This Friday at 8 PM Chicago Filmmakers and South Side Projections will copresent a program of cat-related short films in the parking lot of Filmmakers’ Andersonville location; it runs again on Saturday at 7:30 PM at Cafe 53rd (1359 E. 53rd St.). It contains work by two luminaries of avant-garde cinema, Stan Brakhage and Joyce Wieland, along with roughly a dozen other experimental pieces made between the 60s and the late 90s. Of course, the program only scratches the surface of cat-inspired cinema (which seems appropriate, as cats are notorious for scratching at things). One could easily create a whole series around feline-obsessed filmmakers; the subjects could include Stanley Kubrick (who kept dozens of cats in the room where he edited his films), Agnes Varda (who named her production company, CinĂ© Tamaris, after one of her kitties), Val Lewton (whose irrational fear of cats inspired one of the all-time great horror movies), and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (as Dave Kehr proclaimed his All About Eve “the catfight of the century”).