Rewind & Play
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❛o❛UnionDocs is headed outside for May and June to take advantage of one of our favorite city offerings: the ready-made cinemas of the handball courts in our public parks. It’s a long-standing UNDO tradition to project bold visions, reflections, and possibilities onto the walls of the city’s handball courts, transforming them into open-air theaters. This summer, we’re thrilled to continue that tradition with ReadyMade Cinemas, a slate of programs that are free and open to all.
For our first program of the season, we’re thinking about the ways music carries both personal and collective histories—how it holds space for grief, for joy, for transcendence. This program presents a spiritually resonant film that honors an artist who reimagined the possibilities of sound, and who challenged the structures—musical, social, and otherwise—that sought to contain him.
Rewind & Play by Alain Gomis excavates archival footage of Thelonious Monk in a 1969 French TV interview, laying bare the tensions between artistic brilliance and the violence of cultural misrecognition. Exposing the disconnect between Monk and his interviewer—whose patronizing tone and blinkered questions reveal the limiting frameworks through which Black musicians have so often been filtered. The film resists the polished veneer of legacy and offers instead a sharp, intimate portrait of a genius navigating an industry that too rarely met him on his own terms.
These film doesn't just revisit the past—it activate its, asking us to tune in more deeply to what’s been recorded, and what’s been left out. It reminds us that sound is a record of presence: of who was there, of what was felt, of what still echoes.
This event is free and open to all, inviting the UNDO community, our neighbors, passersby, film lovers, and anyone curious to join for a festive evening under the stars!
Films start at sundown, come through!
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