NR • 1 hour 41 min • 2009
Author Archives: Fred Camper
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Selected works from the festival’s nine programs
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Chicago Palestine Film Festival
Through Thursday, April 29, at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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Rachel
In 2003 the young American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to halt the destruction of Arab homes in Gaza. This video by Simone Bitton begins with isolated details, slowly but effectively building to a broader view of the circumstances surrounding this event—602 homes bulldozed in 2003—until, about halfway through, […]
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The Feature
Narcissism runs amok in this sprawling fictionalized autobiography-cum-home movie by filmmaker and video artist Michel Auder. It shows his life across four decades, through marriages to Warhol actress Viva and art star Cindy Sherman, but there are far too many shots of his young daughter and his own face. What we see of Auder’s life […]
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Films by Adele Friedman
For more than three decades Chicago filmmaker Adele Friedman has been forging and refining an original vision with her silent portraits, in which wide-angle cinematography and obsessive panning spread out the spaces of apartments and gardens, creating a sensuous panorama of the ordinary. Though these techniques tend to give all background details equal emphasis, they […]
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Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
The preeminent American architect at the turn of the 20th century, Daniel Burnham created hundreds of major buildings with his partner, John Wellborn Root, and as a city planner he designed Baguio City in the Philippines and organized the 1909 Plan of Chicago that helped keep the lakefront accessible to all. This documentary by Judith […]