

Danny Perez's 57-minute audiovisual freakout Oddsac, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, looks to be about as weird as one might hope from a collaboration with Animal Collective, with an original score by the band that reportedly will only be released with the film.
Perez and members of Animal Collective appear at two sold-out shows Wednesday 3/17 at the Music Box Theatre. Oddsac tweeted this morning that tickets were available for volunteers.
Also from Twitter, via Stereogum: "ODDSAC, the Animal Collective film, makes Matthew Barney look like Matthew McConaughey. Trippy, dense, intense, atonal, dark, fractured” -@jamesrocchi

A list of Chicago locations is here.

Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka spent five years scrambling and reassociating images and sounds from a 1961 African hunting trip into the 12-minute Unsere Afrikareise, screening Monday 3/15 in a free program of landscape films at the School of the Art Institute.
"There is often a temptation to read direct thematic statements in many of the film's articulations. Editing connections are continually made on the white hunters' gazes, hand gestures, and gun-pointing, linking those actions to suggest the Europeans' aggression toward their surroundings," Fred Camper writes in Film Reference.
"Kubelka's cuts often suggest that a European has just 'shot' an African, or the forest itself. The Africans, by contrast, appear as part of nature, rather than separate from it. It would be a serious mistake, however, to limit one's perception of the film to such themes...The viewer is ultimately led out of time, to contemplate these connections in memory, and to regard the film as if it were a monument erected as a record of civilization, not as a statement on it but as a kind of totem for it."
Lillstreet Art Center (4401 N. Ravenswood) hosts its spring open house on Sat 3/13 from noon to 5 PM, with free workshops in jewelry-making, embroidery, drawing, and other arts and crafts. Free tours of the facilities, art activities for kids, live music, and snacks from First Slice Pie Cafe will also be available. A detailed schedule of the day's events is here.

Bus stops include:
Loop and River North: the Clark and Lake el, Merchandise Mart, Mother Hubbard's (5 W. Hubbard), and O'Callaghan's (29 W. Hubbard).
Old Town: Corcoran's Grill (1615 N. Wells).
Lincoln Park: Fullerton el, Kincade's (950 W. Armitage), McGee's Tavern (950 W. Webster), Kendall's Pub (2263 N. Lincoln), and Victory Liquors (2610 N. Halsted).
Wrigleyville: Addison red line el, Harry Caray's Tavern (3551 N. Sheffield), Murphy's Bleachers (3653 N. Sheffield), the Cubby Bear (1059 W. Addison), and Rebel Bar & Grill (3462 N. Clark).
Faith and Whiskey (1365 W. Fullerton) hosts a daylong party Sat 3/13 from 11 AM to 10 PM with free corned beef sandwiches and green eggs and ham. The food will flow until the party ends, or until it runs out — whichever comes first. There's no cover for the party, which also features Irish music and drink specials.
Before their 6:30 PM performance tomorrow at the Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph), Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago will host a free reception featuring company dancers and the associate board of directors. Guests will enjoy free wine, a live performance by singer-songwriter Kevin Mileski, and the chance to purchase half-price tickets to that night's show, Ovations — a showcase of their greatest hits. Tickets can be purchased at the door, at 312-334-7777, or online— use promo code AB01 to get the discount.

It's an opportune time to explore Japan's relationship to nature, what with The Cove's Oscar win and yesterday's arrest in Tokyo of New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune.
Surely this isn't the kind of profile the Japan Information Center is going for with its Japan and Nature Film Series, concluding Friday 3/12 at Columbia College with a free screening of Masaki Haramura's documentary School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama.
“Children will not grow unless they are put in a risky environment. They will not grow healthily unless they get injured, covered in mud and play rough and physical games," Eijyu Miyazaki says in the film. Haramura examines Miyazaki's iconoclastic pedagogy and its impact at the Kisarazu Community Nursery School in Satoyama, Chiba.