Programs Announced
Tickets- Cinema Borealis $10 per show/Chicago Filmmakers $8 per show
Festival Pass- $45 for all 7 shows
Saturday Pass- $18 for all 3 Saturday shows
Sunday Pass- $12 for both Sunday shows
FRIDAY OCTOBER 21ST @ CINEMA BOREALIS -1550 N Milwaukee Ave 4th Floor
$10
8 PM-SUPER 8 CHICAGO
Adele Friedman, Bill Stamets, Jason Halprin, Karen Johannesen, Adam Paradis & Lori Felker in Person!
Adele Friedman - Doug & His Plants - 1977
Saul Levine - Big Stick - 1973
Bill Stamets - Red Filter Goes to Cortes Island. Sees Dogs and Sun - 2011
Jason Halprin – All Night & All Day - 2010
Michael Robinson – Untitled - 2007
Karen Johannesen - Light Speed - 2007
Adam Paradis - Sun Dress - 2010
Lori Felker - I Own A Carousel - 2011
Jo Ann Elam – Lie Back & Enjoy It - 1982
TRT: 59 MIN
9:30 PM-SUPER 8 FILMMAKER JAAP PIETERS 2011 US TOUR
$10
Co-presented by The Nightingale Theatre
Dutch super 8 filmmaker Jaap Pieters will be in person with live musical accompaniment by local musician Travis Bird & Evan Lindorff Ellery! The Chicago 8 Festival is very pleased to co-present this program with The Nightingale Theatre. Jaap’s films are highly personal observations of his surroundings. Limiting himself to the duration of the 3-minute Super 8 reel, he uses minimal equipment and editing. Often filming from his apartment window, he may focus on unusual people seen on the street, or on recurring characters both known and unknown. In the manner of a home screening, Jaap will be present at these shows to give commentary on his program, which will be selected at each individual show. Travis will improvise accompaniment to the silent films, incorporating both musical and nonmusical sounds to interact with the visual environments presented in Jaap’s films.
Jaap Pieters has been taking photographs and making Super 8 films for the last three decades, and is a well-known presence in Europe. Beginning with his first solo program in Istanbul in 1997, he has shown regularly throughout virtually all corners of Europe, including on tours of Switzerland, Germany, and Spain, as well as in Paris, Athens, Copenhagen, and many more. He is also a fixture at IFF Rotterdam, and has shown at all manner of alternative venues along the way.
Travis Bird, is a guitarist, composer, and writer focused on both songwriting and improvisation. Active in Chicago since 2007, he has worked in a wide variety of musical environments and has played at venues across the U.S. on several occasions, as well as pursuing an active release schedule. In addition to his musical activities, he co-curates Notice Recordings (est. 2010), a boutique cassette label that has released his own work as well as that of other experimental musicians.
Evan Lindorff Ellery, currently based in his native Vermont, is developing a uniquely abstract yet deliberate style in both visual and sound art. As de facto art director of Notice Recordings, his original drawings adorn most of the label’s releases; they have also been published in online and in print form, most recently by the artist Jez Riley French. Musically Lindorff-Ellery works with consumer grade and analog electronics, recordings of his surroundings, and layered processes to craft subtle yet richly layered sound environments connoting both isolation and home.
TRT: 90 MIN
SATURDAY OCTOBER 22ND @ CHICAGO FILMMAKERS - 5243 N Clark St
$8
6:30 PM-A TOWN CALLED TEMPEST
Janis Crystal Lipzin in Person!
Brian Frye - Earth vs The Giant Spider vs The Witches - 1996
Steve Polta - Summer Rain for LMC-side B - 2011
Rob Todd - Castle - 2011
Chuck Kleinhans - Stopping by the Toll Road - 1981
Pablo Valencia - Films I - 2011
Chris Kennedy - Schuh Schnell Service - 2009/11
Janis Crystal Lipzin - Cracks Between the Stones - 1991/2004
Alex Rogalski - Land of Living Skies - 2006
Tara Nelson - Snow - 2010
Tony Gault - Tabernacle - 1998
Alex Rogalski - Meditor - 2008
Brian Frye - Ladies Day - 1997
TRT: 69 MIN
8 PM-JANIS CRYSTAL LIPZIN- SMALL GAUGE WORKS
$8
Janis Crystal Lipzin in Person!
Right Eye/Left - 1984
Trepanations - 1983
Seasonal Forces Part 1 & Part 2 - 1996
De Luce 1: Vegetare - 2009
San Francisco–based Lipzin has been one of Super 8’s most passionate American advocates for more than twenty-five years. Active as critic, curator, and teacher (she was instrumental in founding and producing, Small Windows, the San Francisco Art Institute 8mm Film Festivals), Lipzin’s own films combine a sharp eye for cultural observation and social critique as revealed through the personalizing small-gauge camera. —Steve Anker, Dean, CalArts Department of Film/Video
According to Grahame Weinbren, editor of Millennium Film Journal “Lipzin has had an unmatched impact on the art of film through her generations of teaching and her hundreds of students.” She taught Film and Interdisciplinary Studies at the renowned San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 2009 where she served as Chair of the prominent Film Department, and before that, directed the influential Film/Photo Program at Antioch College. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University in Painting and Photography. She also studied painting at New York University and received her MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Lipzin’s films and photo work have been featured in numerous museum shows including the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY), the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, and the Kunstmuseum in Berne, Switzerland. Her many awards include three Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her films and videos are distributed internationally and her recent digital film, De Luce 1: Vegetare has been shown in 22 venues in eight countries including at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Videoex in Zurich, the San Francisco Film Festival, Black Maria Film/Video Festival, Antimatter in Victoria, Canada; KLEX in Kuala Lumpur, the Havana Film Festival, and the Kauna Biennial in Lithuania.
TRT: 71 MIN
9:30 PM-HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED
$8
Rick Bahto and Pixie Cram in Person!
Pixie Cram - The Bathers - 2009
Tsen-Chu Hsu - Reflect - 2010
Rick Bahto - The Bellouin Sequence - 2008
Rick Bahto - Variations - 2004
Rob Todd - Spring - 2010
Chuck Kleinhans - Fred Barney Taylor - 1980
Brian Frye - Interventions - 1996
Ken Paul Rosenthal - I My Bike - 2002
Robbie Land - Precipice - 2010
Julie Murray - Legend of Parts - 1988
TRT: 54 MIN
SUNDAY OCTOBER 23RD @ CHICAGO FILMMAKERS - 5243 N Clark St
$8
6:30 PM-A REASON TO LIVE
Rick Bahto in Person!
Steve Polta - Summer Rain for LMC-side A - 2011
Steve Polta - A House Full of Dust - 2007
Tomonari Nishikawa - S8 Sketches #1-5 - 2005/07
Rick Bahto - For Karen Johannesen - 2010
Hayley Elliot - Solar Flares - 2011
Malena Szlam - Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow - 2010
Paul Clipson - Chorus - 2009
Paul Clipson - Light From the Mesa - 2010
Leslie Supnet - Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain - 2009
TRT: 55 MIN
8 PM-BRIDE OF SUPER 8
$8
Sponsored by Kodak and Dwayne’s Photo
Co-Presented by Chicago Filmmakers
Reprising the popular Super 8 Rides Again program from last year at Chicago Filmmakers, we’ll be inviting around 20 Chicago-area image makers to shoot a roll of Super 8 film and have it premier at the show. All editing will be done in-camera, and no one will be allowed to see their work prior to the screening. We want to thank Todd Lillethun at Chicago Filmmakers for helping coordinate this program, as well as Kodak and Dwayne’s Photo Service for donating film and processing.
Xan Aranda, Ben Balcom,Jeremy Bessoff, Adebukola Bodunrin, Lilli Carre,Thom Comerford, Mary Helena Clark, Carolyn Faber, Lori Felker, Scott Foley, Amir George, Jason Halprin, Lyra Hill, Karen Johannesen, Kent Lambert, Jared Larson, JB Mabe, Kate Raney, Jerzy Rose, Bill Stamets, Alexander Stewart, Ted Tremper, Chi Jang Yin
TRT: 70 MIN
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