UnionDocs is a documentary arts collaborative in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Our activities vary in form - we work in video, sound, text, live performance, music and photography, both independently and in combination, online and off. This video podcast promises an eclectic collection that expands beyond what can easily be called 'documentary,' we use the term because it implies an engagement with the subject of reality. For more information check out www.uniondocs.org
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An interview by UnionDocs with Laura Poitras, director/cinematographer of "My Country, My Country."UnionDocs
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An interview by UnionDocs with Catherine Lupton, author of "Chris Marker: Memories of the Future" on occasion of screening Marker's "La fond de l'air est rouge" ("A Grin Without A Cat").UnionDocs
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Discussion following the screening of "State of Fear" with directors and producers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis on June 10th, 2007.UnionDocs
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Clips from the discussion with director Isabel Hill following the screening of "Brooklyn Matters" on June 3rd, 2007. Atlantic Yards simulations by Jonathan Barkey.UnionDocs
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Clips from the post-screening discussion of the series "Charged in the Name of Terror" coupled with sections of the federal bill H.R. 3162 Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PUnionDocs
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Words quoted and interpreted by Eric Metzgar from a book recommend for the shelves of The Documentary Bodega.UnionDocs
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Compiled from clips of the post-screening discussion with Eric Metzgar, director of "Chances of the World Changing" screened in the Documentary Bodega Series at UnionDocs. Edited by Stephanie Morales and Christopher Allen.UnionDocs
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Interview with Sophie Fiennes, director of "The Perverts Guide To Cinema," which was screened as part of The Documentary Bodega Series at UnionDocs. Camera by Christopher Allen. Interview and edit by Christopher Allen & Johanna Linsley.UnionDocs
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The Documentary Bodega is Opening Soon... For a taste, here's a new edit of the DisLocation premiere. For three days, UnionDocs welcomed Sudhir Venkatesh, professor of sociology at Columbia University and director of Columbia's Center for Urban Policy and Research, as he presented his documentary film DisLocation for the first time. The screening i…
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A collage of recordings and photographs from screenings held at UnionDocs. The Documentary Bodega is Opening Soon...
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Somewhere Inside: This video is a document of some private thinking that's being going on. Animation and sound by Christopher Allen and Johanna Linsley.
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Somewhere Outside: This video is a document of some anxious thinking that's being going on. Animation and sound by Christopher Allen and Johanna Linsley.
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Somewhere. This video is a document of some rambunctious thinking that's being going on. Animation and questionable music by Christopher Allen and Johanna Linsley.
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Happy Holidays from UnionDocs! Music by Daniel Cashin. Video by Christopher Allen.
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There is a payphone outside 322 Union Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Like payphones all over, it is a public staging ground for private dramas. Raised voices are not uncommon, and conflicts range from relationship management to business affairs (legitimate and otherwise). UnionDocs, a documentary arts collaborative, works inside 322 Union. The m…
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This video was one of many pieces that made up The Commons_Berlin, a performance documentary presented at the Volksbuehne Theater in Berlin for the Rollende Road-Schau festival. The Commons describes the space where private spheres intersect - where the relationship of the one to the many, the individual to the collective, is negotiated. In The Com…
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This video showing many members of UnionDocs in 2006 was a collaboration between Megan Metcalf and Christopher Allen. It is the documentation of a spontaneous dance event, which was the result of individual directions written on cards and delivered in envelopes to a group of hung-over birthday celebrators on a hill.…
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UnionDocs presented an open studio exhibit of Plans for other days, by the Janfamily, a London-based art collective. Structured as a long list of suggestions for alternative everyday actions, Plans for other days is a kind of whimsical instruction manual. Published in book form in September of 2005 by Booth-Clibborn Editions, it's full of How-To's …
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