Online Experience
Thank you for joining our global audience online
The Flaherty was delighted to partner with UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art to present the Online Experience for the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar, To Commune. This year’s film programs were 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 launched concurrently with the Seminar in Thailand on June 27 with films becoming available online day by day as they were screened at the Thai Film Archive. For the Online Experience, we offered two live online synchronised programs, on June 27 and 30, exclusively for online participants to gather and discuss ideas and films. Online discussions were moderated by guest and fellow participants.
The complete program of films remained 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 cost $100 USD per person and remained open until July 21. Registration included both live events. In-person discussions held in Thailand were not streamed for the online program and some films were not available online due to permissions and streaming rights.
Live Online Programs
LiveStream: Online Exclusive Program 1 + Discussion
Thursday June 27
2–4:30 pm EST (New York) | 7–9:30 pm BST (London)
Log on to the UnionDocs Membership Channel and tune in for a synced viewing of an Online Exclusive Program 1, curated by the Thai Film Archives for the Flaherty Film Seminar, To Commune. Following the viewing, all participants are welcome to join our zoom space for moderated post-film discussions.
Join us on Zoom for our opening discussion exploring the film program as well as 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)
LiveStream: 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.