UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

  Kino Satellite, a weekly experimental cinema series co-curated every Tuesday by Pamela Cohn and Andrew Grant, at Direktorenhaus in Mitte, Berlin will debut tomorrow 11/2/2010 with a presentation of short works by Alison S. M. Kobayashi and UnionDocs!   Ghosts of Syb'L, by...

Just a quick sample of some of the footage that was shot on the UnionDocs Collaborative Programs trip to Maine. These scenes will be edited and the journey will provide a narrative to frame the short works that compose the Documenting Mythologies Project.

The idea for the program sprouted from the possibilities, and problems, of documentary today. “It’s very clear that anyone can create and present the way that they think the world is,” said Jesse Shapins, Co-Mentor for the Collaborative, “and people will believe it.” The group tries to rub up against that belief, asking questions about truth rather than swallowing it whole.

What happens when we see hair as alive?

Shawn and Hyatt propose hair, name changes, and heels as three modern myths to tackle.

At the Nov. 1 UDC meeting, project mentor Kara Oehler shared with the group a reporting experience she had attempting to tease out the story of an enigmatic death that took place in a small town in Montana. In attempting to unravel the mystery, Kara interviewed the town’s inhabitants, often...