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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Announcing the 2025 UNDO Fellows!
Announcing the incredible cohort of artists and writers selected for the 2025 UNDO Fellowship! We can’t wait to delve into the exciting and ambitious research these talented pairs are dreaming up. Take a peek into what’s in store!
Bo Wang with Rachael Rakes
Filmmaker Bo Wang and critic Rachael Rakes investigate spectrality as a material entity shaped in the present by memory, trauma, displacement, and extractions. Together, they seek to build from theory, history, and moving image’s foundational relation to hauntedness, they propose how today's speculative documentary practice might have a unique capacity to render ghosts. More broadly, their investigation attends to land as time and space, material as animated, and ancestral relations as multiple spectral forms. From the phantasmatic figure populating Hong Kong’s hyper-capitalist and ephemeral urbanscapes in Wang’s work, to the persistent specter of Cold War-era policies, the ghost, in its temporal and spatial purgatories-reveals frameworks in the present that will haunt humanity until they are resolved.
Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, with Aruna D’Souza
Filmmakers Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, and critic Aruna D’Souza consider diaspora as a political possibility and productive model for unraveling and reconstituting the world. In the face of ongoing displacement and unprecedented scale of forced migration, they explore the aesthetic and narrative possibilities of movement and “unplacement” as an untethering from the political formations of the nation-state. Is it possible, materially and imaginatively, to harness such diasporic movement as a form of resistance?
Travis Wilkerson with Victor Guimarães
Nearly sixty years after Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino issued the call for a Third Cinema-a militant, revolutionary, anti-imperial, and internationalist intervention-critic Victor Guimarães and filmmaker Travis Wilkerson take up its unfinished, unfulfilled project to ask where its emerging forms might still be glimpsed. Their collaborative research takes them to Cuba, Mexico, Croatia, the Philippines, Cameroon and beyond, to seek out the legacies and active practitioners of a Third Cinema redefined by the technologies, means of production, and modes of distribution scaled to meet the urgent and ongoing political struggles of today.
Courtney Stephens with Julia Gunnison
In their collective reflection, filmmaker Courtney Stephens and film critic Julia Gunnison ask the question: How can nonfiction media contend with fantastical elements of the real? Rooted in Stephens’s ongoing exploration of geographic longing, private meaning, nationhood, and collage and hybrid forms, their research peers through the scrim of the failed dream of American progress and its attendant destabilization and media-produced fantasies, in search of a way forward. Considering long-standing insecurities, and assumptions, about documentary’s evidentiary status, they explore how the form interrogates, subverts, or succumbs to collective fantasies, and how alternative modes of documentary can confront beguiling mediations to engage with the instability of the now.
The UNDO Fellowship came into being in 2019 with funding generously provided by JustFilms | Ford Foundation with the goal of expanding radical filmmaking practices and researching new languages of documentary cinema. With this third iteration, we’re delighted to support this dynamic cohort of artists and writers to nurture an immersive, collaborative process of research, writing and dialogue that deeply explores the essential questions at the heart of each artist’s practice! Additional funding has been provided by Google’s Artists & Machine Intelligence. Tremendous gratitude to our partners EMPAC and DocLisboa.
