ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES, produced by UnionDocs and hosted by Cíntia Gil, is a monthly series of longform interviews with the most poetic and powerful filmmakers exploring documentary art today. It is also an online cineclub, a braintrust of folks from all around the world, who gather regularly to thoughtfully consider these challenging works and generate brave questions and candid responses that fuel the dialogue. Join us to WATCH urgent and expressive films, DISCUSS new contexts, voices, visions, and ideas across many differences, and LISTEN to open and honest conversations with the artists.
Artistic Differences
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ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES, produced by UnionDocs and hosted by Cíntia Gil, is a monthly series of longform interviews with the most poetic and powerful filmmakers exploring documentary art today. It is also an online cineclub, a braintrust of folks from all around the world, who gather regularly to thoughtfully consider these challenging works and generate brave questions and candid responses that fuel the dialogue. Join us to WATCH urgent and expressive films, DISCUSS new contexts, voices, visions, and ideas across many differences, and LISTEN to open and honest conversations with the artists.
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November 1, 2025
Artistic Differences invites Dane Komljen
<p>Artistic Differences returns with a conversation featuring filmmaker Dane Komljen, whose latest film The Garden Cadences continues his poetic exploration of collectivity, intimacy, and impermanence. Hosts Cíntia Gil and Christopher Allen reflect with Komljen on a work that unfolds between reality and reverie — an evocation of a Berlin garden where friendship, love, and artistic labor entwine against the backdrop of a disappearing communal space.</p><p>Komljen shares the film’s origins in the city’s transient communities and its quiet attention to care, routine, and coexistence. The discussion moves fluidly between the philosophical and the personal, touching on ideas of paradise and exile, the fragility of utopian spaces, and the bittersweet beauty of endings. He speaks about the film’s haunting voiceovers — one drawn from a friend’s poem, another from his own WhatsApp messages written in a moment of heartbreak, revealing how private language and loss become collective expressions within the film’s delicate structure.</p><p>Throughout, the hosts and filmmaker consider the relationship between continuity and rupture, between tenderness and distance, and how a garden can hold the traces of both. As Komljen notes, recording his own voice became a way to "be there in the film, you know, to inscribe myself.”Listen in for a gentle yet piercing exchange on the politics of care, the poetics of community, and the quiet persistence of beauty in a world of endings.And don’t forget! You can watch The Garden Cadences too! It’s now streaming on the UnionDocs Membership.Big thanks to our incredible team:</p><p>Editor: Alison Rodgers</p><p>Mixer: Pedro Castro </p><p>Music: Andres Simoes </p><p>Production Support: Tara Aliya Kesavan, A.S.M Kobayashi </p><p>This is a production of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES is co-curated and co-organized by Cíntia Gil, Christopher Allen & Jenny Miller.</p>
August 29, 2025
Artistic Differences Invites María Aparicio
<p>In this month’s episode of Artistic Differences, hosts Cíntia Gil and Christopher Allen speak with Argentine filmmaker Maria Aparicio about her stunning third feature, Undefined Things, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best Latin American Film.</p><p>A delicate meditation on cinema, memory, and mourning, the film follows Eva, a film editor in Córdoba. Eva is working with her assistant on a documentary about people living with blindness, while also grappling with the recent death of Juan, a filmmaker friend whose films she once edited. Her days are divided between sorting through fragments of Juan’s unfinished images and the more immediate task of shaping a project with her assistant, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary and asking what it means to carry the work of others forward.</p><p>Blindness, both literal and metaphorical, emerges as a central thread. Eva’s encounters with the blind people she meets reshape how the film listens, looks, and attends to the everyday. The vivid conversations they have form a counterpoint to Eva’s solitary editing, suggesting another way of perceiving the world. “I sometimes think that cinema is very connected to faith,” Aparicio reflects, “like believing in something.” In Undefined Things, blindness is not a limit, but an opening—a reminder that there are forms of experience and knowledge that exceed what is visible.</p><p>Aparicio turns to Borges, whose writings on blindness open a way of thinking about cinema not as pure vision, but as a medium of transformation and relation. She reflects on the practical conditions of making films in Argentina — from the support of public film funds to the constant challenges of sustaining independent cinema. She also tells us about the more intimate forces that shape her work: friendship, teaching, collaboration, and the necessity of love and play. Taken all together, she threads a vision of cinema as both fragile and inexhaustible, a space where blindness, doubt, and wonder can coexist, and where images continue to create bonds between people.Big thanks to our incredible team:</p><p>Editor: Alison RodgersMixer: Pedro Castro </p><p>Music: Andres Simoes </p><p>Production Support: Tara Aliya Kesavan, A.S.M Kobayashi </p><p>This is a production of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES is co-curated and co-organized by Cíntia Gil, Christopher Allen & Jenny Miller.</p>
June 20, 2025
Artistic Differences Invites Masha Chernaya
Filmmaker Masha Chernaya discusses her award-winning debut feature, *The Shards*, with hosts Cíntia Gil and Christopher Allen, exploring themes of loss, memory, and creative process within the context of contemporary Russia in this interview.
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