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.

Shawn Wen and Hyatt Michaels' short film “Hair is Alive” screened at MoMA as a part of the Documenting Mythologies Project. We’d like to congratulate 2010 Union Docs Collaborative participant Shawn Wen for earning a coveted, prestigious internship position at This American...

Overall Project Description: The auctioneer chant is a remarkable skill. These professional wordsmiths have trained in such a way that merges the genres of speech, poetry, and rhyme into a practice that deserves the attention of a documentary film. I propose to create a short film that...

Overall Project Description: We’ve all played the game telephone, where you whisper a phrase in someone’s ear, and pass on the phrase that you hear, eventually the mishearing and imagination can create some lovely mistakes.  What if we designed a project for our collaborative that was a...

leg·end 1 a : a story coming down from the past; especially : one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable b : a body of such stories <a place in the legend of the frontier> c : a popular myth of recent origin. Project Title: A Legendary Night Overall Project...

Overall Project Description: If beauty were the secret to life, how would you search for it? Would you wake up every morning, searching for signs of it in your face?  Or would you go outside to find it elsewhere? In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian finds beauty in the...

Project Title: Love at First Sight Overall Project Description: This piece will be an investigation/musing on Love at First Sight, and whether it exists (see Tina’s earlier blog post for some general themes)… To gather these perspectives, we’ll be setting up a confessional...

Project Title: Video Converge Overall Project Description: The Collaborative will converge on a happening of interest. Each member of the collaborative will be documenting his/her day leading up to the happening of interest with a video device. Once all members have arrived at...

“A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song .” I just was reading about this one: In Britney Spear’s song “If U Seek Amy,” the lyric All of the boys and all of the ...

If beauty were the secret to life, how would you search for it? Would you wake up every morning, searching for signs of it in your face? Or would you go outside to find it elsewhere? With this project, I would like to document the lives of black men affected by the negative images and symbols associated with the color black.