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SUMMARY:Ukrainian Protest Cinema
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Maidan in Kyiv\, Ukraine has captivated the world’s stage since November of 2013. What initially started as a desire for closer ties with Europe\, the Maidan movement has grown into a demand against corrupt government and basic human rights.  Join us as we discuss this movement and the current crisis in Ukraine with filmmakers and Ukrainian activists who have been using their cameras as weapons to tell the story of the people of Maidan. With excerpts of films by Lesya Kalynska/Ruslan Batytsky and Olha Onyshko\, shorts by Vanessa Black\, Babylon 13\, and IndieLab. \nThe organizer of this event\, Roxy Toporowych is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television. She is a filmmaker as well as the Program Director of the American Independence Film Festival in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, a festival which works in collaboration with the US Embassy to bring American filmmakers and stories to a Ukrainian audience.    Since 2007 Roxy has worked for the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival as a screener for their festival programs as well as a video content producer.  Her company\, KinoRox Productions\, was founded while she was directing her first documentary feature\, Folk!  about the underground world of Ukrainian folk dancing in New York City.  The goal of KinoRox Productions is to engage and inspire it’s audience with unique\, character driven stories\, focusing on the Eastern European experience.  She is currently editing a short documentary about her personal experience on the Maidan in December of 2013. \nAndrij Dobriansky is an Executive Board Member of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and a UN Representative for the Ukrainian World Congress.   He is an arts industry and community advocacy professional with a background in Eastern European and Asian arts and culture.   Andrij has been a spokesperson for the Ukrainian community during the current crisis\, appearing on CNN\, AL Jazeera\, Fox News and other media outlets. \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrijdobriansky\n Yuri Shevchuk is a Lecturer\, in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University.  He founded  Columbia University’s Ukrainian Film Club (UFCCU) which is a forum for showcasing the best of Ukrainian cinema\, both classic and new\, to the Greater New York public and to film enthusiasts across the United States and Canada. Since its establishment in October 2004\, the Club has become a unique international initiative connecting Ukrainian filmmakers with the world. \nhttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc//index.html \nhttp://harriman.columbia.edu/people/yuri-shevchuk \n \nLesya Kalynska is an award-winning filmmaker. Originally from Ukraine\, she currently lives between Kyiv and NYC pursuing her career as the CEO of the production company Pomegranate Studios. Green card holder. Kalynska earned her MFA in directing and writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The short films Balloonist and The Debt\, which she directed and produced respectively\, have been screened internationally\, including at the Sundance and Tribeca festivals\, winning the Best Student Film Award at the Hope and Dreams IFF in NJ\, as well as awards at Manheim IFF\, Hampton IFF\, and the Los Angeles Annual Showcase. Recently Lesya directed a TV documentary series\, Level of Secrecy 18\, produced the documentary Salt in The Air and co-produced short Ukrainian Lessons\, which won the Fipresci Award in 2013. Currently Kalynska directing the documentary Land of the Lost Crusaders in its post-production stage and shooting a film about the Maidan\, Heaven Admits No Slaves (with Ruslan Batytsky)\, of which she will show an excerpt. \n Olha Onyshko is originally from Western Ukraine\, from the region of Galicia. She began her career in Ukraine as a broadcast journalist. She worked for almost 10 years in communications\, running public education campaigns to promote democracy and market reforms in Ukraine for several international development organizations. When working for the World Bank\, she provided trainings and support for NGOs in Ukraine\, Belarus and Moldova. In 2002\, she moved to the United States\, worked as a reporter for Voice of America and then in 2006 went back to school to obtain her Masters of Fine Arts in Film and Electronic Media. After producing and directing several short films\, Olha completed the production of feature length documentary Three Stories of Galicia in 2010. She will show excerpts from this recent film on Sunday. \nVanessa Black is a filmmaker based in NYC. Using pop-culture language\, she aims to tell stories that can reshape our world politically and socially.  Her project #UkraineRising aims to tell the human stories and not just the breaking stories behind the crisis. The project encompasses a digital youtube series\, content for a feature film\, and a large format photo series.  Her large format photography exhibit\, “Defenders: Heroes of Maidan”  is currently on display in SHNY Place Gallery in New York.  Vanessa will share episodes of her digital series #UkraineRising and discuss her experience filming on Maidan post the February 18th sniper attacks. \n  \n\nA member of the IndieLab team and director/scriptwriter/cameraman for More than Nikolai (TRT 12:49)\, Oksana Shornik is a graduate from the Kherson State University. Oksana is a journalist and a freelance correspondent of the Tonis TV channel and the Segodnia newspaper. She has been working as a radio and TV journalist at Kherson’s lead National TV and Radio Company Skifia since 2005. She participated in international TV and radio festivals and in Kherson Document Documentary Film Festival. Oksana also worked in the genre of investigative journalism. She is a member of the National Union  of Journalists of Ukraine since 2010. \n\nIndieLab Kyiv – The Indie Lab initiative is a documentary film workshop for young Ukrainian filmmakers. The films were developed over a two month process of workshops taught by American and Ukrainian experts and are part of the U.S. Embassy’s American Independence Film Festival (AIFF) – the only film festival in Ukraine that celebrates the tradition of independent American and Ukrainian filmmaking.    Indie Lab documentaries follow the stories of everyday people and explore their contributions to Ukriane’s resilient civil society and grassroots democratic tradition.  We will be screening the film More than Nikolai (TRT 12:49) as part of our program. \n\n\nBabylon ’13: In their instantaneous reaction to the events of November 30th\, where peaceful protestors in favor of Ukraine joining the EU \, were attacked and violently dispersed\,  a group of Ukrainian cinematographers joined together and formed Babylon ’13.  They started to record the further course of civil protest\,  filming their reality in the light of a director’s creative perspective.  They filmed the mood of the people and the events left off-screen by typical journalists reporting from the hotspots of Kyiv.  Together\, the group of filmmakers\, directors\, screenwriters and cinematographers united to tell the story of the Ukrainian Maidan and provide a better understanding of what is going on in their world.  Our night will begin with the screening of several of Babylon ’13 works. \n\n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-03-2014-ukrainian-protest-cinema/
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SUMMARY:Vincent Moon 3.0: Petites Planetes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nVincent Moon\, the french filmmaker responsible for the Take Away Shows is back in New York. \nAfter documenting rock and pop music while based in Paris or on tour with REM or The Arcade Fire\, he left for a new kind of adventure – 5 years traveling around the world\, collecting sounds and images from shamanic rituals deep in Peru to sufi trances from Chechnya\, from orthodox chants in Ethiopia to experimental folklore music from Java\, and much more. \nThe result\, his Collection Petites Planètes\, composed of more than 100 films and digital albums exploring music\, is all available for free online on his website\, under CC licence. He will present in exclusivity some of his new works with us. \n \nOKO • NUR-ZHOVKHAR (chansons de Tchétchénie) from Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes on Vimeo. \n  \n \n\nVincent Moon (real name Mathieu Saura\, born August 25\, 1979) is an independent filmmaker from Paris. He was the main director of the Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows\, a web-based project recording field work music videos of indie rock related musicians as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones\, R.E.M.\, or Arcade Fire. For the past five years\, Vincent Moon has been traveling around the globe with a camera in his backpack\, documenting local folklores\, sacred music and religious rituals\, for his label Collection Petites Planètes. He works alone or with people he finds on the road\, and most of the time without money involved in the projects\, trying to produce and distribute films without following the established industry standards. He shares all his work\, films and music recordings\, for free on internet\, under Creative Commons licence. \n  \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-04-2014-vincent-moon-petites-planetes/
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SUMMARY:Documentary Financing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nThis session will address the eternal question: how to finance your doc? What are the pros and cons of different fundraising models (grants\, equity investment\, pre-sales\, crowdsourcing)? We will also have veteran independent film accountant Fred Siegel to talk about tax ramifications and planning around financing as well as investor relations. Budgeting\, how to find and successfully apply for grants\, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed in addition for this can’t-miss session. \n  \nFeatured Presenters: \nJosé Rodriguez is the Manager of Documentary Programming at the Tribeca Film Institute. A native of Puerto Rico\, he grew up with a passion for movies that led him to Syracuse University\, where he wrote a feature script and directed two shorts. After interning as an assistant to producer Amy Hobby\, he settled in New York City and became a script/book reader for Overture Films while also working on Tze Chun’s Children of Invention and the documentary Poor Consuelo Conquers the World. Follow him on Twitter: @theJoFer \n  \n  \nA behind-the-scenes consulting machine\, John T. Trigonis has mentored hundreds of filmmakers worldwide to create compelling crowdfunding experiences that not only reach\, but also exceed their goals. An indie filmmaker and successful crowdfunder himself\, Trigonis has literally written the book on Crowdfunding for Filmmakers\, and puts his prowess to greater use as Indiegogo’s specialist for film and video campaigns. \n  \n  \nFred Siegel is an indie film\, tax\, and business consultant and founder of Fred Siegel\, CPA\, specializing in key tax and business issues for producers and dealing with the business of film. Fred is a former jazz musician and entrepreneur: those experiences infuse Fred’s professional work today with an independent spirit and artistic bent and understanding of the lives of artists/producers\, the world of business\, and the interplay between the two. Fred has worked for over 20 years with independent filmmakers and their development and production companies and creative professionals. His experience includes working on numerous independent films\, including “Winters Bone” and “Boys Don’t Cry\,” and with both acclaimed filmmakers such as Christine Vachon\, Debra Granik\, and Paul Mezey\, and filmmakers in earlier stages of their careers. Fred is a graduate of Columbia University (Economics\, Phi Beta Kappa\, Magna Cum Laude) and attended NYU’s Graduate School of Business (taxation; accounting). \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. \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\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-04-2014-documentary-financing/
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SUMMARY:The Ties that Bind: Documentary and Families
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nLife in a rural industrial town: a teenage boy\, his family\, friends and failed attempt at love are investigated through stark black-and-white photography and static long takes. Filmed in a fusion of authentic and staged documentation\, with robotic performances by actors and non-actors\, the piece meditates on the mundane existence of human and animal life. \nAlso\, don’t miss the upcoming premiere of Fotopoulos’ Dignity at Spectacle Theater May 22nd (7:30 and 10:00pm). \nFamilies a film by James Fotopoulos \n16mm film (b/w) | 97 min | 2002 | USA \n“Families bears the stylistic traits of his earlier feature-length films but expands the number of characters and locations. closeding with a portentous shot of nearly motionless sheep\, the black-and-white film develops in disaffected dialogue scenes interspersed with shots of dreary Midwestern exteriors. The main strain of the narrative focuses on a young man and woman and their prolonged\, halting conversations\, many of which revolve around death. Yet none of the violence recounted in these exchanges takes place on screen\, where life is characterized by the absence of physical contact\, robotic soliloquy\, and a general sense of forlorn ennui. Recurring throughout the film are repeated shots of the sheep form the closeding\, dogs\, or fish in an aquarium\, paradigmatically linking animals to the characters and their awkward interactions. Fotopoulos suggests that the titular familial ties refer to larger structures of kinship\, and constructs a bleak parallel in the common markers of human and animal existence.” – Henriette Huldisch\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, Whitney Biennial 2004 \n“Crafted with the same sculptural symmetry of his previous films\, Families re-imagines human society as the struggles of multiple collections of organisms\, each facing the inevitable move toward entropy and death.” -Ed Halter\, New York Underground Film Festival \n“Groundbreaking.” -Perry Brass\, Gay City \n“Families is his best yet\, surprisingly combining a greater sense of humanity with a greater feeling of cinematic experimentation.” -James DiGiovanna\, Tucson Weekly \n  \nJames Fotopoulos is a filmmaker who began production on his first feature-length film\, ZERO (1997)\, in 1995. In 1998\, he founded Fantasma for the production of his second feature\, Migrating Forms (1999)\, and would continue to create a number of critically acclaimed narrative feature films\, such as Back Against the Wall (2000)\, Families (2002)\, The Nest (2003) and Dignity (2012).   Along with his narrative productions\, Fotopoulos has created a prolific body of over 200 non-narrative films\, which include Christabel (2001)\, Esophagus (2004)\, The Mirror Mask (2005)\, The Sky Song (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). These works range from feature length to a few seconds long and combine an exhaustive portfolio of visual art and performance techniques.  Fotopoulos’ work received a retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives; premiered at the Museum of Modern Art\, MoMA PS1\, Festival del Film Locarno and the Museum of Art and Design; and was screened and exhibited widely at a number of film festivals\, museums\, and sites\, such as Rotterdam International Film Festival\, Sundance Film Festival\, London Film Festival\, Whitney Biennial\, Walker Art Center\, and the Andy Warhol Museum\, among many others. \nRebecca Cleman is the Director of Distribution of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). She has  programmed or curated media for such venues as the New York Underground Film Festival\, the Museum of Art and Design\, Anthology Film Archives\, and Andrea Rosen Gallery. Most recently\, she led a roundtable discussion about “video art” for the ICA in Philadelphia\, and co-organized a screening of films by Tommy Turner for Spectacle Theater\, Brooklyn. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-05-10-ties-bind-documentary-families/
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SUMMARY:Documentary Shooting & Directing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical\, financial\, technical and legal constraints. What kind of equipment do you need? Who do you need on your production team? How do you deal with emergencies during shooting and how do you pick out a camera and DP? Should I be thinking of archival material in advance? This session will take place at series partner AbelCine in Manhattan (609 Greenwhich Street). \nFeatured Presenters: \nRoss Kauffman is the director\, producer\, cinematographer\, and coeditor of Born into Brothels\, winner of the 2005 Academy Award for best documentary and more than 40 other awards\, including one for best documentary from the National Board of Review and the Sundance Film Festival 2004 documentary Audience Award. He also executive-produced In a Dream\, shortlisted for the 2009 Academy Award for best documentary feature. Kaufmann’s latest feature E-Team (co-directed by Kate Chevigny) had it’s World Premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival to much acclaim where it won the Cinematography Award in the U.S. Documentary category. \n  \nMALIKA ZOUHALI-WORRALL is a filmmaker of British/Moroccan origin. She is the co-director and producer of CALL ME KUCHU (2012)\, a documentary that depicts the last year in the life of the first closedly gay man in Uganda\, David Kato. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival\, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary and the Cinema Fairbindet Prize. It has since won 18 more awards—including Best International Feature at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival—and has been theatrically distributed in Canada\, Germany\, the UK and the US. Malika is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In 2012\, Filmmaker Magazine named Malika one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Most recently she co-directed a series of short documentaries for Human Rights Watch. Her journalism work has been published in The Financial Times\, and she has reported for CNN.com from India\, Uganda\, China\, and the U.S. Malika holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)\, and she is a graduate of Cambridge University. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY with her husband\, journalist Andy Greenberg. \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/05-16-2014-documentary-shooting-directing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140518T193000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Editing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can documentary directors work effectively with editors\, sound designers\, and other essential post-production talent?  How does a story emerge from a pile of footage?  Can you really “fix it in post”?  What is an online edit and can you do it yourself?  How does a good sound designer work\, and how does post-production sound enhance your documentary? \n  \nFeatured Presenters: \nDavid Teague is a documentary film editor whose work has played at Cannes\, Sundance\, Berlin\, Hot Docs\, SXSW\, Tribeca\, Full Frame\, and True/False\, amongst many others. He recently edited E-Team (Sundance 2014) and the Oscar-nominated Cutie and the Boxer (Sundance 2013). Previously\, David edited the Oscar-winning documentary Freeheld (Sundance 2007) as well as two other Oscar-nominated films (Mondays at Racine\, Sun Come Up). Other credits include the feature documentary The Iran Job\, the PBS series Constitution USA\, and the Emmy-winning Sesame Street primetime special Growing Hope Against Hunger. David has also directed and edited two award-winning documentaries: Intifada NYC (LIDF 2009) and Our House (Hot Docs 2010\, co-directed with Greg King). David has taught cinematography and editing at Downtown Community Television\, the New School\, Brooklyn College and Long Island University\, and he is the author of two best-selling guides to film editing with Final Cut Pro. David lives in Brooklyn\, NY\, with Annie Wedekind and their son Henry Wedekind. \nWill Cox started his career in the video department at Tekserve in 1995 while editing underground video features as part of nuBright Solutions\, a collective of artist/filmmakers populating the web with indie films. After teaching editing for the Ford Foundation in Africa\, he went to work at Oxygen Media\, the first network to go entirely on-air using Final Cut Pro\, as the Senior Engineer. Will co-founded Final Frame in 2001. Will has been color correcting for the past 13 years with Online/Color Correction credits on the 2010 and 2011 Oscar winning documentaries\, The Cove & Inside Job\, the acclaimed documentary Control Room (Sundance Film Festival)\, Speedo (winner at Full Frame)\, and Murderball (winner of best editor at Sundance)\, as well as numerous other documentary and scripted films. Will’s television credits include shows for MTV\, Comedy Central\, SpikeTV\, Nickelodeon\, Oxygen\, Fuse\, CourtTV\, CSTV\, The History Channel\, Lifetime\, PBS\, IFC and ESPN. \n \nPeter Levin\, known for his work on Dark Days (2000)\, The 24th Day (2004) and Let It Snow (1999)\, is a co-owner of Splash Studios in Chelsea. He splits his attention between family\, post-production\, production and ice hockey. When he is not on the ice\, he is usually found supervising post-sound\, recording sound effects or mixing films and television shows. With 20 years in the industry and\, hundreds credits to his name\, he can usually make a story sound pretty good. \n  \n  \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\, Will Cox (Final Frame)\, and Peter Levin\, 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]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-18-2014-documentary-editing/
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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SUMMARY:The Sochi Project
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen have been working together since 2009 to tell the story of Sochi\, Russia—site of the 2014 Winter Olympics and glamorous Russian Riviera resort on the doorstep of conflict zones Abkhazia\, North Ossetia\, Georgia\, and Chechnya. They have returned repeatedly to this region as committed practitioners of “slow journalism\,” establishing a solid foundation of research on and engagement with this small yet incredibly complicated place before it found itself in the glare of international media attention. \nHornstra’s photographic approach combines the best of documentary storytelling with contemporary portraiture\, found photographs\, and other visual elements collected over the course of their travels. Since the beginning of their collaboration\, The Sochi Project has been released via installments\, in book form and online\, each focusing on a particular facet of the story\, the geography\, the people\, and their history. \nJoin Hornstra and van Bruggen as they offer an alternative perspective and in-depth reporting on this remarkable region that sits at the combustible crossroads of war\, tourism\, and history. Publisher Lesley A. Martin of the Aperture Foundation will moderate the discussion. \n\nRob Hornstra (born in Borne\, The Netherlands\, 1975) is a photographer and self-publisher of slow-form documentary work. In addition to his work on The Sochi Project\, he is also the founder and former artistic director of FOTODOK—Space for Documentary Photography. Hornstra is represented by Flatland Gallery\, Utrecht\, The Netherlands. \nArnold Van Bruggen is a writer and filmmaker. He is the founder of the journalistic production agency Prospektor\, and a cofounder\, with Hornstra\, of The Sochi Project. \nLesley A. Martin is publisher of the Aperture Foundation book program and of The PhotoBook Review\, a biannual newsprint journal dedicated to the conversation surrounding the photobook. Her writing on photography has been published in Aperture\, FOAM\, Lay Flat\, and Ojo de Pez\, among other publications\, and she has edited over eighty books of photography. In 2011\, she launched The PhotoBook Review and co-founded the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation Book Awards\, celebrating the contribution of the book to the evolving narrative of photography.\nThe Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus will be on view at Aperture Gallery in New York from May 30 through July 10. The book is also available from Aperture Foundation. \nAperture\, a not-for-profit foundation\, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work\, the sharpest ideas\, and with each other—in print\, in person\, and online. \nCreated in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography\,” Aperture today is a multi-platform publisher and center for the photo community. From its base in New York\, Aperture Foundation produces\, publishes\, and presents a program of photography projects and programs­­­­––locally\, across the United States\, and around the world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/05-30-2014-the-sochi-project/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nJef Cornelis – Documenta 4 \n1968\, B&W 16mm transferred to video\, 53’40″ \nDutch\, English\, French and German spoken\, English subtitles \nWhen Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well\, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”. At the time Kassel\, with Arnold Bode as its artistic director\, saw things differently. Documenta 4 was streaked with controversy and debate. The politicization of society in the late 1960s made itself felt in Kassel – red flags and groups of people chanting slogans meant that the closeding speeches could not be held. Moreover\, Documenta 4 was going through an internal generational conflict and a debate on the fragile relationship of aesthetic judgment and democratic forms of reaching a consensus. During interviews with\, among others\, Sol Lewitt\, Joseph Beuys\, Harald Szeemann\, Allen Jones\, Christo\, Martial Raysse and Robert Rauschenberg they act the injured innocent and situate themselves on the side of the bewildered spectator. Sublime irony\, since things were not that new and innocent at all. \nIn some ways Cornelis conceptualises a way of appropriating the event\, sidestepping and questioning the definitions of exhibition makers\, but also of artists\, of an exhibition\, of contemporary art. This is possible because Cornelis takes his own medium as a subject. He ignores and questions the authoritarian position offered to him by his medium and he provokes the spectator into judging for himself. The commentary is limited. It is put into perspective and completed with accompanying interviews. In doing so Cornelis enabled a perspective which is not clouded by mystifications and mythomaniacs. \n(from Argos Center for Art & Media) \n\n  \nThe rich and impressive body of work of Jef Cornelis has yet to be evaluated and analyzed. In the period between 1963 and 1998\, he was primarily active as a director and scriptwriter for the Flemish broadcasting company (VRT) in Belgium. One of the most important aspects of Cornelis’ work is that he did not hide himself behind the camera\, or present his films as objective and essentially “true” to reality. Instead\, inspired by certain developments in the filmmaking of the 1960s\, he treated the camera as his pen\, or camera stylo\, as a way to express his opinions on the events that he filmed. Apart from being a television maker\, he was also involved in various art initiatives\, and was an active participant in the international art scene\, which gave him a unique access to this field. He has left behind several documentaries in which the art world is constructed and presented in a particular way\, reflecting his deep dissatisfaction with certain manifestations of power. Nevertheless\, after filming documenta 5 in 1972\, Cornelis decided to stop filming the “art world”. \nIn her new book DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement (Atropos Press\, 2013)\, Vesna Madzoski finds two documentaries by the Flemish filmmaker Jef Cornelis to be crucial in the analysis of the history and ideology of documenta. In the lecture\, she will offer an overview of problems raised by the documentaries\, as well as point out the specificity of Cornelis’ method in filmmaking. Among other things\, we will recount the problems and changes provoked in Europe by the first arrival of the artists from the new art center of the world – New York. \n  \n \nVesna Madzoski is an independent theorist and researcher based in Amsterdam. She has a PhD from the European Graduate School\, Saas-Fee\, Switzerland. Her PhD research\, entitled “DE CVRATORIBVS. The Dialectics of Care and Confinement” focused on the history of curating\, the transformations of this practice in the past fifty years and its relationship with the political and economic systems. She has been one of the editors of Prelom\, a Belgrade-based journal for art and theory\, and since 2006 is a member of the artists’ collective Public Space With A Roof in Amsterdam. \nMore info: http://madzoski.synthasite.com. \n  \n \n\n \nThomas Zummer\, is a scholar\, artist\, curator\, who lectures and publishes on philosophy\, aesthetics\, and the history of technology. Zummer’s artworks have been exhibited worldwide\, and he has taught at Brown\, NYU\, The New School\, Transmedia programme\, Brussels\, and Tyler School of Art/Temple University. He is currently Faculty in Philosophy at the Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinare Studien/European Graduate School (EUFIS/EGS)\, Saas-Fee\, Switzerland\, Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Graphic/Information Design at Central Connecticut State University\, and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Studies Division and the Digital + Media Department at RISD. Thomas Zummer holds a PhD summa cum laude in Philosophy and Media/Communications Studies\, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \nNova Benway is a curator\, writer and member of the organizing committee of the free education platform The Public School\, New York\, where she hosts Between Who\, a series of events exploring the intersections between pedagogy and artistic research and artists’ communities. Since 2011\, she has been on the curatorial team at The Drawing Center in New York\, where she is co-curator of closed Sessions\, a two-year program of experimental exhibitions and public programs co-organized with more than fifty local\, national and international artists. \n  \n  \nThis evening is organized in cooperation with MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow38 and made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program\, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes (www.NYSCA.org\, www.eARTS.org).  \nFor screening inquiries\, please contact ARGOS Centre for Art & Media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-05-31-de-curatoribus/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140601T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140602T170000
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SUMMARY:Macktez's Ultimate Planning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\n\n\nIf you find yourself overwhelmed\, drowning in unhelpful to do lists\, befuddled by Getting Things Done\, and with an Inbox that’s anything but empty\, join us while the Team from Macktez shares their internal working methodology\, named “Working Yellow\,” used to manage over a hundred clients and projects of wide-ranging scales. \n\n\nOur Team will design and teach a class to creatives using the Macktez “Working Yellow” approach that incorporates our team-customized approach\, incorporating elements of Getting Things Done\, Zero Inbox\, Kaizen\, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People\, Checklist Manifesto\, and numerous other approaches to efficiency\, organization\, and productivity. \nTo read more about us and our Approach see http://www.macktez.com/approach/ \nFeatured Presenters: \nNoah Landow is the founder and president of Macktez. His experience in architecture\, print and interactive design\, network design and installation\, and database development provide a foundation for organizing projects and building collaborative teams. He keeps his head on straight by training in a seriously obscure form of aikijujutsu and by serving on the boards of compelling non-profits like UnionDocs. \n  \nReed Payne is a New Hampshire native\, certified yoga instructor\, and aspiring pilot which means he keeps his bearings\, balance\, and can make a fire by rubbing two sticks together. While majoring in French\, he spent many nights analyzing network traffic\, tinkering with system security\, and wrapping his head around encryption concepts. \n  \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  \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/macktezs-ultimate-planning-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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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/
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Labs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140606T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140606T220000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140607T193000
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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/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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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/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140608T193000
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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]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/06-08-2014-release-documentary/
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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CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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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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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]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-19-seventeen/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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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]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2014-06-19-transexual-menace/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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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/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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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/
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/
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/
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/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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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/
CATEGORIES:Screenings & Events
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