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Blogs, 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
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Visual Art, Experimental video, Jake Barningham, Jesse Malmed, Melika Bass, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Film Studies Center, Michele Smith

Film, 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
- Tags: Movie Review, Sergei Eisenstein, Encounters I May or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin, Buffalo Death Mask, Andy Warhol, Grand Theft Auto IV, JB Mabe, To the Change Assigned, Lewis Klahr, Kiss the Rain, David Fincher, Matt Wolf, I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett, I Am Micro, Seven, Vincent Grenier, Watercolor (Fall Creek), Jake Barningham, Pták básně I a II, Phil Solomon, Empire, Gus Van Sant, Aula Magna, Manuel Barenboim, Ant Hill, Gerry, Andres Denegri, Elephant, Last Days, Joseph Cornell, George Kuchar, Onion City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Morning of Saint Anthony's Day, As the Flames Rose, João Pedro Rodrigues, Columbia College, Ferguson Theater, O Fantasma, Two Drifters, To Die Like a Man, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Saint Anthony's Day, Jean Cocteau, The Human Voice, Ben Rivers, Phantoms of a Libertine, Mike Leigh, Terence Davies, Slow Action, Two Years at Sea, Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, Sabine Gruffat, I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Stephen Graves, A Body Without Organs, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Leviathan, I Am Micro, Kamal Swaroop, Double Play, Richard Linklater, James Benning

Film, 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
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Patrick Friel, Onion City Experimental FIlm and Video Festival, Seeking the Monkey King, Ken Jacobs, J.G. Thirwell, Ben Rivers, Sack Barrow, Matt McCormick, Future So Bright, Lewis Klahr, The Pettifogger, collage animation, Bobby Abate, A Party Record Packed With Sex and Sadness, Shana Moulton, Decorations of the Mind, Joshua Thorson, Horizon, John Torres, Mapang-Akit, Across & Down, Lori Felker, Jake Barningham, JB Mabe, The Colors That Combine to Make White Are Important, Barry Doupé

Film, Movie Sidebar Jun 23, 2011
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: start peeling
- By Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Onion City Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Filmmakers, Patrick Friel, Carlos Adriano, Santoscope=Dumontage, All That Sheltering Emptiness, Color Series, Alice in Wonderland, Night, Day, Anitkabir, To Touch, Get out of the Car, Pigs, Toads, Relocation, Slave Ship, Mastering Bambi, Sugar Slim Says, Bust Chance, All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silen, Gina Carducci, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Madison Brookshire, James Fotopoulos, Jake Barningham, Yoel Miranda, J.B. Mabe, Thom Andersen, Pawel Wojtasik, Milena Gierke, Pieter Geenen, T. Marie, Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukacs, Lewis Klahr, Stephanie Barber, Nicolas Pereda

Blogs, 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
- Tags: Film, Chicago Filmmakers, Kodak, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Super 8, 8mm, rides again, Amal Abusumayah, Usama Alshaibi, American, Arab, hijab, Muslim, Jake Barningham, Jeremy Bessoff, Kyle Canterbury, Tom Comerford, Carolyn Faber, Lori Felker, Scott Foley, James Fotopoulos, Jason Halprin, Karen Johannesen, Alex Lake, JB Mabe, Jesse McLean, Luis Sanchez Ramirez, Kate Raney, Tom Palazzolo, Ines Sommer, Bill Stamets, Chi Jang Yin, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Jun 17, 2010
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

Selected works from the festival's nine programs
- By Fred Camper
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Filmmakers, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Janie Geiser, Ghost Algebra, Beauty Plus Pity, Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby, The World, Richard Tuohy, Flyscreen, Alexander Stewart, Iceland Spar, Mary Helena Clark, Sound Over Water, Stephanie Barber, To the Horse Dream of Arms, Gregg Biermann, Traffic Patterns, Ben Rivers, May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last, Kyle Canterbury, Yoel Meranda, Bsorb, Eytan Ipeker, Jake Barningham, Concering Flight, Nightingale

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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

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.

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

Rediscovering history is a recurrent theme of Chicago Filmmakers' 24th annual avant-garde celebration

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: start peeling

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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

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.

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

Rediscovering history is a recurrent theme of Chicago Filmmakers' 24th annual avant-garde celebration

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: start peeling

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!

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

Selected works from the festival's nine programs

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