Five days’ worth of features and short subjects screen in the festival’s 24th edition.
Tag: Jim Trainor
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Culture Vultures: Writer Austin Gilkeson recommends Roxane Gay’s Ayiti
Chicagoans recommend Roxane Gay’s Ayiti, comics confab Brain Frame, and T-shirts from Skim Milk.
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Laughing about Crimes Against Humanity with director Jerzy Rose
An interview with the local experimental filmmaker about his latest movie, screening three times this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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Doc Films kicks off its summer season tomorrow
Previewing the Doc Films program through the end of August
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Thank you, Foster Hirsch
What I gained from attending this year’s Noir City series at the Music Box Theatre
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Creation, Destruction, Chaos
Animators take on primal themes in “Creation, Destruction, Chaos,” a free screening Saturday 3/20 at High Concept Laboratories.
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Chi(a)nimation All-Stars
“Mustachioed perverts in a spaceship fire upon a deformed, nude woman daily” in Lale Westvind’s “Flesh Gun,” screening in Chi(a)nimation All-Stars Sunday at Nightingale.
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Rated X-Perimental
In this week’s issue Fred Camper weighs in on the 21st Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, which kicks off Tuesday, June 16, at the Gene Siskel Film Center and continues through Saturday, June 20, with programs at Chicago Filmmakers and Nightingale. Among the dozens of short films and videos screening are new works […]
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Rated X-perimental
New works by Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Jim Trainor, and others at the 21st Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. Also this week: the Dave Eggers-scripted “Away We Go,” the eye-opening documentary “Afghan Star,” and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.