The UNDO Fellowship
The UNDO FELLOWSHIP is an initiative by UnionDocs: A Center for Documentary Art to expand radical filmmaking practices and research new languages of documentary cinema. The 2025 fellowship recipients are:
Aruna D’Souza is a writer and critic based in New York City. Her work focuses on artists of the global majority and on art whose intersecting aesthetic and political possibilities allow us to imagine new, more just, more kind forms of life. Her book, Imperfect Solidarities, was published in July 2024 by Floating Opera Press. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board. D’Souza is a regular contributor to the New York Times.
Film critic, programmer, and professor Victor Guimarães’s work has appeared in publications such as Cinética, Con Los Ojos Abiertos, Senses of Cinema, Desistfilm, Documentary Magazine, and Cahiers du Cinéma, as well as several books and festival catalogues. He is a programmer at FICValdivia (Chile) and the artistic director of FENDA – Experimental Festival of Film Arts (Brazil). Guimarães has curated programs for spaces in Barcelona, London, Berlin, Bogotá, Concepción, and Nantes, among others.
Julia Gunnison is a writer, editor, and arts administrator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Reverse Shot, Screen Slate, and Bright Wall/Dark Room, and her interests include nonfiction film forms and cinematic interpretations of urban space. She is the co-founder and editor of Syllabus, a weekly publication for nontraditional syllabi. Julia is currently the Artist Initiatives Manager at Creative Capital.
Lover’s Wind (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko) have worked in collaboration since 2013. Their shared practice explores the interplay of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures. Foregrounding the idea of place as a central focus, their work seeks to both decode their surroundings and trouble the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery. Shifting between both gallery and cinema contexts, recent projects have been presented internationally.
Rachael Rakes is a writer, curator, educator, and researcher. She was Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023) and is a Committee Member of the New York Film Festival, an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and a Contributing Editor for INFRASONICA. With Laura Huertas Millán and Onyeka Igwe, she organizes the artistic research initiative on co-subjective encounters, Counter-Encounters. Rakes is editor of the publications This, Too, Is a Map (2023, Sema/[NAME]), among others, and frequently publishes as a critic and essayist.
Courtney Stephens is a writer/director. Her work has explored historical geographies, the public unconscious, and the texture of women’s lives. The American Sector, her documentary (co-directed with Pacho Velez) about fragments of the Berlin Wall transplanted to the US, was named one of the best films of 2021 in The New Yorker. Her essay film, Terra Femme, comprised of amateur travel footage shot by women in the early-twentieth century, premiered at The Museum of Modern Art, and has toured internationally. Invention, a work of experimental fiction, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2024.
Bo Wang is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Garage Museum, CPH:DOX, IFFR, Visions du Réel, LUX, Open City Documentary Festival, Courtisane, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Sonic Acts, Eye Filmmuseum, Sesc_Videobrasil, Sharjah Film Platform, among others. He is a recipient of major international awards, including New:Vision at CPH:DOX, Golden Dove at DOKLeipzig, O.F.F. Prize at Sesc_Videobrasil, Best Doc Short at Sharjah Film Platform, etc. He is a 2025 PhD candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam.
A chance meeting in Havana with the legendary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez changed the course of Travis Wilkerson‘s life. Wilkerson’s internationally recognized filmmaking crosses boundaries with documentary and fiction, performance, and activism. At the epicenter of his work is the ongoing search for aesthetic eloquence and political engagement, produced with a modesty of material resources as self-sufficiently as possible. In 2015, Sight & Sound called Wilkerson “the political conscience of American cinema.” Notable films include Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017) and An Injury to One (2002).
