UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

It is no secret that most of the time, humanitarian, social issue documentaries are formally shallow. This is a result of different sets of priorities. Most of the people who make these sorts of films view the medium as a means to an end — a popular, digestible medium with which to...

Last Sunday, UnionDocs co-presented, alongside Red Channels and DocTruck, a screening of Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino’s Hour of the Furnaces at 16Beaver. The film, released in 1968, is a three-part, four-hour-plus indictment of the neocolonialist exploitation of Argentina, an account...