Union Docs

My dear friend Josh (of birthday greeting fame) is a collaborative participant of Union Docs, a very cool Williamsburg-based non-profit organization presenting "a broad range of innovative and thought-provoking non-fiction projects to the general public, while also cultivating specialized opportunities for learning, critical discourse, and creative collaboration for emerging media-makers, theorists, and curators." They've sort of evolved into an alternative MFA program for experimental collaborative documentarists. It was my pleasure to see their sold-out (but not sellout) Inductive Thread presentation as part of MoMA's Documentary Fortnight last night.

The evening fell into two parts, divided by a subtle plea for funding. The first half was a performative documentary on their collective, littered with inventive shorts. The second half wove short films created in teams, brief conversation between the filmmakers and audio recordings on the theme of mythologies, in reference to the classic Roland Barthes text. There was also a Q&A I mostly missed.

And it was awesome. Props, Josh.