UnionDocs

Three from Finland: Selections from DocPoint NYC, by Colin Beckett

“I wonder why life is so damn hard”.

Vanessa Renwick in the American Northwest, by Colin Beckett

  Britton, South Dakota (2003) begins without titles. When the screen fills with even-toned black and white images of children posed on the main drag of some small American town, you must rely on contextual clues to situate this scene. The film’s texture, and the scratches and tears...

City Scherzos & Huang Weikai’s Disorder, by Colin Beckett

The “City Symphony” is not a coherent cinematic tradition, but a syncretic notion cradled at the intersection of three films made between 1926 and 1929: Alberto Cavalcanti’s Rien que les heures (1926), Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), and Dziga Vertov’s Man...

MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight to Open with ‘United in Anger”, by UnionDocs

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its 11th annual Documentary Fortnight festival will be opening on February 16th with film archivist Jim Hubbard’s “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP” and Tatiana Huezo Sanchez’s “The Tiniest Place.” Hubbard and...

Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective at UnionDocs, by Ashley Panzera

UnionDocs welcomes back the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective for their regular meetings and critiques, starting next week.