UnionDocs Video Podcast

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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Episodes

Laura Poitras

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

Apr 02, 2008•5 min

CATHERINE LUPTON ON CHRIS MARKER

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").

Aug 22, 2007•51 min

StateofFear

Discussion following the screening of "State of Fear" with directors and producers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis on June 10th, 2007.

Aug 09, 2007•5 min

"BROOKLYN MATTERS" DISCUSSION

Clips from the discussion with director Isabel Hill following the screening of "Brooklyn Matters" on June 3rd, 2007. Atlantic Yards simulations by Jonathan Barkey.

Aug 08, 2007•3 min

"CHARGED IN THE NAME OF TERROR" DISCUSSION

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 P

Jul 22, 2007•2 min

BODEGA SHELF 1

Words quoted and interpreted by Eric Metzgar from a book recommend for the shelves of The Documentary Bodega.

Jun 08, 2007•2 min

ERIC METZGAR DISCUSSION

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.

Jun 08, 2007•5 min

Sophie Fiennes Interview

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.

May 28, 2007•6 min

DisLocation Premiere

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 intervie...

Apr 06, 20070

Audiences with Something to Say

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

Apr 06, 20070

Whiteboard Brain Storm 1

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.

Jan 11, 20070

Whiteboard Brain Storm 2

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.

Jan 11, 20070

Whiteboard Brain Storm 3

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.

Jan 11, 20070

xmas in bkyln

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

Dec 25, 20060

Serial Number: TOPS60083A

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 un...

Oct 16, 20060

Roehre

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 Commons_Berlin, each short documentary fragment was an answer to the question what is common? Through these brief examinations of public space, intellect...

May 28, 20060

Gravel

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.

May 28, 20060

Janfamily Dinner

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 UnionDo...

Nov 01, 20050

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