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SUMMARY:A Symposium of Sorts: Radical Inquiries with the UNDO Fellows
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SUMMARY:We're Sick to Death of All This Nonsense
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7pm\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Welcome to round two of a quarterly multimedia series combining live performance\, reading\, sound and image selected by poet Christine Larusso & writer and curator Rachael Rakes: We’re Sick to Death of All This Nonsense. It’s not ekphrasis. WS2DOATN is a live series merging words\, sounds\, and moving images\, intended to reframe—or unframe—what constitutes the poetic\, the time-based\, the time-less\, the urgent and endurant in art and discourse. \nIn January\, we’ll be thinking about: Desire \nThis edition features readings from Morgan Parker\, Jameson Fitzpatrick and Jenny Zhang\, whose contributions will shape and respond to the theme in real time. \nEach edition begins with the prompt of one word or phrase —from English and several other languages\, which will be turned about through the program—with the composition of works\, live performances\, and other interjections openly combining with the desperate hells and imaginaries of the day. From this\, we aim to follow the threads that unspool from this combination of fragments\, feelings\, artworks\, and impermanence of the moment\, guests\, and audience. \nSpecial thanks to pals at The Filmmaker’s Coop for their generous collaboration on this program.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nReading from Morgan Parker\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSundown by Steve Reinke\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]8 min\, 2023[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A video diary from March 2020 to May 2023: years that cover the diarist’s museum show in Vienna\, Covid\, the death of Gordon Lightfoot and his mother\, what it means to be a queer Nietzschean and why tattoos are always untimely.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nReading from Jameson Fitzpatrick\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nNgüru Ka Williñ (The Fox And The Otter) by Seba Calfuqueo\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]4 min\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The early 20th century fable “The Fox and the Otter\,” from the Historia y Conocimiento Oral Mapuche: Sobrevivientes de la campaña del desierto y ocupación de la Araucanía (1899–1926)\, tells the story of a homoerotic relationship between two animals – a fox and an otter\, both males – where anal penetration is seen as an offense to masculinity. This 3D animated video proposes a new version of the fable\, where its protagonist is a transgender vixen who\, by means of its charms\, achieves to attract the otter\, unsettling colonial constructions about desire and heterosexuality and allowing to break these paradigms and create new cosmologies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFake Fruit Factory by Chick Strand\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]22 min\, 1986[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo boss\, but the factory is owned by his Mexican wife. The focus of the film is on the color\, music and movement involved\, and the gossip which goes on constantly\, revealing what the young women think about men.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 90 mins \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nReading from Jenny Zhang\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nWatch the conversation between Presenter1\, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Watch” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” align=”center” css_animation=”bounceIn”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161051″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC\, 2020). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts\, she teaches first-year writing at New York University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161057″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Morgan Parker is the author of five books\, most recently the essay collection You Get What You Pay For\, shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Nonfiction. Previous titles include Who Put This Song On?\, a young adult novel; and the acclaimed poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry at Swarthmore College and lives in Philadelphia with her dog\, Shirley.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161056″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jenny Zhang is the author of Sour Heart and My Baby First Birthday. She also writes for tv and film.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161175″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Christine Larusso holds a BA from Fordham University (Lincoln Center) and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Bomb Magazine\, Volume\, the Colorado Review\, Wildness\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Literary Review\, Pleiades\, Court Green\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. She was a Producer for Rachel Zucker’s podcast\, Commonplace\, and was a co-founder of the Commonplace School. She lives in Los Angeles most of the time.\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152994″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Rachael Rakes is a writer\, curator\, educator\, and researcher. She was recently the Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale\, 2023. Currently Rakes is a Committee Member of the New York Film Festival\, an Editor at Large for Verso Books\, and a Contributing Editor for INFRASONICA.With Laura Huertas Millán and Onyeka Igwe\, she organizes the artistic research initiative on co-subjective encounters\, Counter-Encounters. From 2019–2022 she was the Curator for Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst\, Utrecht. Until 2019\, she was the Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. Rakes teaches in the Artificial Times Masters department at Sandberg\, on Curating the moving image at Leiden University\, and taught recently for the Parsons School of Art\, Zine Eskola\, HKU\, KASK\, Eugene Lang College\, and Harvard University. Rakes is editor of the publications This\, Too\, Is a Map (2023\, Sema/[NAME])\, Toward the Not-Yet (2021\, BAK/MIT Press)\, and Practice Space (2019\, [NAME]/De Appel) and frequently publishes as a critic and essayist.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_media_grid style=”pagination” items_per_page=”1″ element_width=”12″ arrows_design=”vc_arrow-icon-arrow_01_left” arrows_position=”outside” arrows_color=”white” loop=”yes” item=”136647″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1767992786611-7644c18c-ace3-7″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_media_grid style=”pagination” items_per_page=”1″ element_width=”12″ arrows_design=”vc_arrow-icon-arrow_01_left” arrows_position=”outside” arrows_color=”white” loop=”yes” item=”136647″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1767992786612-8ef72950-ba14-1″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Thinking out Loud:  Voiceover in Documentary
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/jC7d6K31-To” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row border_color=”#0000cd”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1506970411844{padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;background-color: rgba(255\,255\,255\,0.66) !important;*background-color: rgb(255\,255\,255) !important;}”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””] \nThis workshop is SOLD OUT. \nPlease sign up for the waitlist below to receive updates regarding any openings or similar future opportunities. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_btn title=”Join Waitlist” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#FFFFFF” outline_custom_hover_background=”#0000CD” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fairtable.com%2FappdVEm0GuHIuyDJF%2Fpag0qcKMi3EFgak9A%2Fform|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join us for this intensive 3-day workshop led by filmmaker Stefan Pavlović\, as we explore the expansive possibilities and creative potentials that voiceover offers to non-fiction filmmakers\, from writing to performing\, from research to recording. Together we’ll work through what it means to pair voice with image\, and how narration can be a tool for investigation rather than just explanation. \nWhile traditional uses of voiceover and narration can be associated with authority\, a “voice-of-god”-like method for dictating or illustrating to audiences\, we unpack this time-tested (but perhaps overused) technique and look towards how artists are reimagining the use of voice as an open-ended creative tool. We’ll consider the voiceover as a method for research\, a key used to open up an image\, to propose new significance\, rather than to explain\, define or limit its meaning; thinking out loud to make sense of ideas. In this workshop we’ll explore the possibilities generated by adopting a conversational relationship with our images\, approaching the use of narration as a means to test\, challenge and transform the material through the act of speaking with\, to\, and beyond it. \nHow can our voices become productive material during the research and development phases of filmmaking? When do we start speaking with our images and how? How can our voices be used to alter our images\, and how might they affect both the significance of existing images and the generation of new ones? What’s at stake when voiceover is implemented\, what kinds of problematics can it raise? These are just a few of the questions we’ll be addressing over the weekend\, as we challenge the creative boundaries of voiceover and narration in non-fiction filmmaking. \nAlongside Stefan\, we’ll be joined by a succession of guest artists and filmmakers whose own adventures in voice might inspire new creative avenues in participants. Miryam Charles will join us to discuss her creative relationship to language and narration. Su Friedrich will walk us through a storied career investigating voice\, identity and trauma. Philip Cartelli’s diverse practice tests and pushes the boundaries of language’s relationship to the image. \nPractically\, participants will be encouraged to experiment with different ways of employing voiceover as a creative strategy to uncover new understandings of their material\, each given the opportunity to engage in constructive group discussion by sharing a work-in-progress from their own practice. \nSeats are limited\, so sign up today![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Details” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_tta_accordion style=”outline” shape=”square” color=”white” active_section=”8″ no_fill=”true” collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Who is eligible?” tab_id=”1477608256488-ac7d3d1a-ae9084d0-801ebd47-97fc”][vc_column_text css=””]Open to everyone\, though the workshop setting is best suited for filmmakers\, film producers\, journalists\, curators and media artists. \nGive us an idea of who you are and why you are coming. When you register you will be asked for a short statement of interest that should briefly describe your experience and a film project (it would be great if you have a project in progress that you would present to the group during the work-in-progress critique sessions)\, plus a bio. There’s a spot for a link to a work sample (and CV\, which would also be nice\, but is not required).[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Cost” tab_id=”1477608256642-4c32d845-e84384d0-801ebd47-97fc”][vc_column_text css=””]$295 early bird registration ends on January 14\, 2026. \n$350 regular registration.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Refund Policy” tab_id=”1477608441051-60d28267-92bf84d0-801ebd47-97fc”][vc_column_text css=””]The deposit is non-refundable. Should you need to cancel\, you’ll receive half of your registration fee back until January 14.  After January 14\, the fee is non-refundable.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Technology Requirements” tab_id=”1477608488046-a8fa4720-501684d0-801ebd47-97fc”][vc_column_text]In order to keep costs down\, this workshop is a BYOL\, i.e. bring your own laptop. Students must be fully proficient using and operating their computers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Registration & Cancellation Policy” tab_id=”1477612055387-51381642-d1c784d0-801ebd47-97fc”][vc_column_text css=””]To register for a workshop\, students must pay in full via card\, check\, or cash . After the early bird registration deadline of January 14\, course fees are not refundable or transferable and any withdrawals or deadlines will result in the full cost of the class being forfeit. There will be no exceptions. To withdraw from a course please email info-at-uniondocs.org. \nIn the event that a workshop does not receive sufficient enrollment\, it may be canceled. Students will be notified at least 48 hours prior to the start of a cancelled workshop and will be refunded within 5 business days. If we reschedule a workshop to another date\, students are also entitled to a full refund. 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His debut feature film Looking for Horses (2021) has been screened at over forty international film festivals\, and won fifteen prizes\, among others\, the Burning Lights Competition at Visions du Reel\, Jury Prize at Sarajevo Film Festival\, Grand Prix at RIDM\, Best Film at Kasseler Dokfest.\nStefan was awarded the Prins Bernhard Documentary Stipend in 2021 and was selected for the Berlinale Talents program in 2022. He is a programmer at the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in The Hague\, the Netherlands. \nStefan received his BA in film directing at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and his MA at the Netherlands Film Academy in Artistic Research in and through Cinema. \nHe is currently developing his second feature length film with Momento Films and artTrace Foundation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160842″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Su Friedrich has directed twenty-seven films and videos since 1978\, which have been featured in thirty-one retrospectives at major museums and film festivals including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Rotterdam Film Festival\, the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema and the National Film Theater in London and they have been widely screened and extensively written. Her work is the subject of two recent books: Su Friedrich: Interviews\, edited by Sonia Misra and Rox Samer\, Univ. of Mississippi Press (2022) and Su Friedrich by Barbara Mennel\, Univ of Illinois Press (2023.) The films have won numerous awards\, including Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival\, Outstanding Documentary Award at Outfest and Best Narrative Film Award at the Athens International Film Festival. Fifteen of her films are available on DVD and VOD streaming from Outcast Films and her two most recent films are at Icarus Films.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”160840″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Philip Cartelli is a filmmaker\, producer\, and researcher whose work has been exhibited at Locarno Film Festival\, Edinburgh International Film Festival\, Visions du Réel\, Torino Film Festival\, FID Marseille\, and Film at Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real\, among others; distributed by Grasshopper Film\, Kinoscope\, and Tënk; and published in Ethnologie française\, Ethnologia Europaea\, Film International and Cinema Scope\, among others. \nHe holds a PhD in Media Anthropology from Harvard University (where he was a member of the Sensory Ethnography Lab)\, a PhD in Sociology from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris)\, and he was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program – Studio Program. He has been a resident at MacDowell\, Camargo Foundation\, and Iméra – Institute for Advanced Study. \nHe is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Wagner College in New York City and head producer at Nusquam LLC.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161002″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Miryam Charles is a filmmaker of Haitian origin living in Montreal. Her films have been shown at various festivals in Quebec and abroad. Her first feature\, Cette maison\, premiered at the Berlinale\, then presented at the AFI Film Festival\, and was included in the TIFF Top 10 and Sight and Sound‘s Best Films of the Year in 2022. 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SUMMARY:Cette Maison
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re thrilled to welcome filmmaker Miryam Charles for an evening of cinema and conversation centered on her renowned feature Cette Maison\, alongside an intimate sneak peek of a brand new work-in-progress short! \nCette Maison weaves documentary and reenactment into a luminous meditation on loss. Inspired by the life of of Charles’ late cousin\, the film reimagines her as Tessa\, eternally on the threshold between life and afterlife. Moving between Montreal\, Quebec\, and imagined visions of Haiti\, the film follows Tessa and her mother across spaces that blur memory\, theater\, and dream. \nThrough incantatory voiceover and ornate imagery\, Charles conjures a ghost story that is also a reflection on mourning\, inheritance\, and the afterlives of colonial violence. As The New Yorker writes\, the film is “a daring blend of documentary and fantasy that invests a deeply personal drama with a wide historical scope…” \nThe evening celebrates Miryam’s work over her 2022 Fellowship year at UNDO\, culminating in our publication Forms of Errantry\, edited by Charles’ partner in the fellowship\, writer Lakshmi Padmanabhan. Together\, the films and the book consider how experimental documentary can address the legacies of colonization as they are lived today. Between India and Haiti\, the publication follows the routes opened up by this inquiry to explore histories of survival and the aesthetics of errantry with commissioned contributions from Dessane Lopez Cassell\, Christopher Harris\,  Yasmina Price\, Chloé Savoie-Bernard with translation by H. Felix Chau Bradley and from Miryam herself. \nForms of Errantry will be available at the event\, you can also grab a copy online! \nMiryam will be in attendance alongside some fellow contributors to the book who will share some excerpts from their writing. Following the screening we’ll be hanging out for a toast\, and celebration to Miryam and this work. \nCome through![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]Cette Maison by Miryam Charles[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]75 min\, 2022[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Bridgeport\, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide\, the autopsy report reveals something else.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nProgram Duration: 90 mins \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nWatch the conversation between Presenter1\, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Watch” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” align=”center” css_animation=”bounceIn”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161002″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Miryam Charles is a filmmaker of Haitian origin living in Montreal. Her films have been shown at various festivals in Quebec and abroad. Her first feature\, Cette maison\, premiered at the Berlinale\, then presented at the AFI Film Festival\, and was included in the TIFF Top 10 and Sight and Sound‘s Best Films of the Year in 2022. Her work has been shown at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal\, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery\, the Everson Museum and the Palais de Tokyo.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”161230″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Dessane Lopez Cassell is a New York-based editor\, writer\, and creative producer. Her work spans the intersections of film and visual art\, with a particular interest in artist’s moving image\, documentary\, and experimental film. \nCassell’s writing and cultural criticism has been published in various outlets\, journals\, and books\, including the Los Angeles Times’s Image magazine\, Film Comment\, MUBI Notebook\, The Criterion Collection’s Current\, Metrograph Journal\, and Hyperallergic\, as well as catalogues issued by The Museum of Modern Art\, El Museo del Barrio\, the Studio Museum in Harlem\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. \nAs a producer\, Cassell has worked across disciplines to produce performances\, live events\, and various media projects\, including campaigns and content for Hourglass Cosmetics and Armani\, a live film score at MoMA\, and podcasts and radio shows for Microsoft (in collaboration with Listen)\, Roskilde Festival (Denmark)\, Bay FM and Creative X (both South Africa). \nAn itinerant curator and former museum worker\, Cassell has organized exhibitions\, screenings\, and performances at MoMA\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music\, Metrograph (in partnership with Abrons Arts Center)\, Anthology Film Archives\, Bartram’s Garden\, and the Black Women’s Film Conference\, among others. Additionally\, Cassell programmed for BlackStar Film Festival from 2018 to 2023\, and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of BlackStar’s journal\, Seen\, where she platformed film\, art\, and visual culture writing by and about people of color\, with an emphasis on nuanced\, slow journalism. Prior to joining Seen\, she was the first dedicated reviews editor at Hyperallergic\, where she focused on growing the publication’s film coverage and championing writers and artists from underrepresented communities. \nCassell is a former Fulbright fellow\, and has received scholarly awards and fellowships from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies\, the Ford Foundation\, CUNY Graduate Center\, and Oberlin College. She was named a DOC NYC Documentary New Leader in 2022 and serves as Vice President of the board of The Flaherty.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_media_grid style=”pagination” items_per_page=”1″ element_width=”12″ arrows_design=”vc_arrow-icon-arrow_01_left” arrows_position=”outside” arrows_color=”white” loop=”yes” item=”136647″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1768494066745-fc0410ef-f0ad-0″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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