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I believe that Red Car had a soul. But where did it come from? And where is it now?Part 1: A Car Is BornPart 2: Goodbye Red CarPart 3: Car Soul Released Honored as an Official Select at On Air Fest 2021. Produced by Emily Shaw. Editorial support from Palace Shaw, Ray Pang, Dee Peterschmidt, Mary Wesley, Nicki Stein, Cin Pimentel, Stepfanie Aguilar, and Nieves Gruneiro. Special thanks to Alice Shaw, Jazmine (JT) Green, and UnionDocs.Freesound.org recordings from: Philip Goddard, akemov, dasgoat, wangzhuokun, be-steele, tmrobin1, Iamgiorgio, edranil, bvaudio, ameangelofsin, danielsilveira321Archival recordings: 1990 Toyota Corolla Commercial, Derek Prince: “Total Man - Functions of Spirit Soul and Body”, 1989 Toyota Corolla Commercial

As one of the most influential musicians in Turkish history and the first modern pop star of Turkey, Zeki Müren gained huge popularity beginning in the 1950s across all different communities in Turkey, in spite of his groundbreaking behaviors like cross-dressing, and can be seen as an LGBTQ+ trailblazer. Even now, Zeki Müren continues to have a profound influence on Turkish society and on the Turkish people. We begin discussing how he became so popular with such a wide audience, then Beyza and Jeff talk about their own experiences with Zeki Müren, and what led them to create the interactive documentary Zeki Müren Hotline. After that, we compare the pop culture background while Zeki was performing with the current Turkish pop culture environment, and also discuss how Zeki kept the balance of pushing boundaries and also being conservative, how he used some survival behaviors, and what made him a national hero. Finally, our guests Beyza and Jeff share some stories from the Zeki Müren Hotline. Beyza Boyacıoğlu is an award-winning documentarian and film editor from Istanbul, currently based in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, IDFA, Anthology Film Archives, RIDM, MoMA PS1, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Venice Biennial, Creative Time Summit, Barbican Centre, UnionDocs, Maysles Cinema, Morelia International Film Festival, !f Istanbul and many others.She created the interactive documentary Zeki Müren Hotline at the MIT Open Documentary Lab with Jeff Soyk.Jeff Soyk is an award-winning media artist with experience in storytelling, direction, UX design, UI design, front-end development, animation, and film/video. His credits include co-director and UI & UX designer on Zeki Müren Hotline (2022 Webby Award Honoree: NetArt, 2017 !f Istanbul exhibit, 2017 RIDM exhibit, 2016 IDFA DocLab nominee), co-creative director and UI & UX designer on PBS Frontline's Inheritance (2016 News & Documentary Emmy Award winner, 2016 Peabody-Facebook Award winner), and art director, UI/UX designer and architect on Hollow (2014 News & Documentary Emmy Award nominee, 2013 Peabody Award winner).A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Zeki Müren HotlineZeki Müren Hotline Kickstarter (w/ background info)The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular MusicTurkey as Major Television Exporter"Letter of Sorrow"MIT Open Documentary LabShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Xiaolu Wang (she/they) is an emerging documentary filmmaker and a translator from the Hui Muslim Autonomous Region of China, whose practice is based in the mapping of interiority, with the use of video, poetry, memory, translations, and a decolonial lens. Their work have been screened at local venues and international film festivals in countries like Lebanon, Mexico, China, and Argentina. They contributed translations to journals including 单读, onlimbo, and Cinephila. When they are not studying films, Xiaolu helps out at a friend's donation-based food pop-up, "The Shui Project", or reads the Tao Te Ching. They are a recipient of the 2019 Jerome Film and Media Grant, a fellow of DocX Archive Lab 2021 organized by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, and their work has been generously supported by Metropolitan Regional Arts Council of Minnesota, Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, Jerome Foundation, Women Make Movies, and UnionDocs. They live in Minneapolis with two cats, Marvin and Moto, who sleep on separate couches. See clips from Xiaolu's films here. Follow Moonplay on Instagram: @moonplaycinema Email: moonplaycinema@gmail.com www.moonplaycinema.org Theme music by Jes Reyes. Original recording date: September 10, 2021

In this episode, we recap films from the Camden International Film Festival which just wrapped up over the past weekend. I sat with a dear friend of the podcast,  Bronte Stahl, a filmmaker and producer from Westerly RI who is a frequent attendee at CIFF and also part of the festival's screening committee. Bronte and I studied documentary in film school many moons ago at the  European master's program, DocNomads.  Since then has participated in a few fellowships and residencies including Points North Institute, Flaherty Seminar, UnionDocs, and Open City Assembly Lab. His short films have been screened at international film festivals including Rotterdam and DocLisboa. And his current projects are supported by Sundance and DocSociety, among others.We discuss several films from the Camden International Film Festival includingNORTH BY CURRENT by Angelo Madsen Minax EXPEDITION CONTENT by Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati TERRA FEMME by Courtney Stephens FAYA DAYI by Jessica BeshirSpirits and Rocks, an Azorean Myth by Aylin GokmenA NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING by Payal Kapadia ASCENSION by Jessica Kingdon 

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Ginger’s Bar in Brooklyn is one of only fifteen lesbian bars left in the United States. After it closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Taylor Cook, CUNY graduate student in critical disability studies, talked to the owner of Ginger's Bar, Sheila Frayne.

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Jasmyne Roberts's grandmother came to Brooklyn from Vietnam in 1979, with her husband and nine children. In order to keep her sons out of gang activity in Borough Park, she opened a restaurant and solicited the help of her children, keeping them out of trouble and supporting her family at the same time.

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. There's more to Brooklyn than hipsters, craft beers and fixie bikes. Honeychild Coleman spoke with a few Brooklyn residents about why they love Kings County and life here During COVID-19. Kentucky native Honeychild Coleman is a composer/musician, activist, and resident DJ in New York City at Artists & Fleas and The Beauty Bar, and has lived in Brooklyn for over 25 years. Coleman's political punk band is The 1865.

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. William ‘Billy’ Braithwaite was well known in Guyana and the diaspora for his work in the airline industry. When he migrated with his family to the USA in 1981 Mr. Braithwaite became a businessman and was reveled for his philanthropy and community involvement. This is not a story about his life, but the consequences of his death. His namesake, Billie Braithwaite Jones, lost her father recently to COVID-19. Unlike others who accept the death of their loved ones as a tragic effect of the pandemic, Billie believes her father was murdered by the US government.

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. During her anxiety-ridden pandemic pregnancy and birth, Elisabeth Donnelly, journalist and writer, made a radio piece about her pregnancy.  

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. What is shelter when it's no longer temporary? Omar Etman tells the stories of people who spent years in New York City homeless shelters that were designed for temporary occupancy.

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Glynn Pogue is a writer and educator from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. BedStuyBrat was her AOL Instant Messenger name back in the T-Mobile Sidekick days, and the moniker still applies, as much of Glynn’s works centers around her community of brown people and brownstones. "Bed Stuy Kids" introduces listeners to her community while meditating on class, belonging and authenticity. 

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Mingy Dworcan is a Chassidic Jew living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She grew up in South Africa where she developed a love and appreciation of all ranges of people and cultures. "Universal Love: How a Rebbe in Brooklyn Influenced a Chassid in Africa" is a small peak into a world she is passionate about: navigating Chassidic life in a modern society.

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Shivram Viswanathan studies economics, political science and spiritual music from different cultures. He is currently in South Korea on a fellowship, but is usually a resident of Harlem. His story is about musicians in America that perform South Indian classical music, called Carnatic music, and how they navigate their different identities through this art.  

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Raul Rothblatt is a Brooklyn activist who became passionate about Downtown Brooklyn’s unique history in 2004 when he joined Joy Monroe and family in the fight to save 227 Abolitionist Place, a likely spot on the Underground Railroad. He lives in Prospect Heights with his wife and two children and he is on the staff of Council Member Robert Cornegy.

Hear Me Out was an audio storytelling workshop series at BPL, co-produced by Virginia Marshall, UnionDocs, and lead instructor Stephanie Foo. Yejin is an equity-informed career & leadership coach, and a racial justice consultant. For her story, she interviewed Frances, a Black Puerto-Rican farmworker in Brooklyn who began her life thinking she'd become a music journalist, but then had a winding journey that led her to land work.

Ray Pang is a Boston-based Audio Producer. Find out more by following Ray on Twitter @pangray.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Emily Shaw is a San Francisco-based podcast producer and consultant. Find out more at www.emilyshawcreates.com, and follow Emily @emilyshawcreates (Instagram) and @emshawcreates (Twitter).Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Ray Pang is a Boston-based Audio Producer. Find out more by following Ray on Twitter @pangray.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Emily Shaw is a San Francisco-based podcast producer and consultant. Find out more at www.emilyshawcreates.com, and follow Emily @emilyshawcreates (Instagram) and @emshawcreates (Twitter).Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Nicki Stein makes radio in Richmond, VA. You can hear more of her work at nickistein.com.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Emily Shaw is a San Francisco-based podcast producer and consultant. Find out more at www.emilyshawcreates.com, and follow Emily @emilyshawcreates (Instagram) and @emshawcreates (Twitter).Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Nieves Gruneiro is an artist and educator based in eastern Pennsylvania. Her work explores immersion, presence and perception using a variety of media. For more information please visit: cachita.io.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Cinthia Pimentel (sher/her) is a storyteller, podcast host & audio producer. She started her podcast journey by co-hosting and co-producing a podcast called Bag Ladiez, all about baggage and mental health. As a fellow at Pineapple Street Media, she worked on different podcast series such as No Man's Land before joining the team at Wonder Media Network. She loves horror and all forms of science fiction. Born, and raised in the best city in the world: The Bronx.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Ray Pang is a Boston-based Audio Producer. Find out more by following Ray on Twitter @pangray.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

You can find Palace on instagram @planet.pal and on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/palaces-2.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

You can find Palace on instagram @planet.pal and on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/palaces-2.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

You can find Palace on instagram @planet.pal and on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/palaces-2.Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Stepfanie Aguilar is an audio producer/shaper based in a California desert. Connect with her on www.stepfaguilar.com. Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Stepfanie Aguilar is an audio producer/shaper based in a California desert. Connect with her on www.stepfaguilar.com. Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Stepfanie Aguilar is an audio producer/shaper based in a California desert. Connect with her on www.stepfaguilar.com. Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Kristine White is a visual, performance, and audio artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her Instagram is @kristineshirley_. Created at Augmented Audio Realities, my workshop in collaboration with UnionDocs.

Simone Leigh is an artist working with sculpture, installation, video, and social practice. In 2018, Leigh was awarded the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize. Her sixteen-foot-tall sculpture, Brick House, is currently installed on New York City’s High Line. A solo exhibition of new sculptures is on view at David Kordansky gallery through June 11, 2020.Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich is an artist, filmmaker, and assistant professor in film and television production at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Rema Hort Mann Award and a UnionDocs fellowship. 

Join us this episode as we speak with Katherine “Kat” Cheairs, a filmmaker, educator, curator, activist and community artist. Kat’s areas of interest and research include: HIV & AIDS; visual culture; media arts therapy; community arts; and, critical race theory in art education. Ms. Cheairs is a co-curator of Metanoia: Transformation Through AIDS Archives and Activism, an archival exhibition focusing on the contributions of Black women, transwomen of color, and women of color HIV/AIDS activists from the early 1990s to the present. Ms Cheairs is the producer and director of the documentary, Ending Silence, Shame & Stigma: HIV/AIDS in the African American Family. Kat’s new project in development, In This House, is a video installation exploring HIV/AIDS narratives through the Black body. Kat has appeared and presented on panels at the Tribeca Film Institute, BAM, Pratt Institute, The New School, New York University, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Aperture Foundation, and UnionDocs. Kat shares her memories of visiting her maternal grandparent's home in the summer time in Memphis, Tennessee. To listen to more podcasts, visit Nomadic Archivists Project. Original music by Sean Bempong.

Melbourne-based artist James Nguyen joins Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss his experience as a Samstag Scholar at UnionDocs, New York on a one year fellowship in 2015, and how the lab environment subsequently shaped his practice and methodology.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.Recorded by Denam Moore at the Message Pod, Kaurna Adelaide in November 2019.

This is the creators' episode. Baatien welcome Mr. Ansh who is a documentary filmmaker based in New Delhi. Having studied from UnionDocs, New York, he has pocketed some beautiful stories and film under his belt. Popularly known as @shutterchicken, he is a brilliant storyteller. Tune in and hear us talk about language, transmedia storytelling, the impact of stories and visual languages.

Conscious Light offers a penetrating glimpse into the remarkable life and enlightened teachings of Avatar Adi Da Samraj and his work to establish a way of ultimate spiritual realization for everyone. It draws on extensive archival film, photography, and audio recordings, as well as interviews with students who lived with Avatar Adi Da and continue to practice the way that he revealed. Peter Harvey-Wright is an award-winning filmmaker who spent most of his working life in Australia in the theatre, film and television industry – on both sides of the camera or stage. After graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Film and Television Production and a post graduate Bachelor of Education, Peter taught theatre, film and television production, then lectured in Film History and managed the Production Department in the Early Childhood Faculty of Melbourne University, producing many short documentaries. lythe Massey is an award-winning documentarian who specialized in creating short films for global non-profits for fifteen years. She interviewed hundreds of people from over 20 countries for stories that encapsulate transformation, peace, and the sacred. Mitchell has interviewed numerous students and devotees in the Adi Da Community over the past 20 years such as scholars James Steinberg, Carolyn Lee, and musicians Byron Duckwall and John Wubbenhorst which can be found at our Amazon store. The film can be seen in NYC on Sat., Feb. 23,7pm at UnionDocs, 322 Union Ave., Williamsburg.  For tix, go to: www.consciouslightfilm.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abwmitchellrabin/support

Rachel Zucker speaks with Alison S. M. Kobayashi, artist and performer, about Say Something Bunny!, her most recent theater/performance piece, how to engage the audience during a performance, what led her to become an artist, obsession, found objects, persona, collaboration, her experience with UnionDocs, and what it's like to see success after devoting six years to a project.

Bill speaks to film critic Ela Bittencourt about her many pursuits, from past programming efforts like the Neither/Nor Polish retrospective at True/False Film Fest and the LGBTQ Brazil series at the Museum Of The Moving Image, to writing for publications like Slant and Film Comment and creating the website Lyssaria to call attention to the work of young filmmakers. Other topics include: Polish Cinema in the 1990s, hybrid documentaries, Andrzej Zulawski, the importance of good editors and the childhood experience of playing an extra in an Andrzej Wajda movie. Visit Ela Bittencourt's website, Lyssaria: www.lyssaria.com Read Ela Bittencourt in Reverse Shot: http://reverseshot.org/people/76/ela-bittencourt Read Ela Bittencourt on Mubi.com: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/author/516  Read about the LGBTQ Brazil series: http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2018/07/28/detail/lgbtq-brazil/ Read about Ela Bittencourt’s upcoming screening at UnionDocs: https://uniondocs.org/event/a_opcao_ou_as_rosas_da_estrada/ Read Ela Bittencourt on COSMOS: http://www.bkmag.com/2016/02/18/say-goodbye-to-andrzej-zulawski-the-eternal-outsider-of-polish-cinema-at-film-comment-selects/ Watch a panel discussion with Ela Bittencourt, Nick Pinkerton and Adam Nayman at the 2014 True/False Film Fest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJu4RgIuyKY Read Ela Bittencourt in Artforum: https://www.artforum.com/contributor/ela-bittencourt Visit the True/False website, where you can download Ela Bittencourt's 2015 monograph on chimeric Polish Cinema of the '70s, '80s and '90s: https://truefalse.org/program/neither-nor

Vivian Ziherl discusses her curatorial platform Frontier Imaginaries on the occasion of TOXIC ASSETS: Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3 at e-flux, Columbia University, and UnionDocs in October 2017. In conversation with journal editor Brian Kuan Wood. Watch day one of TOXIC ASSETS on e-flux film & video Read Vivian Ziherl's essay "The Fourfold Articulation" in e-flux journal #81, April 2017

Hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for. Panelists include: Matthew Weise, ’04, a game designer and educator whose work spans industry and academia. He is the CEO of Empathy Box, a company that specializes in narrative design for games and across media. He was the Narrative Designer at Harmonix Music Systems on Fantasia: Music Evolved, the Game Design Director of the GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT, and a consultant for Warner Bros., Microsoft, PBS, The National Ballet of Spain, and others on storytelling and game design. His work, both creatively and critically, focuses on transmedia adaptation with an emphasis on the challenges of adapting cinema into video games. Matt has given lectures and workshops on film-to-game adaptation all over the world, and has published work on how franchises like Alien, James Bond, and horror cinema in general are adapted into games. Links to his writing and game design work, including his IGF nominated The Snowfield, can be found at www.matthewweise.com. Karen Schrier, ’05, an educator, innovator, and creative researcher who is always looking for collaborators and new connections. She is an Associate Professor at Marist College and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program. She also runs the Play Innovation Lab, where she researches and creates games that support learning, ethical reflection, and compassion. Her recent book, Knowledge Games, was published last year (Johns Hopkins University Press), and was covered by Forbes, New Scientist, Times Higher Education, and SiriusXM. Dr. Schrier also edits the book series, Learning, Education & Games, which is published by ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon), and she is the president of the Learning, Education & Games group of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association). She holds a doctorate from Columbia University, master’s from MIT, and a bachelor’s from Amherst College. In addition, Karen and her family (husband, cats, 5 year old and 2 year old) currently live in the Hudson Valley but are hoping to move to Pound Ridge, NY in the winter. Ainsley Sutherland, ’15, a media technologist and researcher working in immersive computing and human-computer interaction design. Her project Voxhop, a tool for voice collaboration in virtual reality, is a 2017 j360 Challenge winner funded by the Knight Foundation and Google News Lab. She was a 2016 fellow at the BuzzFeed Open Lab, as well as a researcher in the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab at MIT. She has cofounded Mediate, an MIT DesignX-backed company that enables collaboration in and analysis of 3D environments. She has an M.S. from MIT in Comparative Media Studies, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago, in Economics. Beyza Boyacioglu, ’17, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist. Her work has been presented at MoMA Doc Fortnight, IDFA DocLab, Morelia International Film Festival, RIDM, Anthology Film Archives amongst other venues and festivals. She has received grants and fellowships from LEF Foundation, MIT Council for the Arts, Flaherty Seminar, SALT Research and Greenhouse Seminar. She was an artist in residence at UnionDocs in 2012 where she co-directed “Toñita’s” — a documentary portrait of the last Puerto Rican social club in Williamsburg. She is currently producing a cross-platform documentary about Turkey’s gender-bending pop legend Zeki Müren. The project is comprised of a feature film “A Prince from Outer Space: Zeki Müren”, a hotline and a web experience. Currently, Boyacioglu works as a Producer at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.

This live episode features special guest W. Kamau Bell. Discussions include Hari's appearance on Good Day NY, Kamau's appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher & the fellows answer both tumblr & live audience questions. Recorded live at UnionDocs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on 4/13/14.

A large swatch of artist Laurel Nakadate's work features performances in which she performs acts with strangers—and videotapes them. Nakadate recently discussed her work at UnionDocs as part of New York's "Walls and Bridges" conference. Christopher Allen, Artistic Director of the Williamsburg, Brooklyn non-profit, introduced the artist. First, Nakadate talked about her photographic, video and performance art pieces. Then, she spoke to Allen and ethicist Ruwen Ogien about the components of longing and control in her work.    Bon Mots: Nakadate on inspiration: "Any transient place is really interesting to me. Because transient places are all about trying to get [from] where you are to where you want to be, which is ultimately about this motivation to a greater, better thing. Even if the greater, better thing is the Twinkies in the store." Nakadate on longing: "This is a performance where I was begging dead animals to wake up. I thought there was something interesting about the futility of asking for something you can't have. Or wishing for something that can't be. So, I begged dead animals to get up." Nakadate's work is up at PS1 from through August.   *Updated 4/29/2011

Christopher Allen, founder and director of UnionDocs, independent producer and new head of programming at UnionDocs, Steve Holmgren, Rich Siegmeister and Bob Morris of Reel13, and Keith Boynton and Mike Lavoie of 12films12weeks met at DCTV for a New York Film/Video Council discussion about low-cost filmmaking, exploring how filmmakers with low budgets can produce valuable work.

Christopher Allen, founder and director of UnionDocs, independent producer and new head of programming at UnionDocs, Steve Holmgren, Rich Siegmeister and Bob Morris of Reel13, and Keith Boynton and Mike Lavoie of 12films12weeks met at DCTV for a New York Film/Video Council discussion about low-cost filmmaking, exploring how filmmakers with low budgets can produce valuable work.

An interview by UnionDocs with Laura Poitras, director/cinematographer of "My Country, My Country."

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").

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.

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.

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 included a discussion with several subjects of the film and a photography exhibit which remained installed at UnionDocs through the spring. An interview of Venkatesh was collaged with other UnionDocs audio recordings in a radio broadcast on WKCR FM NY. In February 2002, families living in the Robert Taylor homes on Chicago's Southside were given a 180-day notice of eviction. In six months, the community that had been their home for generations would be demolished. DisLocation chronicles the lives of families forced to relocate from the high-rises. It is an attempt to understand how tenants cope with the loss of their home (and their collective identity) and start their lives over in new residential communities. This conversation with some of the tenants who took part in DisLocation was edited by Alex Marvar.

A collage of recordings and photographs from screenings held at UnionDocs. The Documentary Bodega is Opening Soon...

Happy Holidays from UnionDocs! Music by Daniel Cashin. Video by Christopher Allen.

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 members have been observing the payphone outside for over two and a half years. For the Conflux 2006, UnionDocs presented two projects which seek to understand the contemporary payphone experience. Serial Number: T0PS60083A, a project by Johanna Linsley, is the ritual examination of one (until recently) traditionally operational New York City payphone.

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.

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 (How to get in touch, How to make an instant shelter), all illustrating practical solutions to too-often overlooked needs. For two days in the UnionDocs gallery space, the JanFamily and members of UnionDocs interpreted these instructions with photography, video, sound and sculptural projects. Visitors were welcome to come and observe the creative process, which culminated in an opening screening and presentation. Founded by Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund, both graduates of London's Royal College of Art, the Janfamily share a unique approach to life. They have created an exhibition and publishing platform structured around simple, personal works that take everyday life as their starting point. The group includes an open network of collaborators who take the middle name 'Jan' for the duration of the projects with which they are involved. This video was shot during a dinner with UnionDocs by Chosil Jan.