UnionDocs

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...

Fair Use Victories on the DMCA, by UnionDocs

The Center for Social Media at American University reported on Monday that recent exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright act has greatly expanded the definition of “Fair Use.”  Educators, filmmakers, students and the like can now, “break encryption on commercial DVDs to...

UDC 2010 participant Shawn Wen gets This American Life internship., by UnionDocs

Wen's short film “Hair is Alive” screened at MoMA as a part of her work with the Union Docs Collaborative. We’d like to congratulate 2010 Union Docs Collaborative participant Shawn Wen for earning a coveted, prestigious internship position at This American Life.  “As long as...