Hi All! Just wanted to let you know about a new screening series in Chicago starting next week!
Channels: A Quarterly Film Series presents avant-garde, experimental, expanded cinema, performance, experimental narrative, documentary, and video and new media art to Chicago. Curated by Erin Nixon & Josh B Mabe. Channels: A Quarterly Film Series (Fall 2017) 12/03/17, 6pm at Cinema Borealis (1550 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL) $7-10 admission includes both screenings. 6PM: Olivia Ciummo Missing In-Between the Physical Proper 2017, 6m, digital Missing In-Between the Physical Proper is a collage of sound and video that speaks to relations between the planet, death, and transformation. Re-photographed landscapes and text suggest ideas of commodification. -- Olivia Ciummo "A prismatic collection of re-photographed images––of deserts and oceans, plants and animals––are disrupted and transformed by an array of color filters, soft synth accompaniment, and familiarly boorish messages lifted from the online world." -- Chloe Lizotte, NYFF Tomonari Nishikawa Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon 2016, 10m, 16mm It displays bridges on Yahagi River, which runs near where I was grown up in Japan. I shot each bridge twice, first in the morning and second in the evening of the day. It was exposed one-sixth of the frame at a time and the result would show the sense of the sun rising or setting. -- Tomonari Nishikawa Jennifer Saparzadeh Nu Dem 2017, 10m, digital Nu Dem traces Europe's closed borders in the Spring of 2016, arriving at an informal settlement between Greece and Macedonia. There, people wait and try to move forward in anxious, stagnant flux- confronting the dissonance between a vision of freedom and the fact of its denial. -- Jennifer Saparzadeh Brigid McCaffrey Bad mama, who cares 2016, 12m, 35mm Geologist Ren Lallatin has moved into a small housing complex located between a rail yard and the interstate. Desert vistas are replaced with an arsenal of tactle pursuits, while the situaton of the house becomes unstable. Free falling from a fixed point, the perimeter is ornamented for security. Desert winds animate aluminum mobiles and seismic vibratons serenade the home. -- Brigid McCaffrey Ana Vaz Amérika: Bahía de las Flechas 2016, 9m, digital It is said that in the year of 1492, the first European ship led by Christopher Columbus, disembarked on the coast of Samaná, present-day Dominican Republic, and was received by a rain of arrows carefully plotted by the Caribbean Taíno. Presently, a saline lake named after the Taíno chief Enriquillo witnesses profound eco-systemic changes leading to species migration, forced evacuation and an expanding choral desert revealing the lake’s geologic past. Taking the camera itself as an arrow, Amérika: Bay of Arrows looks for ways in which to animate, to awaken, to make vibrate again this gesture in the present - arrows against a perpetual “falling sky”. -- Ana Vaz Marianna Milhorat this is not an anchor, this boat is not an anchor 2007, 12m, digital Through a dense mist we emerge into a foggy marshland. Slowly and achingly a mysterious landscape is revealed. Foghorns and sharp cuts jolt the meandering sense of place and memory, creating a sense of unease and anxiety within. -- Images Festival AJ McClenon he kind of like skips over me and tells all my African-American friends to go sit down. 2015, 9m, digital Echoes from an interview with Dajerria Becton, a 15-year-old girl who was attacked by a McKinney, Texas police officer in attendance of a pool party in a predominantly white neighborhood & from audio footage from the McKinney, Texas pool party "incident," where Black teens were forcibly removed from a predominantly white pool party. -- AJ McClenon TRT: 68m 8PM: Stephen Broomer Potamkin 2017, 67m, 16mm "What happened to Potamkin?" In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness. At the Odessa steps, trampling gives breath to the child. The bullet miraculously reforms the face. The Cossacks march backwards, retreating unseen into their nothing, the unfired rounds of their rifles restored to their menacing potential. Feet tread backward up the steps as the steps themselves collapse in splintering emulsion. The carriage is set upright. “One’s sight is inverse to one’s eyes; The begger with empty sockets sees The microscope lies; But these Who are truly blind are wise.” Sound by Stuart Broomer. Processing by Stephen Broomer, Martha Cabral, Eva Kolcze, Emmalyne Laurin, Cameron Moneo. Titles by Cameron Moneo. Digital intermediate by Pablo Perez. Thanks to R. Bruce Elder, Christine Lucy Latimer, Mark Loeser, Suzanne _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
