Upcoming screenings of Chicago and the Universe -

Sunday December 7, program presented by the Invisible Film Festival series, The Nordic Pavilion studios, Vienna, Austria.

Thursday December 11, Aula screening hall, KHM (Academy for Media Arts) Cologne, Germany, 4:00 pm

Sunday December 14, Tät gallery, Berlin, Germany, 6:00 pm

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This program collects a range of outstanding film & video pieces made by Chicago artists in 2008, in order to take the pulse of current moods and attitudes about moving image work in Chicago. All operating in the mode of personal, artistic and non-commercial cinema, the ten shorts in this program include examples of animation, experimental narrative, science fiction, political, psychedelic and found footage work by young Chicago artists.

Films in program:
Animated GIF of the Day Compilation, Pizza Dog, 3:30
A year's worth of daily animations have been compiled into this assault on logic. Music by Elisa Harkins aka BFF.
www.pizzadog.org

Yard Work is Hard Work, Jodie Mack, 3:30
Eponymous excerpt from this "animation and musical that wants to be a romantic comedy." (JM)

Self-Control, Latham Zearfoss, 14:00
Examines trust, community, subjectivity and queer identity through cakes, blood, and 80's pop songstress Laura Branigan. (LZ)
www.lathamzearfoss.com

Morton Salt Factory, Tim Ridlen, 5:30
Performative video art transformed into an eerie cinematic moment

No Man’s Land, Chelsea Tonelli Knight, 10:00
A physical journey and its ensuing isolation are told in fragments by two female narrators. (CK)
www.chelseaknight.com/

Man’s Hands, Christopher Santiago, 4:00
A collection of assembly shots from miscellaneous episodes of the A-Team. The anticipation builds. What will happen?

Buoy Boy, Jesse McManus, 2:00
A hand-drawn stream-of-consciousness journey into plastic potentiality.
www.panpipes.blogspot.com/

Night Walks, George Monteleone, 2:30
A somnambulent, nocturnal landscape is conjured on 16mm through multiple-exposures and single-framing.
www.georgemonteleone.com

Black Iron Vatican, Andy Roche, 10:00
The story of elderly activist nuns arrested for attacking a nuclear facility allows for ruminations on a personal heritage of social and political protest through a radical psychedelic subjectivity.

The Universe and Young Pilot Nelson, Jerzy Rose, 13:30
A lovesick pilot in the 1930s confronts his monochromatic dream lady. Assumptions are made. Hearts are broken. (JR)
www.tarwathie.com

All Through The Night, Michael Robinson, 4:30.
A charred visitation with an icy language of control; there is no room for love. (MR)
www.poisonberries.net