UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

Empty Quarter (2011) is an experimental documentary about the rural farmlands of Southeast Oregon. The filmmakers Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty both have an interest in exploring new representational possibilities with the local communities that make up this constantly changing landscape. With...

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For me, the highlight of the Full Frame Festival was Alan Berliner’s masterful First Cousin, Once Removed. A poetic portrait of a poet as well as a testament to the depth and persistence of poetry as a way of navigating, and even embracing, life’s excruciating complexities, Berliner’s...

On the first week of April the Collaborative Program fellows at UnionDocs went to the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina. Driving all together from New York in two vans made it especially fun. We spent four days and, as with every festival, it was hard to choose...

Audiovisual documentary material is becoming increasingly prominent within the spaces of the art world. On February 23rd, a panel of artists, filmmakers, and curators—brought together and moderated by Brooklyn Rail Film section editors Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes—discussed the...

  Teenager Hamlet (2010), the first feature-length film by Toronto-based artist Margaux Williamson, made its New York premiere at UnionDocs on March 9, 2013. A portrait of artists and young people in contemporary Toronto, Teenager Hamlet travels far from its Shakespearean point of departure....

Filmmaker Emmanuelle Demoris and critic Aaron Cutler led a discussion following the screening of two seminal short French documentaries that each take a singular approach to reality. Both films document their subjects in stunning ways, giving them a poetic and surrealistic dimension. In town...

Inspiration can sprout from dire circumstances. For Inocente, a homeless teenager in Los Angeles who was constantly on the move with her mother and two brothers, her desire to create art ended up carving a path out of a terrible situation. A documentary about her, Inocente, directed by Sean...

Michal Kosakowski is a director, writer, producer, director of photography and editor of numerous short and experimental films, documentaries and video installations. His body of work includes more than 70 films, many of which have been shown in international festivals and exhibitions, and...

New York City has a diverse history of alternative screening spaces, yet many agree it’s currently undergoing a watershed moment with new crops of intimately-sized venues redefining the way audiences encounter work, interact with each other, and gain exposure to new cinematic forms. On...