6:30 pm: Urban Research • part 4

•18 h 30 • 6:30 pmUrban Research curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr


program D


Paul Druecke US Daley Plaza

• Paul Druecke US Daley Plaza 4 min 50s, DV, 2006

• Paul Druecke US Mainstreet Square 4 min 50s, DV, 2006

• Rebecca Meyers US Lions and Tigers and Bears 12 min, 16mm, 2006

• Edyta Stepien + Margaret Noble US Sonata 16 min 19s, DV, 2004

• Julia Halperin + Jason Cortlund US Interstate Part One 6 min, DV, 2006

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12 pm: Muhammad And Jane

• 24 h •12 pmmidnight feature

Muhammad And Jane

• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Muhammad And Jane 80 min, DV, 2003



"Video maker Usama Alshaibi is the sort of canny visual stylist who can sustain a mood... the handheld videocam, tight close-ups, and disorienting angles create a potent sense of paranoia. The haunting score is by Andy Ortmann and Camilla Ha."

Ted Shen Chicago Reader

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12 pm: John Cage • Chicago Underground Trio

• 24 h • 12 pm The sound of one hand clapping • Chronicle

Wolf Kahlen • Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Music on Film


• Wolf Kahlen DE The sound of one hand clapping - John Cage at one of his last concerts 18 min, DV, 1990/99

• The sound of one hand clapping is Wolf Kahlen's homage to the work of John Cage. Cage, whom Kahlen knew since 1980, gave his actually last European public concert at the Akademie der Künste Berlin/GDR in 1990, a few months before his passing away. The main actors here are hands, actionless or acting, nervous or waiting. And clapping. The title corresponds to Cage's zen-buddhist philosophy and life style.

• Raymond Salvatore Harmon US Chronicle 75 mins, DV, 2006



• Chronicle is a live performance of the Chicago Underground Trio turned inside out as a dense experimental film. Chronicle is unlike any music performance film made to date. Often verging into the psychedelic, both sonically and visually.

8pm. Nice Bombs • Usama Alshaibi

• 20 h • 8 pm Nice Bombs by Usama Alshaibi

MY JOURNEY BACK TO IRAQ

Nice Bombs shows filmmaker Usama Alshaibi as he returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years. This documentary navigates through his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different than the country of his childhood.
Usama captures the conflicting reactions to the conditions of life in Baghdad.
Through a wide range of opinions and experiences he provides a broad panorama of voices long neglected under Saddam’s regime.
His cousin Tareef enters the room upon hearing an explosion. “It’s a bomb. A Nice Bomb,” he explains. The phrase is indicative of his family’s nonchalance about their situation. As one young boy put it, “We’re Iraqis. It’s normal.” With humor and resilience Nice Bombs explores Usama’s dual role as both Iraqi and American.



• Usama Alshaibi US/IQ Nice Bombs 92 min, DV, 2006

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10 pm: LiveBox Chicago

• 22 h • 10 pm LiveBox, Chicago curated by Catherine Forster

Catherine Forster of LiveBox, Chicago presents a wide selection from a playful look at contemporary narratives to sharp and witty shorts and gorgeous non-narrative musings. Some of them based on childhood nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

• 22 h • 10 pm LiveBox, Chicago curated by Catherine Forster



art 1: "Didn’t Cha Know"

This selection of work is a playful look at contemporary narratives. All the artists deploy humor and tap into the mundane moments of life.

• David Lachman US Home Made 4 min 50s, DV, 2004

• Rachelle Viader Knowles CA In My Mind I am in NY 9 min 45s, DV, 2005



• David Lachman US Flower to Flower 6 min 50s, DV, 2004

part 2: "Knots and Crosses"

short, sharp and witty

• Irina Botea RO/US Aktion 1 min, DV, 2003

• Kazuhiko Kobayashi JPGate Vision 5min 24s, DV, 2005

• Thom van der Doef US Cup 4 min, DV, 2006

part 3: "Sparkling Diamonds"

The artists in this program load their work with saturated colors, intensity, high energy and inventiveness.

• Lee Arnold GB/US Alpinia 1 min 36s, DV, 2006

• Galina Schevchenko RU/US Flower Immersion 7min 35s, DV, 2006






• Patricia Shrigley GB Pilchard 4 min, DV, 2006

part 4: "Brothers Grimm"

This selection of work evocatively appropriates and manipulates childhood nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

• Jill Johnston-Price US PrickleE Britches 6 min, DV, 2006



• Catherine Forster US Humpty Dumpty 7min 35s, DV, 2006

part 5: "Experimental Melodies"

This selection is the most experimental and includes two gorgeous non-narrative musings.

• Carol Kim /US Chasing Pools 8 min 35s, DV, 2005

• Tony Gammidge GB A Short Song About Thread 4min 06s, DV, 2005



• Kim Collmer US/D Lichtwelten 4 min 30s, DV, 2006

• Scott Wolniak US The Pond to the Ocean 6 min 30s, DV, 2006

Catherine Forster will be present

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