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From Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera She looks like shes dancing. In reality, she is about to throw a 5 pound disc-shaped brick half-way down a football field. Its amazing what you can see when you take a minute to slow down. From Diego Echeverria’s Los Sures ...

Los Sures, “A Neighborhood of Struggle” This film was extremely intimate. The film maker’s voice is seems absent, lets us feel like we are in a one on one conversation with every subject. After watching it I left like I had just met a new friend. A Latin Prince trapped in an American...

In “Database as a Symbolic Form,” Lev Manovich notes in Dziga’s Vertog Man with a Moving Camera, “Vertov’s goal is to seduce us into his way of seeing and thinking, to make us share his excitement, his gradual process of discovery of film’s new language.”...

Los Sures Point of desperation – frustration – helplessness. This frame reflects activists Evelyn of Los Sures at this moment. Her voice screeches, but is – bold – admirable – resonating. Evelyn is asking for a car to take a family that just lost their home to relatives. I...

One of the things I enjoyed the most about Deigo Echeveria’s Los Sures was the access that he was able to attain in the documentary. Most impressive was the scene below in Tito’s bedroom. It’s such amazing exposure into his personal family life and space. Additionally, the...

Los Sures: When watching Los Sures, what most struck me was the incredible access afforded to the filmmakers. With this shot in particular, they filmed from perhaps the most intimate vantage: as an inert companion in bed with two of the subjects. By inserting the camera into the most literal of...

This is the most abstract image in the film. The theater-in-film are shown to be watching it, I then realize that I’ve been watching it for the entire time.  I imagine it to be a decoding of light. A still from the same sequence has been discussed extensively in this wonderful...

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...