05/28/2026
SAT, JUN 13! Save the date!
✨ Screening under the stars at Starr Playground on Onderdonk Ave
We’re back with our annual PREVIEW IN THE PARK, debuting a new collection of 7 short documentaries made by the talented artists of the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio (CoLAB).
This year’s films emerge from a shared research focus on sanitation, waste streams, discard culture, labor, and the hidden infrastructures that move material through and out of New York City every day.
Rooted on the border of Ridgewood and Bushwick, we’ve become increasingly aware of our proximity to sanitation garages, scrap yards, transfer stations, and industrial routes that are often overlooked but quietly shape the rhythms of the city at large. This collection brings those spaces, systems, and forms of labor into focus.
From the workforces official and unofficial, like the 10,000+ New Yorkers who redeem recyclables for 5 cents on the can every day, to New York’s strongest, the city’s sanitation force, to the mussels in Newtown Creek filtering a century’s worth of pollution, these films trace the visible and invisible labor that sustains the city every day.
The collection also explores sites of disposal and exchange: illegal dumping grounds beneath the train tracks, weekly NYPD auction yards for seized vehicles, estate sales overflowing with formerly beloved and now unwanted objects, and the pathways that lead material toward reuse, abandonment, or the infamous garbage truck hopper.
Together, these films explore sanitation not only as disposal, but as an ongoing civic choreography that reflects our collective values: what gets kept, what gets discarded, who decides, who benefits or suffers, and who labors through these processes.
🚪 Doors at 7:30 PM
🎥 Films begin at sunset (~8:30 PM)
🕺🏾 Afterparty at UNDO with drinks, music, and celebration
Come through for a night of films, community, and conversation. Full lineup coming soon.
Free RSVP at the 🔗 in bio!
