UnionDocs

The 2010 edition of Documentary Fortnight, MoMA’s ninth annual international festival of nonfiction film, presents..
U N I O N D O C S __ C O L L A B O R A T I V E :

I N D U C T I V E __ T H R E A D

Produced by the Brooklyn non-profit UnionDocs, this two-part program combines short works in film, video, radio, photography, written essay, and live performance, engaging multiple subjects and diverse aesthetic approaches to documentary arts. The first part touches on the history of the organization, its rotating body of participants, and their collaborative exploration of topics from the death of payphones to the popularity of currywurst. The second is an investigation of myth in contemporary society, an excerpt from an ongoing project that shares many inspirations, including the experimental laboratory of the Bauhaus and the collection of short but revelatory essays within Roland Barthes’s classic 1957 text Mythologies.

Presentations by:
UnionDocs founders…
Christopher Allen, Executive Director;
Jesse Shapins,
Kara Oehler,
& Johanna Linsley
Programmer, Steve Holmgren

& the 2009-10 UnionDocs Collaborative:
Andre Almeida,
Tina Antolini,
Ben Brown,
Rahul Chadha,
Hyatt Michaels,
Katia Maguire,
Will Martin,
Jolene Pinder,
Joshua Gen Solondz,
Shawn Wen,
& Robbie Wilkins.

PRESS RELEASE

INDUCTIVE THREAD is part of the Documentary Fortnight Daylong Symposium: Community and Collaborative Filmmaking—Media Arts Centers. In addition to UnionDocs, the symposium includes two other U.S.-based initiatives: Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, which began in 1968 as an experiment in community-based filmmaking and economic growth, and supports films that celebrate Appalachian culture and an Indonesian video exchange project; and New York City’s Deep Dish Television, which generates grass-roots film and television.