VENTURED GAINS | In-Person (4/11) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival

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Michael Barwise, still from That sanity be kept (2025).jpg
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Sam Taffel and Gillian Waldo, still from Learning from Learning from Las Vegas (2025).jpg
Michael Barwise, still from That sanity be kept (2025).jpg
Josh Weissbach, still from explant _ implant (2025).jpg
Lucky Marvel, still from Emergency Exits (2025).png
Eislow Johnson, still from Injured_ (2026).jpg
John Q. Public, still from Call of the Void (2025) (1).jpg
Curtis Miller, still from The Pit (2026) (1).jpg
Ben Creech, still from MICROBUDGET (2025).png

VENTURED GAINS | In-Person (4/11) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival

$12.00

Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema (1326 W. Hollywood Ave) | Saturday, April 11, 2026 - 4:00PM

Tally up your VENTURED GAINS to explore risk and reward with an abiding humor. Liability, surveillance, breaking, entering, investment, theft, and gambling. The works of this program take on "vulgar extravaganzas," "fears and veneers," and "social acerbities."

Lineup:

Emergency Exits | Lucky Marvel | US | 2025 | 8 min | Chicago Festival Premiere

Single Double Triple | Mica Georgis | United Kingdom | 2025 | 3 min | World Festival Premiere

Learning from Learning from Las Vegas | Sam Taffel and Gillian Waldo | US | 2025 | 18 min | Chicago Festival Premiere

Injured? | Eislow Johnson | US | 2026 | 14 min | World Festival Premiere

Call of the Void | John Q. Public | US | 2025 | 7 min | World Festival Premiere

The Pit | Curtis Miller | US | 2026 | 7 min | World Festival Premiere

That sanity be kept | Michael Barwise | Ireland | 2025 | 11 min | US Festival Premiere

explant / implant | Josh Weissbach | US | 2025 | 4 min | Chicago Festival Premiere

MICROBUDGET | Ben Creech | US | 2025 | 5 sec | World Festival Premiere

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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.

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