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Tag: Lewis Klahr
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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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This week’s movies, narrative and abstract
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 6 and 12.
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At the 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, every picture tells a story
The 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival shows the overlap between narrative and avant-garde cinema.
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Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you’ll spend at the movies this weekend
A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale’s Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Chicago Filmmakers presents the 24th Onion City experimental festival
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: start peeling
Presented by Chicago Filmmakers, the 23rd Onion City festival runs Thu-Sun 6/23-6/26. Following are selected works from the opening-night program (Thu 6/23, 8 PM) at Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, and the nine subsequent programs (showtimes below) at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark. For more information call 773-293-1447; a complete schedule is available […]
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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.