It’s oddly fitting that the touring, Los Angeles-based Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation went on hiatus during the dog days of the pandemic.
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Embracing analog
If you’re looking to fall in love with film and its potential to inspire, look no further than Celluloid Now.
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The 17th annual porn film festival is back in person
The long-running porn festival HUMP! Fest (organized by Chicago Reader sex columnist Dan Savage) made its way to the Music Box last weekend after being canceled last year.
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Rock Bottom Riser
The film is a powerful exposé about how science is a tool of colonization, desecrating sacred lands, and marginalizing native Hawaiians.
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The banal, the brutal, and the beautiful
Expanding creatively when society was intentionally isolating itself marks a bold progression for the artists, whose work is widely regarded for its taut intimacy.
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A celebration of Black filmmakers at Block Cinema
[The program] engages what it means to be a Black body . . . in ways both nimbly tactile and equivocally abstruse as only art can be, specifically vis-à-vis experimental film and video.
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‘Ism, Ism, Ism’ provides glimpses into overlooked worlds
The sprawling program features rarely viewed experimental films from Latin America.
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Ecstasy on film: Nathaniel Dorsky discusses The Arboretum Cycle, his latest work of devotional cinema, which he’d prefer you watch alone
The 75-year-old avant-garde filmmaker will attend the Chicago premiere of his most recent long-form work this Friday at Northwestern University’s Block Cinema.
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: Gold and copper miners tough it out in Good Luck
Ben Russell’s epic portrait of the global labor force screens in this year’s Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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Lewis Klahr’s Sixty Six is a masterful journey through inner space and the American past
The noted collage artist’s latest feature screens this Friday at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center.
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Cabaret Crusades re-creates the 11th-century war against Islam—with puppets!
Wael Shawky directed this experimental trilogy about the European campaign to save Christianity.
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Our guide to the Chicago Underground Film Festival 2015
More than a hundred shorts and features screen through Sunday at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
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Venerated avant-garde filmmaker Saul Levine makes a rare Chicago appearance tomorrow
This week also brings an exciting program of new experimental videos by local artists Kaycee Conaway and Molly Hewitt.
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A wisecracking, bank-robbing filmmaker needs your help
Tomorrow night the Nightingale hosts a screening to benefit recently incarcerated avant-garde filmmaker Joe Gibbons
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This week in experimental cinema: John Smith in person, dance films at the MCA, and more
The city is full of avant-garde film screenings over the next six days.