UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art

Last week brought the sad news that amateur filmmaker Robbins Barstow had died at home in Hartford. He was 91. Since the mid-1930s, Barstow had produced more than a hundred films and videos, most of them documents of quotidian family life, all marked by a peculiar narrative sensibility. In the...

When the Orphan Film Symposium assembles in April for its seventh biennial meeting, it will review more than 40 hours of footage over the course of four days. The OFS plays host to films and videos that have lost their contextual home: newsreel outtakes, educational and industrial films,...