The Chicago Underground Film Festival Presents:
The Ones That Got Away, Part 1
at the SALONATHON at Beauty Bar (1444 W Chicago Ave)
FREE! (Facebook Event invitation)
Monday, September 12th, screening starts at 9pm
Hosted bar from 8pm to 9pm!! (with RSVP to: chicagorsvp@thebeautybar.com)
Drink Specials:
$3 Drafts, $4 Well Drinks, & per usual $10 Martini + Manicures!
For More Info: Beauty Bar
Every year the Chicago Underground Film Festival receives thousand of film and video submissions from around the world. Many more works than be included in our weeklong event. This means that even some pieces that we really like don’t end up in the final program. This month we’re pleased to share with you a few of the quality films we liked but for whatever reason didn’t end up in our final festival schedule.
The Natural
Ted Kennedy 4 minutes, ANN ARBOR
“Mans struggle with disasters of his own making, manifested in a burning minivan. “ (TK)
Red Rider’s Lament
Jeremy Bessoff 18 minutes, CHICAGO
“A tragicomic Western animation employing plastic cowboys and construction paper sets to explore the enactment of masculinity in the Old West.” (JB)
Sedimenting
Emilie Crewe 12 min, CHICAGO…VANCOUVER
“[] carries the home around as an extension of the body, creating a temporal habitat that serves a specific function. Collecting grapefruit skins and tiny pebbles, [] systematically arranges objects in the fashion that a bowerbird prepares a nest. Each object is important.” (EC)
River, Come Back
Nina Barnett 6 min, CHICAGO
“Inspired by the Chicago River’s famous current reversal in 1887 and the state of rivers in cities throughout the world, this animation serves as a psycho-geographical text, and an earnest request to a river to change it’s course. There is a pervading sense of longing and urgency in the narrative, and an admission of process in moments when the drawn meets the real, when image becomes live action.” (NB)
I Give You Life
Latham Owen Zearfoss 12 minutes, CHICAGO
“A short experimental video that tries to re-insert the missing words from Dennis Shepard’s courtroom speech back into the re-enactment of that same speech from the HBO film, ‘The Laramie Project.’ ‘” (LZ)
Good Housekeeping
Emily Oscarson 18 minutes, CHICAGO
“In her apartment, a woman obsessively cleans in an effort to live up to the standards of the housekeeping magazines she admires. An homage to Chantal Akerman, Good Housekeeping employs long takes as a strategy to observe how her admiration becomes a fetish.” (EO)
