Saturday, May 18th: ‘Promised Paradise’
Promised Paradise UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation How can one believe that terrorism leads to heaven? Banned by the Indonesian government, this provocative documentary examines the psychology of extremism in a country with the largest Muslim population in the world. Promised Paradise, a new film from renowned documentary filmmaker Leonard Retel [...]
Friday, May 17th: Shorts from The New School
Shorts from The New School UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 6 & 8pm $9 suggested donation Join us for an evening of two programs featuring original and creative shorts made by students from the New School. The first program, “The First Cut is the Deepest,” presents narrative shorts by students of Laurie Collyer’s senior seminar. [...]
Saturday, April 27th: The Body, the Social Space and Aesthetics of Resistance
The Body, the Social Space and Aesthetics of Resistance UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Karen Mirza and Brad Butler have worked together since 1998, and in 2004 formed no.w.here, an artist-run space for the production, discussion and dissemination of practices engaged with the moving image, politics, technology and aesthetics. no.w.here’s role [...]
Saturday, April 20th: A Kiss for Sex Worker Rights
A Kiss for Sex Worker Rights UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 2 sessions: 7:30pm & 9pm $9 each or $15 for both What happens when sex workers seize the day by running for political office and storm the halls of government? Not only do we demand rights for our communities, we defend the rights of [...]
Sunday, April 7th: Empty Quarter with Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty
Empty Quarter with Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Empty Quarter (2011, 16mm black & white/sound, 71 minutes) is a film about the region of Southeast Oregon, an area populated by ranching and farming communities, in Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties. The region is roughly one-third of [...]
Sunday, March 24th: Interactive Storytelling 101
Interactive Storytelling 101 UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 4pm $15 A primer for nonfiction filmmakers looking to expand into interactive storytelling. This workshop surveys trends in interactive documentary, introduces new technologies being used, and provides a “how-to” for starting and conceptualizing interactive projects. We will look at different approaches to developing non-fiction content with interactivity, [...]
Saturday, March 23rd: ‘Deafening Silence’ with Holly Fisher
Deafening Silence with Holly Fisher UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Deafening Silence is a fusion of beauty and terror, observation and danger, roving visuals and intimate stories either funny, contemplative, or horrific – a subjective, layered depiction of Burma under brutal military dictatorship. The filmmaker’s first trip was legal, shooting video [...]
Friday, March 22nd: ‘Day is Done’ with Christoph Terhechte
Day is Done with Christoph Terhechte UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Click here for more cheap New York City events & things to do.
Sunday, March 3rd: ‘Metropolitan Avenue’ with Christine Noschese
Metropolitan Avenue with Christine Noschese UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation “Metropolitan Avenue probably touches on every problem that every urban neighborhood has either gone through or will face. … Christine Noschese, the show’s producer and director and a former Brooklynite who delivers the narration, expresses a point of view, focusing on [...]
Sunday, February 24th: It’s All True: A Shorts Program and Workshop with Sergio Oksman
It’s All True: A Shorts Program and Workshop with Sergio Oksman UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 2pm $15 In Sergio Oksman’s critically acclaimed shorts, Notes on the Other and A Story for the Modlins, the line separating fiction and non-fiction within personal and social histories are blurred. Whether it is an article written by Hemmingway [...]
Saturday, February 16th: Radio Cabaret
Radio Cabaret UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Radio Cabaret is a variety show where radio stories come to life before your eyes. Producers bring the traditions of public radio to the stage through storytelling, musical performance, visual animation, theater and live interviews. Performances range in topic but share a common reference [...]
Sunday, January 13th: Pasolini’s Language of Reality; Digesting a Polemical Life
Pasolini’s Language of Reality; Digesting a Polemical Life UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation On the heels of the complete Pasolini retrospective at MoMA (12/13/12-1/5/13), filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane and Louis-Georges Schwartz, a scholar who works at Ohio University’s School of Film, endeavor to digest (in the implacable Swiftian sense) Pasolini’s political [...]
Saturday, January 12th: In the Valley of the Uncanny: Humans and Humanoids
In the Valley of the Uncanny: Humans and Humanoids UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Artist Laurie O’Brien, filmmaker Allison de Fren, neuroscientist Asif Ghazanfar & artist John Bell will be in attendance for presentations and a discussion following moderated by Cabinet editor D. Graham Burnett. This event was organized by Toby [...]
Sunday, December 16th: Shorts and Influences with Akosua Adoma Owusu
Shorts and Influences with Akosua Adoma Owusu UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation In the short films she has made since 2005, Owusu, who was born in the U.S. to parents from Ghana, has explored the oppositions and syntheses produced by this triple consciousness, using an array of formal strategies to locate [...]
Sunday, December 9th: ‘Brave New York’ & ‘Radioactive City’ with Richard Sandler
“Brave New York” & “Radioactive City” UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation BRAVE NEW YORK 55 minutes| USA | 2004 Shooting daily video from 1992 to 2004, “Brave New York” is a free-form documentary that loosely chronicles 12 years of intense change in the East Village “hood.” From the reopening of the [...]
Saturday, December 8th: Those Strange, Inescapable Lines and Slivers
Those Strange, Inescapable Lines and Slivers UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation The evening’s curator Jesse Pires will be in attendance for discussion along with presenting artists Jeremy Moss and Joshua Bonnetta, who will also be performing live sound with his short. Click here for more cheap New York City events & [...]
Saturday, December 1st: ‘Forest of Bliss’ with Richard Allen
Forest of Bliss UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Forest of Bliss is intended as an unsparing but ultimately redeeming account of the inevitable griefs and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, one of the world’s most holy cities. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentary, [...]
Sunday, November 18th: Short & Sweet: The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective
Short & Sweet: The Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation The BFC will present a night of short films by its members. Diverse skill sets and wide interests converge at the collective’s weekly meetings, where members present works-in-progress to receive feedback and criticism from their peers. Beyond the workshops, [...]
Saturday, November 17th: ‘Chekhov for Children’ with Sasha Waters Freyer
Chekhov for Children with Sasha Waters Freyer UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7pm $9 suggested donation Chekhov for Children poses the question: “Where does one draw the line between experimentation and self-indulgence?” – a quote from Phillip Lopate’s 1979 essay “Chekhov for Children” – on both broadly social and intimately personal levels. Its final message [...]
Saturday, November 17th: MIX NYC: ‘Wildness’ by Wu Tsang
Wildness UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 9:30pm $10 suggested Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, [...]
Saturday, October 20th: UnionDocs Re-Opening Party with Los Sures and Harvey Eyeballs
Re-Opening Party UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm screening, 9:30pm party $10 We are nearly finished with our space renovations and want to invite you to come out and celebrate in our revamped digs! We’ll be screening Los Sures before the party officially kicks off, which will feature live music from Harvey Eyeballs. We will [...]
Sunday, October 7th: ‘My Brooklyn’ with Kelly Anderson
My Brooklyn UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Kelly Anderson will be in attendance along with Lincoln Restler (local District Leader) and Emily Gallagher (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, NAG, Co-Chair) to talk about the film and how it relates to gentrification in North Brooklyn. Click here for more cheap New York [...]
Sunday, September 16th: ‘Images of Asian Music’ and ‘At Sea’ with Peter Hutton
Images of Asian Music and At Sea with Peter Hutton UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30pm $9 suggested donation Peter Hutton’s unforgettable films, typically shot and exhibited on 16mm, often portray landscapes and cityscapes from around the world. Here we present his sublime, At Sea, which overviews the life cycle of a container ship (recently [...]
Saturday, July 14th: Living ‘Los Sures’
Living Los Sures Sternberg Park, Brooklyn 7:30pm Free In the late seventies and early eighties, South Williamsburg was one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. It was troubled by drugs and violence, full of abandoned real estate, and badly under-served. Los Sures, a documentary from 1984 by Diego Echeverria, skillfully represents the challenges [...]
