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SUMMARY:Documentary Graphics\, Music & Transmedia Campaigns
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can title design and graphics be effectively utilized in documentary? What about my approach to music? What is transmedia and why should documentary filmmakers pay attention to it?  This session will dig in to graphics and music issues that come together during post production. We will also explore broad strokes of how to plan and execute transmedia campaigns. \nFeatured Presenters: \nTeddy Blanks is co-founder of the Brooklyn graphic design studio CHIPS. He has created closeding title sequences for over 25 films. His work for documentaries includes title design for the Academy Award nominated Cutie and the Boxer\, and more comprehensive graphic treatments for Matt Wolf’s Teenage\, and Broken Heart Land\, a forthcoming doc directed by Jeremy and Randy Stulberg for PBS. \n  \n  \nT. Griffin is a songwriter\, composer and producer working in Brooklyn\, New York. Alone and with his band The Quavers he has released four critically acclaimed CDs of songs in a homespun electronic style that’s been described as ‘porch techno’. \nA prolific film composer with 30 features \, Griffin has scored films for Jesse Moss (Sundance 2014 Special Jury winner The Overnighters)\, Ross Kaufman and Katy Chevigny (E-Team\, Sundance 2014) Tristan Patterson (SXSW Grand Jury winner DragonSlayer\, 2011)\, Liza Johnson (Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight selection\, Return\, 2011)\, Marshall Lewy (California Solo\, Sundance 2012)\, Tze Chun (Children of Invention\, Sundance 2009)\, Michael Almereyda (New Orleans\, Mon Amour\, SXSW 2008)\, Kim Reed (Telluride sensation Prodigal Sons\, 2008)\, Esther B. Robinson (Berlin Teddy Award Winner\, A Walk Into The Sea\, 2007) as well as shorts for Peter Sillen and Jem Cohen\, Lance Weiler and others. He wrote original songs and a full score for avant-garde theater director Anne Bogart’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and has created and performed live soundtrack shows for Jem Cohen\, Brent Green\, and international tours with Sam Green and the late Danny Williams’ Warhol Factory films. \nAs a producer and player he has worked with musical luminaries including Vic Chesnutt\, Patti Smith\, Tom Verlaine\, DJ/Rupture\, Mary Margaret O’Hara and members of godspeed you! black emperor\, Fugazi The Dirty Three and The Ex. Griffin was a 2008 fellow at the Sundance Institute Composer’s Lab. He has twice been nominated for CinemaEye Honors for original score\, once for Utopia in Four Movements\, and once for Dragonslayer. \n \nMarisa Jahn works at the intersection of inequality and access\, positioning interactive media as an essential tool for public engagement and social impact. Jahn is the Founder and Executive Director of REV- (as in to rev an engine)\, a nonprofit studio whose public art projects combine creativity\, bold ideas\, and sound research to address critical issues impacting low-wage workers\, immigrants\, and teens. Jahn originated El Bibliobandido (or ‘story thief’)\, an ongoing living legend built around a masked bandit who\, ravenous for stories\, roves the jungles of Honduras terrorizing little kids until they offer him stories they’ve written; Video Slink Uganda\, a project that transposes experimental videos by African diaspora video artists into the Ugandan black market; a contagious public art competition in Tajikistan for the best ten second poem juried by the Oprah of Northern Tajikistan; and a public art nanny hotline (think NPR’s car talk but for nannies) about the New York State Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Created in collaboration with the National Domestic Workers’ Alliance\, Jahn’s latest project is the NannyVan\, a bright orange mobile design studio and sound lab that “accelerates the movement for domestic workers’ rights nationwide.”\n  \nZACHARY HEINZERLING is a film director based in Brooklyn\, New York. His debut feature\, Cutie and the Boxer is currently nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film. The critically acclaimed film won prizes at top film festivals around the world and was featured on many best film lists of 2013\, including that of A.O. Scott from the New York Times and Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal. The film received a field leading three 2014 Cinema Eye Honors\, for Outstanding Debut Feature\, Outstanding Original Score\, and Outstanding Visual Effects. Zachary was the winner of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for US Documentary. He was awarded the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist award at the 2013 Full Frame Film Festival. He was the recipient of the 2013 International Documentary Association’s Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award\, which recognizes the achievements of a filmmaker who has made a significant impact at the beginning of his or her career in documentary film. He was nominated for a 2014 DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary. He began his career at HBO\, where he worked on four consecutive Emmy Award-winning documentaries as a Field Producer and Cinematographer. Most recently he directed a five-part web series with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter entitled “Self-Titled” for her latest album “Beyoncé”. \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, award-winning filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, Will Cox (Final Frame)\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring  graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/06-01-2014-documentary-graphics-music-transmedia-campaigns/
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SUMMARY:Stories You Can't Tell on the Radio
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Come watch and listen as professional radio journalists tell an evening’s worth of stories\, some live\, some recorded\, along with tales\, some too silly\,  some too dark or personal\, to make their way out to audiences of millions. This evening we’ll focus on tales from backstage\, between the folds and behind the scenes – the tape\, info. and crazy bits that can’t be shared on air. This event will not be recorded so turn off your cell phones and focus on the here and now before the tellers and tales both\, slip away into the dark anonymous folds of history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAnn Heppermann is a Brooklyn-based\, independent radio/multimedia documentary producer and educator. Her work has aired on numerous public radio stations\, including: This American Life\, Radiolab\, Studio 360\, Marketplace and many others.  A Peabody Award-winning producer\, she also has received awards from the Associated Press\, Edward R. Murrow\, and Third Coast International Audio Festival. From 2010-11\, she was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow\, reporting on perinatal depression and pre-teen eating disorders for NPR and Ms. Magazine. In 2011\, she was named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow with Kara Oehler. Recently\, she has been a series producer for Marketplace’s Economy 4.0 series with David Brancaccio\, WQXR and Studio 360. She is also a faculty member teaching radio writing and radio drama at Sarah Lawrence College. \n \nScott Gurian reports on New Jersey’s Sandy recovery for WNYC and NJ Spotlight. Previously\, he was a producer at The Takeaway\, and he spent five years as News Director at public radio station KGOU in Norman\, Oklahoma\, where he covered everything from the Oklahoma City bombing anniversary and political wrangling at the state capitol to rattlesnake festivals and the annual prison rodeo. Scott’s work has aired on NPR\, the BBC\, and dozens of public radio stations and programs. He’s won numerous awards including a national and two regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrows. He loves going on radio adventures and hopes to do more international reporting. \n \nSally Herships  is an award winning journalist who’s been making radio for over a decade. She’s produced or reported for BBC World Service\, NPR\, WNYC\, The New York Times and Studio 360. She’s put in many hours at Radio Lab and is a regular contributor to public radio’s Marketplace. Sally teaches writing for radio at Sarah Lawrence and her stress eating food of choice is the crinkle-cut potato chip. \n  \n \nIlya Marritz is a reporter at WNYC – New York Public Radio\, covering business. He’s reported stories for NPR\, Marketplace\, and for German and Czech radio\, and recently played Young Scrooge in WQXR’s radio-play production of “A Christmas Carol.” He lives in Brooklyn and enjoys community gardening. \n  \n  \nShia Levitt has reported for NPR\, Marketplace\, KQED and numerous other public radio outlets.  She has covered stories from the US\, Africa\, Asia and the Middle East\, and has taught radio to teens in both the US and Haiti.  She recently co-taught her first Radio Rookies workshop to New York City high school students. Shia loves photography\, hiking and plotting to move to Northern California. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/03-16-2014-sally-herships-outtakes/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:LIVING LOS SURES: PREVIEW IN THE PARK & PARTY
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nLiving Los Sures is a collaborative documentary about the Southside of Williamsburg\, Brooklyn launching fall 2014.\nIt RESTORES a film about the neighborhood that was made way back in 1984; it REFRAMES the Southside today in 30 short documentary projects; and it hopes to be a REUNION of sorts for residents across Los Sures through many events and shared stories. \nYOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS PROJECT. \n  \nTo celebrate the creation of seven new documentary projects made this year as part of the UnionDocs Collaborative Production Living Los Sures\, a special public preview will be held in Sternberg (aka Lindsay) Park on Saturday June 7th starting at 7:00pm. \n7:30pm: DJ Sebastian Diaz Aguirre @Sternberg Park \n8:30pm: Preview screening of documentaries by the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio @Sternberg Park \n10pm: Doors at UnionDocs (322 Union Ave)\, Music from DJ Rich Bologna \n10:45pm: Music by Juan Wauters\, Ashok Kondabolu\, and Rich Bologna + Installations \nMidnight – 1:30am: DJ Dapwell (Ashok Kondabolu) \n  \n  \nABOUT THE UNIONDOCS COLLABORATIVE STUDIO\nThe UnionDocs Collaborative Studio is a one year fellowships program for nonfiction media research and group production. It seeks to bring together individual talents\, voices\, and stories to create multidimensional documentaries. For the past 10 months\, fellows have been immersed in research\, idea generation\, planning\, recording\, edits\, critique\, and re-edits. Teams were formed around a set of select proposals\, which all moved through the stages of production in tandem. Through this effort\, nine new projects were created that explore stories about local neighborhood\, its community\, history and rich culture. \n2014 Projects include: \nAlvaro (Alexandra Lazarowich\, Chloe Zimmerman\, Elizabeth Warren\, Daniel Wilson) \nA meditation on memory and perseverance\, ÁLVARO follows 75-year-old South Williamsburg resident Álvaro Brandon on his daily route to feed 40 stray cats in his neighborhood. \nDivision Avenue\, 13 min. (Janna Kyllästinen\, Anne-Katrine Hansen. Alexandra Lazarowich\, Stanzi Vaubel\,John G. Larson) \nDivision Avenue is a short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of Los Sures\, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). The film examines the architecture and fabric of the BQE through poetic imagery and experimental ambient sound recordings\, inviting the audience to encounter urban landscape in a unique and curious way. \nRooted/Uprooted\, 10 min. (Danya Abt\, Samantha Richardson and Elizabeth Warren) \nRooted/Uprooted is a portrait of Nelly’s\, a family-owned flower shop in South Williamsburg. Sandwiched between elevated tracks and congested streets\, this tiny oasis brings the local population together in ritual\, memory and in celebration of green things. \nThe Domino Project: An Interactive Documentary + The Gentrification Guilt Meter \n(John Larsen -Co-Producer\, Elizabeth Warren – Co-Producer\, Daniel J Wilson – Creative Director/Interactive Documentary Producer\, Joyce Wong – Creative Director/Interactive Installation Producer) \nThe DOMINO Project is an attempt to look beyond the simplistic reactionary rhetoric that often frame the discussions about neighborhood change in New York City and beyond. It aims to help foster understanding of the forces – economic\, political\, legal and social – that operate behind the scenes in the gentrification process. \nThe online interactive documentary component of the project allows the viewer to walk around an archetypal neighborhood block with buildings representing various actors in the development process. The viewer can “enter” the buildings\, where each actor in the process is able to present their story from their own point of view\, and where the viewer can also explore supporting media rich information about the selected participant. \nGentrification Guilt Meter is a self-help quiz and interactive installation that confronts our uncomfortable feelings and complicity with gentrification. \nEric Winter to Spring\, 14 min. (Danya Abt\, Joyce Wong\, Janna Kyllästinen) \nEric Winter to Spring is a glimpse into the life of Eric Martine\, a recovering drug addict and Brooklyn cab driver. \nThis Place\, 12 min. (Damon Logan\, Stanzi Vaubel) \nThis Place (short) is the first 12 minutes of a feature-length film. The film weaves together an ensemble of characters who populate the UnionDocs community. Each character explores what it means to be a documentary artist. \nDwellings\, an installation by Anne-Katrine Hansen\, Chloe Zimmerman\, and Sam Richardson \nDwellings is a roving public art installation that dwells on various experiences of “home” in the changing neighborhood of Los Sures. \n  \n  \nABOUT LIVING LOS SURES \nIn the late seventies and early eighties\, the Southside of Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Los Sures\, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverria\, skillfully represents the challenges of this time; drugs\, gang violence\, crime\, abandoned real estate\, racial tension\, single parent homes\, and inadequate local resources. Echeverria’s portrait also celebrates the vitality of the largely Puerto Rican community\, showing the strength of their culture\, their creativity and determination to overcome a desperate situation. Living Los Sures is a multi-year production that partners with Echeverria to revisit his powerful film\, make it accessible online for the first time\, create a collection of companion documentary projects that update\, annotate\, challenge\, and spiral off from the original\, and activate the community to share stories around remarkable local histories and important civic issues. \n10:30pm @ UnionDocs (doors at 10)\nRich Bologna\, Juan Wauters\, Dapwell (Kondabolu Brothers) + installations\, DJs + more — $10\n  \n \nRich Bologna: Rich Bologna is\, among other things\, a sound designer\, composer\, musician and music supervisor. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nJuan Wauters: In 2000\, Alberto Wauters left Uruguay to live in a basement in Queens. Two years later he called his son\, Juan\, to join him. Juan Wauters crossed the threshold into manhood when he arrived in New York. Working at a factory\, the father and son pooled their money to bring their family \nto the borough of opportunity. With no friends to speak of\, Juan turned to music to take control of the loneliness of his isolation. Juan was inspired by his new neighborhood of Jackson Heights and delighted to find that his library card gave him access to an abundance of new music. \nAshok Kondabolu was the hypeman “Dapwell” of the now-defunct rap-group Das Racist. He is also the creator of the online interview/documentary series “Chillin’ Island” and is a DJ on the East Village Radio show of the same name. He also writes columns and reviews for online magazines Noisey and Talkhouse. His website is dapwell.com and you can find him on Twitter at @dapwell \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPanache is a North American booking agency with offices in NY\, SF and Memphis. We are a boutique agency that prioritizes each of out artists\, placing their needs first while acting as a foundation for creating a successful\, prominent and long term career as a musician in an industry that is constantly evolving. We represent artists that are passionate about their music\, and strive to match that creativity with our unique and enthusiastic approach to booking. We bridge the gap between DIY culture and the mainstream music industry through booking shows in both conventional venues as well as experimenting with unique environments to create a more enjoyable stimulating experience. \nBrooklyn Cupcake Founded by sisters Carmen Rodriguez and Gina Madera\, Brooklyn Cupcake is a story of unconditional belief and unrelenting commitment. What began as simply weekend cupcakes for the family children has become NYC’s celebrated new cupcake shop. Taking advantage of their mixed cultural background and Brooklyn upbringing\, with the help of their cousin\, Michele Caballero\, the sisters created a menu of Puerto Rican and Italian inspired cupcakes. The flavors included favorites like Flan\, Dulce de Leche\, Tres Leche\, Tiramisu\, Rainbow Cookie and Coquito. Today Brooklyn Cupcake is The Best of New York as per the NY Daily News readers. The shop is listed in the Zagat NY Dining Guide and enjoys an incredible following throughout the Tri-State area and beyond.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-08-living-los-sures-preview-in-the-park/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:MK2 Expanded: Another Idea of Cinema in the City
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On the occasion of MoMA’s Carte Blanche in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the founding of prominent French film group MK2\, we welcome Marin Karmitz\, founder of MK2\, and Elisha Karmitz\, director of MK2 Agency. \nMarin Karmitz will introduce his rare short NUIT NOIRE\, CALCUTTA (1964)\, and Elisha Karmitz will talk about MK2’s expanded cinema projects. Followed by a drink and snack reception courtesy of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. \nFollowing their infamous slogan “Another idea of cinema”\, MK2 exhibition arm has focused in the last four decades in bringing cinema in neglected areas of Paris with the creation of arthouse theaters. Coming from a reflection on urbanism and the role of film theatres in the city\, they worked with various architects\, designers and artists to revitalize some outlying neighborhoods. \nDeveloping the idea of expanded cinema\, MK2 Agency has been very active in creating live events in unusual places (e.g. Cinema Paradiso\, a giant drive-in at the Grand Palais in 2013) and ephemeral theaters in order to create unique events and challenge the audiences on their relationships with film theatres. \n  \n  \n \nNUIT NOIRE\, CALCUTTA: \nA rare avant-garde short that Marin Karmitz directed at age 26\, starring Maurice Garrel\, written by Marguerite Duras and shot by Willy Kurant\, NUIT NOIRE\, CALCUTTA is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer’s block. \nThe short had a major importance for Duras who will later use that story for her novel The Vice-Consul. \n  \n  \n Marin Karmitz\, the producer\, distributor\, exhibitor and founder of MK2\, has during the last 40 years produced over 100 films and distributed close to 350 films. Jean-Luc Godard\, Alain Resnais\, Claude Chabrol\, Gus Van Sant\, Jonathan Nossiter\, Ken Loach\, Jacques Doillon\, Pavel Lounguine\, Hong Sang Soo\, Michael Haneke\, Raphaël Nadjari\, Olivier Assayas. The films under his banner have been graced with an impressive list of awards: three Golden Palms at Cannes\, three Golden Lions from the Venice Film Festival\, a Golden Bear from the Berlin Film Festival\, three Oscar nominations\, 25 César Awards and over one hundred international film festival awards. Karmitz’s work has received many official tributes since the 1980s\, by institutions such as the Cinémathèque Française\, the Pompidou Centre\, MoMA\, and the film heritage centres in Tel Aviv\, Madrid\, Munich and Boulogne. Karmitz has also received many awards worldwide for his career as a producer. Strongly involved in contemporary art\, Karmitz curated in 2009 the exhibition Silences at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg\, which was restaged later that year at the Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Lisbon. At the Rencontres d’Arles in 2010\, he presented his collection of more than two hundred photographic works for the first time. \n–Photo credit Benoït Linero \nElisha Karmitz Born in Paris in 1985\, Elisha Karmitz joined MK2 in 2006 as the director of publication and chief editor of the magazine TROIS COULEURS. In 2008\, he became the director of MK2 MULTIMEDIA. In 2012\, he launched MK2 Agency\, specialized in audiovisuel communication\, events and brand content. One of the most successful events he organized in Paris with MK2 Agency was Cinema Paradiso\, the largest drive-in ever organized in a city capital\, at the Grand Palais in June 2013\, attracting 80\,000 visitors.  \n  \nDan Nuxoll is the Program Director of Rooftop Films and has been working with the organization since 1998. He has curated events all across North America and Europe and has managed partnerships with the Sundance Film Festival\, Tribeca Film Festival\, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, BAM Cinematek\, MoMA\, and dozens of acclaimed cultural institutions. He is currently co-directing a documentary about a mysterious woman who has been running scandal-plagued film festivals for decades. \n  \nMK2 is the first independent group of the French cinema industry (production\, international & domestic distribution\, exhibition\, DVD publishing)\, founded in 1974. More than 400 titles make up the MK2 library\, which includes famous titles by international directors like David Lynch\, Krzysztof Kieslowski\, Michael Haneke or Abbas Kiarostami as well as films by the best French authors: Claude Chabrol\, Alain Resnais\, François Truffaut\, Jacques Doillon. \nMK2 also handles the rights of recent films by famous talents (Gus Van Sant) or emerging directors such as Gela Babluani that won prices in prestigious festivals (Cannes\, Venice\, Sundance). In addition to that\, MK2 restores in HD whole collections of classic films (Charles Chaplin\, Buster Keaton \, Stan Laurel\, H. Lloyd). \nFor more information about the celebrations of MK2’s 40th Anniversary in New York: \nMoMA Carte Blanche to MK2 – June 5-23 \nTribute to Marin Karmitz at FIAF – Friday\, June 6: \nhttp://www.fiaf.org/events/spring2014/2014-06-06-karmitz.shtml \nConversation with Marin Karmitz and ICP Chief Curator Brian Willis at Invisible Dog – Monday\, June 9th: \nhttp://theinvisibledog.org/talk-with-marin-karmitz/ \nThis event is co-presented with FI:AF  \n \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-08-mk2-expanded/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:How to Release Your Documentary
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can you find and build audiences for your film?  How do you know if your film is best suited for theatrical\, broadcast\, or both?  How do digital platforms affect “traditional” models of distribution and release?  How can you best utilize your film festival campaign?  What does a sales agent do and how do I get one? Another can’t-miss session! \n  \n  \nFeatured guests: \nRyan Kampe is the founder and president of  Visit Films. Prior to founding Visit\, Ryan spent a number of years in International Distribution at Focus Features. With Visit Films\, he has been responsible for the worldwide sales and development of a number of important American independent and international films that have premiered in festivals such as Cannes\, Sundance\, Berlin\, and Toronto from filmmakers as diverse as Harmonie Korine\, Werner Herzog\, the Duplass Brothers\, Valérie Donzelli\, Joe Swanberg and David Robert Mitchell. Ryan speaks on numerous panels each year and has served on a number of film festival juries while logging over 200\,000 air miles flown annually. He is as an avid soccer enthusiast and graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul\, MN. \nDan Nuxoll is the Program Director of Rooftop Films and has been working with the organization since 1998. He has curated events all across North America and Europe and has managed partnerships with the Sundance Film Festival\, Tribeca Film Festival\, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, BAM Cinematek\, MoMA\, and dozens of acclaimed cultural institutions. He is currently co-directing a documentary about a mysterious woman who has been running scandal-plagued film festivals for decades. \n  \n \nGraham Swindoll is a film distributor and producer based in Brooklyn\, NY. He works in the theatrical department at The Cinema Guild\, where he has handled the national theatrical releases of such films as Steve James’ The Interrupters\, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel’s Leviathan\, and Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours. His work as a trailer editor has been seen in theaters across the country and featured in the New York Times. He is currently in development on his first feature film as producer. \n  \nSIERRA PETTENGILL is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Town Hall\, her directorial debut\, will broadcast on PBS’ America ReFramed on April 1\, 2014. She is the producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer\, and the archival producer of Matt Wolf’s Teenage (Tribeca ‘13) and Ross Kauffman & Katy Chevigny’s E-Team (Sundance ’14). For PBS\, she was the associate producer of the Emmy-nominated Walt Whitman\, as well as the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire. She was also the associate producer of HBO’s Wartorn: 1861 – 2010\, produced by James Gandolfini\, and Nick Bentgen’s Northern Light. \n  \nCUTIE AND THE BOXER \nA reflection on love\, sacrifice\, and the creative spirit\, this candid New York documentary explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife Noriko. As a rowdy\, confrontational young artist in Tokyo\, Ushio seemed destined for fame\, but he is met with little commercial success after he moves to New York City in 1969\, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art\, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the unruly artist’s wife and assistant. Over the course of their marriage\, their roles shifted. Now 80\, Ushio still struggles to establish his artistic legacy\, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art—a series of drawings entitled “Cutie\,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades\, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice\, disappointment and aging\, against a background of lives dedicated to art. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nA nuts-and-bolts professional development series designed for the beginning or intermediate documentary filmmaker\, Documentary Fundamentals @ UnionDocs is six-week course culminating in a certificate of completion. Registrants can also attend individual sessions. This curriculum developed out of our experience hearing what fundamentals documentarians need to understand to plan\, produce\, and release an independent documentary today. \n\nHosted by the Cutie and the Boxer (2013) team\, Documentary Fundamentals is essential learning for the documentary filmmaker\, covering business basics\, fundraising and financing\, production and post-production strategies\, transmedia campaigns\, sales and distribution models.  Each session features guest speakers sharing tips and secrets of the trade\, with an emphasis on real-life case studies and best practices.  Full guest speaker list to be announced. \nDocumentary Fundamentals is designed for beginning or intermediate filmmakers with projects in any stage of development or production (even the daydreaming stage!).  Sessions combine formal presentations with extensive time for in-depth discussions with participants. \nRegistrants completing all six sessions will receive a Certificate of Completion\, and will have special opportunities to promote their projects within the UnionDocs network.  Specific guests and topics are subject to change. Doors will closed at 7:15 and we will being each session promptly at 7:30pm. \nFULL SCHEDULE: \n4/27 | Planning Your Documentary – featuring producer Tom Davis (SeeThink) and attorney Karen Shatzkin\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/4 | Financing Your Documentary – featuring José Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)\, John T. Trigonis (Indiegogo) and CPA Fred Siegel\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n5/16 | Directing and Shooting Your Documentary – featuring Oscar-winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \nNOTE: This session will be hosted by AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street) \n5/18 | Editing Your Documentary – featuring editor David Teague (The Brooklyn Vitagraph Company)\, hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling. \n6/1 | Graphics\, Music\, and Your Transmedia Campaign – featuring graphic designer Teddy Blanks (CHIPS) and musician T. Griffin\,  hosted by Director Zachary Heinzerling \nNOTE: At 5pm before this session Macktez will present a special free planning bootcamp workshop as a supplement to the series\, featuring Noah Landow and Reed Payne. \n6/8 | Releasing Your Documentary – featuring programmer Dan Nuxoll (Rooftop Films)\, hosted by Producer Sierra Pettengill. \n  \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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SUMMARY:NYFVC Graduating Film Student Mixer
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThe NYFVC invites graduating film students to our first annual Graduating Filmmakers’ Mixer at UnionDocs!\nGraduating from college marks the beginning of a new chapter in a young filmmaker’s career. While this new chapter is exciting\, it can also be quite daunting without immediate access to school resources. Come mingle with each other and forge connections while also meeting members of the oldest film non profit in NY\, the NYFVC whose members represent EAI\, Screen Slate\, Janus Films\, SVA\, Maysles Films and more. Forge connections and talk shop over drinks with established members of the New York film community and kick start your post-grad film career! In the spirit of the NYFVC’s mission to connect the wider film communities in NY\, this event is FREE for students — just bring your ID. Attendees will be given access to our online resource guide for New York-based filmmakers with helpful tips on things from equipment rentals to residencies and labs\, public access stations to microcinemas. Once again\, this event is FREE for NYFVC members and students with any school ID. (NYFVC Members please RSVP to nyfvcrsvp@gmail.com) \nThe New York Film/Video Council is New York’s oldest continuously operating non-profit serving the independent film\, video and electronic arts community. For over 70 years\, we’ve been a haven for lively discussions\, panels and screenings. Founded in the 1940s\, the Council was one of the only film organizations operating in New York. Now\, in a rich sea of film and media organizations\, the Council is unique in drawing together members for conversation across the breadth of our community. Our monthly programming is FREE with an annual membership\, $40 individual\, $20 students\, and $85 institutions (three members). Find us online at http://www.nyfvc.org/.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Traffic of Illusions
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nUsing photography\, writing and moving pictures\, Jean-Christian Bourcart explores what constitutes an image: a significant surface that questions our relationship to ourselves\, to society\, to history\, to reality. There is often an element of transgression in his work\, as he invades personal and private spaces with his camera. From one project to the other\, he is playing with layers of meanings to investigate how representation helps us understand the raw nature of the things without reason. \nThrough his carer\, he collected unsold wedding pictures\, photographed with a hidden camera in brothels\, swinging and S&M cubs\, photographed New Yorkers stuck in traffic jams\, projected pictures of Iraqi victims on American houses\, and documented the most dangerous city in the USA. He also directed two fiction feature movies and a dozen of videos and five books about his work have been published. \nJean-Christian Bourcart grew up in France and has been living in New York since 1997. He has been the recipient of the Prix Niepce\, the Prix Nadar\, the prix Gilles Dusein\, the World Press Award\, and the Prix du Jeu de Paume. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art\, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva\, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie\, and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain. He is represented by Galerie VU’ in Paris and by Banks Gallery in Shanghai. \n  \n  \nBrooklyn-based filmmaker and video artist Pawel Wojtasik (b. Lodz\, Poland) lived in Tunisia before immigrating to the US. He received his MFA in painting from Yale in 1996. Subsequently\, he spent two years living at Dai Bosatsu Zendo\, a Buddhist monastery. Pawel creates poetic reflections on cultures and ecosystems in the form of short films and large-scale installations. His investigations into the overlooked corners of the environment have led him to pig farms\, sewage treatment plants\, wrecking yards and autopsy rooms. His film The Aquarium dealt with the destruction of the oceans; Below Sea Level (2009)\, with sound by Stephen Vitiello\, was a 360° immersive installation on the theme of post-Katrina New Orleans\, as was Next Atlantis (with music by Sebastian Currier\, 2010). More recently\, Single Stream (2013-14)\, a collaboration with Toby Lee and Ernst Karel\, tackled the problem of waste. Pawel’s work has been shown at venues such as PS1/MoMA\, The Whitney Museum\, The Museum of the Moving Image and The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid\, and festivals such as Berlinale\, Ann Arbor and the New York Film Festival. His short film Pigs won the Grand Prize at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2011. Pawel is currently editing The End and the Means\, a feature-length film documenting workers of Varanasi\, India. Photo by Pat Mazzera. \n  \n Nan Goldin began photographing at the age of 15 and at the age of 19 had her first exhibition of black and white photographs. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Tufts University\, Boston\, in 1977. In 1978 she moved to New York where she continued to document her “extended family”. These photographs became the subject of her slide shows and Goldin’s first book\, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency”. It was groundbreaking work\, as she was the first woman to use photography to present the intimate details of her personal life as a public work of art\, and inspired a new generation of artists. In 1985 her work was included in the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art\, and gained international renown. In 1991 she moved to Berlin\, Germany on a DAAD grant and continued to live there until 1994. She has participated in many artistic collaborations\, including the books “Vakat” (1993) with poet Joachim Sartorious\, “Tokyo Love” with Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki\, and “A Double Life” with her old friend David Armstrong (both published in 1994). In 1993\, her seminal work “The Other Side\,” named after the Boston nightclub where she spent her early years\, was published by Scalo. Three years later\, in 1996\, a major retrospective exhibition of her work\, “I’ll be Your Mirror\,” closeded at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, and toured to museums in Europe. That same year the documentary “I’ll be Your Mirror” was awarded a Teddy Bear Award for Best Essay at the Berlin Film Festival. Goldin made the film in collaboration with Edmund Coulthard. In 1997 Goldin went back to Naples and was inspired to make new pictures dedicated to the memory of her friends Cookie Mueller\, Daniele and Vittorio Scarpati\, and thus in 1997 her book “Ten Years After” was published. In 2000 she moved to Paris and in 2001 a second retrospective\, “Le Feu Follet\,” was held at the Centre Georges Pompidou\, Paris and it\, too\, toured internationally under the title “The Devil’s Playground” to institutions such as the Whitechapel Art Gallery\, London\, the Reina Sofia\, Madrid\, Fundação de Serralves\, Porto\, Castello di Rivoli\, Turin and Ujazdowski Castle\, Warsaw. Her film “Sisters Saints and Sibyls” at the Festival d’Automne in 2004 drew the largest attendance ever at the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière. This piece\, a combination of film and still images projected on three screens\, is a story of three women trapped in a male hierarchy. It pays homage to her sister Barbara\, whose rebellion and suicide have so deeply marked her life and work. In 2006\, Goldin was awarded the prestigious “Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres” by the government of France in recognition for her significant contribution to the arts. In 2007\, Goldin received the Hassleblad Foundation International Award in Photography\, coinciding with the publication of a book\, “The Beautiful Smile”\, and an exhibition that traveled internationally. Also that year she was included in the group show “Airs de Paris” at Centre Pompidou. In 2009 Goldin was the guest curator at Recontres d’Arles festival for their 40th anniversary\, she invited twelve photographers to participate in the exhibition\, “Ça me touché”. Goldin’s most recent slide show “Scopophilia” was created especially for the Musée du Louvre and was exhibited at the end of 2010. \nCurrently she works and lives both in Paris and New York. \nRockaway Brewing Company owners Ethan and Marcus started as homebrewers in Far Rockaway and now brew their beer out of Long Island City\, NY. The brewery specializes in handcrafted malt-forward ales which are all brewed onsite in what is the first beer brewery to closed in Queens since Prohibition.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Bridge High + Short Circuit
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Bridge High  \n10min / 1975 / USA / English / 16mm  \nPassage across a suspension bridge\, moving from the country to the city\, a half minute trip ­ expanded. Choreographed cables\, girders and arches. Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer & presented by the Cinema Conservancy Screening Series. \n   \n   \n \nShort Circuit \n45min / 1973 / USA / English / 16mm  \nIn his apartment on the corner of 101st Street and Broadway\, a documentary filmmaker begins to question his interactions to the white family and black workers he shares his daily existence with. Staring out his window he begins to drift and fantasize a parallel life\, which turns into a complex sound and image montage of street photography depicting a long­since vanquished Upper West Side. Full of doubt\, a lifelong city resident looks at his liberalism and doesn’t like what he sees. Constructed reality and documentary fiction\, an unclassifiable masterpiece of ideas and technique that by all rights should be considered a landmark\, had it not been virtually impossible to see. Directed by Manfred Kirchheimer & presented by the Cinema Conservancy Screening Series with a Q&A with Kirchheimer and Jacob Perlin from the Cinema Conservancy Screening Series to follow the screening. \n  \n  \n  \nManfred (Manny) Kirchheimer is an independent filmmaker who has won awards here and abroad for such films as Art Is . . .The Permanent Revolution\, SprayMasters\, Tall\, We Were So Beloved\, Stations of the Elevated\, Bridge High\, Short Circuit\, Claw\, Leroy Douglas\, Haiku\, and Colossus on the River. \nKirchheimer has been producing and directing documentaries since 1965 with special emphasis on social issues\, the built environment\, art\, and nature. His films have been shown around the world in theaters\, on television and at festivals including New York\, London\, Berlin\, Edinburgh\, Venice\, Melbourne\, Sydney\, Leipzig\, Mannheim\, Max Ophüls Preis (Saarbrücken)\, Gothenburg\, Jerusalem\, Montreal\, and Athens\, as well as the Festival dei Popoli in Florence\, Cinema du Reel in Paris \, Rhythm of the Line (Berlin)\, and the Kennedy Center. Among the many museums that have showcased his work are the Museum of Modern Art\, Art Institute of Chicago\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, The Jewish Museum\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Munich Filmmuseum\, and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. \nRetrospectives of Kirchheimer’s films have taken place at the Athens International Film Festival in Ohio\, Sinking Creek Film Festival in Nashville\, and at the Filmhaus in Saarbrücken\, Germany. Kirchheimer teaches film at the School of Visual Arts in New York\, lectures frequently at schools and universities\, and makes films whenever he can raise the money. His latest film\, Canners\, is about street people who collect cans and bottles for a living\, \nKirchheimer is listed in Who’s Who in Entertainment\, Who’s Who in the East\, and The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. \nCurator Jacob Perlin is currently Director of Cinema Conservancy\, a non-profit film distribution\, production and consultation organization for American Independent Cinema. Founder The Film Desk. Former Associate Film Curator at BAMcinematek. Co-programmer of Jean-Luc Godard retrospective at 2013 New York Film Festival. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:When I Walk
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]85 min / 2013 / USA and Canada / English \nWhen I Walk  \nDirected by Jason DaSilva  \npresented by POV  \nJason DaSilva was 25 years old and a rising independent filmmaker when a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis changed everything — and inspired him to make another film. When I Walk is candid and brave chronicle of one young man’s struggle to adapt to the harsh realities of M.S. while holding onto his personal and creative life. With his body growing weaker\, DaSilva’s spirits\, and his film\, get a boost from his mother’s tough love and the support of Alice Cook\, who becomes his wife and filmmaking partner. The result is a life-affirming documentary filled with unexpected moments of joy and humor. \nOfficial Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. \n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\nDirector Jason DaSilva has been a prolific filmmaker for the past 10 years. He has directed four short films (OLIVIA’S PUZZLE\, A SONG FOR DANIEL\, TWINS OF MANKALA\, and FIRST STEPS) and two feature-length documentary films (LEST WE FORGET and WHEN I WALK). Many of his films have won awards; OLIVIA’S PUZZLE premiered at the 2003 Sundance Festival and qualified for an Academy Award. Three of his films have had national broadcasts on PBS\, HBO\, and CBC. He also produced Shocking and Awful\, a film installation on the anti-Iraq war movement\, exhibited at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Each one of these works advanced Jason’s objective to give voice to those on the periphery of society. In 2006 Jason took a short break from filmmaking to earn his MFA in Applied Media Arts from Emily Carr University. \nHe recently produced and directed an Op-Doc (opinion documentary) for the New York Times called ‘The Long Wait\,’ published in January 2013. DaSilva’s latest film\, WHEN I WALK\, was an Official Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Canadian Feature at HotDocs 2013. Following the film’s theatrical release this fall\, it will air on POV on PBS in 2014. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, New York. For more information about Jason DaSilva\, read his blog here. \nYael Melamede is a co-founder of SALTY Features – an independent production company based in NYC whose goal is to create media that is vital and enhances the world\, like salt. Melamede’s producer credits include: the documentary film INOCENTE\, directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine; BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN\, written and directed by John Krasinski\, based on the book by David Foster Wallace; THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST\, written and directed by Paul Auster; and MY ARCHITECT\, directed by Nathaniel Kahn and nominated for an Academy Award in 2004. Melamede was trained and worked as an architect before becoming a filmmaker. \n  \nAubrey Gallegos is the Community Engagement & Education manager at PBS’s POV. Aubrey and her team work with public television stations\, community organizations and educators to present screenings of POV films nationwide\, and develop and distribute accompanying resources such as discussion guides and lesson plans. Prior to joining POV\, Aubrey worked as an environmental educator and deckhand aboard historic tall ships\, including the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater\, co-founded by Pete Seeger. She has also worked as an event manager at UnionDocs and as a production assistant on a number of independent film and theater productions. Aubrey graduated from Whitman College with bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and Film Studies. \n\n  \n  \n  \nProduced by American Documentary\, Inc. and beginning its 27th season on PBS in 2014\, the award-winning POV series is the longest-running showcase on American television to feature the work of today’s best independent documentary filmmakers. Airing June through September with primetime specials during the year\, POV has brought more than 365 acclaimed documentaries to millions nationwide. POV films have won every major film and broadcasting award\, including 32 Emmys\, 15 George Foster Peabody Awards\, 10 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards\, three Academy Awardsand the Prix Italia.  Since 1988\, POV has pioneered the art of presentation and outreach using independent nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about today’s most pressing social issues. Visit www.pbs.org/pov.     \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Grit & Grind + Kate Bornstein
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Grit & Grind + Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger \nTotal Run time: 80min / 2014 / USA / Digital video \nGrit & Grind (US Premiere) presented by DCTV \nDirected by Felix Endara and Sasha Wortzel \n10min / 2014 / USA / English \nGrit & Grind is a short documentary about the Clit Club\, an edgy lesbian party set in New York City’s Meatpacking District in the 1990s\, as this large metropolis struggled with the AIDS epidemic. The film acts as a poly­vocal recollection of the sexually charged energy produced by this intergenerational\, cross­racial\, mixed class venue? and serves as a record of a vibrant neighborhood before it became home to homogeneous trendy boutiques and luxury hotels. \n \nKate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger (NY Premiere) presented by DCTV\nDirected by Sam Feder\n70min / 2014 / USA / English\n\n\n  \nKate Bornstein Is A Queer and Pleasant Danger captures the many facets of a queer hero and pioneering gender outlaw. Whether she is charming an enraptured audience on her latest book tour\, tweeting to her 20 thousand followers from her home office\, or cuddling with her puggle? this documentary portrait highlights Kate’s style\, wicked wit\, and astonishing candor. \n\n\n To view the trailer click here. \n  \n  \nFelix Endara Born in Ecuador\, Felix Endara is a New York-based independent filmmaker and curator whose films have screened at festivals including Berlin\, Frameline\, Outfest\, and Mill Valley. From 2008 to 2012\, he programmed Arts Engine’s documentary screening series DocuClub\, which he toured to Mexico City and Silver Spring\, Maryland. In 2010\, he was a fellow at the IFP Documentary Finishing Lab as producer for Wildness\, which premiered at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in February 2012\, and was an official selection at SXSW later that year. Grit & Grind\, his most recent short film\, had its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\nSasha Wortzel is a filmmaker\, media artist\, and educator based in Brooklyn\, NY\, working in video\, installation\, sound\, and performance. Her experimental and documentary films explore space in relation to gender\, sexuality\, memorial\, and archive. In her interactive installations\, analogue objects are brought to life with physical computing and programming. She produces the radio program\, Romantic Friendship\, a thematic exploration of art\, culture\, and politics through a queer\, feminist lens She has recently presented work at the Berlin International Film Festival\, Tribeca Interactive\, Guggenheim Lab\, A.I.R. Gallery\, and the Leslie Lohman Museum. She is a recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg/Big Arts award and a 2012-2013 Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow. She is currently directing Star People are Beautiful People\, a hybrid feature about the late transgender activists\, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson of STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). \n Sam Feder’s (www.samfeder.com) directorial debut\, the award-winning feature\, Boy I Am\, is cited as one of the 10-Must See Gender Documentaries. Sam’s work can be seen internationally at film festivals\, universities and colleges\, museums\, and libraries. They have received grants\, fellowships and residencies from: The Jerome Foundation\, the RFA Excellence in Filmmaking\, Crossroads Foundation\, Funding Exchange\, Astraea Foundation for Social Justice\, and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 2013\, Sam was awarded a Yaddo Artist Residency\, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow Residency. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFounded in 1972\, DCTV is an established media arts resource for New York City’s independent filmmaking community\, providing affordable workshops\, production equipment rentals\, post-production facilities\, a signature screening and event series\, renowned youth programming\, and more – all under the same roof as its award-winning documentary production house. DCTV is also the soon-to-be home of the first US documentary-only cinema![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Doors
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 117min / 1984 / USA / English  \nBeyond the Doors (aka Down On Us) \nDirected by Larry Buchanan \npresented by N+1FR\, the N+1 Film Review. \nThe story of Jimi Hendrix\, Jim Morrison\, and Janis Joplin and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot. Directed by schlock cinema auteur Larry Buchanan (Zontar the Thing from Venus\, Mars Needs Women\, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald) seven years before Oliver Stone’s The Doors\, Buchanan’s film mixes generational war and conspiracy theory in a dead-end mise en scene in which political and pop history compete for attention in anonymous hotel rooms linked by TV sets nobody is watching. Buchanan\, an Austin\, Texas-based no-budget filmmaker\, could not afford the rights to any Hendrix\, Joplin\, or The Doors hits\, so instead commissioned unconvincing sound-alike songs for his cast of local actors to perform. Beyond the Doors/Down on US\, which never played in any theater outside of Austin\, presents a posthumous history of classic rock from before the point it was fully commodified\, when it was still closed to peculiar interpretation and awkward deification. \n  \nA. S. Hamrah is a film critic for n+1 and the founding editor of the N1FR\, n+1’s film review supplement. Hamrah’s work has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe\, CNN.com\, Cineaste\, The Boston Phoenix\, The New York Observer\, The Paris Review Daily\, the Criterion Collection\, and The Baffler. He is a former editor of Hermenaut and wrote for Suck.com. He has appeared on the National Public Radio programs Talk of the Nation and Weekend Edition Sunday\, and on the BBC. His essays have appeared in several books. At one time he worked for the late Raúl Ruiz. Hamrah has lectured on film at Yale University\, New York University\, and the Art Center College of Design. He currently works as a semiotic brand analyst for the New York-based brand consultancy TruthCo. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Crazy\, Quirky\, Scary\, and True
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A Shorts Block presented by Narratively.  \nFull Run-Time: 45min \nPlaying By Ear \nDirected by Daphnée Denis & Hoda Emam \n5:30/2013/USA/English \nGoalball may have been designed for the blind\, but one group of Brooklyn players proves that the sport is as dangerous\, fastpaced and competitive as any you’ll find. \n  \n  \nThe Caucasian Sensation \nDirected by Alison Brockhouse \n7:50/2013/USA/English \nAfter decades spent leaping and spinning through the mountains of Dagestan\, a homegrown dance legend reinvents himself in a New York City studio. \n  \n  \nLoving the Bony Lady \nDirected by Scott Elliott \n6:28/2012/USA/Spanish with English subtitles \nA transsexual Mexican immigrant living in Queens is perhaps the city’s most fervent follower of a \nforbidden—and increasingly beloved—occult saint. \n  \n  \n \nKaraoke Kills in Brooklyn \nDirected by James Boo \n6:22/2013/USA/English \nEvery Friday at midnight\, two DJs known as Karaoke Killed the Cat unleash a show of dance\, song\, and the occasional pantsless exhibition at Union Hall in Park Slope\, Brooklyn. \n  \n  \nNo Strings Attached \nDirected by: Emon Hassan \n8:01/2012/USA/English \nA Brooklyn artist creates instruments out of old shovels\, whiskey bottles and other forgotten curiosities. \n  \n  \nMatron of Morbidity \nDirected by: Joel Tozer and Ella Rubeli \n3:53/2013/USA/English \nAn octogenarian Australian finds her life’s mission wrapped up in a rather ghoulish pastime: the preservation of human body parts. \n  \n  \nKung Fu Noodles \nDirected by: Yihuan Wu and Xiaoran Liu \n7:46/2013/USA/English \nFrom a basement shop in New York\, a TV star turned cook dreams of noodle notoriety on the silver screen. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDaphnée Denis (Playing By Ear) is a documentary filmmaker and video journalist for the AFP news agency\, based in London. Her work has appeared on Slate\, Slate France and Monocle magazine and radio. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nHoda Emam (Playing By Ear) Based in San Francisco California\, Hoda Emam is currently producing a documentary called “Shot in the Dark”. The film focuses on a group of visually impaired athletes whose differences in eyesight and life aspirations are leveled on the playing field. In 2013\, the abridged version of the film called ‘Playing by Ear’ was awarded honorable mention by the ‘Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability’. Prior to that\, Hoda worked as a news anchor/producer for Thomson Reuters where she hosted the daily business show ‘U.S. Day Ahead’ and as correspondent for City 7 TV in the Middle East. In addition she has contributed to The Guardian\, ABC News\, CBS News and the United Nations Population Fund. In 2013\, she was chosen as ‘United Nations Foundation Press Fellow’ where she met with influential world leaders. \nHoda holds a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism where she was awarded a Scripps Howard Fellowship and covered the influx of Libyan refugees in Italy following the 2011 Libyan revolution. \nAlison Brockhouse (The Caucasian Sensation) is an artist and photographer living in Brooklyn. She is a member of the Meerkat Media Collective\, which recently completed Brasslands\, a feature documentary about Balkan brass music. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nScott Elliott (Loving the Bony Lady) is founder and creative director of 590films. He directs\, shoots\, edits 590films’ projects. His documentary Slumming It: Myth and Culture on the Bowery\, about the history of the Bowery in New York City\, aired on PBS in July 2005 on the seriesReel New York. Scott’s most recent documentary\, Into the Gyre\, about plastic pollution in the Atlantic Ocean\, has won numerous awards at international film festivals\, including Best Picture at the 2012 Scinema Festival of Science Film. He is currently in production on The Trees\, a film about the National September 11th Memorial. \nJames Boo (Karaoke Kills in Brooklyn) is a multimedia journalist working most frequently at the intersection of food\, culture\, and economics. His documentary web series\,1 Minute Meal\, captures the lives of small business owners in the big city\, doing whatever it takes to keep their own piece of New York tastefully alive. \n  \n  \nEmon Hassan (No Strings Attached) is a New York-based filmmaker\, photographer\, and multimedia producer. He is the Director of Video & Multimedia at Narratively\, and a regular contributor to The New York Times. Hassan is the Founder of Guitarkadia\, a site devoted to telling Multimedia stories around guitars as well as the visual blog\, Emonome. His radio dramas have been licensed by BBC America\, as well as radio stations across United States. He is an active member of the Producers Guild of America\, East. \nHassan is currently developing several television and film projects. \n  \n  \nJoel Tozer (The Matron of Morbidity) is a television journalist and producer based in Sydney. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nXiaoran Liu (Kung Fu Noodles) was born and raised in China. She graduated from Columbia University with a major in broadcast and documentary in Journalism School. She is now working both in Beijing and New York as a documentary filmmaker. She produced documentary films\, “No Sound\,” in 2012\, “The Noodle Guy” and “Crossroads of journalism dreams” in 2013. Her most recent film is “WaterSide”\, a story about a Chinese village. She is also working on international documentaries as director for CCTV Documentary Channel. She used to work in Phoenix TV’s Beijing office as a program director and editor\, responsible for over 150 episodes. Liu had a personal exhibition in Beijing in 2011\, combining traditional Chinese art with modern art and video installations. \nKen Butler is an artist and musician whose Hybrid musical instruments\, performances\, installations\, and other works explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects\, altered images\, sounds and silence.\n\nHis works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and performances throughout the USA\, Canada\, and Europe including The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam\, Mass MoCA\, and The Kitchen\, The Brooklyn Museum\, The Queens Museum\, Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as well as in South America\, Thailand\, and Japan. His works have been reviewed in The New York Times\, The Village Voice\, Artforum\, Smithsonian\, and Sculpture Magazine and have been featured on PBS\, CNN\, MTV\, and NBC\, including a live appearance on The Tonight Show. He has performed with John Zorn\, Laurie Anderson\, Butch Morris\, The Soldier String Quartet\, Matt Darriau’s Paradox Trio\, The Tonight Show Band\, and The Master Gnawa musicians of Morocco. His CD\, Voices of Anxious Objects is on Tzadik records.\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Ne Me Quitte Pas
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]107min / 2013 / Netherlands and Belgium / Flemish and French with English Subtitles  \nNe Me Quitte Pas is a tragicomic ode to failure. Set in a village on the edge of Belgium\, Bob (Flemish) and Marcel (Walloon) share their solitude\, sense of humor and carving for alcohol. They have agreed that suicide is the best way out if worse comes to worst. In that case\, they have chosen the perfect spot to do so: under Bob’s tree of life. \nBob is a retired cowboy who loves his freedom and forest\, while Marcel is trying to hold on to the family he is about to lose. Time passes slowly in the Wallonian countryside. Fortunately\, there’s wood to be chopped\, sticky flypaper to be hung and there are the occasional trips to the dentist. The remaining time is killed with drinking. \nIn direct cinema style we witness a Walloon carnival\, a car accident and a failed attempt to find Bob’s son. Even Bob’s tree of life appears to have vanished. Despite all\, the two men never indulge in selfpity. They stand strong together\, until Marcel decides to stop drinking and Bob refuses to join him in rehab. \nBrooklyn premiere of Ne Me Quitte Pas presented by the Dutch Consulate and Indiewire \nDirected by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden. \n \n  \n  \nDutch Culture USA is the division of the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ government that supports and promotes Dutch arts and culture in the US. \nWe are dedicated to supporting innovative Dutch arts and cultural programs by helping build long-lasting relationships between the Dutch and American arts and cultural worlds\, while spreading the positive image of the Netherlands and its thriving artistic community and creative professionals[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Seventeen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white”][vc_column_text]SEVENTEEN \n120min\, 1983\, USA\, English\, Digital projection \npresented by BOMB Magazine Directed by Joel DeMott & Jeff Kreines \n“A film about coming of age in the working class. We decided to follow a group of teenagers — girls and boys\, white and black — whose lives intertwine during their last year in high school. By filming for more than a year\, and by living where we were filming\, we encountered a range of experience. A white girl has a cross burned in her yard because she has a black boyfriend. A pal of hers from the neighborhood loses his best friend\, who is killed in a car accident. Another classmate fathers an illegitimate baby. From the beginning we mixed easily with the kids. We each use only a one-person rig we designed — a camera/tape recorder combination that allows the filmmaker to act intuitively and feel untied — no sound person\, lights\, crew\, or crates of paraphernalia. It matters\, too\, that one of us is male\, the other female: we could film those moments of high girlishness and boyishness that occur only out of earshot of the opposite sex.The result is a free-flowing intimacy with the teenagers’ world. Kids smoke dope\, get drunk\, sass their teachers\, disobey the taboo against race-mixing\, try to break away from their mothers and fathers. It’s clear that they\, on occasion\, fuck and fight. But the film is not scandalous. It got that reputation\, sight-unseen by most citizens\, when the authorities banned it from television\, and boughten mouths told lies about it\, over and over till invention became objective record\, elevated to that pinnacle\, and secured\, by the typing sheep. Nothing new there — that the powerful have power. We refused to change our film. We respected the kids’ complexity\, celebrated their liveliness\, despaired of their future. And we loved them dearly. But it was impossible to oblige America’s notion that to be worthy film subjects\, the working class must be saintlike\, and to be embraceable\, cinema-verité (or any art) should become a broken version of what the makers made.” \n–Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines \n[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”120 min” color=”white”][vc_column_text] \n \nMatt Wolf  is a filmmaker in New York. His most recent film TEENAGE\, based on the book by Jon Savage\, is about the birth of youth culture. Previously\, he made WILD COMBINATION about the avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell\, and I REMEMBER about the artist and poet Joe Brainard. Matt is finishing a new film for HBO about the children’s book illustrator and Eloise co-creator Hilary Knight. \n  \n  \nClinton Krute is the web editor at BOMB Magazine[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Transexual Menace
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]75min / 1996 / USA / English \nTransexual Menace  \nDirected by Rosa Von Praunheim \npresented by Dirty Looks and MOTHA (Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art) \n  \nTransexual Menace takes its title from the name of “the most exciting political action group in the USA”—transgendered people who are defining themselves\, demanding their legal rights\, and fighting for medical care and against job discrimination. Considered by von Praunheim to be the “most fascinating [project] in my long life as a filmmaker\,” Transexual Menace is a sensitive and carefully crafted portrait that deals with issues closedly and honestly. “I was able to earn the trust of many who are often reluctant to be interviewed. Courageous people talked to me\, who transitioned in such problematic professions as law enforcement and firefighting.” Transexual Menace gives viewers remarkable insight into the home and work lives of transsexuals from many cultures and countries\, including female­-to­male transsexuals and those with families and children. \n\nFilmmaker and gay-rights activist Rosa von Praunheim is one of the leading figures in gay and lesbian cinema and New German Cinema\, although his deliberately controversial techniques\, designed to challenge audiences\, have sometimes caused him to be criticized by both gay and anti-gay supporters. Praunheim originally studied painting in Berlin and from there was an assistant for such gay filmmakers as Werner Schroeter and Gregory J. Markopoulous. As a director\, he made many underground short films on Super-8 or 16 mm stock before going to work in television where he became known for such genre parodies as Die Bettwurst/The Bedroll (1970). \nVon Praunheim made his first gay-themed film\, Sisters of the Revolution\, in 1969. The film was a three-part look at homosexual participation in the early women’s liberation movement taking place in New York. One of his most influential films was 1970?s made-for-TV outing. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse\, But the Situation in Which He Lives\, another example of his usage of negative gay stereotypes to politicize their plight and plea for more rights. Not all of von Praunheim’s films focus on homosexuality; some deal with those living on the fringes of society. \nAbout the presenters: \nMx Justin Vivian Bond is a writer\, singer\, painter\, and performance artist. Mx Bond is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning memoir TANGO: My Childhood\, Backwards and in High Heels\, published by The Feminist Press and Susie Says… a collaboration with Gina Garan (Powerhouse Books\, 2012). V’s debut CD DENDRPOPHILE was self-released on WhimsyMusic in 2011 and was followed by SILVER WELLS in 2012.  Mx Bond was nominated for a Tony Award for Kiki and Herb Alive On Broadway in 2007. Other notable theatrical endeavors include starring as Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis in Scott Wittman’s production of Jukebox Jackie: Snatches of Jackie Curtis as part of La Mama E.T.C.’s 50 Anniversary Season\, originating the role of Herculine Barbin in Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking play Hidden: A Gender\, touring with the performance troupe The Big Art Group and appearing in John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus. Mx Bond is a recipient of The Ethyl Eichelberger Award\, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant\, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award for Performance Art/Theater\, an Obie and a Bessie. \nChris E. Vargas is a film and video maker based in Oakland\, CA\, whose thematic interests include queer radicalism\, transgender hirstory\, and imperfect role models. He earned his MFA in Art Practice from the University of California\, Berkeley\, in 2011. Since 2008\, he has been making\, in collaboration with Greg Youmans\, the web-based trans/cisgender sitcom Falling In Love…with Chris and Greg. Episodes of the series have screened at numerous film festivals and art venues\, including MIX NYC\, SF Camerawork\, and the Tate Modern. With Eric Stanley\, Vargas co-directed the movie Homotopia (2006) and its feature-length sequel Criminal Queers (2012)\, which have been screened at Palais de Tokyo\, LACE\, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow\, and the New Museum among other venues. \nAbout the organizers: \nDIRTY LOOKS NYC is a New York-based roaming screening series\, an closed platform for inquiry\, discussion and debate. Designed to trace contemporary queer aesthetics through historical works\, Dirty Looks NYC presents quintessential GLBT film and video\, alongside up-and-coming artists and filmmakers. Dirty Looks exhibits a lineage of queer tactics and visual styles for younger artists\, casual viewers and seasoned avant-garde filmgoers\, alike. \nOver the course of three years\, Dirty Looks NYC has staged local screening initiatives at The Museum of Modern Art\, The Kitchen\, Participant Inc\, White Columns\, Artists Space and Judson Memorial Church\, with a Roadshow touring the West Coast yearly. Dirty Looks: On Location\, a month of queer interventions in New York City spaces\, was founded in 2012\, installing moving image work in significant queer spaces – both contemporary and shuttered – throughout the city. A biennial initiative\, On Location will return in 2015. \nMOTHA is dedicated to moving the hirstory and art of transgender people to the center of public life. The preeminent institution of its kind\, the museum insists on an expansive and unstable definition of transgender\, one that is able to encompass all trans and gender non-conformed art and artists. MOTHA is committed to developing a robust exhibition and programming schedule that will enrich the transgender mythos both by exhibiting works by living artists and by honoring the hiroes and transcestors who have come before.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Forgive Us Our Trespasses: 99% Invisible Talks Design and Dramaturgy
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]99% Invisible‘s Sam Greenspan and TLDR’s Alex Goldman will co-present the radio story “Heyoon” (running time: 27:08\, 2013). \nDiscussion afterwards will be geared towards how the past was reconstructed using actors and sound design. Discussion will also address ethics (of what is permissible to recreate) and dramaturgy (the research required to make an artistic creation still hold up as truthful). \nAndrea Silenzi  will moderate. \nAbout 99% Invisible: \n99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design\, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. \nThe show started life as a project of KALW public radio in San Francisco and the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco. We are distributed by PRX on PRX Remix and public radio stations around the country. \n“99% Invisible…is completely wonderful and entertaining and beautifully produced…” \n-Ira Glass\, This American Life \n“We think what [99% Invisible] is doing is inspiring. It has a kind of rhythm and musicality that you don’t normally find in radio or podcast storytelling.” \n-Jad Abumrad\, Radiolab \n“I love the show. It’s wonderful. [It] actually reminded me of why I love radio.” \n-Jonathan Goldstein\, CBC’s WireTap[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”27 min”][vc_column_text] \nSam Greenspan quit his job at NPR to become the first staff producer at 99% Invisible. He got his start in radio at WSLR\, a community radio station in Sarasota\, Florida. He now lives in Oakland\, California. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlex Goldman is the co-host and creator of the TLDR podcast\, and a producer for WNYC’s On the Media. In high school he did a lot of trespassing. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAndrea Silenzi is the senior producer of The Gist With Mike Pesca and host of Why Oh Why? on WFMU. \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-21-99-invisible/
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SUMMARY:Shorts After the Flaherty
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join us for an evening of film and video featuring some of the presenting artists from the 60th annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar as well as some additional artists who attended the Seminar. \nKaren Mirza & Brad Butler / ACT 000157  / 2011 / running time: 11 mins / UK \nConceived across three monitors\, these (speech) acts perform utterances from the voice to the body\, the body to voice as an exposition of voice\, silence\, gesture\, and authority. Each performer is cast in relation to their own position. They include: Hollywood actor and co-founder of the collective Mosireen a non-profit media centre in Downtown Cairo born out of the explosion of citizen journalism and cultural activism in Egypt during the revolution. Khalid Abdalla stands in downtown Cairo just a few weeks prior to the revolution speaking about the propaganda drive of Western Cinema in their depiction of the Arab body; Act of State an interpretation and translation of the exhibition curated by Ariella Azoulay created from photographs by Palestinians about their struggle which Azoulay argues is a ‘citizen contract’ in the absence of legitimised legal citizenry\, and artist Nabil Ahmed speaking on contemporary labour and migration issues intertwined with his heritage and knowledge of the language movement from Bangladesh and his desire to protest against precarity in the UK. While each work is a speech act that is self-contained\, the accumulation of the voices speak to each other and the exhibition as a whole through the spatio-temporal strategies of adjacency and (off)setting of timing. A choreography of images and temporalities collect a collective practice. \nKaren Mirza & Brad Butler / The Unreliable Narrator  / 2014 / running time: 17 mins / UK \nStories slip between construction\, rhetoric and reality with implausible ease: language itself appears to create and propagate the conditions of authority\, violence\, and division. As the Narrator continues to hijack the rhetoric of cultural and political discourse to rupture\, Mirza and Butler expose the absurd ventriloquist act. \n+ a special screening of a work in progress from Mirza & Butler \nJohan Grimonprez / Maybe the Sky is Really Green\, and We’re Just Colourblind: On Zapping\, Close Encounters and the Commercial Break / 2011 / Belgium \nSwanson and Sons advertised their first TV Dinner in 1954.21 The story goes that executive Gerald Thomas didn’t know what to do with 270 tons of left-over Thanksgiving turkey. Inspired by the aluminium food trays used in the airline industry\, he picked up on the idea of filling the trays with turkey and marketing them as a TV Dinner for 98 cents a piece. And so another new cultural icon zapped itself into the living room\, transforming the eating habits of millions of Americans. \nGibbs Chapman / I Know There’s Something Going on Back There  / 2008 / running time: 19min / standard definition video / USA \nCompiled from surveillance recordings from an urban apartment building\, the activities of the inhabitants provide evidence for the theory of emergent behavior\, and direct analogies between human and animal behavior. What is being sprayed upon whom? Why is the man burning his armchair? What exactly is the man expecting to find in the trash? And many other questions posed in this lecture on leaderless organization. \nSean Hanley / Working from Home / 2014 / running time: 3 min / 16mm with optical sound / USA \nShot on the last day of August\, the artist aims his camera out the window seeking respite. \nSean Hanley / LVING FOSSIL / 2014 / running time 2 mins / 16mm to video\, color\, sound / USA \nSpringtime along the Mid-Atlantic seaboard\, thousands of horseshoe crabs spawn on beaches under the glow of the full moon. A brief glimpse into a 450 million year old ritual. \n  \nKaren Mirza and Brad Butler’s multi-layered practice consists of filmmaking\, drawing\, installation\, photography\, performance\, publishing and curating. Their work challenges terms such as participation\, collaboration\, the social turn and the traditional roles of the artist as producer and the audience as recipient. \nSince 2009\, Mirza and Butler have been developing a body of work entitled The Museum of Non Participation. The artists have repeatedly found themselves embedded in pivotal moments of change\, protest\, non-alignment and debate. Experiencing such spaces of contestation both directly and through the network of art institutions\, Mirza and Butler negotiate these influences in video\, photography\, text and action. \nTheir recent solo presentations include The New Deal at Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, and The Guest of Citation at Performa 13\, New York. Mirza and Butler have exhibited internationally\, including at FACT\, Liverpool\, Centro de Arte Dos De Mayo\, Madrid\, La Capella\, Barcelona\, Arnolfini\, Bristol\, and Serpentine Gallery\, London. \nThey are shortlisted for Artes Mundi 6\, an international art prize recognising artistic practices that engage with the human condition\, accompanied by an exhibition in Cardiff\, Wales\, in November 2014. \n \nJohan Grimonprez is a Belgian multimedia artist\, filmmaker\, and curator. He is most known for his films Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Double Take. As of 2014\, Grimonprez’s upcoming projects include the feature films How to Rewind Your Dog and Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade\, based on the book by Andrew Feinstein. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGibbs Chapman has worked in and around audio/visuals in San Francisco since 1984. As a recording engineer\, he has been involved with hundreds of recordings ranging fromThinking Fellers to Marianne Faithful and additionally has worked on composing\, recording\, and/or producing many music and sound pieces\, and sound for film for American Playhouse\, among others. Mr Chapman has become active as a cameraman and audio manipulator for film and video\, working on hundreds of shorts and features and has written\, directed and resourcefully produced numerous films of his own. He is also owner of non productions\, a small audio/visual factory in San Francisco and works as a technician and consultant in recording studios\, post-houses and performs myriad duties from negative cutting to lens repair in an effort to finance his personal projects. Mr. Chapman is also a senior projectionist and collection inspector at the Pacific Film Archive and for the last seven years has been a technical pivot for the Flaherty Film Seminar. \nSean Hanley is a Brooklyn\, NY-based educator and filmmaker pursing experiments in the documentary genre. His work as a director and/or cinematographer has shown at the Museum of Modern Art\, the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, the Images Festival\, the Pacific Film Archive\, the Vancouver International Film Festival\, FLEXfest\, EFFPortland and the Black Maria Film + Video Festival. He is the Assistant Director of Mono No Aware\, an annual exhibition of expanded cinema and film-installation. \nCaspar Stracke is an interdisciplinary artist\, filmmaker and curator from Germany\, living and working in New York City and Helsinki. His work deals with architecture\, urbanism\, media archeology and the social aspects of cinema. Stracke’s films\, videos and installation works have been shown internationally in numerous exhibitions\, retrospectives and festivals throughout North and South America\, Europe and Asia. Stracke’s work has been shown at MoMA\, the Whitney Museum and the New Museum in New York City\, the Yerba Buena Art Center in San Francisco; the Filmmuseum in Frankfurt\, Germany\, the Reina Sofia in Madrid\, Spain\, the Centre Pompidou in Paris\, France and the ZKM in Karlsruhe\, Germany\, among others. \nHe is the recipient of a Rockefeller Media Art fellowship and currently finalizes a film project on various notions of time reversal in philosophy\, science and cultural theory. He is an active member of THE THING\, a NY-based nexus for contemporary art and net culture. Since 2012 Caspar Stracke is a professor for Contemporary Art and Moving Image at KUVA Art Academy Helsinki. Caspar Stracke is represented by Video Data Bank\, Chicago and Lightcone\, Paris. \nGabriela Monroy is a Mexican video artist and video curator living and working between Helsinki and New York. In 2001 she received a Masters in Film and Video from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. The same year she was awarded Mexico’s National Foundation for Culture and Arts Fellowship for Young Emerging Artists. Her video installation work was selected as part of the 10th National Biennial of Photography of Mexico. In 2009 she was selected as one of The MacDowell Colony’s National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipients. In 2011 she was awarded the NYFA/ Deutsche Bank America’s Foundation Fellowship in Digital and Electronic Arts. She had been invited as juror for Transitio – International Festival for Electronic Arts and Video. She has participated in exhibitions in Mexico\, Europe\, Korea and the US\, and her work is part of the INBA collection\, Mexico’s National Institute for Fine Arts. \nSince 2002\, she has been working in collaboration with the German video artist Caspar Stracke under the name MOSTRA. In 2004 they were awarded a NYSCA Film and Media Production Grant for an Interactive video installation for cinema space and this year they received an EMARE residency at FACT (Liverpool). \nSince 2005\, Gabriela and Caspar are the directors of video_dumbo\, an annual festival/exhibition of international contemporary moving image art in New York. Video_dumbo has been presented at Loop (Barcelona)\, Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico)\, Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn)\, MMX (Berlin)\, Space Bandee (Busan) and The Banff Centre\, among others. This year video_dumbo presented 106 artists from 29 different countries at Eyebeam\, Art + Technology Center in New York. \n  \nAbout the Flaherty Seminar \nThe Robert Flaherty Film Seminar is the longest continuously running film event in North America. Named after Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North\, Man of Aran\, Louisiana Story) who is considered by many to be the father of documentary film\, The Seminar began in 1955 when Flaherty’s widow\, Frances\, convened a group of filmmakers\, critics\, curators\, musicians\, and other film enthusiasts at the Flaherty farm in Vermont. For more than fifty years the Flaherty Seminar has been firmly established as a one-of-a-kind institution that seeks to encourage filmmakers and other artists to explore the potential of the moving image. The films of such directors as Robert Drew\, Louis Malle\, the Maysles brothers\, Mira Nair\, Satyajit Ray\, John Cassavetes\, Yasujiro Ozu\, Pedro Costa and Robert M. Young were shown at the Seminar before they were known generally in the American film community. New cinematic techniques and approaches first presented at the Seminar have routinely made their way into mainstream film. \nThe weeklong Seminar brings together over 160 filmmakers\, artists\, curators\, scholars\, students\, and film enthusiasts to celebrate the power of the moving image. Registration is closed to the public and participants gather for a communal living experience that includes meals\, social hours\, special events\, and at least three screening sessions daily followed by discussion. A different programmer is selected each year to shape the Seminar’s theme and objective\, which relates to a regional or national cinema\, examines a stylistic feature\, or responds to current world events. The Seminar is an intimate and intense experience where the traditional barriers between maker and audience are gradually obliterated. The structure of the event ensures that participants have greater access to the featured artists than would be found at festivals or conferences.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-22-shorts-after-the-flaherty/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:THIS PLACE (Preview)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nOver the course of a year-long UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Program\, filmmakers Stanzi Vaubel  and Damon Logan began to explore what it means to document.\nTHIS PLACE (78 minutes\, USA\, 2014) came out of a filming exercise. Fellows from the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio visited a Latino marketplace\, where each member filmed a variety of very long\, steady shots. What resulted were 12 individualized perspectives on place. It brought up fundamental questions on reality\, the nature of documentation\, and the subjectivity that defines what we see and what we don’t see. \nInstead of focusing on one character\, THIS PLACE weaves together an ensemble\, who bridge the worlds of filmmaker and subject. Holistically\, the film encapsulates the dynamism of experiences that originates at UnionDocs as a place. \n  \n Stanzi Vaubel studied radio and documentary film at Northwestern University. She has worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, where she designed an interactive website for their youth program\, with WNYC’s culture desk\, and with the Third Coast Festival’s Re:sound. Her work has been spotlighted by the Third Coast Audio and her short film on Occupy Wall St. won Directors choice at the Black Maria Film Festival. In 2013 she produced a radio series called The Gift for Chicago Public Radio. THIS PLACE is her first feature film. \n  \nDamon Logan grew up in Minyip\, regional Australia. He studied Economics and Physics and later\, while working as a financial trader\, Documentary Film at AFTRS\, Sydney. Damon’s first short THE LITTLE THAI FIGHTERS premiered at London International Documentary Festival in 2012. After teaching filmmaking in remote Central Australia\, he moved to New York as a fellow of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio. THIS PLACE is his first feature film. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-26-this-place-preview/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Liveness and Cinema: An Illustrated Lecture
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]In this wide-ranging talk\, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green will explore a history of the commingling of performance and cinema\, ranging from the early 20th century Japanese Benshi tradition of live narration\, to the travelogue genre\, to the work of artists such as Jack Smith and Warren Miller\, to the Expanded Cinema scene of the 60s and 70s\, to contemporary practitioners of live cinema— with many fascinating detours along the way. Special emphasis will be placed on the conceptual and kinesthetic issues raised by combining film and performance. How does one reconcile the timelessness of cinema with the ephemeral nature of performance? What is to be made of the fascinating tension between cinema’s basic mechanism of ‘transport’ — the magic of being subsumed by a world within the screen – and performance’s radical insistence on presence and the here-and-now? All of this\, of course\, is a slippery exercise as terms and boundaries between genres and disciplines eventually blur and break-down\, however the goal of the evening will be to trace a rich and sprawling history of an impulse as well as to gain a deeper understanding of\, and appreciation for\, the complexity and nuance of this work. \nSam Green received his Master’s Degree in Journalism from University of California Berkeley\, where he studied documentary with acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. \nHis most recent projects are the “live documentaries” The Measure of All Things\, (2014)\, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (with Yo La Tengo) (2012)\, and Utopia in Four Movements (2010). All of these works are performed live\, with Green narrating in-person and musicians performing a live soundtrack. \nGreen’s 2004 feature-length film\, the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Weather Underground\, tells the story of a group of radical young women and men who tried to violently overthrow the United States government during the late 1960s and 70s. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival\, was broadcast on PBS\, included in the Whitney Biennial\, and has screened widely around the world. \nGreen’s previous long documentary\, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16\, follows the bizarre rise and fall of a man who became famous during the 1970s by appearing at thousands of televised sporting events wearing a rainbow wig. The film premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and has screened at festivals worldwide. “More than an exploration of life\, The Rainbow Man is a parable about alienation\, the media\, and the meaninglessness that often defines American life.” – Trevor Groth\, Sundance Film Festival \nGreen’s short documentaries include lot 63\, grave c\, Pie Fight ’69 (directed with Christian Bruno)\, N-Judah 5:30\, and The Fabulous Stains: Behind the Movie (directed with Sarah Jacobson).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-27-liveness-and-cinema/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140628T193000
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SUMMARY:I Dream of Wires: The Ultimate Modular Synthesizer Documentary
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I Dream Of Wires is an independent documentary about the history\, demise and resurgence of the modular synthesizer\, featuring interviews with over 100 modular musicians\, inventors and enthusiasts\, including Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)\, Gary Numan\, Vince Clarke (Erasure)\, Morton Subotnick\, Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle)\, Daniel Miller\, Carl Craig\, Flood\, Cevin Key (Skinny Puppy)\, James Holden\, Factory Floor\, Legowelt\, Clark\, John Foxx and Bernie Krause\, as well as manufacturers and modular industry leaders Doepfer\, Modcan\, and Make Noise. \nI Dream of Wires begins with an historical primer\, exploring the early development of modular synthesizers from pioneering companies Moog Music Inc. and Buchla and Associates\, right through to the near-extinction of these instruments\, brought on by the introduction of portable\, digital synthesizers in the ’80s. From there\, the rebirth of the modular synthesizer is retraced\, leading into the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer. Along the way is some in-depth exploration of the passions\, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. What started out as a “vintage-revival scene” in the ’90s has grown into an underground phenomena with a growing market of modular obsessives craving ever more wild and innovative sounds and interfaces. Today\, the modular synthesizer is no longer an esoteric curiosity or even a mere music instrument — it is an essential tool for radical new sounds and a bona fide subculture. For more information\, visit the I Dream of Wires website. \nCo-presented with our neighbors at Control. \n  \n \n  \n  \nControl is an independent synthesizer brick & mortar shop located in the South Williamsburg Neighborhood of Brooklyn\, NY\, specializing in Eurorack Modular\, with a passion for vintage traditional and unusual eccentric electronic devices both analog and digital. \n [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-28-i-dream-of-wires/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140629T193000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Jem Cohen
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This evening will feature a wide-ranging selection of works\, works-in-progress\, and excerpts\, which Cohen has stubbornly evaded identifying in detail. He will then discuss them with Holmgren and the audience. Suffice to say\, there will be some surprises. \n  \n  \nJem Cohen has made over 60 films including the feature length projects\, Museum Hours\, Instrument\, Chain\, and Benjamin Smoke (with Peter Sillen). Short films include Lost Book Found\, Little Flags\, Night Scene New York\, and the Gravity Hill Newsreels (documenting Occupy Wall Street). He also makes still photographs\, installations\, and shows of projected images with live soundtracks\, including We Have an Anchor\, which was included in the 2013 BAM Next Wave Series. His work is in collections including those of MoMA and the Whitney Museum and has been broadcast by PBS\, Arte\, the BBC\, and the Sundance Channel. He’s had retrospectives at venues including London’s NFT\, Buenos Aires Independent Film Fest\, and Spain’s Punto de Vista\, which published the monograph\, Signal Fires: The Cinema of Jem Cohen\, in 2010. He has collaborated extensively with musicians including Fugazi\, Patti Smith\, Terry Riley\, Vic Chesnutt\, Godspeed You Black Emperor!\, R.E.M.\, DJ Rupture\, Elliott Smith\, Jim White\, and the Ex. Cohen was extensively involved in overturning proposed restrictions on street photography in New York City.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-29-jem-cohen/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140706T193000
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SUMMARY:Sweet Work. Shorts on Labor at the Domino Brooklyn Refinery
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]On the cusp of the Domino Sugar Brooklyn Refinery’s demolition\, UnionDocs presents a program of mostly unseen work that examines the effect the refinery had on the surrounding neighborhood as well as addressing broader themes of sweetness and power. This will be the first public public exhibition of Sarah Jane Lapp’s short\, “Sweetface”\, that she began filming with the Domino Sugar workers in 2000. There will be a post-screening discussion moderated by Filip Noterdaeme\, contributor to the Huffington Post and founder of The Homeless Museum of Art. \n“Domino Sugar – 1989”  \n10 min / VHS Transfer / 1989 \ndirected by Kenny Malcom \n edited by Anthony Simon and Mike Vass \nA time capsule of home video vignettes from 1989 filmed by Domino Sugar employee Kenny Malcom that illuminates the diversity of the Domino workforce and the empowerment they felt at the time. Featured is a picket line in front of the Domino site\, a private meeting at the Polonia Club\, as well as a union meeting dispute between the Domino workers and the ILW Union organizers. \n“Sweetface”  \n28 min / 16mm / 2000-2013 \ndirected by Sarah Jane Lapp \nA personal essay film which uses actual sugar production as a point of departure to explore a variety of relational moments that involve soft power\, gratitude\, and love. The film evolved from the filmmaker’s hand-production of about 1\,000 sugar packets\, the majority of which she gave as gifts to workers at the Domino Sugar Refinery during their twenty-month strike in the early 2000’s. \n  \n“Third Shift”  \n20 min / HDV / 2013 \ndirected by Anthony Simon \nproduced by Mike Vass \nTwo former Domino Sugar workers that remain blocks away from the now closed refinery reflect on their past experiences as employees and their future as residents in a rapidly changing neighborhood. \n  \nFilip Noterdaeme is the artist behind the conceptual art project known as The Homeless Museum of Art and the author of The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart (Outpost19\, 2013). He also writes a blog on contemporary art for the Huffington Post. One of his most recent articles\, “Sugarcoating the Art of Real Estate” considers Creative Time’s relationship with artist Kara Walker’s exhibition in the Domino Sugar Factory. \n  \n  \n  \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-07-06-domino-sugar-shorts/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141005T193000
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SUMMARY:LIVING LOS SURES: SELECTIONS
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]From 2010 through 2014\, UnionDocs is producing a collaborative documentary about the Southside neighborhood in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn where the organization has been situated for nearly a decade. Part omnibus film\, part media archeology\, part deep-map and city symphony\, the project uses Los Sures\, a brilliant work of cinema verite directed by Diego Echeverría in 1984\, as a starting point for the investigations of more than forty artists over the course of four years. Collectively\, their projects tell the story of a longstanding Latino community that is defeating displacement and surviving the growth machine. Living Los Sures is a multi-part project that restores a lost film\, remixes local histories\, reinvestigates Williamsburg’s Southside today\, and hopes to reunite a neighborhood around a sustainable future. \nIn the late seventies and early eighties\, the Southside of Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. In fact\, it had been called the worst ghetto in America. Los Sures\, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverría\, skillfully represents the challenges of this time; drugs\, gang violence\, crime\, abandoned real estate\, racial tension\, single parent homes\, and inadequate local resources. Yet\, Echeverría’s portrait also celebrates the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican community\, showing the strength of their culture\, their creativity and their determination to overcome a desperate situation. \nUnionDocs has partnered with Echeverría to develop Living Los Sures\, revisiting his powerful film to pursue four primary goals. RESTORE: Bring the original film back to life and make it accessible online for the first time\, working with the local community to update\, annotate\, and challenge the narrative through a participatory platform. REMIX: Expand the experience of the original through deeply interactive audio/visual experiments. REUNITE: Activate the community to engage vital civic issues for a more sustainable future. REFRAME: Create new short documentaries to illustrate the issues the community faces today. \nTo date\, over thirty such reinvestigations have been created by members of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio. Each year since 2010\, UnionDocs has hosted twelve Collaborative artist-fellows who work together to produce short documentary projects about the Southside today. These projects cover a wide range of topics and forms — from short videos to soundworks\, audio walks\, installations and interactive media. The works in this show represent the variety of form and subject matter\, as well as the common concerns\, that characterize the Living Los Sures project. \nBEFORE AFTER by Michael Kugler and Daniel Terna \nBefore After explores South Williamsburg Brooklyn through a series of filmed experiments in the mostly Latino and Jewish communities. The camera is considered as a compass that gives direction to a variety of inquiries. This compass guided interactions with the neighborhood\, both in terms of physical space and its inhabitants\, and consequently the neighborhood began to be approached and considered as a spacious urban 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 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.” An interview between the artists will accompany the work in the form of a book. \nOF BIRDS AND BOUNDARIES by Annie Berman \nAn unexpected relationship reveals itself over three months of phone calls between two unlikely collaborators – “Marty”’ a 25-year old Ultra Orthodox Hasidic family man\, and Annie\, a filmmaker in residence at UnionDocs. It all begins when Annie places an ad on Craigslist for a Hasidic researcher for a film about Williamsburg’s eruv\,* and “Marty” answers. Both parties agree to record their calls\, keep Marty’s real name and identity secret\, and never to meet; both live in Williamsburg. Answer the phone to have a listen. Please have a seat. \n*Eruv: a wire boundary that symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas\, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath. \nANOTHER DAY WITHOUT A FUTURE\, BUT WHAT THE HELL ANOTHER DAY… by Adam Khalil \n“Either\, I am a traveler in distant times\, and am faced with a prodigious spectacle which would be almost entirely unintelligible to me and might indeed provoke me to mockery or disgust\, or I am a traveler of my own day\, hastening a search for a vanished reality. In either case\, I am the loser\, for today\, as I go groaning among the shadows\, inevitably I miss the spectacle that is now taking place.” – Juan Downey\, The Laughing Alligator \n  \nSOUTHSIDE STORIES by Shannon Carroll\, Federica Sasso\, Andrew Hinton and Jen Epstein \nWithin a generation\, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg has drastically changed. Southside Stories is an immersive audio walk featuring newcomers and long-term residents who share their thoughts on the community’s past\, present and future. Participants get an opportunity to see the neighborhood from a different perspective\, walk in the shoes of another person and ultimately empathize with their experiences. Visit http://southsidewalk.com to learn more. \n \nFOR SALE IN LOS SURES by Federica Sasso\, Maria Badia\, Andrew Hinton \nFor Sale in Los Sures explores the Southside of the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn through a carefully curated selection of items which can be bought in the neighborhood. Los Sures (the Southside of Williamsburg) is a rapidly gentrifying area\, and this project is an evolving work-in-progress map which borrows the language and aesthetics of commercials to closed windows onto the community and its changing identity by inviting people to interact with individuals and businesses there. \nBROADWAY TRIANGLE by Meg Kelly \nThe Broadway Triangle is a largely vacant space pinned between Bushwick\, Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy. Spanning 18 acres\, it remains one of the most disputed spaces in New York City. Both traditionally neglected and contested\, its development has exacerbated long-standing communal tensions between residents who live along its borders. This piece engages the contrast between the intense (and quickly disappearing) vacancy that characterizes the physical space and the tension that characterizes its place in the neighborhood. \nMichael Kugler is a Brooklyn\, NY native who graduated with a BA in Comparative Arts from Washington University in St. Louis (2007). He has worked as a media educator with organizations including the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Museum of the Moving Image\, the Jacob Burns Media Arts Lab\, and Urban Arts Partnership. His films and audiovisual installations have been exhibited in the US and in Japan. Michael is currently pursuing an MA in Media Art in Design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar\, Germany. \nDaniel Terna (Brooklyn\, NY) works primarily in photography and video. His work questions when and why we choose to make pictures\, and examines the relationship we have had with picture-making in the past and what it is today.  Terna’s work has been exhibited in New York City at UnionDocs\, Outpost Artist Resources\, NurtureArt Gallery\, the AC Institute\, the Austrian Cultural Forum\, Eyebeam\, the Museum of the City of New York\, and 321 Gallery. He has also screened at the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)\, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge\, MA)\, Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena\, CA)\, and Gallery Tayuta (Tokyo). His work will be included in a group exhibition in the forthcoming BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn Biennial (Fall of 2014). Terna graduated with a BA in photography from Bard College and is an MFA candidate at the International Center of Photography. \nAnnie Berman is an interdisciplinary artist whose background in photography and psychology inspires work about visual culture\, religion\, and the changing media landscape. Her work has screened at festivals\, galleries\, and universities\, including the Harvard Film Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, and Rooftop. She is currently a MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College. \nAdam (Shingwak_Nehro_Rashad_Krebs) Khalil is a filmmaker\, artist\, and media archivist. His practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor\, relation\, and transgression. Adam’s work has been exhibited at Goldilocks Gallery (Philadelphia)\, Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn)\, Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual (Mexico City)\, Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay)\, and Fine Art Film Festival Szolnok (Hungary). Khalil is a UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow and Gates Millennium Scholar. In 2011 he graduated from the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College.  Adam is currently in post-production on a feature film about the history of the Ojibway people with his collaborator and brother Zack Khalil. \nShannon Carroll is an artist and media producer based in Brooklyn\, NY. She works with media to foster community engagement\, cross-cultural understanding and human rights advocacy. Her creative roots lie in photography\, and her current work involves design\, interactive media\, digital storytelling and documentary filmmaking. Visit her website at http://shannonleecarroll.com. \nFederica Sasso is an Italian journalist and radio producer based in New York City. She writes for Italian outlets and is a contributor to the Swiss national broadcasting company for which she produces audio documentaries. Federica was a Collaborative Fellow at UnionDocs and studied documentary film at the Scuola di Cinema\, Televisione e Nuovi Media of Milan. \nAndrew Hinton is a documentary filmmaker drawn to individuals and stories with positive change at their heart. His most recent film Tashi & The Monk won two awards at its premiere at Mountainfilm in Telluride. His previous film Amar was the Vimeo Documentary Award winner. He is from the UK but now lives in Brooklyn.www.vimeo.com/pilgrimfilms. \nJen Epstein is a researcher\, writer and self-shooting media maker who has devoted many years to working as a manager in film and television for a variety of New York post-houses and media companies. She’s currently an Operations Project Manager for Discovery Communications. Her passion for documentary arts began while working as a production assistant/researcher on several documentary features including BrotherMen\, a performance based documentary film that aired nationally on PBS. She holds a BA in Communication Arts from Ramapo College of New Jersey and earned an MA in Media Studies\, with a concentration in Documentary Studies\, from the New School. \nMaria Badia is a storyteller and filmmaker from Barcelona\, where she  graduated in Journalism with a minor in international politics andcultural communication. She is based in New York City since 2008\, where she freelances as Editor and Multimedia Producer. She is also correspondent in the East Coast for a spanish TV network and collaborates as video editor at the post-production department of the New York Film Academy. She was a fellow at the 2012-2013 Uniondocs Collaborative Studio\, a documentary arts center\, and she is part of theBrooklyn Filmmakers Collective\, a community of professional filmmakers in Brooklyn\, who are dedicated to innovative approaches to filmmaking. \nMeg Kelly is a multi-media media artist and designer who has documented physical\, political and cultural landscapes in Mumbai\, New York City and elsewhere. She is the co-founder and creative director of Decent Workshop where she uses design + storytelling to support social entrepreneurs. She is the former creative director of the Millennial Trains Project\, a former collaborator at the Uniondocs Center for Documentary Art and a sometimes contributor to Urban Omnibus. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree with high honors in Architecture from Barnard College where she grew her passion for understanding and explaining the complexities and contrasts of cities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-living-los-sures-selections/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Multiplicity: City as Subject / Matter
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Multiplicity is an international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments and exposing the irresistible pull of the similarities—intercultural meeting points\, common problems\, goals and dreams—around which people converge. Multiplicity features a wide-ranging selection of works exploring culturally and geographically distant urban spaces\, curated by Marco Antonini in collaboration with a network of curatorial advisors based in Belfast\, Hong Kong\, New Delhi\, New York\, Tel Aviv and Tirana\, and presented as a series of four consecutive exhibitions hosted by NURTUREart\, Mixed Greens\, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS and UnionDocs. The works address the myriad public and private rituals of the city\, mining its institutional and vernacular histories while re-imagining its formal and functional aspects. \nThe Making of Neon Signs / 2014 / 12min / CPAK Studio \n“The Making of Neon Signs” is part of “Mobile M+: NEONSIGNS.HK“\, an online exhibition celebrating Hong Kong’s neon signs\,  presented by M+\, West Kowloon Cultural District. In this work\, CPak studio documents the dying trade (and once thriving local business) of Hong Kong neon-sign makers. With Neon consistently replaced by LED\, the gigantic neon signs that once characterized the city’s urban landscape are disappearing. \nA Removals Job / 2012 / Nicholas Keogh \nThe film follows the household clearance of a traditional two-up\, two-down red brick terrace in Belfast. At first\, the movements of the workers are erratic and violent; only after an understanding of each character has been established is order restored. Their movements are subtly choreographed\, producing a seamless flow of objects that slot perfectly into a skip — reminiscent of the classic 1990s computer game Tetris. \nLe Chiavi di Casa / 2007 / Alice Schivardi \nIn this video\, people of different nationalities try to build a “house” using found materials\, and trying to communicate via different languages and experiences. Various cultures and personalities translate in different ways to address the task at hand and highlight the importance of collaboration in defining physical as well as cultural spaces. \nPerfect ride / 2012 / video / 5min / Sasa Tkacenko \nIn the interior of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade\, which purpose was neglected for years (closed down for renovation for 5 years now)\, a skater is trying to perform what is most important for him – the perfect ride. The atmosphere of timelessness that is dominant in the space of the “abandoned” Museum of Contemporary Art appeared perfect as the scenery for a incompatible action that gave its endless reconstruction new character. In this way\, I wanted to show the intimate and intense moments of connection between a young man and his skills to the forgotten building of the Museum and thereby retrieve the grandeur and importance of this building through a moment that\, as the action unfolds\, becomes a very important experience for young actor in the video. This video is essentially a homage to the building – the master piece of modernistic architecture in Yugoslavia – that\, despite all current technical shortcomings\, remains a monumental and incredibly powerful. \nDetroit / 2009 / single channel video / 13min / Amir Yatziv \nA map of an Arab Town is presented to city planers who aren’t aware that it was built as a military training area. They analyse the influence of the city’s structure on its imaginary inhabitants. The title of the video is borrowed from this training area in the country’s southern region. “Detroit” is a 1:1 simulation of a Palestinian city. The simulation generates an alternative reality which conceals the true reality. The training city “Detroit” was intended to prepare soldiers for combat in an urban area. It resembles a Muslim quarter\, thus meeting the users’ needs in a simulation which would furnish them with a fantasy of an Arab city. The essence of this city is replaced by its fictive image. “Detroit” is devoid of flowering gardens; the city’s residents are mere extras\, and the houses contain no books or any other sign of life.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-08-09-multiplicity-city/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Southside Stories: Audio Walk Launch
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text]See the neighborhood with fresh eyes. Join us for the launch of Southside  Stories\, an immersive audio journey into Williamsburg in Brooklyn\, New York featuring the residents of Williamsburg’s Southside Community. We will start with a group version of the 35-minute audio walk\, and celebrate afterwards with the storytellers at the Caribbean Club\, the last remaining Puerto Rican social club in Williamsburg.\n</br/>The audio walk features stories from the neighborhood’s recent history as a predominantly Latino neighborhood juxtaposed to a landscape rapidly undergoing transformation and synonymous with hipster culture. The walk encourages a reinvigorated sense of discovery\, wonder and responsibility in participants’ relationship with the city. \n6 PM: Meet as a group for the audio walk at the corner of Bedford Ave and N  7th St\, in front of the Dunkin Donuts. Address: 182 Bedford Ave\, Brooklyn NY  11211. Please bring your headphones\, a MP3 player/listening device\, and download the audio track from http://southsidewalk.com. \n6:45 PM: Meet at the Caribbean Club for drinks and to celebrate with the storytellers featured in the walk. Address: 244 Grand St\, Brooklyn NY 11211. \nVisit the official website to learn more and listen to audio excerpts: http://southsidewalk.com This project is part of Living Los Sures\, a UnionDocs Collaborative Production. The UnionDocs Collaborative Studio is a one-year program for a group of emerging media artists from the US and abroad. Core team: Shannon Carroll\, Jen Epstein\, Andrew Hinton and Federica Sasso. \nShannon Carroll is an artist and media producer based in Brooklyn\, NY. She is the Creative Director of Vivid Storytelling\, a creative agency specializing in video\, photography and interactive design for causes\, products and brands. Visit her online at http://vividstudio.co and http://shannonleecarroll.com. \nFederica Sasso is an Italian journalist and radio producer based in New York City. She writes for Italian outlets and is a contributor to the Swiss national broadcasting company for which she produces audio documentaries. Federica was a Collaborative Fellow at UnionDocs and studied documentary film at the Scuola di Cinema\, Televisione e Nuovi Media of Milan. \nAndrew Hinton is a documentary filmmaker drawn to individuals and stories with positive change at their heart. His most recent film Tashi & The Monk won two awards at its premiere at Mountainfilm in Telluride. His previous film Amar was the Vimeo Documentary Award winner. He is from the UK but now lives in Brooklyn.www.vimeo.com/pilgrimfilms. \nJen Epstein is a researcher\, writer and self-shooting media maker who has devoted many years to working as a manager in film and television for a variety of New York post-houses and media companies. She’s currently an Operations Project Manager for Discovery Communications. Her passion for documentary arts began while working as a production assistant/researcher on several documentary features including BrotherMen\, a performance based documentary film that aired nationally on PBS. She holds a BA in Communication Arts from Ramapo College of New Jersey and earned an MA in Media Studies\, with a concentration in Documentary Studies\, from the New School.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-08-10-southside-stories-audio-walk-launch/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Living Los Sures Shorts on the Lawn - Outdoor Screening/Picnic
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nUnionDocs is very excited to partner with El Puente on a free outdoor screening at Havemeyer Park on Friday\, September 19th. A collection of short documentaries from Living Los Sures\, the expansive documentary project about the Southside of Willamsburg\, will be presented. UnionDocs will also preview some of the new interactive elements of the project\, which will premiere the following week.\nNew York Film Festival’s Convergence. \n \nFull runtime: approx. 85 minutes. \nThird Shift (Anthony Simon\, Michael Vass\, Tamer Hassan) 20 minutes. \nTen years after the closure of the Domino Sugar Brooklyn Refinery\, two workers return. \n*** Awarded Best Short Doc Brooklyn Film Fest 2014*** \nLa Marqueta 2 (Elizabeth Lawrence\, Sonia Gonzalez) 5 minutes. \nLa Marqueta: portraits of one of the oldest markets in Williamsburg. \nOf Memory & Los Sures (Laurie Sumiye\, Andrew Parsons)\, 14 minutes. \nAnimated oral histories of longtime residents reflect a collective memory of Los Sures. \n***Official selection at BAM’s Cinefest*** \nEl último pan (Maria Rosa Badia\, Federica Sasso) 7 minutes. \nThe final days of a Mexican bakery that became a staple in a working class neighborhood. \nFor Sale in Los Sures (Andrew Hinton\, Federica Sasso\, Maria Rosa Badia) 5 minutes. \nA collection of super short films that explore the Southside of Williamsburg through items for sale in the neighborhood. \nRosemary’s Street (Constanza Mirré\, Emilia Bilinska\,Tamer Hassan) 13 minutes. \nA unique event in the life of a young woman reflects the passage of time in the tight knit community of Los Sures. \nToñita’s (Sebastian Diaz\, Beyza Boyacioglu)\, 21 minutes. \nA documentary portrait of the last Puerto Rican social club in Williamsburg\, Brooklyn. \n***Official selection at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight & “Best Brooklyn Film” Brooklyn Film Fest 2014.*** \nThis event is presented by El Puente CADRE (Community Artists’ Development & Resource Exchange) and UnionDocs\, and co-sponsored by Rooftop Films and NYFF. \nScreening: 7pm at Havemeyer Park\n  \n \nWe are proud to announce that The Film Society of Lincoln Center has selected Living Los Sures for the 2014 New York Film Festival. Now in its third year\, the highly anticipated annual program delves into the world of transmedia with a mix of unique films\, panels\, and immersive experiences. \nSaturday\, September 27th\, join us to launch the expansive documentary project Living Los Sures and premiere the fully restored film Los Sures (Diego Echeverria\, 1984). Gearing up for this launch\, there will be a number of local events\, including the screening on September 5th. \nSTREET FESTIVAL \nSaturday\, September 13 and Saturday\, September 20 1-6pm. Get a sneak peak of some of the interactive elements of Living Los Sures at the 3rd annual Southside Connex\, annual two-day community street festival in Los Sures (Southside of Williamsburg). Havemeyer Street between Grand Street and South 4th Street will be closed to vehicle traffic and filled with cultural activities\, health and wellness workshops\, environmental justice information & resources. \nGALLERY INSTALLATION: \nThrough October 5th\, catch selections from Living Los Sures on view at Fordham University’s Ildiko Butler Gallery. \n  \nABOUT LIVING LOS SURES\n  \nIn the late seventies and early eighties\, the Southside of Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Los Sures\, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverria\, skillfully represents the challenges of this time; drugs\, gang violence\, crime\, abandoned real estate\, racial tension\, single parent homes\, and inadequate local resources. Echeverria’s portrait also celebrates the vitality of the largely Puerto Rican community\, showing the strength of their culture\, their creativity and determination to overcome a desperate situation. Living Los Sures is a multi-year production that partners with Echeverria to revisit his powerful film\, make it accessible online for the first time\, create a collection of companion documentary projects that update\, annotate\, challenge\, and spiral off from the original\, and activate the community to share stories around remarkable local histories and important civic issues. \nABOUT EL PUENTE\nEl Puente is a community human rights institution that promotes leadership for peace and justice through the engagement of members (youth and adult) in the arts\, education\, scientific research\, wellness and environmental action. Founded in 1982 by Luis Garden Acosta\, El Puente currently integrates the diverse activities and community campaigns of its Center for Arts and Culture and its Green Light District & Community Wellness Program within its four neighborhood Leadership Centers\, and its nationally recognized public high school\, the El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice. Organizing in North Brooklyn and beyond\, El Puente remains at the forefront of community/youth learning and development issues and as such\, initiates and impacts social policy both locally and nationally. \nABOUT Southside Connex\nSouthside Connex is an annual two-day community street festival in Los Sures (Southside of Williamsburg) co-produced by El Puente Green Light District and Southside Merchants with support from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. In conjunction with NYC Department of Transportation’s Weekend Walks program\, on September 13th and 20th\, 1-6PM Havemeyer Street between Grand Street and South 4th Street will be closed to vehicle traffic and filled with cultural activities\, health and wellness workshops\, environmental justice information & resources\, and El Puente’s annual ¡WEPA! Festival for Southside Performing Arts on September 20th. Last year\, during its inaugural year\, Southside Connex attracted over 1\,500 community members\, artists\, tourists\, merchants and young people and is remembered as an event that celebrates the Latino culture of the neighborhood and offers local residents the chance to meet and interact with each other in the streets of Los Sures. \n  \nWhile in the neighborhood visit ¡Cultura Con Azúcar!\nMake sure to check out the freshly painted ¡Cultura Con Azúcar!\, a mural by El Puente’s resident public art collective Los Muralistas de El Puente. The mural reflects the culture\, history and people of Los Sures (Southside of Williamsburg)\, incorporating portraits of community members and quotations from residents sharing their memories and dreams for the Southside.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-09-19-outdoor-los-sures/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:What You Get Is What You See: The Tabloid
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nBefore there was an Internet\, or even television\, there was the tabloid. It was a newspaper\, but it was also a personal-size billboard. You could walk through the city and catch the news just by looking at what people were reading\, and–well before the 24-hour news cycle–you could track events through the day by the successive editions that hit the stands. Luc Sante will talk about the history of tabloids\, the poetry of the Railroad Gothic typeface\, the many permutations of the half-sheet\, the pleasures and dangers of public hysteria\, the heritage of the punk-rock handbill\, the silent shout and the urban central nervous system\, among other things. He will show slides. Luc Sante first encountered the tabloid as a pedestrian walking by the newsstands in New York City. Showing his personal archives of images from tabloids and other materials\, and beginning with memories from his childhood in the 60’s\, he will share his own perception of this culture. He will also tell us how the tabloid has been used in movies and pop art and its place in the news ecosystem of today. \nLuc Sante is the author of Low Life\, Evidence\, The Factory of Facts\, Kill All Your Darlings\, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. The Other Paris will be published next year. \n[su_spacer][/su_spacer] \nWhat You Get Is What You See:\nA Series on Spectatorship \n \nWhat hides behind simple gestures of attending. \nIn this series\, UnionDocs invites artists and writers to show us how to become more active\, more engaged–and perhaps better–spectators. The speakers share their experiences and personal observations as viewers\, readers\, watchers\, listeners and audience members of visual\, video and performance arts\, graphic design\, radio\, TV and cinema. Through their trained gaze and skilled sensitivity\, they disturb and displace our perception of contemporary culture and expose spectatorship as an everyday dynamic act. \nA series presented by Mathilde Walker-Billaud. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-09-20-the-tabloid/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Frederick Wiseman: Law and Order (1969)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nLaw and Order\nFrederick Wiseman\, 1969 \nUSA | Format: 16mm| 81 minutes \nAgainst a backdrop of American cities riven by racial injustice and class inequality\, soaring crime rates and unemployment\, and a volatile mistrust of cops and judges\, Wiseman made this thoughtful\, measured\, and often surprising film about the police department in Kansas City\, Missouri. Weighing difficult questions of morality and justice\, Wiseman goes beyond simplistic depictions of the police as an abusive authoritarian force. Though he does not gloss over scenes of racism and police brutality\, his nuanced portrait of law enforcement also offers moments of compassion\, comfort\, and helplessness. — Museum of Modern Art \nLaw & Order surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law\, maintaining order\, and providing general social services. The incidents shown illustrate how training\, community expectations\, socio-economic status of the subjects\, the threat of violence\, and discretion affect police behavior. The film finds special relevance in light of the recent protests around the use of deadly force by police in NYC and in Ferguson\, Missouri. \nFrederick Wiseman\, an original and prolific documentary filmmaker\, is the creator of over 30 films. He explores institutions that are part of contemporary society. Wiseman has earned wide acclaim and critical respect for his unique approach\, which avoids such filmmaking conventions as narration\, interviews and added music. Wiseman’s filmmaking career began in 1967 with Titicut Follies\, a look at conditions inside the Bridgewater State Prison for the Criminally Insane. The only American film ever censored for reasons other than obscenity or national security\, Titicut Follies was banned for 24 years by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until the ruling was overturned in 1991. In the decades since\, Wiseman has made films about many key institutions of the late 20th century. His latest film\, National Gallery\, will have its U.S. Premiere at the 2014 NYFF. \n \nKent Jones is the Director and Selection Committee Chair of the NYFF. Jones began in programming with Bruce Goldstein at Film Forum\, and served as the American representative for the Rotterdam International Film Festival from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 to 2009\, he was Associate Director of Programming at The Film Society of Lincoln Center\, and from 2002 to 2009 he served on the New York Film Festival selection committee. He has also served on juries at film festivals around the world\, including Rotterdam\, Buenos Aires\, San Francisco\, Venice and Cannes. In 2009\, he was named Executive Director of The World Cinema Foundation\, and in 2012 he rejoined the NYFF as the Director of Programming.  \n \nFrederick Wiseman at the 2014 New York Film Festival:\nNational Gallery\nFrederick Wiseman\, 2014 \nUSA/France | Format: DCP | 180 minutes \nU.S. Premiere \n More Information \nFrederick Wiseman’s glorious new film is about the energies of\, and around\, painting—discussing\, framing\, mounting\, lighting\, repairing\, restoring\, creating\, and\, perhaps most of all\, looking at painting. This is a film of color\, light\, and sensuous action\, in the artwork on the walls and within the universe of London’s great National Gallery itself. In fact\, the dividing line between the paintings and the life around them dissolves almost immediately\, as Wiseman attunes us to pure response: the individual’s response to the paintings\, the painter’s response to the subject at hand\, the filmmaker’s response to the people\, activities\, and light around him. There are discussions of budgetary concerns and social media\, but the film and the people within it are always drawn back to the magnetic power of the art itself. National Gallery is a film of faces: the faces of those looking and the faces of those who look back from the canvases\, in an endless\, joyful exchange. – NYFF \nSun\, Oct 5 at 4:00pm | Walter Reade Theater | Ticket Info \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-09-21-wiseman/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140927T193000
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SUMMARY:Living Los Sures Launch at the 2014 NYFF Convergence
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row row_type=”row_full_center_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPROGRAM DETAILS:\nSaturday\, September 27th at the Film Society of Lincoln Center \n1:30p – Living Los Sures (Interactive Presentation and Launch) \nProduced by UnionDocs\, 2014 \nUsing Echeverria’s 1984 documentary Los Sures as a starting point\, Southside-based UnionDocs has created Living Los Sures\, a massive mixed-media project that defies easy categorization. Composed over the course of four years and pulling on the talents of over 30 different artists\, Living Los Sures paints a picture of a neighborhood from street level\, an ever-evolving mosaic of people and places captured through film\, audio\, and now an online participatory experience. With the premiere of two new elements—89 Steps\, a continuation of the story of one of the original characters from Los Sures\, and Shot by Shot—that invites people to share their personal stories inspired by the shots and locations of the original film—the UnionDocs team will take audiences through the process of building this unique documentary storyworld. \n8:00pm – Los Sures (Screening and Interactive Presentation) \nDiego Echeverria\, USA\, 1984\, 16mm\, 66m \nDiego Echeverria’s Los Sures skillfully represents the challenges of its time: drugs\, gang violence\, crime\, abandoned real estate\, racial tension\, single-parent homes\, and inadequate local resources in Brooklyn’s Los Sures neighborhood. Yet Echeverria’s portrait also celebrates the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community\, showing the strength of their culture\, their creativity\, and their determination to overcome a desperate situation. Nearly lost\, this 16mm film has been restored\, reframed\, and remixed by Southside based UnionDocs just in time for the 30th anniversary of its premiere at the New York Film Festival. \n  \nABOUT 89 STEPS\n \nMarta Avilés can barely remember a time before she called Los Sures home. In the late 50s\, Marta’s mother found refuge for her family in this Brooklyn Latino community after leaving their village in Puerto Rico and enduring homelessness and hunger elsewhere in New York. As a single mother with a family of her own\, Marta fought hard to stay in Los Sures\, cooperating with other tenants to wrestle their building away from a negligent landlord. During this time\, the late 70s and early 80s\, Los Sures was known as one of the worst ghettos in America. Marta faced many challenges while raising five children there\, but always felt the dignity of owning a home in the neighborhood she’d known so well. Now in a new phase of her life and struggling to afford the rapidly gentrifying city\, Marta must decide to stay or go. \n89 Steps is an interactive experience that visits Los Sures and lets Marta tell her story as she contemplates leaving the past behind and confronts the possibility of finding a new home. The project follows the tradition of character-based approaches to documentary\, but uses the web as medium that offers new ways of immersing the audience. As the viewer explores\, Marta’s voiceover reacts\, providing guidance\, description\, facts and responsive anecdotes. A linear set of scenes introduce important elements in Marta’s narrative\, as she grapples with the decision to sell the sixth floor walk-up apartment she has lived in for 40 years\, move out\, and potentially relocate to suburban Florida. The viewer is offered an immediate relationship to Marta’s dilemma and a deeper understanding of the pressures and incentives that force individuals in many rapidly changing urban environments to give up their homes and longstanding communities.89 Steps is a chapter from Living Los Sures\, an expansive documentary project about the Southside of Willamsburg\, Brooklyn. \n  \nABOUT SHOT BY SHOT\n \n  \nShot By Shot is an interactive historical record that remixes Echeverria’s film with memories\, images\, videos and stories gathered through the participation of long-standing local residents. Each individual shot of the film from 1984 contains people\, places or things that go unmentioned in the narrative\, but offer the jumping off point for a side story\, a personal memory\, or an intriguing update. UnionDocs is currently working with the local community to gather these stories from the people who lived them\, offering details and additional imagery that expand the significance of these brief moments from history\, abstracted from their functional role as supporting sequences in the narrative. \nOver the past six months\, the UnionDocs team has interviewed dozens of people to create content for this platform\, examining specific shots and recording both oral histories and video. This material is edited into discrete short stories and illustrated with vernacular photography collected from members of the community. More material will be added over time\, allowing the project to grow as more stories come to light. Viewers of the website will be able to submit potential stories for inclusion. The final website will allow every visitor to navigate through the film shot by shot\, with relevant stories attached. \n  \n ABOUT LIVING LOS SURES\nIn the late 70s and early 80s\, the Southside of Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. In fact\, it had been called the worst ghetto in America. The 1984 film Los Sures by Diego Echeverria skillfully represents the challenges of this time; drugs\, gang violence\, crime\, abandoned real estate\, racial tension\, single parent homes\, and inadequate local resources. Yet\, Echeverria’s portrait also celebrates the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community\, showing the strength of their culture\, their creativity and their determination to overcome a desperate situation.Nearly lost\, this 16mm film has been restored for theatrical exhibition just in time for its 30th anniversary and become the point of departure for an expansive documentary project\, called Living Los Sures. This multi-platform work reframes the neighborhood today through an impressive collection of new short documentaries\, updates the film’s narrative through an interactive feature called 89 Steps\, and remixes Echeverria’s film Shot by Shot with memories and stories gathered through the participation of longterm local residents. The resulting portrait brings together the remarkable past and present of a very unique place\, and offers a rich and collaborative study of an urban community striving for sustainability against displacement and forces of gentrification. \nABOUT THE PRODUCTION\nLiving Los Sures was initiated and directed by UnionDocs Founder\, Christopher Allen. It is a production of UnionDocs (UnDo)\, a nonprofit Center for Documentary Art that was born in the Southside of Williamsburg\, Brooklyn and has operated there for nearly a decade. Through four year-long iterations of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio\, over 40 artists fellows have worked together on research and short documentary productions for Living Los Sures.Though the film was nearly lost\, it has been lovingly restored for theatrical exhibition just in time for its 30th anniversary with the support of The Reserve Film and Video Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts\, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center.  \n  \nADDITIONAL LIVING LOS SURES PROGRAMMING \nFriday\, September 19th at 7:30pm: UnionDocs and El Puente\, with support from NYFF and Rooftop Films\, host a free outdoor screening in the Williamsburg’s scenic Havemeyer Park on Kent St and South 4th St. The program will highlight some of the best short documentaries produced over the past four years for Living Los Sures. More info here. \nSaturday September 13th and 20th\, 1:00pm – 600pm: UnionDocs will be participating in the 3rd annual Southside Connex\, on Havemeyer between Grand St. and South 4th in Williamsburg\, on behalf of El Puente. \nclosed until October 5th\, 9:00am – 9:00pm: Experimental selections from Living Los Sures are currently on view Fordham University’s Ildiko Butler Gallery \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-09-27-los-sures-convergence/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:Independent Cinema For The Dying
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nJoin us for the first public reading of Stephen Elliott’s debut play\, Independent Cinema For The Dying\, co-presented with The Rumpus. \nIndependent Cinema For The Dying is a one hour play about Paul\, an author of seven books\, who has recently found out he is dying. In an effort to “live twice as much in the time he has left” he decides to make a movie. Fortunately\, a big star has optioned one of his books and agrees to be in his film. But will the celebrity actually show up? \nDirected by Adrienne Campbell-Holt.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”120 minutes”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Stephen Elliot is the author of seven novels\, memoirs\, and story collections. He has written and directed two feature films\, About Cherry which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and the soon to be released Happy Baby based on the novel of the same name. Principal production was recently completed on a film adaptation of his memoir\, The Adderall Diaries\, starring James Franco\, Ed Harris\, Cynthia Nixon\, and Christian Slater. He is the founding editor of the popular online literary magazine The Rumpus. \n  \nAdrienne Campbell-Holt is the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur\, a Brooklyn-based theatre ensemble. Upcoming: World Premiere of Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (workshops at New York Stage & Film and Ojai Playwright’s Conference\, production with Colt Coeur @ HERE\, NYC). She is a recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship\, the EST/Sloan grant\, an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab\, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist. BA Barnard College\, Columbia University. \n  \nSarah Mezzanotte made her NYC professional acting debut last month as Amy in Dry Land. She hails from the Pennsylvania countryside\, and recently graduated from NYU Tisch\, having studied at both Stella Adler and Stonestreet Studios.  \n  \n  \n  \n \nJason Kravits is best known for his role as ADA Richard Bay on ABC’s Emmy Award Winning Drama “The Practice\,” He has appeared more recently on TV on shows such as “The Blacklist” “Married\,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm\,” and “Masters of Sex”; in the movies “Chinese Puzzle\,” and “The Adjustment Bureau”; and on Broadway in productions of Relatively Speaking\, The Drowsy Chaperone\, and Sly Fox. He is co-creator of the hit web series “Lords of the Playground\,” and author of “Green Eggs and Hamlet\,” “The Kvetch\,” “Rocky and Bullwinkle’s A Christmoose Story\,” and the upcoming improvised cabaret “I…(A Life).” \n  \nThe Rumpus is perhaps the most popular literary website. Featuring book reviews\, comics\, interviews with authors\, and the Dear Sugar column penned by Cheryl Strayed. Launched January 20\, 2009 and updated up to fifteen times a day\, The Rumpus is a great way to kill time when you should be at work. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-10-11-independent-cinema-for-the-dying/
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