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THE FIRST LOWERING (shorts program) - Chicago Underground Film Festival
MAXIMIZING THE FLAT PLANE
James Magrini
Experimental Video 2:30 2007 World Premiere
Wee, it is a film zat eez hand painted and scratched, it ezz about, how you say? de abstraction, colour, and de music. James Magrini
INVISIBLE CITY
Jack Cronin
Experimental Video 11:00 2006 Chicago Premiere
INVISIBLE CITY was filmed in Detroit over the course of three years. Inspired by Italo Calvino's Le citt invisibili, in which the Italian author suggests that what constitutes a city is not so much its physical structure but the impression it makes upon its visitors. The film is loosely organized into four segments representing spring, summer, fall, and winter. Jack Cronin
OF KIN AND KIND
Iris Shim
Documentary Video 24:00 2007 World Premiere
Evanston, September 25, 1993: Robert ODubaine is shot twice in his garage. Although the police initially assume mafia involvement, it quickly becomes apparent that the killing was masterminded by the victims fiance, Catherine Suh, and carried out by her 19-year old brother Andrew. OF KIN AND KIND uncovers the history behind these Korean-American siblings, Told mainly through Andrews voice, this film reveals the complex and tragic backstory of the Suh family, highlighting issues of traditional roles and values, the struggles of assimilation, and the ambiguous line separating obligation and choice.
SUNSET CODA
Kent Lambert
Experimental Video 3:30 2006
In 1984, I traveled with my family to my mother's birthplace of Chi Chi Jima. SUNSET CODA highlights an exchange between my brother, my mother and me involving US citizenship and World War III. The third part in a trilogy (of sorts) that also includes SECURITY ANTHEM and HYMN OF RECKONING. Kent Lambert
HELEN A/B + DAS MEER (Helen A/B + the Sea)
Sabine Marte
Experimental Video 12:00 2006 (Austria)
We see a couple: Accompanied by piano music, a womans voice (from a dubbed version of Antonionis IDENTIFICAZIONE DI UNA DONNA, 1983) declare from off-camera: You are my love, and a mans voice answers: Say it again. Irritations, blows and a yell are combined in a continuous repetition, while the couples faces show boredom, amusement and skepticism in the face of what is happening (on the soundtrack rather than in the picture), the subtext is again shifted to the level of the performative. Its equivalent is provided in the final scene: Two men unite in a dance-like movement that stems from action/reaction, pressure/counterpressure, and closeness/distance. The manginess and constant deceleration of the picture is underlined by a distorted performance of the spiritual Oh, When the Saints by Martes band Pendler. Both the scene and the song end before coming to a complete standstill. It could go on like this forever... - Claudia Slanar (Translation: Steve Wilder)
731: TWO VERSIONS OF HELL
James T. Hong
Documentary Video 28:00 2007 Chicago Premiere
731: TWO VERSIONS OF HELL is both a documentary about Japan's World War II biological weapon's plan
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1355 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60622
United States
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