DUKE AND BATTERSBY INTERVIEW PREVIEW

A program of three works brought to you by Canadian artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby. Duke and Battersby do not shy away from dirty stuff. Or creepy stuff. Or stuff that makes people uncomfortable. You could say that the dirty, the creepy and the uncomfortable are their milieu. The tapes in the program they are showing at UnionDocs deal with, in this order: an ape-human lesbian love affair; why hunting is OK (because we want to get to touch wild animals and they only let us if they’...

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Craig Baldwin March 20/21

Craig Baldwin is an American experimental filmmaker. He uses “found” footage from the fringes of popular consciousness as well as images from the mass media to undermine and transform the traditional documentary, infusing it with the energy of high-speed montage and a provocative commentary that targets subjects from intellectual property rights to rampant consumerism. He is the founder of Other Cinema, a long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in San Francisco’s Mis...

Joel Schlemowitz: Film Portraits and Experimenta...

Joel Schlemowitz ;has made over forty short experimental films, and numerous film installation pieces. He has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, and at various festivals including the London Film Festival, the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Denver...

CHRISTIAN BAUER at DOCUMENTARY BODEGA SERIES

Chicago indie filmmaker Allen Ross made seven films with German filmmaker Christian Bauer. Then he vanished without a trace. Four years after his disappearance, angered by the apathy of the police, Bauer returns to America to find out what happened to his friend. His investigations take him on an increasingly disturbing trail from Chicago’s art scene to satanic sects in Waco and Oklahoma City. Also screening is 16mm film by Allen Ross, The Grandfather Trilogy. Comprised of the 
three short fil...

Matthew Porterfield - "Hamilton" - At Documentar...

Hamilton by Matthew Porterfield is a narrative feature that chronicles two summer days in the life of a young family. Lena, 17, and Joe, 20, are two recent and accidental parents residing in a diverse, suburban neighborhood in northeast Baltimore City. The evening will feature a post-screening discussion with Porterfield and New Yorker writer Richard Brody, and a preview of Porterfield narrative feature Metal Gods.

LAURA POITRAS at the Documentary Bodega Series

Director/cinematographer Laura Poitras creates an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. Her Oscar-nominated film My Country, My Country follows Dr. Riyadh, a physician and critic of the U.S. occupation who nonetheless supports democracy in Iraq and runs as a candidate in the tumultuous 2005 elections. Dramatically interwoven into the personal journey of Dr. Riyadh is the landscape of the US military occupation, with Australian private security contractors, American journali...

BILL DANIEL at Documentary Bodega Series

“Bill Daniel’s homegrown epic is as kinetic and raggedly beautiful as the trains he hopped to make it. Using the search for the origin of a near mythical example of railroad graffiti as a point of departure, Bill made a film about freedom as literal passage across the land. Corporations brand things to say they own them, but there are ways in which humans have marked things to say they can’t be owned.” - Jem CohenDaniel’s gritty black and white film uncovers a secret society and it’s undergrou...

FREEHELD PANEL at Documentary Bodega Series

Academy Award winner (Best Documentary Short Subject) and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Freeheld has screened in 45 film festivals in 26 states and 7 countries, garnering eleven additional film awards. On Sunday, June 8th, UnionDocs will be partnering with Standby, a media arts service organization, to present a post-screening panel discussion with director Cynthia Wade, editor David Teague, and sound designer Alex Noyes about the filmmaking process.

JEM COHEN at the Documentary Bodega Series

Jem Cohen will show short works and excerpts from over 2 decades of shooting on the street. As this is the last week for public comment on the newly revised city regulations governing street photography and filmmaking, he will also lead a forum on what’s right, and what’s seriously wrong, with the rules. Information will be available on how to make your own official input to The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting.Cohen’s tour of his working life making unconventional street docu...