Onsite registration is sold out – join our global audience online!
The Flaherty is delighted to be partnering with UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art to present the Online Experience for the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar, To Commune. This year’s film programs will be hosted on the UnionDocs Membership Channel, available around the world to registered Online Experience and Onsite Seminar Participants from June 27 through July 21, 2024.
The Online Experience of To Commune will launch concurrently with the Seminar in Thailand on June 27 with films becoming available online day by day as they are screened at the Thai Film Archive. For the Online Experience, we’ll offer two live online synchronised programs, on June 27 and 30, exclusively for online participants to gather and discuss ideas and films. Online discussions will be moderated by guest and fellow participants.
The complete program of films will remain online and accessible until July 21 to registered participants all over the world, along with complementary materials offered by the artists and curators.
Registration for the Online Experience costs $100 USD per person and will remain open until July 21. Registration includes both live events. Please note that in-person discussions held in Thailand will not be streamed for the online program and some films may not be available online due to permissions and streaming rights.
Live Online Programs
Opening Discussion: To Commune, An Offering
Thursday June 27, 2–4 pm EST (New York) | 7–9 pm BST (London)
Join us on Zoom for our opening discussion exploring the theme of this year’s seminar in small discussion groups. We know how much each of you has to offer to our gathering. Our group is large and everyone has different ways to contribute.
In honoring that, we invite all participants to bring an offering – something to share at invited moments or at a time you choose in smaller groups or one-to-one conversations. The form of the offering – an object, a phrase, a song, a gesture or something else – is up to you.
The offering might take the form of something that:
invites sharing (even if the sharing consists of questions or ruminations rather than neatly a formed presentation)
resonates with the themes of our gathering (even mysteriously)
might be a seed for others (growing something within them)
Program 9 & Discussion
Sunday June 30, 9 am–12 pm EST (New York) 8–11 pm GMT (Bangkok)
Log on to the UnionDocs Membership Channel and tune in for a synced viewing of Program 9 of the Flaherty Film Seminar, To Commune. Following the viewing, all participants are welcome to join our zoom space for moderated post-film discussions.
Stay Tuned!
Soon we’ll be sharing some exciting opportunities to gather informally to watch Seminar programs together around the world. If one is happening in your region, you’ll can sign up to commune in person!