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Bleader
Jan 20, 2015
The next month is the time to catch the thriving local experimental-video-art scene
A preview of programs by local and formerly local artists Jake Barningham, Michele Smith, Jesse Malmed, and Melika Bass
By Ben Sachs
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Do This
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Arts
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Film
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Visual Art
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Experimental video
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Jake Barningham
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Jesse Malmed
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Melika Bass
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
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Chicago Filmmakers
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Film Studies Center
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Michele Smith
Film
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Movie Review
Sep 4, 2013
At the 25th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, every picture tells a story
From multilayered mysteries to a Warholian take on
Grand Theft Auto IV
, narrative cinema and the avant-garde overlap.
By Ben Sachs
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Movie Review
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Sergei Eisenstein
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Encounters I May or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin
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Buffalo Death Mask
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Andy Warhol
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Grand Theft Auto IV
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JB Mabe
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To the Change Assigned
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Lewis Klahr
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Kiss the Rain
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David Fincher
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Matt Wolf
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I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard
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Ron Padgett
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I Am Micro
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Seven
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Vincent Grenier
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Watercolor (Fall Creek)
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Jake Barningham
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Pták básně I a II
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Phil Solomon
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Empire
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Gus Van Sant
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Aula Magna
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Manuel Barenboim
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Ant Hill
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Gerry
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Andres Denegri
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Elephant
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Last Days
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Joseph Cornell
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George Kuchar
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Onion City Festival of Experimental Film and Video
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Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
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As the Flames Rose
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João Pedro Rodrigues
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Columbia College
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Ferguson Theater
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O Fantasma
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Two Drifters
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To Die Like a Man
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The Last Time I Saw Macao
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João Rui Guerra da Mata
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Saint Anthony's Day
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Jean Cocteau
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The Human Voice
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Ben Rivers
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Phantoms of a Libertine
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Mike Leigh
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Terence Davies
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Slow Action
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Two Years at Sea
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Ben Russell
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Let Each One Go Where He May
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Sabine Gruffat
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I Have Always Been a Dreamer
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Stephen Graves
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A Body Without Organs
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor
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Verena Paravel
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Leviathan
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I Am Micro
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Kamal Swaroop
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Double Play
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Richard Linklater
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James Benning
Film
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Movie Sidebar
Jun 20, 2012
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Rediscovering history is a recurrent theme of Chicago Filmmakers' 24th annual avant-garde celebration
By Ben Sachs
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Movie Sidebar
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Patrick Friel
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Onion City Experimental FIlm and Video Festival
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Seeking the Monkey King
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Ken Jacobs
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J.G. Thirwell
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Ben Rivers
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Sack Barrow
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Matt McCormick
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Future So Bright
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Lewis Klahr
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The Pettifogger
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collage animation
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Bobby Abate
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A Party Record Packed With Sex and Sadness
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Shana Moulton
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Decorations of the Mind
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Joshua Thorson
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Horizon
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John Torres
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Mapang-Akit
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Across & Down
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Lori Felker
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Jake Barningham
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JB Mabe
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The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important
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Barry Doupé
Film
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Movie Sidebar
Jun 23, 2011
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: start peeling
By Fred Camper
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Onion City Festival
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Chicago Filmmakers
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Patrick Friel
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Carlos Adriano
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Santoscope=Dumontage
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All That Sheltering Emptiness
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Color Series
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Alice in Wonderland
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Night, Day
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Anitkabir
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To Touch
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Get out of the Car
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Pigs
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Toads
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Relocation
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Slave Ship
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Mastering Bambi
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Sugar Slim Says
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Bust Chance
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All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silen
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Gina Carducci
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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Madison Brookshire
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James Fotopoulos
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Jake Barningham
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Yoel Miranda
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J.B. Mabe
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Thom Andersen
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Pawel Wojtasik
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Milena Gierke
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Pieter Geenen
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T. Marie
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Persijn Broersen
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Margit Lukacs
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Lewis Klahr
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Stephanie Barber
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Nicolas Pereda
Blogs
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Bleader
Aug 5, 2010
Video
I'll Spare You the Paul Simon Reference
Shorts from a host of local filmmakers commissioned by Chicago FIlmmakers and Kodak screen Friday in Super-8 Rides Again!
By Ed M. Koziarski
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Film
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Chicago Filmmakers
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Kodak
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Kodachrome
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Ektachrome
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Super 8
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8mm
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rides again
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Amal Abusumayah
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Usama Alshaibi
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American
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Arab
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hijab
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Muslim
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Jake Barningham
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Jeremy Bessoff
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Kyle Canterbury
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Tom Comerford
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Carolyn Faber
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Lori Felker
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Scott Foley
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James Fotopoulos
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Jason Halprin
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Karen Johannesen
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Alex Lake
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JB Mabe
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Jesse McLean
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Luis Sanchez Ramirez
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Kate Raney
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Tom Palazzolo
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Ines Sommer
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Bill Stamets
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Chi Jang Yin
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Video
Film
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Movie Sidebar
Jun 17, 2010
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Selected works from the festival's nine programs
By Fred Camper
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Movie Sidebar
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Chicago Filmmakers
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Janie Geiser
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Ghost Algebra
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Beauty Plus Pity
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Emily Vey Duke
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Cooper Battersby
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The World
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Richard Tuohy
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Flyscreen
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Alexander Stewart
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Iceland Spar
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Mary Helena Clark
,
Sound Over Water
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Stephanie Barber
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To the Horse Dream of Arms
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Gregg Biermann
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Traffic Patterns
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Ben Rivers
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May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last
,
Kyle Canterbury
,
Yoel Meranda
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Bsorb
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Eytan Ipeker
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Jake Barningham
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Concering Flight
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Nightingale
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