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Anxious Landscapes, by Colin Beckett

“All of these films are about observing the landscape” Brian Doyle said of his Friday night program at UnionDocs, which appeared originally at Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery in 2007 in a slightly different form, “and looking hard enough at it to bring out stories not...

The 7th Orphan Film Symposium, by Colin Beckett

When nitrate film begins to decompose, the pictures it holds lose their form, dissolving into a gauzy chemical wash that dances on the surface of the projection. Your eyes flicker between the amorphous globules at the fore and the crystalline, precisely defined image beneath...

Primary Sources: An Interview with Scott MacDonald, by Colin Beckett

Last December, Scott MacDonald, one of the country’s foremost film scholars, visited UnionDocs for two evenings to explore the intertwined histories of documentary and avant-garde film. In his varied programs and during the sometimes contentious discussions that followed, MacDonald...

IFP’s Independent Film Week Registration Open, by UnionDocs

IFP is getting ready for the 32nd edition of their fantastic annual Independent Film Week September 19-23.  Featuring five jam-packed days of new projects, panels, labs, screenings, and other events geared around building an audience for new and emerging independent film, this is an event not...

Productions Stills from Maine Shoot, by UnionDocs

Just a quick sample of some of the footage that was shot on the UnionDocs Collaborative Programs trip to Maine. These scenes will be edited and the journey will provide a narrative to frame the short works that compose the Documenting Mythologies Project.