UnionDocs

Video by Torsten Meyer on Unartig.

New artist discussion video with filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Mark Street!

From archival snips of an educational film on the weather to cine poems in full blossom, New York film “avant-gardeners” Mark Street and Lynne Sachs create their 3rd XY CHROMOSOME PROJECT. This program of 10 short films on both single and double screen gleans audio-visual crops from the dust of the filmmakers’ fertile and fallow imaginations. In this avalanche of visual ruminations on nature’s topsy-turvy shakeup of our lives, Street and Sachs ponder a city child’s tentative excavation of the urban forest, winter wheat, and the great American deluge of the 21st Century (so far).

Fifty People, One Question is a simple project with surprising results. We go to a place, ask fifty people the same question and film their responses.The project started in New Orleans, LA and received such a warm response that we decided to do it again in New York City. Now we’re traveling to more cities and asking new questions. Always just trying to capture a little slice of humanity. Whatever happens … happens.

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“[aura's social basis for it's present decay] rests on two circumstances, both linked to the increasing significance of the masses in contemporary life. Namely: the desire of the present-day masses to ‘get closer’ to things spatially and humanly, and their equally passionate concern for overcoming each thing’s uniqueness by assimilating it as a reproduction.”

From Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

Looks like Nathaniel Kassel was on our City Symphony project and was assigned 4-7, Midtown?

Matthew Porterfield – “Hamilton” – At Documentary Bodega Series

Hamilton by Matthew Porterfield is a narrative feature that chronicles two summer days in the life of a young family. Lena, 17, and Joe, 20, are two recent and accidental parents residing in a diverse, suburban neighborhood in northeast Baltimore City. The evening will feature a post-screening discussion with Porterfield and New Yorker writer Richard Brody, and a preview of Porterfield narrative feature Metal Gods.

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Chicago indie filmmaker Allen Ross made seven films with German filmmaker Christian Bauer. Then he vanished without a trace. Four years after his disappearance, angered by the apathy of the police, Bauer returns to America to find out what happened to his friend. His investigations take him on an increasingly disturbing trail from Chicago’s art scene to satanic sects in Waco and Oklahoma City. Also screening is 16mm film by Allen Ross, The Grandfather Trilogy. Comprised of the ?three short films: Papa, Thanksgiving, 1979, and Burials, it is a moving and ?deeply personal portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather.

A new edit from this event by Mary Billyou and Sabine Gruffat last year.

Edited by Alex Mallis

Edited by Colin Beckett

The whole band was there with a packed house for the “Sleepwalking through the Mekong”discussion. Check out some highlights and scenes from the film.

Edited by Alex Mallis.