Union Cinema

2 x 16mm projection, filmmaker present "Stubbornly looking at the ruins of a commune we search for auguries. For instance: ‘Fair weather for drifters. We wander by foot across times, erratically shooting images and recording sounds through the kaleidoscopic spatiality... Read More

December 1969, Thelonious Monk arrives in Paris. Before his evening concert, he records a program for French television. The rushes that have been preserved show us a Thelonious Monk who is rare, close, and in the grip of the violent... Read More

Programmed by Jesse Malmed / on 16mm! Let's start with some big pronouncements: before film wasn't film it was film and film was a lot of things, like light, like sound, like projection psychological and literal, like plastic, like ribbon.... Read More

On 35mm! In the waning days of second-wave feminism and its anti-pornography discourse, Bette Gordon directed her second feature, about a young woman, Christine, who takes a job as a ticket taker at a Times Square porno theater. There she... Read More

New 4K Restoration! A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured... Read More