REGARDING: A LEISURE INSTALLATION | IN-PERSON (4/3 - 4/6) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival
REGARDING: A LEISURE INSTALLATION | IN-PERSON (4/3 - 4/6) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival
Presented in Partnership with Leisure (2444 W. Division St.) | April 3-6, 2025 - 4:00-6:00PM gallery hours; 6:00-10:00PM street view
This gallery installs one video from a Chicago-based artist each evening of the festival in Leisure’s street-facing gallery. Meticulously observed scenes of everyday objects, settings, and activities provide a focused subjectivity towards the expansive haze of the world. At times lingering, at times fleeting, these videos consider the internal domestic in constant exchange with external infrastructures, imbuing the public and quotidian with renewed intimacy and attention. Each night of the festival from 4-6pm, Leisure will hold open gallery hours in which attendees are welcome to visit inside. From 6-10pm, works will continue to be displayed through the gallery’s window for the perusal of passersby outside.
This event does not charge admission, however you must reserve a ticket through the link below in order to attend.
Lineup:
APRIL 3: City Tissue Slices - Yongfeng Fu, 12 min
A slow burning and impressionistic gaze through a downtown Chicago window.
APRIL 4: Fantasia (The Weary Wheel) - Brett Swenson, 10 min
An exploration of the reproductive fantasies of suburban middle class American life that draws strange slants of meaning out of quotidian affairs.
APRIL 5: Glistening Seagull - Chae Yu, Korea, 11 min
A dream-like Super 8 travelogue whisking together landscapes, faces, keepsakes, and debris.
APRIL 6: at the bamboo green 在竹翠苑 - Xiaolu Wang, 12 min
The filmmaker’s visit to their grandmother’s grave in Hui Muslim tradition at the foot of China’s Helan Mountains. Shot on cellphone in one continuous take, the film accentuates an in-between: visiting from America, the space of chant, and a tension generated by the camera’s presence.
