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Posted inBlogs

Chicago Underground Film Festival at 25: A look back

by Patrick Friel June 4, 2018August 18, 2021

As the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival approaches, here are ten stand-out features from festivals past.

Posted inBlogs

You can now see Mimosas, the subject of a great making-of documentary

by Ben Sachs June 7, 2017August 18, 2021

Oliver Laxe’s Islamic western plays at Facets Multimedia for two more nights.

Posted inArts & Culture

Ben Rivers’s dystopian films light up the Renaissance Society

by Sara Cohen October 19, 2016August 18, 2021

The British artist’s first U.S. solo exhibition imagines a postapocalyptic future through the lens of a disturbing present.

Posted inArts & Culture

The ten best bets for fall visual arts

by Tal Rosenberg and Sara Cohen September 2, 2016August 18, 2021

Expo Chicago, “Tattoo” at the Field Museum, and more

Posted inFilm

What to see at the Chicago Underground Film Festival

by Chicago Reader June 2, 2016August 18, 2021

More than 100 new films screen through Sunday at the Logan Theatre.

Posted inFilm

Our guide to the Chicago Underground Film Festival 2015

by Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs May 13, 2015August 18, 2021

More than a hundred shorts and features screen through Sunday at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida
Posted inFilm

Our guide to the European Union Film Festival at Gene Siskel Film Center

by Chicago Reader March 5, 2014August 18, 2021

More than 60 new features make their Chicago premieres through March at the European Union Film Festival.

Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
Posted inFilm

At the 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, every picture tells a story

by Ben Sachs September 4, 2013August 19, 2021

The 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival shows the overlap between narrative and avant-garde cinema.

Posted inBlogs

My favorite films of 2012

by Drew Hunt December 27, 2012August 19, 2021

Top Ten Films of 2012

Posted inBlogs

This week in tactile cinema: Miyazaki, Gitlin, Rivers

by Ben Sachs June 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Looking at two exceptionally well-photographed shorts in this year’s Onion City Film Festival

Lewis Klahr's The Pettifogger is a collage animation about culture and memory
Posted inFilm

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

by Ben Sachs June 20, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago Filmmakers presents the 24th Onion City experimental festival

The wild video art of Lindsay Denniberg's Video Diary of a Lost Girl
Posted inFilm

Our guide to the Chicago Underground Film Festival

by Chicago Reader May 30, 2012August 19, 2021

The 19th Chicago Underground Film Festival at Gene Siskel Film Center

Posted inBlogs

Thoughts on Cinema Scope’s “Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50” list

by Drew Hunt May 29, 2012August 19, 2021

I finally had a chance to sit down with Cinema Scope magazine’s 50th issue

Posted inBlogs

CUFF announces prize winners

by J.R. Jones June 7, 2011August 19, 2021

The judges of the Chicago Underground Film Festival have spoken.

Traffic Patterns
Posted inFilm

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

by Fred Camper June 17, 2010August 19, 2021

Selected works from the festival’s nine programs

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