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Colin Beckett
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is a writer based in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Cineaste, The Brooklyn Rail, and various websites and blogs.
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Three from Finland: Selections from DocPoint NYC
“I wonder why life is so damn hard”.
Vanessa Renwick in the American Northwest
Britton, South Dakota (2003) begins without titles. When the screen fills with even-toned black and white images of children...
City Scherzos & Huang Weikai’s Disorder
The “City Symphony” is not a coherent cinematic tradition, but a syncretic notion cradled at the intersection of three films made...
Jim McBride’s Diaries
Rather than dampening the excitement around vérité filmmaking, David Holzman's Diary instead announced the birth of a whole new documentary subgenre.
The Hutton Touch
In December, UnionDocs hosted Peter Hutton, one of the avant-garde’s most accomplished filmmakers, for an evening of four films:...
Alban Muja’s Letters From Kosovo
Alban Muja is an artist from Kosovo who is currently doing a residency at UnionDocs through C.E.C. ArtsLink. On November 7th, he...
Broken Mirrors: Tim Leyendekker’s you may find yourself
Simone Bennett’s The Truth Machine (2007) begins with an epigram: “Truth is a mirror which fell to earth in a million...
A World Subdivided Into 30 Frames A Second: A Conversation With Su Friedrich
NOTE: This interview was conducted last year. Since 1978, Su Friedrich has been making films that render the borders between...
James T. Hong: An Antidote?
James T. Hong is on to something. At the conclusion of the hour-long discussion that followed his Sunday night screening at UnionDocs, ...
Wonder and Despair
“Restrained” is probably not the best word to describe Star Spangled to Death — Ken Jacobs’ forty-plus-years-in-the-making, 6...
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