STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE | In-Person (4/12) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival







STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE | In-Person (4/12) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival
Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema (1326 W. Hollywood Ave) | Sunday, April 12, 2026 - 12:00PM
Break down with STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE, a lineup of works that burst apart, topple, freak out, undo, disintegrate, and at times sow chaos. Pixels explode, the internet hemorrhages, institutions shut down, and language fails to cohere. We walk through the funhouse, mess up our ABCs, learn to fall, and punch the clock harder than we ever have before.
Lineup:
A is for Apple | Lillian Canright | Germany | 2025 | 8 min | World Festival Premiere
Cobwebs Spun Back & Forth In The Sky | Nick Vyssotsky | US | 2021 | 18 min | Chicago Festival Premiere
Acetone Reality | Michael Bell-Smith and Sara Magenheimer | US | 2025 | 13 min | Chicago Festival Premiere
My Structuralist Film | Angelo Madsen | US | 2026 | 6 min | World Festival Premiere
Chew This! | Delphyne Panther-Brutzkus | US | 2025 | 2 min
Exquisite Corpse | Karl Kaisel | Estonia | 2026 | 8 min | World Festival Premiere
Ridethrough | Elijah Valter | US | 2025 | 11 min | World Festival Premiere
受难日 Fallen Day | Xiaolu Wang | US | 2025 | 9 min | Chicago Festival Premiere
Structural Changes | Jonah Primiano | US | 2025 | 2 min | World Festival Premiere
Language Decay | Zazie Ray-Trapido | US | 2025 | 3 min |Chicago Festival Premiere
Onion City Experimental Film Festival
Onion City is a four-day festival presented by Chicago Filmmakers that celebrates the best in contemporary experimental film. Onion City opens on Thursday, April 9 and continues through Sunday, April 12, with eight competition screenings and five special event programs.