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Blogs
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Bleader
Mar 26, 2015
Video
Implodes haunt the Music Box in a video from the new EP
Reverser
To make the shadowy video for Implodes' "Out of Reach," Chicago filmmaker Lori Felker shot in the theater on expired stock.
By Philip Montoro
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12 O'Clock Track
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Music
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12 O'Clock Track
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Implodes
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Reverser
,
Recurring Dream
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Out of Reach
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Music Box
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Lori Felker
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Gilead Media
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Justin Rathell
,
Emily Elhaj
,
Matt Jencik
,
Ken Camden
,
Video
Music
,
Gossip Wolf
Jun 18, 2014
Gossip Wolf: Anatomy of Habit signs to Relapse
Plus: A mixed-media mixer from the Chicago Film Archives and a history lesson on house at Northwestern
By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Tags:
Gossip Wolf
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Anatomy of Habit
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Indian
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Tortoise
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Bloodyminded
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Joan of Arc
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shoegaze
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Relapse Records
,
Mark Solotroff
,
Pieter Schoolwerth
,
The Limits of a Sequence
,
Chicago Film Archives
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Hideout
,
Latham Zearfoss
,
Bastardgeist
,
Darling Shear
,
Lori Felker
,
Cheer-Acc
,
Deborah Stratman
,
Olivia Block
,
Arcade Fire
,
Pitchfork
,
Dusty Groove
,
WBEZ
,
Tony Sarabia
,
Northwestern's Dittmar Memorial Gallery
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The Beat Goes On: The Evolution of House Music in Chicago
,
Frankie Knuckles
,
House Music in the Continuum of African American Music Forms
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 25, 2014
It's a big month for Chicago microcinemas
Previewing upcoming film-related events at Noble Square's Nightingale and at the Chicago Home Theater Festival
By Ben Sachs
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Arts
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Neighborhoods
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Film
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Chicago Home Theater Festival
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Nightingale Cinema
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Lori Felker
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Scott Stark
,
Tim Kinsella
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Felicia Mings
,
Jason Ogawa
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microcinema
,
Michael Paul Lopez
,
Persistence of Motion
Blogs
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Bleader
Dec 4, 2013
This week in Claire Denis: A correspondence with Melika Bass and Lori Felker about
The Intruder
and
Bastards
A discussion about the groundbreaking French director's formal strategies with two artists who have worked in film
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Art House
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Foreign
,
Film
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Claire Denis
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The Intruder
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Bastards
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William Faulkner
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Sanctuary
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Melika Bass
,
Lori Felker
,
Agnes Godard
,
digital video
,
French cinema
,
Vincent Lindon
,
Michel Subor
Blogs
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Bleader
Jul 12, 2013
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
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Opening
,
Humor
,
Film
,
Jerzy Rose
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Crimes Against Humanity
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Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Some Girls Never Learn
,
J.B. Mabe
,
Adebukola Bodunrin
,
Jesse McLean
,
Lori Felker
,
Jim Trainor
,
Chris Sullivan
,
Lyra Hill
,
Mike Lopez
,
Luis Bunuel
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Chicago films
,
detective movies
,
experimental film
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 30, 2013
Check out artist Michael Robinson's "Video Playlist" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Previewing an experimental film and video program at the Columbia College-affilated museum
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Do This
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On Video
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Arts
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Michael Robinson
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Short Circuit Sparks
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Video Playlist
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Museum of Contemporary Photography
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Columbia College
,
experimental film
,
video art
,
Carrie Secrist Gallery
,
Lori Felker
,
Miranda July
,
Shana Moulton
,
Lynda Benglis
,
Laida Lertxundi
Blogs
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Bleader
Jan 27, 2013
Reader
's Agenda Sun 1/27: Ital, Music-About-Film & Film-About-Music Show, and No Bees for Bridgeport
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Sunday, January 27, 2013.
By Janey Lee
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Do This
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Arts
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Empty Bottle
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dance
,
music
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Daniel Martin-McCormick
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Ital
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Dream On
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Chrissy Murderbot
,
Hieroglyphic Being
,
film
,
Music-About-Film & Film-About-Music Show
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Hopscotch Cinema
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cellist
,
Tatsu Aoki
,
Lori Felker
,
film-critic band
,
Farewell Scarlet
,
beehive
,
Kestutis Nakas
,
Bridgeport
,
monologue
,
No Bees for Bridgeport
Blogs
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Bleader
Sep 19, 2012
To play's the thing: talking about experimental filmmaker Robert Nelson
A conversation about the late film artist with Lori Felker, who helped organize two upcoming programs of his work
By Ben Sachs
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Arts
,
Film
,
Robert Nelson
,
experimental film
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Gene Siskel Film Center
,
Lori Felker
,
Mark Toscano
,
Academy Film Archive
,
Oh Dem Watermelons
,
Bleu Shut
,
Hauling Toto Big
Film
,
Movie Sidebar
Jun 20, 2012
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Rediscovering history is a recurrent theme of Chicago Filmmakers' 24th annual avant-garde celebration
By Ben Sachs
Tags:
Movie Sidebar
,
Patrick Friel
,
Onion City Experimental FIlm and Video Festival
,
Seeking the Monkey King
,
Ken Jacobs
,
J.G. Thirwell
,
Ben Rivers
,
Sack Barrow
,
Matt McCormick
,
Future So Bright
,
Lewis Klahr
,
The Pettifogger
,
collage animation
,
Bobby Abate
,
A Party Record Packed With Sex and Sadness
,
Shana Moulton
,
Decorations of the Mind
,
Joshua Thorson
,
Horizon
,
John Torres
,
Mapang-Akit
,
Across & Down
,
Lori Felker
,
Jake Barningham
,
JB Mabe
,
The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important
,
Barry Doupé
Blogs
,
Bleader
Aug 5, 2010
Video
I'll Spare You the Paul Simon Reference
Shorts from a host of local filmmakers commissioned by Chicago FIlmmakers and Kodak screen Friday in Super-8 Rides Again!
By Ed M. Koziarski
Tags:
Film
,
Chicago Filmmakers
,
Kodak
,
Kodachrome
,
Ektachrome
,
Super 8
,
8mm
,
rides again
,
Amal Abusumayah
,
Usama Alshaibi
,
American
,
Arab
,
hijab
,
Muslim
,
Jake Barningham
,
Jeremy Bessoff
,
Kyle Canterbury
,
Tom Comerford
,
Carolyn Faber
,
Lori Felker
,
Scott Foley
,
James Fotopoulos
,
Jason Halprin
,
Karen Johannesen
,
Alex Lake
,
JB Mabe
,
Jesse McLean
,
Luis Sanchez Ramirez
,
Kate Raney
,
Tom Palazzolo
,
Ines Sommer
,
Bill Stamets
,
Chi Jang Yin
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 3, 2009
Video
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.
By Ed M. Koziarski
Tags:
Film
,
Nightingale
,
School of the Art Institute
,
Jim Trainor
,
Jodie Mack
,
Chi(a)nimation All-Stars
,
Leafy Leafy Jungle
,
Lale Westvind
,
Flesh Gun
,
Gonzalo Escobar
,
Strategies of Trust
,
Basia Goszcynska
,
Land Escape
,
Clara Kim
,
Doppleganger
,
The realTime and Life of John James Audubon
,
Emily Kuhn
,
Lori Felker
,
Zwischen
,
Jared Larson
,
Abnliumearteidon
,
Ernest Kim
,
Oh, My Captain!
,
Carolina Gonzalez Valencia
,
a-part from The Story
,
Matt Marsden
,
Boxcartoon
,
Video
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