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SUMMARY:Bouchra Khalili: Mapping Journeys\, Tracing Narratives
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This screening presents selections from Mapping Journey and Straight Stories. In these short films\, Khalili molds the narratives of individual journeys to portray the startling terrain of routes and passage\, of stories that are rarely shown. In these works the clandestine nature of the journeys are a given as individuals narrate and configure the relationship of their journey to the places they inhabit and subsequently navigate. \nThe discussion will address the techniques Khalili uses to convey the porous boundaries of the filmic medium. In what ways do aesthetics transform and reconfigure according to medium (including film\, visual art and installation)? To what extent can personal narratives be stretched and adapted to these various forms? \nThis program is part of ArteEast’s 2012 series Making the Real: Practices of Documentation. \n\nProgram runtime: 46 minutes  \nWe will be presenting the following selections: \n  \nAnya\, France/Morrocco\, 2008\, 12 minutes\, digital projection \nMapping Journey #1\,  2008\, 5 minutes\, digital projection \nMapping Journey #2\, France\,  2008\, 3 minutes\, digital projection \nMapping Journey #3\, France/Palestine\, 2009\, 4 minutes\, digital projection \nMapping Journey #4\, 2010\, 5 minutes\, digital projection \nMapping Journey #5\, 2010\, 11 minutes\, digital projection \nMapping Journey #7\, 2011\, 6 minutes\, digital projection \n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”120 minutes”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPhoto by: Alain Kantarjian\, 2006\nBouchra Khalili is a French-Moroccan video-artist\, born in 1975 in Casablanca. She has devoted herself to video work\, both in single channel and installation form\, since 2002. The artist uses this medium for its impurity\, which allows her to place her work at the very limits of cinema and the fine arts\, documentary and experimental work\, blurring the lines between these two practices. Her videos explore the Mediterranean area seen as a territory dedicated to a wandering\, nomadic existence. She documents the places she passes through\, their images and the images they generate. Khalili produces representations of these spaces’ mental dimension by placing them in an unusual perceptive experience\, thus testifying to the contemporary reality of emigration and its stories. \n  \n  \nBarrak Alzaid (b. 1985 Kuwait\, MA Performance Studies\, NYU) is a writer\, curator\, and artist\, and is the Artistic Director of ArteEast. Recent installation and performance work include Seera Kartooniya [Bushwick closed Studios\, 2010] and Diwaniya with Fatima Al Qadiri and Aziz Alqatami [Gwangju Design Biennial 2011]. Curatorial work includes antinormanybody [Kleio Projects\, 2011]. His article\, “Fatwas and Fags: Violence and the Discursive Production of Abject Bodies” is available in The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. \n  \n\n PRESENTED WITH: \n \nArteEast  presents the works of contemporary artists from the Middle East\, North Africa and their diasporas t a wide audience in order to foster a more complex understanding of the regions’ arts and cultures and to encourage artistic excellence. Through public events\, exhibitions\, film screenings\, a dynamic virtual gallery and a resource-rich website\, ArteEast supports artists and filmmakers by providing the platforms necessary for them to showcase groundbreaking and significant work. We also give the public the opportunity to learn more about and develop an appreciation for the talent of these established and emerging artists. \n \nThis project is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program\, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org www.eARTS.org). \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/january-7-2012-bouchra-khalili-mapping-journeys-tracing-narratives/
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SUMMARY:Santiago Stelley: The Wonderful Horrible Life of VICE
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]VICE Magazine\, now headquartered nearby in Williamsburg\, has grown from a fringe counter culture zine to a global youth brand. Their online television network is one of the most frequented destinations in online video. Focusing on short and medium form journalism\, they report on popular and counter culture\, often bringing to light fantastic and under told stories from around the world. They navigate terrain from traditional journalism\, hosted serial programs\, and branded content. \nMuch of the network’s success is a result of the provocative documentaries produced by Santiago Stelley. He has covered Somali refugees in Kenya\, transvestite mosques in Thailand\, bestiality in Colombia\, and hallucinogenic frogs in the Amazon\, to name a few. \nStelley will be presenting highlights of his work in company with collaborators for a discussion on chasing the white whale and the ever evolving world of Vice Media. \nCurated with Matt Yoka. \nThis project is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program\, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org www.eARTS.org).[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”Program”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Balls Deep – Sewers of Bogota”][vc_custom_heading text=”Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia – The Icelandic Skin-Disease Mushroom Fashion Fiasco”][vc_custom_heading text=”Vice Meets – Issei Sagawa”][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”80 minutes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Santiago Stelley was born in Madrid and studied Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Havana. After contributing for years as a correspondent for COLORS Magazine he moved to Venice where he spent 4 years as a full time Editor and Associate Creative Director. In 2004\, Mr Stelley left COLORS to head up the Editorial Department of La Fabrica in Madrid and to curate exhibitions for PhotoEspana. During this time he also worked as a Creative Director for LVMH fashion campaigns and catalogues. In 2006 Santiago moved back to NY to work with the Vice Magazine team in developing it’s on-line television network. He is currently the Creative Director for VICE.com. \nThomas Morton is a scrawny nerdlinger from Atlanta who moved to New York to convince the fagbashers he grew up around that he’d “made it.” He’s worked for Vice Magazine since 2004\, first as a gofer and drug-mule\, then editorial assistant\, then assistant editor\, then back down to associate editor\, then someone had the idea of making him host documentary videos and he’s been living out this cruel prank ever since. As an “on-air personality” he has helped make films in a number of countries around the world\, about such subjects as Kyrgyz bride kidnapping\, the depredation of the Amazon rainforest\, the gay New York leather scene\, pollution in the Pacific\, witch doctors who give West African email scammers magic powers\, and music. Thomas spent the first two years of high school as a goth and is getting a little fat in the stomach area.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Nightfairies and Radical Hustlers: Sex Workers as Activists
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Join the Sex Workers Outreach Project-NYC (SWOP-NYC) and Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK) as we celebrate International Sex Worker Rights Day by showcasing the fierce activism of sex workers in an exciting night of film. \nWhether it is by taking to the streets in protest\, delivering vital services to our fellow workers or simply reclaiming our stories and our lives\, sex workers are transforming communities and having our voices heard. \nWe will begin the program with a diverse selection of short films that highlight the activism of sex workers in Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, North America and here at home in NYC. Then we will focus our gaze on the actions of sex workers in India\, a motherland of sex worker activism where March 3 events originated\, with our feature length showing of Tales of the Nightfairies. This film explores the power of collective organizing and resistance of 60\,000 sex workers in Calcutta. A panel discussion including filmmakers and sex worker activists is part of our action-packed event. \nSWOP-NYC and SWANK proudly acknowledge the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival www.sexworkerfest.com for sponsorship and assistance in curating this inspiring night of film. Film night program developed by Anna Saini and PJ Starr of SWOP-NYC. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”First Session” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Red Lips (Cages for Black Girls) by Kyisha Williams\,” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”16 min.\, 2010″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nThis film explores black/racialized/criminalized/queer/trans identity and its relationship to the prison industrial complex. It articulates links between interpersonal and systemic violence – while celebrating the (sexy) ways in which we survive and celebrate ourselves. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Nothing About Us Without Us by Speak Up! Media Training” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”2 min.\, 2010″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nVideo and supplementary documents are designed to spark discussion and create inspiration for looking at the ways that peer-led groups providing support and services to sex workers in their communities can collaborate with harm reduction agencies. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Sex Workers and Anti-Trafficking (trailer) by Carol Leigh” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”18 min.\, 2012″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nAnti-trafficking is a sacred cow\, but behind this humanitarian concern is a century-old movement that historically reflects xenophobia and prostitution abolitionism. When Carol Leigh first heard about the resurgence of the white slavery/trafficking framework\, she knew she had to show how this moral panic has historically resulted in discriminatory immigration policies\, increased criminalization of sex work and few solutions for individuals who are victims of forced labor. This trailer introduces Collateral Damage: Sex Workers and The Anti-Trafficking Campaigns with a summary of Trafficking in The Media: Sex\, Power and Representation. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”MTV and the Trafficking Law in Cambodia by No Exit News” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”9 min.\, 2009″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nSex workers in Cambodia respond to the MTV Exit Campaign against trafficking and exploitation. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Rights Not Rescue by closed Society Foundations” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”9 min.\, 2010″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nSex workers are subjected to widespread human rights abuses\, including police violence and unequal access to health care\, in Botswana\, Namibia\, and South Africa. Despite enormous challenges\, they are organizing to protect their rights and demand an end to violence and discrimination. A report published by the closed Society Institute\, Rights Not Rescue\, is based on a series of interviews and focus groups with sex workers and advocates throughout the three countries. In this animated short film\, sex workers who participated in the research tell their personal stories and collectively call for hope and change. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Ni coupables\, ni victimes by Sexy Shock in collaboration with the ICRSE” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”5 min.\, 2005″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \n“Ni Coupables\, Ni Victimes” is a video record of the words and actions of sex worker and ally participants at the European Conference on Sex Work\, Human Rights\, Labour Rights and Migration. Media activists SexyShock and Scarlot Harlot were invited by the ICRSE to create a “video booth” at the “European Conference on Sex Work\, Human Rights\, Labour\, and Migration 2005”. This made it possible to film participants willing to be on camera while protecting the identities of those who did not. Interviews were made with conference participants who are sex workers and allies. Interview segments are blended with images from the street demonstration\, performances and images with Scarlot Harlot and text taken from the Sex Workers in Europe Manifesto. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”No Human Involved by PJ Starr” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”5 min.\, Work in Progress” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nAnti-prostitution laws have a devastating impact on many communities as shown by this work in progress which exams how one woman came to die in a US prison after being arrested for “solicitation.” The documentary when completed will chronicle how a movement was formed around this case\, one that seeks both justice and rights for sex workers. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”TORN by PJ Starr” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”4 min.\, 2011″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nTimes are hard in Sexxxys town\, the cops harassing\, the stroll not paying and a new law is being drafted that will ruin things for everyone. With a little help from her friends she finds stability and success until an unexpected betrayal challenges her comfortable new existence. A political education puts her in the drivers seat but she cannot help but be torn by the decision she has to make. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”70 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Second Session” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Tales of the Nightfairies by Shohini Ghosh” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”74 min.\, 2002″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nFive sex workers – four women and one man – along with the filmmaker/narrator embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the Night Fairies explores the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sex work. \nThe simultaneously expansive and labyrinthine city of Calcutta forms the backdrop for the personal and musical journeys of storytelling. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”VAMP Responds to “Prostitutes of the Gods“” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”4 min.\, 2010″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nThis clip by the Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP\, Prostitutes’ Collective Against Injustice)\, encapsulates a succinct response to ‘Prostitutes of God’\, a sensationalized and factually flawed documentary produced by Sarah Harris for VBS TV. Countering the distorted perspective in the film\, women from VAMP present their incisive views about sex work; religion and faith; livelihoods; issues of consent; ethics and cross-cultural sensitivities while making documentary films. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”80 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nKyisha Williams is a radical\, Black\, queer\, high femme\, ma’star\, sex positie vibrant\, survivor\, fighter\, writer and film/video maker. kyisha is a community organizer and support worker who does work with Black/ queer/ trans/ racialized/ crimanlized/ HIV+/HCV+ communities. kyisha has used art as a means of survival and celebration since her was sixteen. kyisha has an honours degree in policy and human rights. Red Lips (Cages for Black Girls) is her first video work. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nPJ Starr\, filmmaker and human rights advocate\, explores the complexity of sex workers experiences via documentary and fictional film projects. She will comment on the impact of the prison industrial complex on sex workers and people profiled as prostitutes (such as transgender people) and detail the community organizing around these issues in the US that she has captured on film for her work in progress No Human Involved. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nPaul Silva is a senior communications officer for the closed Society Foundations\, where he focuses on health and human rights issues. He is a former board member of the Positive Health Project\, a nonprofit organization in New York that provides health services to vulnerable populations\, including people who use drugs\, sex workers\, and transgender individuals. Prior to joining the closed Society Foundations\, he worked in media relations for the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union and the reproductive rights group Catholics for Choice. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nErika Smith is a DC activist and indie film star. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nAnna Saini (panel moderator) has lived many lives as a political scientist\, radical activist and multi-media artist. She completed a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto and McMaster University respectively. She works as a community organizer on issues of equality in higher education\, drug policy reform\, prison abolition\, women’s abuse issues\, police brutality\, and labor rights. Her writing appears in Bitch Magazine\, make/shift Magazine\, various journals and in her self-published anthology Colored Girls. An interview with Anna appears in the book “Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism!” \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-03-03-sex-workers-short-films/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Guga Hunters of Ness with Mike Day
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Guga Hunters of Ness\, Scotland\, 2011\, 59 minutes\, digital projection \nOn a remote Scottish isle an ancient and secretive tradition continues. Ten men set sail on a unique adventure to hunt seabirds and bring the meat back to the community of Ness. \nThe hunting of sea birds was outlawed in 1954 in the UK\, but the community of Ness on the Isle of Lewis continues to be granted the only exemption under UK and EU law allowing them to hold the annual hunt. Every August ten men from Ness set sail for Sula Sgeir\, a desolate island far out in the Atlantic. Following in the footsteps of countless generations\, they leave their normal lives behind to journey through storms and high seas to reach the remote hunting ground on this unique adventure. \nThe men live on the island for two exhausting weeks\, sleeping in old stone bothies among ruins built by Celtic monks over a thousand years ago. They work ceaselessly\, catching\, killing and processing 2000 birds using traditional methods before returning home with this rare meat so cherished by the people of Ness. \nFor fifty years the hunters kept their activities out of the public eye\, refusing countless approaches from film makers. Mike Day managed to win their trust and has produced a unique and fascinating glimpse into this long hidden tradition. \n“A gorgeously shot documentary feature that takes viewers into the heart of this ancient tradition\, celebrating its longevity and lamenting its decline without once being patronizing\, overly worthy or dull. The Guga Hunters Of Ness is poetic\, haunting\, its beautiful imagery making it hard to look away.” – EYE FOR FILM \nThe Film has screened at Glasgow International Film Festival\, the Celtic Media Festival and broadcast on BBC2 in January 2011. \n \n  \nMichael Day worked originally as a Middle Eastern specialist and lawyer in Dubai and London before retraining as a filmmaker. He founded Intrepid Cinema in 2009 before making The Guga Hunters of Ness. A self shooting director\, Mike trained on cameras from the family photography business\, established by his great grand father in Scotland in 1918. \n  \n  \nJennifer Merin has written about film for 20 years. She covers documentaries for About.com and is the film critic for Women’s eNews. She reports of film and cultural matters for Westwood One Radio Network’s morning drive news magazine\, “America In The Morning\,” and has reviewed films and interviewed filmmakers for New York Press\, a leading alt weekly newspaper\, andcontributed to TheReeler.com. Jennifer’s worked as newswriter/editor for ABC and CNN\, and reporter for NBC. Her ongoing weekly column about culture and travel has resided in the Los Angeles Times\, Associated Press\, Los Angeles Times Syndicate\, Tribune Media\, Creators Syndicate and is currently distributed by ArcaMax publishing. Jennifer is president of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists\, a nonprofit association of women covering film and the movie industry. AWFJ presents the annual EDA Awards. Jennifer edits and publishes AWFJ Women On Film\, the organization’s syndicated journal. Jennifer holds an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts\, where she studied and worked with many of today’s leading filmmakers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”http://vimeo.com/17151144″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/february-4-2012-the-guga-hunters-of-ness-with-mike-day/
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SUMMARY:The Cambridge Turn in Documentary Filmmaking with Scott MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We will be showing rarely seen work by John Marshall\, Miriam Weinstein\, Alfred Guzzetti\, Robb Moss\, and Stephanie Spray. \nFor several years Scott MacDonald has been working on a pair of projects relating to documentary filmmaking in Cambridge\, Massachusetts: The Cambridge Turn\, a critical history of the development of ethnographic film and of personal documentary in Cambridge and A Critical Cinema 6 (The Cambridge Turn)\, interviews with filmmakers who have taught and made films in Cambridge and/or have studied filmmaking there. During this process MacDonald has discovered or re-discovered a good many accomplished\, but under-appreciated films and videos. MacDonald will be with us to present a 90-minute program of this work. \n  \nWe will be presenting the following films: \nProgram runtime 80 minutes \n  \nLiving with Peter by Miriam Weinstein\, USA 1973\, 21 minutes \nLiving with Peter is an early personal documentary in which Weinstein struggles with her desire to be married. She knows she wants the security of marriage\, but also feels that marriage is\, in some sense\, about her fear of freedom. A rarely seen premonition of Ross McElwee’s work. \n \nA Joking Relationship by John Marshall\, USA 1962\, 13 minutes \nOver the course of his career\, filmmaker John Marshall shot more than one million feet of film and video (722 hours) of the Ju/’hoansi (!Kung Bushmen) of Namibia’s Kalahari Desert. Marshall produced twenty-three films and videos and one multi-part series from his extensive footage archive. \nA Joking Relationship depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai and her great-uncle Tikay. The two share a “joking relationship\,” a Ju/’hoan kin relationship which provides opportunities for casual intimacy\, emotional release\, and support. \n \nA Group of Women by John Marshall\, US 1961\, 5 minutes \nIn this short film\, Ju/’hoan women rest\, talk and nurse their babies while lying in the shade of a baobab tree. This film is a good illustration of “collective mothering” in which several women support each other and share the nurturing role. \n  \n  \n \nMonsoon Reflections by Stephanie Spray\, USA 2007\, 22 minutes \nDrawing its title from a poem by the Nepali poet Lekhnath Paudyal\, who depicts the monsoon season as sublime and blissful\, this video focuses instead on the melancholy and grit of two female Nepali field hands as they carry out their monsoon routines in Lekhnath\, Nepal. \n  \nAir by Alfred Guzzetti\, USA 1972\, 17 minutes \nAlfred Guzzetti combines academic and filmmaking careers. He has been working as an independent maker of documentary and experimental films and tapes for more than 35 years. His film Air won first prize in the experimental category at the 1972 Chicago International Film Festival. \nRiverdogs by Robb Moss \nMoss’ idyll about a group of river guides navigating the Colorado River has rarely been seen -ironically because its candidness about the body seemed to offend audiences in the early 1980s. Now\, it seems a breath of fresh water! \n  Scott MacDonald is author of the on-going series\, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers\, now in five volumes (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 1988\, 1992\, 1998\, 2004\, 2005). His Avant-Garde Film/Motion Studies (Cambridge University Press) was published in 1993; Screen Writings: Scripts and Texts by Independent Filmmakers (California)\, in 1995; and The Garden in the Machine: A Field guide to Independent Films about Place (California) in 2001). \nIn recent years\, MacDonald has published three books on institutions that have kept alternative cinema alive: the companion volumes Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society and Art in Cinema: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society (Philadelphia: Temple University Press\, 2002\, 2006)\, and Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor (California\, 2008). His articles and interviews have been published in Film Quarterly\, The Independent\, Artforum\, October\, The Chicago Review\, American Studies\, ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment)\, Feminist Studies\, and other journals. His newest book\, Adventures of Perception (California)\, a collection of essays and interviews\, was published this year. \nFor thirty years MacDonald’s passion has been introducing students and public audiences to the worlds of alternative cinema. In 1999 he was an Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation Honoree for his service in helping to preserve the history of alternative cinema. He has curated film events at the Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, at Anthology Film Archives (New York)\, at the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)\, at the Chicago Historical Society\, and at many other venues. He has taught film history\, American literature\, and American studies\, and programmed film events\, at Utica College of Syracuse University (where he is Professor Emeritus)\, and at Hamilton College\, Bard College\, and Harvard University. \nPRESENTED WITH: \n \nThis project is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program\, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org www.eARTS.org).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-03-04-documentary-filmmaking-scott-macdonald/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Reportage in Balloons: The Emerging Field of Comic Journalism
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Comic journalism as a term and practice is continuing to expand. This emerging field has found a strong base both in comic readers as well as those interested in non fiction storytelling. \nAs a method of long form journalism\, graphic reportage offers nuances and observations not always available in traditional reporting. It also appeals to different audiences who appreciate visual stimulation paired with complex situations. It allows for depictions of events where cameras are forbidden (e.g. Guy Delisle’s “Pyongyang”\, about this experience in North Korea)\, offering readers a poignant vision without threatening journalism ethics. \nOur guests will present an overview of their work\, and following participate in a discussion on how they define this field and their place in it\, different approaches to the craft\, and finally take questions from the audience. \nCurated with Amélie Garin-Davet. \n \nBill Kartalopoulos is a Brooklyn-based critic\, educator\, and curator who teaches classes about comics at Parsons The New School for Design. He is a co-organizer of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival and a Contributing Editor for Print Magazine\, and has worked as an assistant to Art Spiegelman for several years. He is a frequent public speaker about comics and comics education. \n  \n  \n \nIn 1980 Seth Tobocman was one of the founding editors of the political comic book “World War 3 Illustrated” which challenged the politics and morals of the Reagan-Bush era. His illustrations have appeared in the New York Times and many other magazines. Tobocman is the Author/Illustrator of five graphic books\, among “You Don’t Have to Fuck People To Survive\,” “Disaster and Resistance\,” and “Understanding the Crash.” He teaches at School of Visual Arts in the department of cartooning and Illustration. His images have been used in posters\, pamphlets\, murals graffiti and tattoos by peoples movements around the world\, from the African National Congress in South Africa\, to Squatters on New York’s Lower East Side. \n  \n \nMatt Bors is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist based in Portland\, OR. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times\, The Nation\, Village Voice\, and dozens of other print and web publications. In the summer of 2010\, Bors traveled to Afghanistan to draw comics and serves as the Comics Journalism Editor for www.cartoonmovement.com. He is currently editing a comics journalism project focused on reconstruction efforts in Haiti. His first graphic novel\, War Is Boring\, a collaboration with journalist David Axe\, was published in 2010 by New American Library. \n  \n  \n  \n \nJosh Neufeld is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist who works primarily in the realm of nonfiction comics. He is the writer/artist of the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge\, and the Xeric Award-winning graphic travelogue A Few Perfect Hours (and Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe). He is the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller The Influencing Machine: Brook Gladstone On the Media. He was a longtime artist for Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor\, and his art has been exhibited in gallery and museum shows in the United States and Europe. \n  \n  \n \nBrooke Gladstone is the managing editor and co-host of On the Media. After working in print media\, she joined NPR in 1987 as senior editor of Weekend Edition with Scott Simon and became senior editor of All Things Considered in 1989. In 1991\, she spent a year at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow and then reported for NPR from Moscow during Boris Yeltsin’s turbulent presidency (1992-95.) After that\, Gladstone served for six years as NPR’s first media correspondent and then joined On the Media when it relaunched in January\, 2001. \nGladstone is the recipient of two Peabody Awards\, a National Press Club Award\, an Overseas Press Club Award and several others. She also is the author of The Influencing Machine (W.W. Norton)\, a media manifesto in graphic form\, listed among the year’s top books by The New Yorker\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal\, and among the “10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction” by The Atlantic. \nBorn in Paris and now based in Brooklyn\, Amélie Garin-Davet is an independent curator and festival administrator at the Hamptons International Film Festival. She recently worked in festival coordination at the film sales company Wide Management\, programming at the forum des images\, and has been a comic nut since she started reading.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-04-21-comic-journalism/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Finding the Hidden Story: An Audio Evening with Big Shed
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s a noisy\, noisy world out there. Big Shed wants you to isolate the signal of the good stories from the din of mediocrity. \nBig Shed’s throwing a party\, and you’re invited. Their work making audio and multimedia documentaries over the last few years has them thinking about the ways we gather and share stories. They will present two of their ongoing projects – Verite x 2 and the Place + Memory Project – as a way to examine ideas like treating your microphone as a camera\, the value of real social networks beyond the virtual kind\, and what happens when your audience becomes your collaborator. The evening will be part discussion\, part dinner theatre and part dance party. And how can you say “no” to that?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Program”][vc_column_text]Verite x 2: In 2011\, Big Shed held an audio challenge called Verite + 1 to encourage audio producers to create a story almost entirely out of verite recordings. Big Shed believes this is a powerful and beautiful storytelling tool\, which you’re unlikely hear on North American radio documentary. Producers rarely use verite in their stories and when they do\, radio editors find it confusing\, too long and disorienting. Big Shed finds that lame\, and the challenge is their way of turning the tide. At the event\, we’ll hear selections from the first contest. And with a little help from the audience and The Big Shed Players\, they will not only announce the details of Verite x 2\, they’re going to put you in the middle of the scene. Picture the Maysles brothers hosting Let’s Make a Deal… it’ll be kinda like that. \nPlace + Memory: How do we use the past to connect people in the present? Place + Memory is a radio and web-engagement project that answers that question while recreating places that were significant in our lives but now\, no longer exist. Using documentaries as a starting point\, the project unleashes public stories of time and place. The project was launched as a national project in 2009 with NPR and AIR. Now Place + Memory is working to launch a series of local projects across the US\, using story gathering to build community relationships. And since that sounds 10 times more boring than it is\, they’re going to show you how it’s done with what they like to call a documentary square dance. You bring your boots\, they’ll call the dance\, and by the end of this choreographed\, storytelling fandango they promise to leave you in an exhausted state of documentary bliss.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Presenter”][vc_column_text] \n \nShea Shackelford is an independent documentary producer\, and his audio and multimedia awards include a Bronze for Best Radio Documentary at the 2010 Third Coast International Audio Festival. He is the creator of the Place + Memory Project\, a public media project mapping a landscape of remembered places. When Shea isn’t producing his own stories\, he’s busy training other media makers and helping organizations design and create their own media projects. Shea is a regular producer-in-residence at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. \n  \n  \n \nJesse Dukes has been working as a journalist since 2005\, producing audio and multimedia stories for radio and the web. He also writes magazine articles. His radio work has aired on Studio 360\, Weekend Edition and Day to Day and other national and regional radio programs. Print and award-winning multimedia work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and Global Post. When he isn’t working from his home in Charlottesville\, VA\, Jesse’s frequently reporting from places as far and wide as central Alaska\, Downeast Maine\, or Tanzania. \n  \nBig Shed Players – Big thanks to Sam Greenspan and Ben Pagac who helped design and create a bit of audio theatrics for the evening’s presentation. \n(Big Shed is Shea Shackelford\, Jesse Dukes and Jennifer Deer. Jennifer couldn’t be with us for this presentation.)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-04-22-an-audio-evening-with-big-shed/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120505T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120505T220000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Branded Documentary - Work and Play
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We look at where documentary\, marketing\, music\, and interactive design can meet to produce the “bread and butter” to fuel creative practices. There is a long history of documentarians creating for clients – we will examine this and try to find that happy place between work and artistic practice.  \nJoin us for presentations from two of the most prolific organizations in the web documentary / branded content sphere followed by a discussion about how they take on jobs\, manage client expectations with artistic vision\, and what promises the future of online media hold. \nCurated with Lucas Carlisle. \nm ss ng p eces is a Brooklyn-based creative company inspired by the limitless potential of storytelling\, technology and the web. A team of strategists and artists providing creative and production services to likeminded brands and agencies\, their hand-crafted stories have celebrated the human spirit\, innovation\, art and culture since 2005. \n \nAri Kuschnir is the CEO\, co-founder and Executive Producer of m ss ng p eces – a Brooklyn based creative company inspired by the limitless potential of technology\, storytelling and the web. Ari has been designing\, advising and completing creative projects that matter to him and his community since 2005. His tireless passion for blazing trails has lead to collaborations with TED\, GE\, Common\, Vimeo\, Intel\, Amex\, The Climate Reality Project\, and some of the world’s leading artists\, thinkers and companies. \nHe has been featured in Creativity Magazine’s “New Talent\,” Sundance Channel’s “New Revolutionaries\,” Adweek’s “Portraits\,” and TED’s Ads Worth Spreading. \n \nScott Thrift is an artist\, award winning filmmaker and founding partner of the creative company m ss ng p eces. He has made hundreds of pieces that explore themes of individuality\, technological potential\, the human condition and the natural world. His work has been a journey that has taken him across the planet\, exposing fascinating cultures and revealing new perspectives on what it is to be human. He is mystified by the power of the moving image and committed to exploring how it can expand consciousness. \nThrift listens to the abstract desires of global culture and produces digital and analog objects that reflect & enrich the human experience. After spending over 10\,000 hours capturing and manipulating the light and sound of raw footage\, he has formed a unique relationship with the value of time. \nLost & Found Films is a non-fiction film production company dedicated to telling stories that explore cultural and social issues and finding new ways to engage audiences. Founded in 2009 by Ben Wu and David Usui\, Lost & Found has collaborated with many outlets including the NY Times\, Wired\, Wallpaper\, Food+Wine\, Vice and GOOD magazine. Their previous commercial work has included campaigns with Pepsi\, Nike\, Lexus\, MoMA\, Chandelier Creative\, Martha Stewart Living and the Obama 2012 Campaign. \n \nTom Roston is a freelance journalist who writes the Doc Soup blog for POV at PBS.org. He started his career in journalism at The Nation and then Vanity Fair\, and he spent ten years at Premiere magazine\, where he was a Senior Editor. Roston has written about documentary film\, movies and pop culture for The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, GQ\, New York\, Elle and other publications. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-05-05-branded-documentary-work-and-play/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120506T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120506T220000
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SUMMARY:Scene: Brooklyn - A Master Class with Filmmaker Jem Cohen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Filmmaker Jem Cohen will screen and discuss rarely seen films including Real Birds\, the Patti Smith portrait\, Long for the City\, some of the Gravity Hill Newsreels (about Occupy Wall Street) and excerpts from recent projects including the multi-screen live show\, We Have an Anchor\, and his upcoming feature. \nIn regards to documentary\, Cohen believes storytelling is overrated\, ambiguity is underrated\, and the mystery of the real can’t be beat\, sold\, or reduced to a formula. \nCohen has made about fifty films. Some are personal/political city portraits made on travels around the globe. Others are portraits of friends\, artists\, and musicians. His feature-length films\, Chain and Benjamin Smoke\, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Instrument\, his collaborative document of the band\, Fugazi\, showed at the Rotterdam Film Festival and Whitney Biennial. Lost Book Found is in the collections of MoMA\, the Whitney\, and the Jewish Museum. Cohen has had retrospectives at venues including the NFT in London\, Oberhausen Film Fest\, and Punto de Vista documentary fest. His works have been broadcast by PBS\, ZDF/ARTE\, BBC\, and The Sundance Channel. As an activist\, Cohen was extensively involved in overturning proposed restrictions on street photography in New York City. Recent projects include a collaboration with writer Luc Sante in Tangier and films for Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s past and current tours. \nCohen will be joined in discussion by UnionDocs’ Programmer Steve Holmgren. \nScene: Brooklyn runs May 2-6\, 2012. Click here For the full lineup. \nPRESENTED WITH \nScene: Brooklyn\, Independent Film and Media Arts is the cornerstone of Brooklyn Arts Council’s film activities\, showcasing the tremendous and diverse film talent based in Brooklyn and bringing independent Brooklyn filmmakers together with new audiences. Scene: Brooklyn includes a May screening and discussion series; special screenings\, parties and discussions in partnership with local film and media organizations throughout the year; professional development seminars for filmmakers and film & media organizations; and filmmaker meet ups and social gatherings. \n \nThis project is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program\, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org www.eARTS.org). \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-05-06-a-master-class-with-jem-cohen/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Kinetic Cinema: Screening and Discussion with Amy Ruhl
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Filmmaker Amy Ruhl curates a provocative program of Kinetic Cinema that examines how the female body\, under the unique technology of cinema\, has been the primary source of spectacle since the beginnings of film. \nRuhl’s work engages with sources ranging from George Meliès’ “trick films\,” to Nazimova’s Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils) to Vera Chytilova’s phantasmagoria scene in Daisies\, one of the most lauded Czech new wave films. She will present examples of these influences and discuss how they have informed her latest short film\, How Mata Hari Lost Her Head and Found Her Body which was made in part by collaging early film footage together with live action animation. \nThe program will also feature works by two contemporary experimental filmmakers\, Kerrie Welsh and Amy Greenfield\, who will be in attendance and join the discussion. \nWe will be presenting the following works: \nProgram runtime 60 minutes \n \nHow Mata Hari Lost Her Head and Found Her Body by Amy Ruhl \nRuhl’s work is an imaginary biography of a real historical figure: the erotic dancer and courtesan executed by firing squad for double espionage in World War I. Reinventing the archetypal femme fatale according to her corporeal afterlife – Hari was decapitated after her execution\, her body donated to anatomical study and her head displayed at the Musee d’Anatomie – Ruhl imagines her as a striptease artist whose ability to remove her head takes Belle Époque Paris by storm. Using Oscar Wilde’s Salome as a site for narrative and historical interaction\, the film draws upon the cultural phenomenon of “Salomania” among largely lesbian and bisexual female performers in order to engage with an era when Orientalism sold\, scandal became success\, and deviant desires equaled a crime punishable by death. \nPeter\, Peter… by Kerrie Welsh\, 16mm color sync sound. 7 minutes\, 2002 \nA dark retelling of the children’s rhyme “Peter\, Peter\, Pumpkin Eater\,” illustrates the disparity between the narratives we construct and the realities they represent. \nWildfire by Amy Greenfield\, 12 minutes\, 2003\, digital projection \nThe final film in Greenfield’s acclaimed Club Midnight film cycle depicts women “clothed” in electronically generated flaming colors\, reincarnating Thomas Edison’s 1894 hand-tinted film\, Annabelle Dances. \nKinetic Cinema is a regular screening series curated by invited guest artists who create evenings of films and videos that have been influential to their own work as artists. When artists are asked to reflect upon how the use of movement in film and media arts has influenced their own art\, a plethora of new ideas\, material\, and avenues of exploration emerge. From cutting edge motion capture animation to Michael Jackson music videos\, from Gene Kelly musicals to Kenneth Anger films\, movement in media has made a great impact on the culture at large. Kinetic Cinema is dedicated to the recognition and appreciation for “moving” pictures. We have presented these evenings at Collective: Unconscious\, Chez Bushwick\, Interborough Repertory Theater\, University Settlement\, Launchpad\, Green Space and The Tank in New York City\, as well as at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. \nFor more info on the upcoming Kinetic Cinema season please visit our website and our blog. \nPentacle’s Movement Media programming is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council. \nKINETIC CINEMA is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. \nPRESENTED WITH \n \n \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-05-07-kinetic-cinema-with-amy-ruhl/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Love + Radio Listening Session and Launch Celebration
DESCRIPTION:A crusader for truth\, or\, as Karl Rove called him: “a nut with internet access”? Jason Leopold wanted to be a part of something\, and that quest brought him through a labyrinthine world of decadent glam metal\, dangerous mafioso\, love\, investigative journalism challenging the heights of government and corporate power\, and the collisions of past and present. His story is the subject of the season three premiere of the critically-acclaimed Love + Radio podcast.  \nPresented publicly for the first time in New York City\, this event also celebrates Love + Radio’s debut as a WBEZ podcast. We’ll feature a mind-blowing hour-long audio screening\, followed by Q+A and ample celebration. \nWBEZ’s Love + Radio features intimate interviews with an eclectic range of subjects from the seedy to the sublime\, permeated by music and otherworldly production. It won the top prize at the 2011 Third Coast Festival Competition (often described as the “Sundance of public radio”)\, the first podcast to do so in the competition’s 11-year history.
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-26-05-love-and-radio/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120604T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120604T220000
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SUMMARY:Capturing Palestine: Witnessing and Storytelling with Michael Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since late 2009\, the West Bank village of Iraq Burin has been subject to land theft and increasing violence from the Israeli military and neighboring settlement of Bracha. In March 2010\, the Israeli military entered the village and shot two teenage boys in the street. Counter to Israeli claims that no live ammunition was used\, a U.N. report was issued on the incident containing three post-mortem photographs of entry and exit wounds on the boys’ bodies. Excluded from this report and other journalistic accounts is another image: dried blood in the street where the boys fell that spelled “Mohammed.” \nCan the photographer\, researcher\, artist\, journalist\, human rights worker or activist meet the demands of objectivity and proof required in the documentation of rights abuses and still take the miraculous seriously? \nOn Iraq Burin consists of 22 large format photographs accompanied by entries from Kennedy’s notebooks recounting demonstrations\, settler violence\, detention and stories told in the village of the boys’ murder. The form of the notebook is explored here as a genre of writing\, driven by the unfinished thoughts and observations purged from (scholarly\, legal\, journalistic) writings that find their efficacy in objectivity. Photographs of landscape\, home interiors\, objects referenced in the reports\, and the notebooks themselves are sutured to the text to make a sort of half document\, quasi record\, semi proof of things – not? – encountered. \nThis program is part of ArteEast’s 2012 series Making the Real: Practices of Documentation. \n \nMichael Kennedy is a photographer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His work considers the politics of representation by moving between artistic practice and the conventions of ethnography. He holds a M.A. in anthropology from the American University in Cairo\, and has taught photography in the Department of Journalism at An Najah University. His writings and photography have appeared in publications and exhibits in the Middle East\, Europe\, and the United States. \n  \nBarrak Alzaid (b. 1985 Kuwait\, MA Performance Studies\, NYU) is a writer\, curator\, and artist\, and is the Artistic Director of ArteEast. Recent installation and performance work include Seera Kartooniya [Bushwick closed Studios\, 2010] and Diwaniya with Fatima Al Qadiri and Aziz Alqatami [Gwangju Design Biennial 2011]. Curatorial work includes antinormanybody [Kleio Projects\, 2011]. His article\, “Fatwas and Fags: Violence and the Discursive Production of Abject Bodies” is available in The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. \n  \nPRESENTED WITH: \n \nArteEast presents the works of contemporary artists from the Middle East\, North Africa and their diasporas t a wide audience in order to foster a more complex understanding of the regions’ arts and cultures and to encourage artistic excellence. Through public events\, exhibitions\, film screenings\, a dynamic virtual gallery and a resource-rich website\, ArteEast supports artists and filmmakers by providing the platforms necessary for them to showcase groundbreaking and significant work. We also give the public the opportunity to learn more about and develop an appreciation for the talent of these established and emerging artists. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-04-06-capturing-palestine-michael-kennedy/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T220000
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SUMMARY:16mm & Super 8 Filmmaking Workshop Screening Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Come and see the finished film works of our 16 mm filmmaking and Super 8 workshop participants! Watch inspired film works projected on 16mm presented by the filmmakers\, who were instructed by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Megan Hess. Afterwards\, we’ll be celebrating with the participants of our recently completed round of filmmaking workshops. Come to the screening or come out to the party at 10pm for drinks and dancing. \nThe Super 8 four-session class introduced the basics of making a 3-minute black & white Super8 film. In learning the language of film each student documented something that grips them about their life right now. Playing on the nostalgic feeling super-8 film conjures for most viewers thier will attempt to create short films that display the sweetness of today through the lens of yesteryear. \nThe 16mm four-session class introduced students to the basics of 16mm filmmaking by gaining an elementary knowledge of the Bolex camera and light meter\, analog editing\, and visual storytelling. Each student created his or hers own 3-minute personal film exploring an idea\, feeling\, notion or thought utilizing the tools of cinema.
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-0816mm-super-8-filmmaking-workshop-screening-celebration/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Radio Cabaret - Summer Edition
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This event no longer has any pre-sale tickets remaining. There will be a limited number of seats available for walk up purchase when doors closed 15 minutes prior to the event start. \nRadio Cabaret is a variety show where radio stories come to life before your eyes. Producers bring the traditions of public radio to the stage through storytelling\, musical performance\, visual animation\, theater and live interviews. Performances range in topic but share a common reference to audio documentary. \nThis hour unfolds like a living breathing radio magazine with a radio host (disembodied MC) and a variety of acts. This evening will feature the work of public radio journalists Brendan McMullan\, Michal Richardson\, Alexis Powell\, Laura Hadden\, Sharon Mashihi\, Kaitlin Prest\, and Audrey Quinn.Their performances will vary in length from five to fifteen minutes. \n  \n  \n  \nA Catholic and a Jew walk into Union Docs. Their task is to once and for all put to rest a long standing controversy: whose religion breeds the most guilt? \n  \nBrendan McMullan interns at Radiolab\, studies at Brooklyn College\, works at a cafe\, co-manages an art space in Bushwick and is starting an ice cream business this summer. In his spare time\, he sleeps. He aims to tell stories that matter\, carefully. \n \nMichal Richardson helps to create educational games by day\, but can usually be found working on a calligraphy piece or at folk dancing. She hopes to one day perform a song on her ukulele from atop a unicycle. \nHearsay & Hyperbole (Alexis Powell with collaborators Jessica Asch and Prentiss Benjamin) will explore the world of Customer Service. Who are the people on the other end of the line? Advice Givers\, Counselors\, Guides\, Gatekeepers. Whether we like it or not\, they hold our personal stories and secrets and the keys to our well-being. This piece will examine the voices on the other side. \nHearsay & Hyperbole is the video\, voice and performance project of Alexis Powell\, who is an artist living in Brooklyn\, NY. \n  \n  \nRing Tunes explores the ways in which people reclaim their individuality via cell phone ring tones as well as the emotional response that is elicited from the sound that mediates much of our daily communication. This project aims to honor the ring tone as a personal aesthetic choice in a similar vein as “street fashion” that blurs the lines between personal and performative identity. \nLaura Hadden is a media artist and documentary producer based in Brooklyn\, NY. She is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts program as well as Media Manager at The Moth\, a non-profit storytelling organization with a popular podcast and public radio show. Her short collaborative film Matthew 24:14 was the winner of the 2011 International Documentary Challenge. When she’s not producing media\, she co-produces United Noshes\, a weekly(ish) dinner party celebrating the food and culture of each member of the United Nations. \n  \n  \nAmazing Amy – Yoga Contortion Dancer the Amazing Amy takes the stage. Teaming up with sex positive radio collective Audio Smut\, she comments on sexuality of the elderly through movement and sound. The Amazing Amy performs all over New York City\, and has been featured in music videos\, documentaries and has appeared on Law and Order: SVU\, Episode – Strange Beauty. Audio Smut is a sex positive documentary audio project and podcast producing monthly works of sexy art. \n  \n  \nRadio Cabaret is produced and directed by Sharon Mashihi\, Kaitlin Prest\, & Audrey Quinn. \n \n  \nSharon Mashihi is a radio producer and screenwriter. She works regularly with WNYC’s Studio 360 as well as Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin. She studied film at New York University and radio documentary at the Salt Institute. Her most recent feature length screenplay is being produced by Killer Films. \n  \nKaitlin Prest is creative director of Audio Smut\, a sex positive documentary radio show broadcast on CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal. She was awarded the 2010 National Community Radio Awards’ Outstanding Achievement in Documentary for part of a series exploring the gentrification of Montreal’s Red Light district. \nShe produces radio drama\, sound installation\, listening parties and all sorts of other documentary audio experiments. She is currently a collaborative fellow at Union Docs. \n  \nAudrey Quinn is a multimedia science journalist in Brooklyn\, NY. After getting bitten by a few too many lab mice as a neuroscience researcher\, she realized she much preferred talking about science than doing research herself. She’s had the pleasure of working with Radiolab\, PRI’s The World\, Deutsche Welle Radio\, the Distillations podcast\, and a number of NPR affiliate stations. She blogs about healthcare for CBS Interactive\, and she’s also been a producer for web-based videos.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:My Neighborhood: Documentation and Activism on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Join us as we explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by looking at some of the documentary media being produced around it. We will focus on Just Vision\, a trailblazing organization creating provocative\, award-winning features\, shorts\, and multimedia resources aimed at raising awareness about Palestinians and Israelis working nonviolently to resolve the conflict and end the occupation. Just Vision collaborators\, Jessica Devaney\, Neta Patrick\, Aida Shibli\, and Uri Ayalon will present in full their new short My Neighbourhood\, fresh off of it’s Tribeca premiere. This short is a powerful look at court sanctioned evictions of Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah through the eyes of an 11 year-old boy. Following this we will get an overview of their goals and how they use media to support the work of activists on the ground through partnerships with various media outlets\, institutions\, and NGOs. \nWe will then hear from Neta Patrick\, an Israeli lawyer with extensive experience in human rights complaints in the region as well as collaborations with NGO’s. Following we will hear from Uri Ayalon and Aida Shibli from the Peace Research Village Project\, who are developing plans for a sustainable closed community in the West Bank. To conclude we will have a panel discussion on the role of documentary and media in conflict specific to the region. We will focus on how these works are produced\, shown\, and utilized to spark dialogue and incite change. \nMy Neighbourhood by Rebekah Wingert-Jabi and Julia Bacha\, 2012\, 25 minutes. \nMy Neighbourhood follows Palestinian teenager Mohammed El Kurd as half of his home in East Jerusalem is taken over by Jewish settlers. When Israeli activists arrive to protest the takeover alongside Palestinian residents\, Mohammed comes of age in the face of unrelenting tension and unexpected cooperation in his backyard. \nThrough their personal stories\, My Neighbourhood goes beyond the sensational headlines that normally dominate discussions of Jerusalem and captures voices rarely heard\, of those striving for a shared future in the city. \nJust Vision is comprised of an award-winning team of Palestinian\, Israeli\, North and South American journalists\, human rights advocates and filmmakers\, Just Vision creates documentary films and other multimedia resources aimed at raising awareness about the underreported efforts of Israeli and Palestinian civilians working nonviolently to resolve the conflict and end the occupation. My Neighbourhood is Just Vision’s latest production\, coming on the heels of acclaimed documentaries Budrus and Encounter Point. For more information about Just Vision\, visit www.justvision.org. \n \nJessica Devaney is a digital communications strategist with a decade of experience in technology and social change advocacy. She is the Communications and Production Manager at Just Vision\, an organization that generates awareness and support for Palestinians and Israelis who are pursuing freedom\, dignity\, security and peace using nonviolent means. Jessica is the Associate Producer of Budrus\, an award-winning documentary about a Palestinian community organizer who unites local political factions along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. It was hailed as the year’s “must-see documentary” in the The New York Times.  \nJessica is the producer of Just Vision’s short film series Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah profiling nonviolent efforts in East Jerusalem and co-producer of the 25-minute documentary My Neighbourhood\, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on Al Jazeera. \nNeta Patrick is an Israeli lawyer specializing in Israeli constitutional and human rights law. Patrick is a fellow with the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute where she works on a project that focuses on housing land and property rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory. Patrick graduated with Honors from Tel Aviv University School of law and the gender and women studies program. Awarded a full human rights fellowship from Columbia university\, she completed her Master in Laws program (LL.M) in 2011 as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. \n  \nAida Shibli is a global peace worker born in Palestine\, she is committed to social and political change\, through focusing on women empowerment and building new structures of life. Shibli is skilled in mediating\, conflict resolution\, non violence communication\, group facilitating and project management. She is an active member of various NGOS in Israel-Palestine\, concentrating in integrating Palestinian women in the “political show\,” via knowing their civil rights and resisting the Israeli occupation by non violent means. She has worked as a nurse and medical researcher\, she is also a mother of one child and invests in finding new ways of raising children. \nFor the last 5 years she has been a core group member of the Peace Research Village Association\, she is committed to establishing another one. She brings with her\, her skills\, her commitment and the easy flow between the two Middle East nations because of her knowledge of both languages and cultural background. Shibli’s deepest wish is to integrate her woman wisdom with political activism and motherhood. \nUri Ayalon was working as a media reporter of “HAARETZ” daily newspaper in Israel\, as a high school history teacher\, and as a spokesman and public relations advisor for political and social NGOs. \nHe was serving as a soldier in the Israeli army as a broadcaster in the army radio station. These days he refuses to do any reserve service in the Israeli army out of conscientious objection. As part of the anti-globalization movement\, Uri participated and organized many demonstrations and political events\, and was one of the founders of “Anarchists Against the Wall” – an Israeli direct action group\, which is fighting against the wall in Palestine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Afghanistan and Pakistan: Films by Kathleen Foster
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]New York-based documentary filmmaker Kathleen Foster will screen her films Afghan Women: A History of Struggle (2007) and 10 Years On\, Afghanistan & Pakistan (2011). She will be joined by Pinar Kayaalp\, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History (Ramapo College of New Jersey) for a discussion after the screening.  \nWe will be screening the following works: \nProgram runtime 100 minutes \nAfghan Women: A History of Struggle\, 2007\, 69 minutes \nThis timely documentary dramatizes the tale of a group of remarkable women\, how their courage and commitment to change their lives and country has passed from one generation to the next. Their disturbing and amazing stories reflect the recent history of Afghanistan during a quarter-century of cataclysm: from proxy war to civil war\, from a Soviet-backed regime to the oppressive rule of the Taliban\, and to U.S. military intervention and the current sway of regional warlords and general instability. \n“Foster challenges viewers to examine how Afghan women have continually borne the dual costs of American imperial ambitions on the one side\, and the barbarity of feudal warlords on the other.” — Prerana Reddy\, Director of Public Events\, Queens Museum of Art\, New York\, USA. \n10 Years On\, Afghanistan & Pakistan\, 2011\, 30 minutes \nSince 9/11\, Americans have largely been kept ignorant of the human cost of the Middle East wars in Iraq\, Afghanistan and now Pakistan. After more than a decade of fighting\, Foster’s newest film provides an up to date account of the consequences of the War on Terror in Afghanistan and now Pakistan\, as the US expands the war through the use of remote control drones fired over the Afghan border into Pakistan. \nThe new documentary updates\, Afghan Women: A History of Struggle\, which focused on the struggles of women and U.S. involvement over the past 30 years of conflict in Afghanistan. \nAs the civilian death toll mounts and economic conditions worsen the film shows how Afghans are struggling to change a world increasingly dominated by violence and corruption and how Pakistani workers and peasants are fighting back with militant strikes and protests across the country. \n10 Years On\, Afghanistan & Pakistan is a must see film for anyone interested in knowing the reality of the war from the point of view of those whose homes and lives are being destroyed. \n10 Years On\, Afghanistan & Pakistan ties the war\, America’s longest military conflict\, to the economic downturn at home and makes the connection between grass roots demands for economic and social justice in Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Occupy Wall Street movement here. \n\n Kathleen Foster is a British born\, New York-based documentary filmmaker. Since the mid-1980’s she has been making films for community organizations and producing independent documentaries that combine elements of history\, current events and individual stories and focus on grass roots struggles for change. \nHer films have received wide distribution and have been screened at such prestigious showcases as the Museum of Modern Art\, the Asia Society\, Queens Museum\, Anthology Film Archives\, and Brecht Forum. She has spoken and lectured at screenings of her films at universities around the country including NYU\, Columbia\, Boston\, MICA\, UCLA\, Howard and Princeton. \nShe studied photography at the New School for Social Research with Lisette Model. Her photos appeared in publications such as the New York Times\, Scholastic Magazines\, Time\, Village Voice\, Food and Wine Magazine\, Fortune Magazine\, Institutional Investor and Z Magazine. Her work is represented in the collections of the Chase Manhattan Bank\, The Museum of the City of New York\, York College and private collectors. \nHer photographs of Afghanistan were exhibited at the Leedell Gallery in Soho and portfolios were published in various photography magazines such as Creative Camera and British Journal of Photography. \n\nPRESENTED WITH \n \nTHE STANDBY PROGRAM\, INC. is a non-profit media arts service organization founded in 1983. Standby’s mission is to foster the creation and preservation of media art work by democratizing access to media technology\, providing technical information and consultation\, and creating resources which advance the development of the field as a whole. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-16-afghanistan-films-with-kathleen-foster/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120618T193000
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SUMMARY:Northside Film Festival: Girl Model | Minka and Unfinished Spaces
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are hosting more exciting documentary screenings with the Northside Film Festival on  6/19\, 6/20 and 6/21. In addition to our screenings\, our neighbors at Nitehawk Cinema and indieScreen are presenting films with the festival as well. See the complete festival line-up here. \n6:30pm Girl Model by David Redmon & Ashley Sabin\, USA 2011\, 78 minutes. \n Presented by POV \nBuy tickets for Northside Film Festival: Girl Model \nAndrew Catauro (POV) will be in attendance to introduce Girl Model. Model and featured subject Rachel Blais in attendance for discussion following the screening. \nDespite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo\, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley\, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market\, and one of her discoveries\, Nadya\, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley’s initial discovery of Nadya\, the two rarely meet again\, but their stories are inextricably bound. As Nadya’s optimism about rescuing her family from their financial difficulties grows\, her dreams contrast against Ashley’s more jaded outlook about the industry’s corrosive influence. \nGirl Model is a lyrical exploration of a world defined by glass surfaces and camera lenses\, reflecting back differing versions of reality to the young women caught in their scope. As we enter further into this world\, it more and more resembles a hall of mirrors\, where appearances can’t be trusted\, perception become distorted\, and there is no clear way out. Will Nadya\, and the other girls like her\, be able to find anyone to help them navigate this maze\, or will they follow a path like Ashley’s\, having learned the tricks of the labyrinth but unable to escape its lure? \n“A fascinating look at the stark\, staring mad world of modeling.” — The Times \n“David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s engrossing documentary provides access to a pitiless niche of the fashion industry\, but it’s arguably more fascinating in its depiction of the recruiters that their discoveries.”– Hollywood Reporter \nClick here to watch the trailer. Stay tuned for the theatrical release courtesy of First Run Features closeding on September 5\, IFC Center\, New York. \n8:30pm Minka and Unfinished Spaces \nBuy tickets for Northside Film Festival: Minka and Unfinished Spaces \n \n  \n8:30pm Minka by Davina Pardo\, 16 minutes \nPresented by Film Sprout  \nMinka is a short documentary about a remarkable Japanese farmhouse and the memories it contains. In 1967\, an American journalist and a Japanese student rescued the ancient house from the snow country of Japan\, and their lives were forever changed. \n  \nUnfinished Spaces by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray\, 86 minutes \nFilmmakers Alysa Nahmias and Ben Murray in attendance for discussion following the screening. \nCuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project\, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution\, is neglected\, nearly forgotten\, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece. \nIn 1961\, three young\, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba’s National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana\, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school’s first classes soon followed. Dancers\, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools\, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality\, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use\, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream. \n“Lucidly filmed… a stirring study… an absorbing film”  — Hollywood Reporter \n“A witty survey (and dismantling) of Cuban politics…” — Village Voice \n  \nClick here to watch the trailer. Stay tuned for the PBS Broadcast in October 2012. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-18-northside-film-festival/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Northside Film Festival: Boy I Am | In Search of Avery Willard and Dzi Croquettes
DESCRIPTION:We are hosting more exciting documentary screenings with the Northside Film Festival on 6/18\, 6/20 and 6/21. In addition to our screenings\, our neighbors at Nitehawk Cinema and indieScreen are presenting films with the festival as well. See the complete festival line-up here. \n 6:30pm\, Boy I Am by Sam Feder and Julie Hollar\, 72 minutes. \nPresented by Women Make Movies \nFilmmaker\, Sam Feder and Public Exhibition and Acquisitions Manager for Women Make Movies\, Kristen Fitzpatrick will be in attendance for presentation and discussion. \nBuy tickets for Northside Film Festival: Boy I Am  \nAn important exploration of issues rarely touched upon by most films portraying female-to-male (FTM) transgender experiences\, this feature-length documentary sets itself apart from other recent films on this topic. Tackling the resistance of some women in feminists and lesbian communities who view FTM transitioning as at best a “trend” or at worst an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege\, this groundbreaking film closeds up a dialog between the lesbian\, feminist\, and transgender communities while also promoting understanding of transgender issues for general audiences. \nIn the course of the film\, three young transitioning FTMs in New York City- Nicco\, Norie and Keegan- go through major junctures in their transitions\, discussing everything from their relationships with their bodies\, feminism\, and the intersection of race and class with their transgender identity. Their stories are interspersed with interviews with lesbians\, activists and theorists who engage with the often-contentious questions and issues that are raised within the queer and feminist communities but are rarely discussed closedly. Situating these struggles and stories as inextricably linked to queer and feminist struggles\, Boy I Am presents an empowering chronicle of queer resistance that challenges all viewers to rethink their concepts of activism and identity. \n\n8:30pm\, In Search of Avery Willard and Dzi Croquettes \nBuy tickets for Northside Film Festival: In Search of Avery Willard and Dzi Croquettes \nIn Search of Avery Willard by Cary Kehayan\, 22:50 minutes \nPresented by NewFest  \nSteve Mendelsohn from NewFest will be here to introduce as will Cary Kehayan (Director/Co-Producer)\, Amanda Hammett (Co-Producer)\, Lucas Joaquin (Executive Producer)\, Daniel Quinn (Composer\, Original Score) will be in attendance for presentation and discussion.  \nIn Search of Avery Willard is a portrait of one of queer art’s most fascinating and elusive innovators. \nBroadway photographer\, physique artist\, gay activist\, experimental filmmaker\, drag historian\, leatherman\, pornographer: New York City artist Avery Willard produced a lifetime of historically significant work that has remained widely unseen for decades. Through rare interviews with collaborators\, friends and preeminent film historians\, documentarian Cary Kehayan traces Willard’s provocative career from the 1940s through the 1990s. \nFeaturing never-before-seen archival films & photographs\, this revealing documentary tells the story of a forgotten trailblazer of the queer art movement – a man who was as ambitious as he was self-sabotaging. \nDzi Croquettes by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez\, 110 minutes. \nPresented by Cinema Tropical \nMary Jane Marcasiano\, Director of Development and Special Events Advisor at Cinema Tropical and Steve Mendelsohn\, Newfest board Co-president will be in attendance for presentation and discussion. \nDzi Croquettes\, a Brazilian groundbreaking theater group\, inspired the youth to resist the 1968 military censorship ban on freedom of speech during Brazil violent dictatorship. \nTheir innovative dance\, hypnotic sensuality\, humor\, political satire\, and explosive performances took Brazil and Europe by storm. Godmothered by Liza Minnelli (who is featured the movie along with other celebrities)\, the group attracted the international artistic elite as front-row fans. \n“Dzi Croquettes is both a tribute and a terrific entertainment.” — Los Angeles Times \n“A must-see film!” — The Village Voice
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-19-northside-film-festival/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Northside Film Festival: African Shorts | Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry | VICE in the Congo & North Korea
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are hosting more exciting documentary screenings with the Northside Film Festival on 6/18\, 6/19\, and 6/21. In addition to our screenings\, our neighbors at Nitehawk Cinema and indieScreen are presenting films with the festival as well. See the complete festival line-up here.[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”Program”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]6:00pm\, African Shorts (92 minutes)\nPresented by NYAFF \nCinematographer\, Dan Atkins (Tengenenge: Zimbabwe’s Hidden Sculpture Community)\, Director\, Teddy Goitom (Stocktown X: South Africa)\, Director\, Andrew Dosunmu (Hot Irons) will all be in attendance for presentation and discussion following the screening. \nTengenenge: Zimbabwe’s Hidden Sculpture Community by Jacquelyn Lobel\, US/Zimbabwe\, 17 minutes. \nIn the north of Zimbabwe\, at the foot of the great dyke\, beside the ravines and grassy covered slopes\, there lies a village called Tengenenge\, rich in the many different tribes of the Zambezi river basin. All of the villagers are artists\, who make their living by sculpting stone. \nLike most Zimbabweans\, these are difficult times for the artists. The impact of the economy has affected tourism\, and in turn\, there are hardly any visitors coming to buy art at Tengenenge anymore. Against all odds\, this community has continued to survive because of its peoples passion\, energy and solidarity. Tengenenge is a glimmer of joy and optimism in a country on the brink of collapse. \nStocktown X: South Africa by Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft\, 30 min. \nStocktown X: South Africa will bring you face to face with the new urban Africa\, where fashion creators\, animators\, cultural entrepreneurs\, music producers and guerilla filmmakers define what it is to be young\, talented and passionate in Africa’s 21st century. The film takes viewers on a road trip across South Africa\, capturing the contemporary creative generation of this vivid and pulsating culture. Stocktown X: South Africa introduces viewers to black heavy metal band Ree-Burth\, Soweto style setters Smarteez\, and Limpop music genre innovator Gazelle amongst others\, capturing the creative energy and street vibes of Johannesburg and Cape Town. \nHot Irons by Andrew Dosunmu\, 16 mm\, 50 minutes. \nHot Irons provides a rare look into the social culture of African-American hairstyling\, as explained by five Detroit hairdressers in preparation for the annual “Hair Wars” competition. Aided by striking cinematography and a brilliantly eclectic soundtrack\, Dosunmu captures the hopes and pressures of the men who were laid off from the automobile industry and now compete for recognition and respect in the fantastically creative world of black hair styling. \n8:30pm\, Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayma\, 91 minutes\nPresented by IFC Films \nFilmmaker Alison Klayma and Art News Editor for ArtInfo\, Benjamin Sutton\, will both be in attendance for presentation and discussion after the screening. \nAi Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist\, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system\, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response\, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog\, beat him up\, bulldozed his newly built studio\, and held him in secret detention. \nAi WeiWei is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures. \nWinner of Special Jury Prize\, Sundance Film Festival \n \n10:30pm\, Bikelordz by Mikey Hart\, 16 minutes. \nPresented By Kings County Cinema Society  \nFilmmaker\, Mikey Hart\, will be in attendance for presentation and discussion following the screening. \nBikelordz is a short documentary about the self-taught\, self-invented bicycle culture that kids in Ghana have created. It follows crews of these young BMX gurus as they try and use their skills to make money\, gain recognition and live on their own terms. Filmed on the streets of Accra in 2007\, Bikelordz features a soundtrack of all Ghanaian music and shows a side of the city never before seen beyond its limits. A feature adaptation is currently in the works. \n11:00pm\, VICE Guide to the Congo and North Korea \nVICE Guide to the Congo by Jason Mojica \, 38 minutes. \nPresented by VICE \nFollowing the program\, please join us for a discussion with filmmaker Jason Mojica and veteran author (Shooting War) and documentary filmmaker Anthony Lappé. \nVICE founder Suroosh Alvi travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and makes one of the most grueling treks of his life to see first-hand where this so-called “conflict mineral” comes from and to meet some of the rebels involved in the seemingly never-ending conflict in Eastern Congo. \nVICE Guide to North Korean Labor Camps by Jason Mojica\, 39 minutes. \nVICE founder Shane Smith traveled to far east Russia to uncover what was rumored to be a series of miniature North Koreas dotting the Siberian landscape. Reaching these logging camps\, however\, forced Shane and the VICE crew onto the revered trans-siberian railway\, which turned out to be a long overheated journey with a bunch of drunk Russians. After tussling with a gang of teenage thugs hopped up on the train’s generous supply of vodka\, Shane de-boarded and entered into Tynda\, the gateway to the world of North Korean loggers. With the help of the local police chief and the local mob\, he found his way through the woods to the site where Kim Jong-Il and President Medvedev have conspired to let North Koreans raze the Taiga forest.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-20-northside-film-festival/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120621T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120621T220000
DTSTAMP:20260621T043619
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SUMMARY:Northside Film Festival: The Redemption of General Butt Naked | Puppet | The Other Side of the Water
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are hosting more exciting documentary screenings with the Northside Film Festival on 6/18\, 6/19\,  and 6/20. In addition to our screenings\, our neighbors at Nitehawk Cinema and indieScreen are presenting films with the festival as well. See the complete festival line-up here.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”Program”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]6:00pm\, The Redemption of General Butt Naked by Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion 2011\, 85 minutes- Presented by BAM \nThe Redemption of General Butt Naked follows Joshua Milton Blahyi – aka General Butt Naked – a brutal African warlord who has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist. Today\, Blahyi travels the nation of Liberia as a preacher\, seeking out those he once victimized in search of an uncertain forgiveness. Filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion track his often troubling path up-close\, finding both the genuine and disconcerting in Blahyi’s efforts\, raising questions about the limits of faith and forgiveness in the absence of justice. \nEric Strauss will be in attendance for presentation and discussion. \n\n8:00pm\, Figure Father by Andrew Ellis\, 8:57 minutes- Presented by Filmwax \nIn January of 2011\, filmmaker Andrew Ellis set out to make a short film which might shed light on our country’s job crisis through the story of an ex-convict searching for a job. Ellis was Introduced to Pedro\, a 49-year old ex-convict\, by a friend who worked as a fatherhood counselor up in Harlem. Pedro was looking for a job in construction\, and willing to share his story. With multiple assaults\, drug offenses\, and two homicides on his record\, it wasn’t likely that the outcome of this film was going to be positive\, but I knew beneath his hardships\, his charisma and heart would reach people. \nAndrew Ellis will be in attendance for presentation and discussion following the screening. \n\nPuppet by David Soll\, USA 2010\, 74 minutes \nPuppet is a feature-length documentary that weaves together a broad look at the fraught history of American puppetry (its marginalization as children’s theater and its sudden explosion as high art) with an intimate thread following Dan Hurlin\, a downtown artist who is creating a complex puppet work about Mike Disfarmer – an eccentric\, Depression-era photographer. Dan has just recovered from a scorching New York Times review\, which forced his last show out of theaters prematurely. Now he faces a wider backlash against puppetry\, suggesting an eerie parallel between himself and his new puppet-subject – an outsider artist whose stunning body of work was very nearly lost forever. \n“A revelation! The more the process is revealed\, the more miraculous it appears.” — Variety \n“We need films like Puppet and artists like Hurlin to remind us that puppeteering is a magical act that can reflect honestly upon the human condition.” — New York Press \nFilmmaker David Soll and Puppeteer Eric Wright will be in attendance for discussion following the screening. \n\n10pm\, Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê and The Other Side of the Water by Carolina Moraes-Liu- Presented by Third World Newsreel \nEbony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê follows three women competing to be the carnival queen of Ilê Aiyê\, a prominent and controversial Afro-Brazilian group with an all-black membership. The selection is based on Afro-centric notions of beauty\, in counterpoint to prevailing standards of beauty in Brazil\, a country famous for slim supermodels and plastic surgery. Contestants for the title of Ebony Goddess dress in flowing African-style garments\, gracefully performing traditional Afro-Brazilian dances to songs praising the beauty of black women. \nThe Other Side of the Water: The Journey of a Haitian Rara Band in Brooklyn by Jeremy Robins and Magali Dama\, 52 minutes. Followed by closing night party with live music provided by DJA-RARA.  \nPart carnival\, part vodou ceremony\, and part grassroots protest\, Haitian “Rara” is one of the most breathtaking and contested forms of music in the Americas. The Other Side of the Water follows a group of young immigrants who take this ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn. The documentary tells the story of an unlikely band that comes to speak for a larger community\, and a music that manages to create a new meaning of home in the Diaspora. \nUltimately\, The Other Side of the Water is about the struggle to merge the traditional and the modern; the island and the City; the imagined and the real. The documentary tells the story of one man who learns to hold true to a vision; a motley band that comes to speak for a larger community; and a music that manages to create a new meaning of home in the Diaspora. \n“The film offers an essential\, re-affirming perspective of Haitian imagery and culture that desperately needs to be seen.” — Michelle Materre\, Creatively Speaking. \nFilmmaker Jeremy Robins and featured subject\, Yves Bein-Aime will be in attendance for presentation and discussion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-21-northside-film-festival/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120623T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120623T220000
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SUMMARY:More Open Wounds: Shorts after the Flaherty
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe 2012 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar is now in full swing this week at Colgate University in Upstate New York. This year’s Seminar “closed Wounds”\, programmed by Josexto Cerdán (Punto de Vista)\, examines changing perspectives on politics\, the economy\, technology\, culture\, and ethics over the past Century. Whether making connections between activist films across decades or demonstrating how the traumas of oppression pass from generation to generation\, these selected works illustrate how ideas and histories are linked over time. \nJoin us Saturday for our final screening of the season before we break until mid-September\, which presents a taste of the Seminar. We will showcase additional rare and in-progress work from presenting artists who will be in-person including Su Friedrich\, Sami van Ingen\, Sebastián Lingiardi\, Andrés Duque\, Sun Xun\, and Minda Martin. Cerdán will also be in attendance to introduce the screening. \n  \n  \nPractice Makes Perfect (2012)\, 11 minutes by Su Friedrich. \nSu Friedrich will present her work\, Practice Makes Perfect which was  commissioned for “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\,” a festival held in May 2012 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The festival mainly featured musical acts by Brooklyn-based bands\, but seven Brooklyn filmmakers were asked to do short works\, without any stipulation as to form or content. \nIn 2011\, Su had seen Kam Kelly (as well as a number of young boys and girls) drumming at a block party down the street from where she lives in Bed-Stuy\, and decided to do a portrait of him and his students. Although he teaches in many locations around the five boroughs\, she only went to observe him at one school\, Intermediate School 292 in East New York. There are several classes and many students\, but she chose to concentrate on one especially enthusiastic and dedicated young drummer\, Jessica Jackson. \n \nHATE (2012)\, 12 minutes by Sami van Ingen. \nSami van Ingen is a finnish visual artist who works mostly with film and video and is presenting\, HATE which investigates how otherness is portrayed in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. \n  \n  \n \nIt’s Not the Image It’s The Object (2008)\, 12 minutes and Miracle (2001)\, 33 seconds by Andrès Duque \nVenezuelan Filmmaker\, Andrès Duque will present two of his shorts. He is a professor for the Master of Creative Documentary at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He currently resides in Spain. \n  \nFollow Orders (2006)\, 15 minutes by Sebastián Lingiardi. \nSebastián Lingiardi’s first short Follow Orders won him the first prize at the International Festival of Film Schools. He describes the short as the world seen through the window – the intimacy has already passed away. The struggle is between strange organizations. There is no common cause to die for anymore. This is despite the man\, the enemy\, expands his power in each place the characters wander. The orders from the organization emphasize taking care of yourself first – in this kind of situation\, who sees his death from a window? \n  \n  \n  \n\nPresented with \n \nThe Flaherty is a non-profit organization dedicated to the proposition that independent media can illuminate the human spirit. Its mission is to foster exploration\, dialogue\, and introspection about the art and craft of all forms of the moving image. The Flaherty was chartered (as International Film Seminars\, Inc.) in the state of Vermont but is based in New York City. It was established in 1960 to present the annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, which was started five years earlier by the Robert Flaherty Foundation. The Seminar remains the central and defining activity of The Flaherty. \nThrough its unique annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Flaherty provides media makers\, sp;users\, teachers and students an unparalleled opportunity to confront the core of the creative process\, reaffirm the freedom of the independent artist to explore beyond known limits and renew the challenge to discover\, reveal and illuminate the ways of life of peoples and cultures throughout the world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-23-more-open-wounds-shorts-after-the-flaherty/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120623T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120623T220000
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SUMMARY:More closed Wounds: Shorts After The Flaherty
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2012 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar is now in full swing this week at Colgate University in Upstate New York. This year’s Seminar “closed Wounds”\, programmed by Josexto Cerdán (Punto de Vista)\, examines changing perspectives on politics\, the economy\, technology\, culture\, and ethics over the past Century. Whether making connections between activist films across decades or demonstrating how the traumas of oppression pass from generation to generation\, these selected works illustrate how ideas and histories are linked over time. Join us Saturday for our final screening of the season before we break until mid-September\, which presents a taste of the Seminar. We will showcase additional rare and in-progress work from presenting artists who will be in-person including Su Friedrich\, Sami van Ingen\, Sebastián Lingiardi\, Andrés Duque\, Sun Xun\, and Minda Martin. Cerdán will also be in attendance to introduce the screening.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”Program”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] \nPractice Makes Perfect (2012)\, 11 minutes by Su Friedrich. Su Friedrich will present her work\, Practice Makes Perfect which was  commissioned for “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry\,” a festival held in May 2012 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The festival mainly featured musical acts by Brooklyn-based bands\, but seven Brooklyn filmmakers were asked to do short works\, without any stipulation as to form or content. In 2011\, Su had seen Kam Kelly (as well as a number of young boys and girls) drumming at a block party down the street from where she lives in Bed-Stuy\, and decided to do a portrait of him and his students. Although he teaches in many locations around the five boroughs\, she only went to observe him at one school\, Intermediate School 292 in East New York. There are several classes and many students\, but she chose to concentrate on one especially enthusiastic and dedicated young drummer\, Jessica Jackson. \n \nHATE (2012)\, 12 minutes by Sami van Ingen. Sami van Ingen is a finnish visual artist who works mostly with film and video and is presenting\, HATE which investigates how otherness is portrayed in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. \n  \n \nIt’s Not the Image It’s The Object (2008)\, 12 minutes and Miracle (2001)\, 33 seconds by Andrès Duque Venezuelan Filmmaker\, Andrès Duque will present two of his shorts. He is a professor for the Master of Creative Documentary at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He currently resides in Spain. \n  \n \n  \nFollow Orders (2006)\, 15 minutes by Sebastián Lingiardi. Sebastián Lingiardi’s first short Follow Orders won him the first prize at the International Festival of Film Schools. He describes the short as the world seen through the window – the intimacy has already passed away. The struggle is between strange organizations. There is no common cause to die for anymore. This is despite the man\, the enemy\, expands his power in each place the characters wander. The orders from the organization emphasize taking care of yourself first – in this kind of situation\, who sees his death from a window?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”90 min”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The Flaherty is a non-profit organization dedicated to the proposition that independent media can illuminate the human spirit. Its mission is to foster exploration\, dialogue\, and introspection about the art and craft of all forms of the moving image. The Flaherty was chartered (as International Film Seminars\, Inc.) in the state of Vermont but is based in New York City. It was established in 1960 to present the annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, which was started five years earlier by the Robert Flaherty Foundation. The Seminar remains the central and defining activity of The Flaherty. Through its unique annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Flaherty provides media makers\, users\, teachers and students an unparalleled opportunity to confront the core of the creative process\, reaffirm the freedom of the independent artist to explore beyond known limits and renew the challenge to discover\, reveal and illuminate the ways of life of peoples and cultures throughout the world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-23-more-closed-wounds-shorts-after-the-flaherty/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120627T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120627T220000
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SUMMARY:UnionDocs Collaborative Studio at the Austrian Cultural Forum
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. \nFor this event\, Change Administration will screen a selection of films in collaboration with UnionDocs. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and other urbanists. \nTo attend\, reserve your spot now! Click the reservation button and save your spot through ACF. \nSelections from Living Los Sures by the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio \nExperiments in Place and Collaborative Documentary \nIn 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. \nUnionDocs is in the midst of a project that revisits this film and creates a constellation of companion documentary works that will update\, annotate\, and spiral off from the original. The final result will be Living Los Sures\, an interactive\, multi-layer documentary that seeks not just to extract important and unusual stories from the place\, but to also create new shared histories and relationships between neighbors. \n  \nCouchsurferz\, Selections from a 12 part cycle (15 minutes) \nby Emma Brenner-Malin\, Josh Solondz\, Stephanie Chang \nA journey into the homes of friends and strangers\, in search of significance in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn. Sleeping on assorted couches\, the surferz document the physical environments of their overnight stays\, as well as the persons residing within them. Throughout the course of a year\, the surferz explore relationships between themselves\, their hosts\, and the spaces they inhabit\, as well as issues of representation\, subjectivity\, and agency in documentary filmmaking. \nWhose Schools? (18 minutes) \nby Claire Richard \nThe arrival of a charter school backed by corporations unites the gentrifying neighborhood of Williamsburg. Long time residents and new comers get together in the fight for local schools. \nBefore After (13 Minutes) \nby Daniel Terna\, Michael Kugler \nWe got to know this neighborhood by exploring it through a series of filmed experiments and encounters in the mostly Latino and Jewish communities. The camera is considered as a compass that gives direction to a variety of inquiries. Guiding our interactions with the neighborhood\, both in terms of physical space and its inhabitants\, we found ourselves approaching the neighborhood as one big playground. The short sequences in this piece are the result of unexpected encounters with people\, images\, and local rituals. Objects were used as props to facilitate interventions with spaces and communications with people. The title\, Before After\, references a photography storefront sign along Lee Avenue in the heart of the Jewish neighborhood\, and it reminds us that deciding when something is “over” or “finished” is easier said than “done.” \nSundays (12 minutes) \nby Meg Kelly \nPinned between Bushwick\, Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy\, the Broadway Triangle has stood as one of the most disputed spaces in New York City. It’s development into low income housing has sparked greater division between the already intensely divided communities. \n  \n \nOf Birds and Boundaries (22 Minutes) \nby Annie Berman\, Laura Mayer\, Matt Yoka \nA filmmaker’s search for the Williamsburg’s Eruv (a string the defines the boundaries of the Chasidic neighborhood and redefines public space as a shared private space) leads her to ‘Marty\,’ an anonymous Chasid who volunteers to help with research. The result is the development of an unexpected relationship\, a cross-cultural exchange between two unlikely collaborators. \n \nDesperately Seeking Stagg Girls (18 minutes) \nby Sonia Gonzalez \nAs she’s watching a 1980s documentary about South Williamsburg\, the neighborhood she’s just moved in\, a young French woman’s imagination is caught by a RIP graffiti signed by the Stagg Girls on a wall nearby her house. She then decides to track down those girls… \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-06-27-uniondocs-collaborative-studio-at-the-austrian-cultural-forum/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120714T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120714T234500
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SUMMARY:Living Los Sures- Preview in the Park
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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. \nUnionDocs is in the midst of a project that revisits this film and creates a constellation of companion documentary works that will update\, annotate\, and spiral off from the original. The result will be Living Los Sures\, an interactive\, multi-layer documentary that seeks not just to extract important and unusual stories from the place\, but to also create new shared histories and relationships between neighbors. \nPresented with Moviehouse\, this special preview event will take place on the handball courts at Sternberg Park\, which actually make an appearance in the original film. It will include free popcorn\, live radio and music and the public preview of a collection of compelling short documentaries created over the past year by a group of talented artists fellows from the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio. The entire event will be live-streamed on BBOX radio. \n \n\n\nLIVE RADIO BROADCAST IN THE PARK\n7:30pm @ Sternberg Park. \nKeep it Movin’\nby Kaitlin Prest \n20 minutes \n“The curiosity about love is what set me on this journey…man that shit is no joke.” \nMaria DeJesus—AKA TS (Tough Shit) and her mother Marta Iris Aviles unearth the stories of their first romances and reveal the lasting impact they had. These are stories about being swept off of your feet\, about being a beautiful young girl coming into her own in a rough neighbourhood thinking she’s got it all figured out. \nPROGRAM I\n9:00pm @ Sternberg Park. \nLa Marqueta 1\nDirected by Elizabeth Lawrence\, produced by Elizabeth Lawrence & Sonia Gonzalez \n5 minutes \nA parisian TV host now living in Brooklyn\, Sonia visits one of the oldest markets in Williamsburg called LA MARQUETA. Home to 20+ latino vendors\, La Marqueta sells food\, haircuts\, music and gifts. Every episode\, Sonia visits a different vendor and learns about their craft. One day she works in a Dominican restaurant and another she’s learning to cut hair in a Barbershop. The short films of LA MARQUETA are a show and tell of culture and craft. They instruct and highlight a marketplace built for the community and run by the community. \nWhose Schools?\nDirected by Claire Richard \n18 minutes \nThe arrival of a charter school backed by corporations unites the gentrifying neighborhood of Williamsburg. Long time residents and new comers get together in the fight for local schools. \n\n\nBrooklyn Cupcake\nDirected by Oresti Tsonopoulos \n9 minutes \nThe flavors of nostalgia\, community and family come together for the Rodriguez family to successfully run Brooklyn Cupcake\, a vibrant cupcake shop in the Los Sures neighborhood of Brooklyn. \n\nLittle Tricksters\nDirected by Alexandre Gaspar Maia \n25 minutes \nThis film is a close look into the 6-week long rehearsal process of the young performers\, ages 6-13\, in preparation for a theater and dance performance piece. The show is organized by the El Puente Arts program in South Williamsburg\, addressing the issues the Latino community faces with the impending takeover of their local junior high school by the Success charter network. \nReunion\nDirected by Olivia Koski \nA selection of 60-90 second shorts \nThis is the story of a community of “WillyB” (Williamsburg) natives who grew up in Los Sures in the 50’s and 60’s – when candy was 5 cents\, when the BQE was incomplete\, and before anyone had heard the word “gentrification.” After finding each other on Facebook\, they return to their hometown to reminisce about a time long gone and a place that exists only in their memories. \nAFTER PARTY\n11:00pm @ UnionDocs. \nLive Set from Analog Experimental NYC –  Featuring Damian Quiñones on guitar\, cuatro Puertorriqueño\, and vocals\, Gregory Richardson on upright bass and Bendji Allonce on percussion. \nAnalog Experimental\, an acoustic power trio specializes in experimental Pan-Latin dance music. Using Afro Caribbean rhythms and repertoire as their point of departure\, the group “experiments” by mixing it up with elements of funk\, jazz\, reggae\, rock\, and electronic music. \n \nFrench indie\, trans-genre producer / remixer\, MBFM (Nophono\, Atcha\, Discograph) will play one of his notorious urban dance-rock DJ sets.  \nFree CD giveaway from local Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra! \nSundays\nDirected by Meg Kelly \n12 minutes\, Installation loop. \nPinned between Bushwick\, Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy\, the Broadway Triangle has stood as one of the most disputed spaces in New York City. It’s development into low income housing has sparked greater division between the already intensely divided communities. \nPROGRAM II\nMidnight @ UnionDocs. \nLa Marqueta 2\nDirected by Elizabeth Lawrence\, produced by Elizabeth Lawrence & Sonia Gonzalez5 minutes \nA parisian TV host now living in Brooklyn\, Sonia visits one of the oldest markets in Williamsburg called LA MARQUETA. Home to 20+ latino vendors\, La Marqueta sells food\, haircuts\, music and gifts. Every episode\, Sonia visits a different vendor and learns about their craft. One day she works in a Dominican restaurant and another she’s learning to cut hair in a Barbershop. The short films of LA MARQUETA are a show and tell of culture and craft. They instruct and highlight a marketplace built for the community and run by the community. \nanother day without a future\,\nbut what the hell another day \nDirected by Adam Khalil30 minutes \nA free-wheeling experimental docu-fiction… “I create because I know how. I know how good-for-nothing I am\, that is. Art as communication is the contact between the good-for-nothing in one and the good-for-nothing in others.“-Robert Filliou #friendship\, #livinduhdream\, #artsyfartsy\, #sextourism\, #process\, #Bodegaunderworld\, #newaesthetics \nDesperately Seeking Stagg Girls\nDirected by Sonia Gonzalez \n18 minutes\nAs she’s watching a 1980s documentary about South Williamsburg\, the neighborhood she’s just moved in\, a young French woman’s imagination is caught by a RIP graffiti signed by the Stagg Girls on a wall nearby her house. She then decides to track down those girls… \n  \n \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-07-14-living-los-sures-preview/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120803T193000
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SUMMARY:Dani Leventhal and Samita Sinha: Salt
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This evening will start with a captivating solo vocal performance by Samita Sinha and then Dani Leventhal will present three acclaimed recent short videos. \nVocalist/composer Samita Sinha and video artist Dani Leventhal met at Bard in 2008\, and since 2009 they have been working side-by-side and in collaboration. In their collaborations\, Leventhal makes videos in which Sinha performs and/or creates sound. In their side-by-side practice\, Sinha sings and sounds while Leventhal draws. They take inspiration from each other’s images and sounds\, allowing their creative practices\, which are generally solo and rather singular\, to become permeable to each other’s influence and energy. Both work from a place of intuition and make work that is deeply embodied. \nTime Out New York wrote that Sinha’s voice is “mesmerizing. This is fusion… in the best sense: she effortlessly\, seamlessly weaves [sounds] yet keeps their distinct flavors intact.” Cinema Scope magazine recently wrote that “Leventhal’s videos are not the triumph of an all-seeing subjectivity but rather an effort to reduce the barrier between her and the rest of the world\, whether human\, animal\, or inanimate… Leventhal aims for immanence\, for the roiling\, beautiful mess of existence\, documenting life from moment to moment through images both eloquent and enigmatic.” \n  \n  \nCipher by Samita Sinha \nCipher is a solo work that begins from the question: how does sound come out of my body? Sinha explores this question using the “nonsense” sounds of tarana—a genre of song in Indian classical music invented in the 13th century that mixes Persian\, Arabic\, and Sanskrit syllables that are said to encode mystical meanings. Cipher is performed with a “band” of four electronic boxes\, including electronic tabla (drum box) and electronic tanpura (drone box)\, which have trapped a centuries-old tradition of acoustic finery into a convenient\, portable form. \nWe will be showing the following films: \nProgram runtime 30 minutes \n  \n54 Days this Winter 36 Days this Spring for 18 Minutes by Dani Leventhal\, 2009\, 16 mins. \nDani Leventhal gathered material for 9 minutes each day\, then condensed it down to this 16-minute video montage of impressions which has a cumulative effect\, accessed and read differently depending on the mental connections the viewer makes. It is presented as short scenes: documentation of the quotidian\, on-camera monologues\, and performative or expressive shots that are constructed. The material\, while mostly generated as a diary\, is heterogeneous enough to include just about any kind of footage. \n  \n \nHearts Are Trump Again by Dani Leventhal\, 2010\, 9 mins. \nBy way of lush formal and associative shifts\, Hearts Are Trump Again evokes the ever-present tension between seemingly polarized states of experience. Desire and repulsion; freedom and constraint; pain and pleasure all find articulation in images of ferocious dogs and mock conversations about childbearing. Tonally complex and viscerally rich\, Hearts Are Trump Again is a lyrical exploration of emotional weather. –Brett Price \n  \n \nTin Pressed by Dani Leventhal\, 2011\, 6 mins. \ncloseding with jarring violence\, Dani Leventhal’s Tin Pressed proceeds to negotiate a balancing act between the bewildering tonal variances of daily life with all of its unnamable and enchantingly fragmented specifics and the gravitational urge to construct both private and shared narratives. The world discovered through these images revolves around multiple centers. The camera’s odd equanimity feels both generous and dangerous. Leventhal’s deft oscillation between elision and inclusion reveals a brief but vast taxonomy of beauty\, peace\, longing\, and terror. –Jeremy Hoevenaar. \n  \n  \n  \nDani Leventhal has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards\, among them the Wexner Center Film/Video Residency\, the Milton & Sally Avery Fine Arts Award and the Astraea Visual Arts Award; her films have been screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival\, the New York Film Festival\, Migrating Forms\, The Museum for Contemporary Photography\, Chicago\, The Brooklyn Museum\, and P.S.1. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, The University of Illinois at Chicago and Yale University. \nSamita Sinha is a performance artist\, composer and singer who combines tradition with experiment to create new forms\, drawing from a deep grounding in North Indian classical music\, a contemporary vocabulary\, folk and ritual music\, and songs and texts in several languages. She has performed her solo and ensemble work internationally\, and has collaborated with poets (Sekou Sundiata\, Fiona Templeton\, Robert Ashley)\, musicians (Marc Cary\, Sunny Jain)\, choreographers (Daria Fain)\, and communities (through MAPP\, and the Coleman Center in York\, AL) to create art that crosses boundaries of genre and discipline\, and expands ideas about modes of collaboration. Sinha has received awards and residencies from the Fulbright Foundation\, NYSCA\, Urban Artists Initiative\, Queens Council on the Arts\, Watermill Center\, and Millay Colony. She received her MFA in Music/ Sound from Bard and studied post-colonial Literature at Yale\, and studies Hindustani music with Shubhangi Sakhalkar. For more information visit her website: www.samitasinha.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2012-03-18-dani-leventhal-and-samita-sinha/
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SUMMARY:Images of Asian Music and At Sea with Peter Hutton
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPeter 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). Proceeding this we will screen Hutton’s Images of Asian Music\, which recalls his time as a US Merchant Marine in Southeast Asia in the early 1970’s. \n\nProgram Runtime: 89 minutes \nIMAGES OF ASIAN MUSIC (1974) \n29 min. | 16mm | b/w | silent \n“Rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick\, white porcelain cup perched on a ship’s rail\, the tea within swaying gently in sync with the ship while the sea rushes by beyond?the faces of crewmen posing awkwardly but also movingly for the camera; a cockfight on ship; scenes from a bucolic pre–Pol Pot Phnom Penh. Images has the haunting elegiac resonance of Eugène Atget’s Paris\, the echo of a time and place that was.” – Jon Jost \n\nAT SEA (2007) \n60 min. | 16mm | color and b/w | silent \n“The sublime is no more strongly felt than in Peter Hutton’s magisterial At Sea. Put simply\, the film tells the story (“the birth\, life and death”—in the director’s words) of a container ship—but there are no words to adequately describe the film’s awesome visual expedition. Hutton knows the sea. His experiences as a former merchant seaman have informed his filmmaking practice\, known for its rigor and epic beauty. At Sea begins in South Korea with diminutive workers shipbuilding. The colossal vessel is revealed in de Chirico-worthy proportions\, its magnitude surreal to the human eye. Off to sea\, the splendor and intensity of the water—set against the vibrant colors of the containers—causes us to see the world anew. The film concludes in Bangladesh amidst ship breakers as enthralled by Hutton’s camera as we are by his images.” – Andréa Picard\, Toronto International Film Festival Programmer.   \n \nPETER HUTTON \nPeter Hutton received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught at Hampshire College\, Harvard University\, SUNY Purchase. He has produced more than 20 films\, most of which are portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. In 2008\, the Museum of Modern Art curated a retrospective of his work\, which has shown in major museums and at festivals in the United States and Europe\, including Whitney Biennial (1985\, 1991\, 1995\, 2004). He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, DAAD Berliner\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Dutch Film Critics Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at Bard College since 1984. \n \nJEM COHEN \nCohen has made approximately 50 films including Instrument\, Chain\, Lost Book Found\, and Benjamin Smoke (with Peter Sillen). His work is in the collections of MoMA and the Whitney and has been broadcast by PBS\, Arte\, the BBC\, and the Sundance Channel. He he’s had retrospectives at venues including the NFT in London\, Buenos Aires Independent Film Fest\, and Punto de Vista in Spain\, which published the monograph\, Signal Fires: The Cinema of Jem Cohen\, in 2010. Cohen has collaborated extensively with musicians including Fugazi\, Patti Smith\, Terry Riley\, Vic Chesnutt\, Godspeed You Black Emperor!\, R.E.M.\, DJ Rupture\, Blonde Redhead\, Elliott Smith\, and the Ex\, as well as writer Luc Sante. As an activist\, Cohen was extensively involved in overturning proposed restrictions on street photography in New York City. Current projects include the feature\, Museum Hours\, and the Gravity Hill Newsreels (about Occupy Wall Street). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/09-16-12-hutton-images-of-asian-music-and-at-sea-with-peter-hutton/
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SUMMARY:WILLiFEST: Andrew Bird: Fever Year | Angelfish with Born and Raised
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are hosting more exciting screenings with WILLiFEST on Saturday\, September 22. Our neighbors at the Knitting Factory and El Puente are presenting films and other events as well. See the complete festival line-up here. \n8:00pm – 10:00pm \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLos Muertos de Siempre (Music Video) directed by Milton Ramirez Malave \nA Greedy Grim Reaper rises from the underworld to collect the souls of mortal sinners with a mighty stroke of her razor-sharp violin. When she starts to take advantage of her position and starts taking the lives of sinners and innocents alike\, she is confronted by an old rival\, who wants to stop her evil actions and they have duel to the ‘end’ to see who gets possession of the souls collected. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nN.Y. UKE directed by Manon Gauthier \nNew York’s ukulele scene is divided: While some players just want to have fun\, others struggle for respect\, with tensions rising as the city’s annual Uke Fest approaches. Into this mix\, an outsider works up the nerve to play his first live show. Who knew such a happy little instrument could cause so much trouble. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAndrew Bird: Fever Year directed by Xan Aranda \nThe acclaimed musician’s rigorous touring year culminates in perpetual fever as he crosses the finish line on crutches from an onstage injury. Concert documentary features collaborators Martin Dosh\, Annie Clark of St. Vincent\, and others \nBuy tickets for WILLiFEST: N.Y. UKE | Andrew Bird: Fever Year  \n10:00pm – 12:00am \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nScars and Stripes (Music Video) directed by Matthew Pizzano \nScars and Stripes is an allegorical music video that follows a business executive and a paranoid loner as they approach the end of their world. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAngelfish directed by Michael Tyburski \nWhile searching for isolation\, a young man moves to live aboard a sailboat on New York City’s East River. \n \n  \n  \n  \nBorn and Raised directed by Joshua Dragge \nIn a small\, seaside town\, a young man learns a thing or two about love\, luck and life from his well-traveled\, outlaw grandfather. Born & Raised is a rough\, tough\, coming-of-age drama\, with a lot of heart and a ton of laughs. It deals with family\, friends\, love\, forgiveness\, small towns and the want for something more. \nBuy tickets for WILLiFEST: Angelfish | Born and Raised[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/willifest-andrew-bird-fever-year-angelfish-with-born-and-raised/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Running Stumbled
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n“A digital video phantasmagoria of disorienting stylistics and mind-altering imagery… Running Stumbled nevertheless follows in a long American dramatic tradition of viewing the family as the center of the world and\, in particular\, of sons trying to fathom fathers and their legacy.” – Robert Koehler\, Variety \nRUNNING STUMBLED  directed by John Maringouin \n85 min.| digital projection | 2006 | USA \nDocumentary begins when fiction leaves the scene. 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. After a 25-year absence\, Maringouin the prodigal son returns from Hollywood to Terrytown\, Louisiana. Placed in the center of an emotional battle\, he films an intimate\, frank and strange portrait about the complex relationship between his estranged father\, Dadaist painter Johnny Roe Jr.\, and Roe’s self-destructive common-law wife\, Virgie Marie Pennoui. Johnny is a New Orleans legend\, known for being a career heroin user\, a street-fighting pimp\, and an accused murder. He also once tried to kill his son. Running Stumbled is a dark\, Southern Gothic fable\, as dramatic as it is cautionary\, enveloped in an atmosphere that has its main characters chasing demons and pursued by death. – PW\, True/False  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:WILLiFEST:  Justice Shorts I The Domino Effect I Priceless Things with 3 Days of Normal
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are hosting more exciting screenings with WILLiFEST on Friday\, September 21. Our neighbors at the Knitting Factory and El Puente are presenting films and other events as well. See the complete festival line-up here. \n3:30pm – 5:30pm \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nScars and Stripes (Music Video) directed by Matthew Pizzano \nScars and Stripes is an allegorical music video that follows a business executive and a paranoid loner as they approach the end of their world. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nStay: Migration and Poverty in Rural Mexico directed by Laura Elizabeth Pohl \nThe unauthorized immigrant population in the United States has tripled from 3.5 million people in 1990 to more than 11 million in 2010. Stepped-up patrols along the border with Mexico – the source of 60 percent of unauthorized immigrants – has had little impact. Why? This short film documents the lives of two men and their families. They migrated separately to the United States and Canada for work but are now able to stay in Mexico with the help of programs that invest in rural areas and reduce the pressure to migrate. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTrial and Error directed by Max Kutner \nTrial and Error follows Dewey Bozella\, a man who spent 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit\, a year after his exoneration as he struggles to become a professional boxer. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nA Question of Integrity: Politics\, Ethics and The Supreme Court directed by Devan Shea \nNarrated by Edward James Olmos\, A Question of Integrity examines ways in which recent behavior by some Supreme Court justices undermines the public’s faith in our nation’s most important legal institution. The documentary explores evidence that some justices have participated in overtly political and ethically questionable activity and explains that the justices of the Supreme Court are not formally bound by the Code of Conduct that guides the behavior of all other federal judges. It also discusses reforms that can help end these questions of integrity hanging over several justices and the Court itself. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTeached Vol. I directed by Kelly Amis \nBuy tickets for WILLiFEST: Justice Shorts \n5:30pm – 7:30pm \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nScars and Stripes (Music Video) directed by Matthew Pizzano \nScars and Stripes is an allegorical music video that follows a business executive and a paranoid loner as they approach the end of their world. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Domino Effect directed by Megan Sperry\, Daniel Phelps \nThe Domino Effect explores the process of real estate development in New York City and digs deep to uncover the complex networks of banks\, developers\, politicians\, and non-profit organizations that shape our cities. Recently\, the communities of Williamsburg and Greenpoint in North Brooklyn have experienced the negative impacts of excessive luxury development and gentrification. The Community Preservation Corporation’s ‘New Domino’ project – the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory on the East River into a complex of 2\,200 apartments and condos – serves as the film’s case study. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nErroll Garner – No one can hear you read directed by Atticus Brady \nErroll Garner – No One Can Hear You Read is a music documentary chronicling the life and career of this jazz legend. \nBuy tickets for WILLiFEST: The Domino Effect | Erroll Garner – No one can hear you read \n10:00pm – 12:00am \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTurn it Around (Music Video) directed by Matthew Pizzano \nA narrative music video for the popular Brooklyn Based group\, Lucius. Set in the early 1960’s\, the video follows the story of two young girls who become envious of each others lives and subsequently tear apart their own worlds. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPriceless Things directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss \nPriceless Things is about a liberal white couple navigating their struggle to remain progressive in a setting that challenges their politically correct veneer. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n3 Days of Normal directed by Ishai Setton \nIt’s fall in rural New Hampshire and Deputy Bill Morgan runs the flags up the pole in front of his small town police station. It’s a typical day for him and the last thing he expects to discover is Nikki Gold\, Hollywood’s current It Girl\, passed out drunk in her car. When the paparazzi hear the news\, Bill and Nikki find themselves hiding out\, as the town sees a level of excitement it isn’t exactly used to. \nBuy tickets for WILLiFEST: Priceless Things and 3 Days of Normal[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/willifest-justice-shorts-i-the-domino-effect-i-priceless-things-and-3-days-of-normal/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Poetry Was My Gateway Drug: Leigh Stein and Alexander Chee read and discuss the relationship between fiction and non-fiction writing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nIncreasingly\, writers are falling into discrete literary camps and are asked to define themselves — as novelists\, poets\, essayists — and often expected to stay true to form. 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) will discuss ever-present tension between poetry\, fiction and non-fiction writing and how one often leads to another and whether or not they should. \nIn celebration of the Brooklyn Book Festival\, Stein and Chee will read from their own work and discuss how they have moved flexibly between poetry\, fiction and non-fiction writing within their own genre-spanning careers. Hosted by Lisa Lucas (Assistant Publisher\, Guernica Magazine). Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Mobile Libris. \n  \nAlexander Chee \nAlexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night\, due out in 2013. Publisher’s Weekly called him “a gifted\, poetic writer who takes big risks.” He is a Whiting Award winner and his stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily\, Granta\, The LA Review of Books\, Salon and The Morning News. Follow him @alexanderchee. \nLeigh Stein  \nLeigh Stein is the author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN\, which New York Magazine called “a masterwork of the post-collegiate babysitting genre\,” and a book of poems\, DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE\, which was a Publishers Weekly pick for Best Summer Books of 2012. Her non-fiction has appeared in Allure and Bookforum. Follow her @rhymeswithbee \n\nLisa Lucas \nLisa Lucas is an assistant publisher at Guernica Magazine and a non-fiction programmer for the Brooklyn Book Festival. In addition to literary pursuits\, she also works as a non-profit arts consultant\, with a focus on curriculum development\, marketing\, fundraising\, and program design/development. Additionally\, Lucas serves as a council member at Bronx Preparatory Charter School; a national juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and is a 2012 juror for the New Orleans Film Festival (Narrative Shorts in Competition). She tweets as @likaluca. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/9-23-12uniondocs-brooklyn-book-festival-bookend-gateways-to-non-fiction-with-leigh-stein-and-friends/
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