Posts tagged “political documentary”

James T. Hong: An Antidote?

October 10th, 2010 by Colin Beckett

James T. Hong is on to something. At the conclusion of the hour-long discussion that followed his Sunday night screening at UnionDocs, a friend turned to me and said: “I think I found a new hero”. That exhilaration, shared by myself and, it seemed, everyone I spoke with, is ...

Care

May 13th, 2010 by Colin Beckett

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...

Some Thoughts Following Hour of the Furnaces

April 14th, 2010 by Colin Beckett

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...

Rhetoric of the Yes Men

January 24th, 2010 by Colin Beckett

As a sequel to The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix The World is more Die Hard 2 than Aliens. Directing themselves, anti-corporate jesters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum pick up where Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith left off, continuing their adventures in slightly different settings...

 

Seminars and Workshops

  1. Can Documentaries Change the World? Assessing, Funding, and Harnessing the Social Impact of Nonfiction Film Sunday, February 12th at 4:00pm

Upcoming Screenings + Other Events

  1. NYFA Bootstrap Arts Festival 1 Friday, February 10th at 7:30pm
  2. NYFA Bootstrap Arts Festival 2 Saturday, February 11th at 7:30pm
  3. Making the Real: The People and the Army are One Hand with Menna Khalil Saturday, February 18 at 7:30pm
  4. Let's Try That Once More, This Time In The Past:
    Performance & Documentation
    Sunday, February 19th at 7:30 pm
  5. From Gust To Hail: New England Experimental Friday, February 24th at 7:30 PM
  6. Best Shorts from Ann Arbor Film Festival Saturday, February 25th at 7:30 pm

From Last Event