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Home » experimental cinema

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Posted inBlogs

With Untitled (Just Kidding) local artist Jesse Malmed lets you in on the joke of language

by Ben Sachs April 10, 2017August 18, 2021

Malmed’s program of experimental videos screens at the Museum of Contemporary Art this Tuesday at 6 PM.

Posted inBlogs

Why is it easier to see a movie about James Broughton than movies by James Broughton?

by Ben Sachs May 19, 2014August 18, 2021

The new documentary Big Joy draws attention to a chronic failure of U.S. movie culture.

What I Love About Concrete
Posted inFilm

Underground film goes aboveground with What I Love About Concrete

by J.R. Jones April 1, 2014August 18, 2021

The Chicago Underground Film Festival opens with What I Love About Concrete, a high school fantasy grounded in Memphis.

Posted inBlogs

The ‘Scope of Fleischer’s vision, and the rest of this week’s movies

by Ben Sachs August 23, 2013August 19, 2021

A preview of new and notable films playing in Chicago from August 23 to 29

Posted inBlogs

Meet some cool cats of avant-garde cinema this Friday and Saturday

by Ben Sachs July 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Previewing a program of cat-related experimental shorts playing on Friday and Saturday

Posted inBlogs

Do the Strand—Chick Strand, that is

by Ben Sachs November 15, 2012August 19, 2021

Previewing a program of works by the great experimental filmmaker Chick Strand at Doc Films

Posted inBlogs

Apichatpong Weerasethakul spreads his Ashes

by Ben Sachs June 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Spreading the word about the Thai filmmaker’s latest short, which is streaming for free online

Posted inBlogs

RIP Amos Vogel

by Ben Sachs April 25, 2012August 19, 2021

On the passing of the great film theorist and programmer

Posted inBlogs

Markopoulos Unbound

by J.R. Jones November 3, 2011August 19, 2021

Gene Siskel Film Center presents a rare screening of the second segment from Gregory Markopoulos’s avant-garde cycle Eniaios.

Posted inBlogs

WHPK’s Pictures and Sounds Gets Noisy

by Peter Margasak February 19, 2010August 19, 2021

This year’s installment of WHPK’s Pictures and Sound, which pairs film and video with live music, pushes hard into experimental territory.

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