Artistic Differences

Artistic Differences

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.

Episodes

June 20, 2025 70 mins

Artistic Differences returns with an introspective and resonant conversation featuring filmmaker Masha Chernaya focusing on her daring debut feature, The Shards, which was the winner of the Doclisboa Film Festival's International Competition and the recipient of the Doc Alliance Award for Best Feature Film.  This prestigious award was just announced at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where the jury praised the film “for...

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Artistic Differences returns with an atmospheric conversation with filmmaker Tyler Taormina (Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Ham on Rye)! Hosts Cíntia Gil and Christopher Allen sit down with Taormina to discuss his haunting second feature, Happer’s Comet, a film that explores the emotional architecture of suburbia and the strange nocturnal magic of the eventide hours.

The discussion weaves through memory, midnight wanderings, and t...

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Artistic Differences  returns with a revelatory conversation with filmmaker Trương Minh Quý, whose work reshapes our understanding of memory, history, and exile. In this latest episode, our hosts Cintia Gil and Christopher Allen sit down with Quý to explore his radical approach to storytelling—one that collapses time, unsettles the distinction between reality and imagination, and challenges who gets to author history.

For Quý, home ...

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November 8, 2024 65 mins

In our third episode, Artistic Differences has invited Dora García to speak about her formidable film Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something) which traces the contemporary resonances of the rich feminist legacy of Alexandra Kollontai, a prominent Marxist theorist, Soviet revolutionary, radical feminist, and sex activist that Garcia calls,“the holy patron of dissident sexuality”. García collaborates with r artist La B...

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September 19, 2024 67 mins
ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES invites legendary Chilean filmmaker Ignacio Agüero to engage in questions and provocations inspired by our cineclub and articulated by programmer Cintia Gil and UnionDocs Founder, Christopher Allen. In this episode, learn more about Agüero’s unflinching and empathetic mode of filmmaking, one that never shies from strong political stakes. Tune in as we consider his latest feature Notas para una película (Notes ...
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September 13, 2024 71 mins

In our second episode, Artistic Differences has invited Declan Clarke to speak about his radically minimalistic and melancholic form of filmmaking that opens a maximal poetic potential for representing histories economic, political, ideological, affective and material. 

Our hosts, Cíntia Gil (Independent Programmer) and Christopher Allen (UnionDocs Founder), together with those who joined our monthly cineclub, surfaced questions abo...

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