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Friday, November 20, 2009

In(di)visible at Noble & Superior

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM

Tw Lis Self (Involved) Portrait

  • Tw Li's "Self (Involved) Portrait"

I saw a crowd of onlookers who ranged from scandalized to righteously indignant to cynically amused gather around TW Li's video installation Police Brutality Grid when it showed in September at Margin Gallery.

Li's video, photography and performance aggressively lampoon systems of control and the impact of technology on daily interaction. His work shows in Noble & Superior Projects' In(di)visible exhibition, which opens Friday 11/20.

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

DomeFest at the Planetarium

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Matthew Mascheris Second City from DomeFest 2008

  • Matthew Mascheri's "Second City" from DomeFest 2008

Highlights from DomeFest, the annual Albuquerque competition of full-dome video art, screen Thursday 11/19 at part of "The End of the World," this month's installment of the Adler Planetarium's Adler After Dark program.

The six-source HD video is projected in a 360 degree environment on the 2,300 square foot dome in the Adler's Definiti Space Theater.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Drag City Peers Into the Byways of Marrakech

Posted by Peter Margasak on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM

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Last month Drag City Records released Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa, its second project on the sublabel Twos & Fews, run by Kentuckian Nathan Salsburg. Salsburg, who also plays music himself and maintains the swell blog Root Hog or Die—which includes a directory of free MP3s of traditional music of all stripes—has worked for the Alan Lomax Archive since 2000, and both Twos & Fews releases have a raw, folkloric spirit. Last year the label debuted with a collection of a cappella singing by Kentucky coal miner Nimrod Workman, and to celebrate its release the label hosted an informal gathering at Intuit Gallery, where it played Workman’s music, screened rare video footage, and served quasi-authentic hillbilly delicacies.

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Surprises! from Eric Wareheim and DJ Douggpound

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Doug Lussenhop aka Douggpound

  • Doug Lussenhop aka Douggpound

Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and former Chicagoan Doug Lussenhop, AKA DJ Douggpound, curate Surprises!, the first of two opening night video programs for the Public Media Institute's Select Media Festival 8 at Heaven Gallery.

Surprises! includes Wareheim's video for Major Lazer's "Pon De Floor," Lussenhop's for Juiceboxx's "100 MPH," Jake Kasdan's for The Bird and the Bee's "Diamond Dave," Eric Fensler's for Cass McCombs and Ariel Pink, Ray Tintori's very creepy video for MGMT's "Kids," and Tim & Eric's pilot for the Neil Hamburger game show The New Big Ball.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Frontwards

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM

William Lyman Grant in Frontwards

  • William Lyman Grant in "Frontwards"

William Lyman Grant "stumbles through the wreckage of labored reunions, unsure infatuation, drunken nonsense, and the barren wastelands of North Dakota" in the DIY comedy Frontwards, premiering Thursday 11/19 at the Portage Theater.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Daddy Dourest

Posted by J.R. Jones on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM

On the web site of the Museum of the Moving Image, Jonathan Rosenbaum has an interesting review of Chris Welles Feder's memoir In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles. Pictured below: Chris Welles in 1945, flanked by Welles on her left and stepmother Rita Hayworth on her right.

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Free screening of John Woo's "Red Cliff"

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in Red Cliff

  • Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in "Red Cliff"

After 16 years in Hollywood, Hong Kong action auteur John Woo made his triumphant return to Asian production with the two-part Chinese historical war epic Red Cliff, the first half of which was the most expensive and most successful film in Asia, ever, on its release last year.

The Western release, a condensed version that combines the two parts, has a free preview screening Monday 11/16 at Landmark's Century Centre.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Arch of Repose and On Falling...

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:04 AM

Nadia Oussenko in On Falling...

  • Nadia Oussenko in "On Falling..."

The dance films Arch of Repose by Jan Bartoszek and On Falling... by Nadia Oussenko, which sold out their Wednesday premiere at the Music Box, get an encore screening Friday 11/13 at Alliance Francaise of Chicago.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Lowering the Bar at MoFest

Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:42 PM

Maestro Harrell plays Pimp D in Lowering the Bar.

  • Maestro Harrell plays Pimp D in "Lowering the Bar."

A comedy set in an alternative high school featuring Maestro Harrell (Randy on The Wire) and improv juggernaut TJ Jagodowski, Kenneth Yoder's Lowering the Bar won this year's Chicago Comedy TV Pilot Competition.

Lowering the Bar is one 26 short films and videos screening Saturday 11/14 in MoFest 5.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Experimental Sound on Film

Posted by Peter Margasak on Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:09 PM

Richard Lermans Sections for Screen
  • Richard Lerman's "Sections for Screen"
We all know how important the soundtrack is to most films, and scores by certain composers—Ennio Morricone, Toru Takemitsu, Bernard Herrmann, Georges Delerue, and John Barry, to name a few—more than stand on their own. Other soundtracks rely heavily on nonmusical material, such as Walter Murch’s brilliant sound design in the Francis Ford Coppola film The Conversation. Though it’s rare for filmmakers to place as much emphasis on sound as they do on what’s on the screen, a program screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Thursday night at 6 PM offers just as much to fans of experimental music and noise as it does to cinephiles.

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