaherty With Su Friederich, Sami Van Ingen, Sebastián Lingiardi, Andrès Duque, Minda Martin, and Sun Xun. 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.

More closed Wounds: Shorts After The Flaherty

With Su Friederich, Sami Van Ingen, Sebastián Lingiardi, Andrès Duque, Minda Martin, and Sun Xun. 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.
Saturday, Jun 23 - 7:30pm More Open Wounds: Shorts after the Flaherty With Su Friedrich, Sami van Ingen, Andrès Duque, and Sebastián Lingiardi. This year’s Seminar “Open Wounds”, programmed by Josexto Cerdán (Punto de Vista), examines changing perspectives on politics, the economy, technology, culture, and ethics over the past Century.

More Open Wounds: Shorts after the Flaherty

With Su Friedrich, Sami van Ingen, Andrès Duque, and Sebastián Lingiardi. This year’s Seminar “Open Wounds”, programmed by Josexto Cerdán (Punto de Vista), examines changing perspectives on politics, the economy, technology, culture, and ethics over the past Century.

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