OCFF 2024: LIGHT BATH | ONLINE (4/8 - 4/14)
OCFF 2024: LIGHT BATH | ONLINE (4/8 - 4/14)
Chicago Filmmakers (map) | April 5 | 7PM Central | 81 Mins
Get ready for an evening that celebrates the magic of film: swirling light and sound rhythmically glide together to create pools of bodily-soothing, mind-cooling, and thought-provoking moving images. A program that includes works made on a wide range of mediums and formats, from 16mm to 3D animation to AI-generated images, LIGHT BATH invites you to swim through history, breathe in the shimmer and the convoluting, immerse yourself in the sea of sunk memories and drift into subconsciousness.
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Chicago Filmmakers does not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to make a donation. Please email coop [at] chicagofilmmakers.org to inquire about free admission.
Leaned Back | Adam Jason Cohen | USA | 2022 | 10 Mins
In a city where citizens often stay in their districts for fear of violence and designed segregation, Chicago Bike Life is facilitating the building of communities from across its neighborhoods.
Superfund | Charles Cadkin | USA | 2023 | 3 Mins
A camera roll and investigation into the landscape of West Chicago’s former Rare Earths Facility, Kress Creek and Reed-Keppler Park. Commissioned by Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive as part of Century of 16mm.
Anti Social Studies | Jose Luis Benavides | USA | 2023 | 15 Mins
A video collaboration with Chicago industrial band Conjunto Primitivo. An exploration of the ills of industrialization and urban decay, this essay film works as an anti-city symphony, while toeing the line as a dark love song to the gritty cityscape, Chicago, which the artists call home.
Glitter for Girls | Federica Foglia | Canada | 2023 | 4 Mins
A handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children).
Ardent Other* | Alice Brygo | France | 2022 | 17 Mins
A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.
*In-Person Screening Only.
Lion in the Wind | TT Takemoto | USA | 2023 | 5 Mins
A fugue for forgetting windmills in the West. This cameraless “emulsion lift” film was made from a discarded 35mm reel of a Hong Kong martial arts western featuring Jet Li as a kung fu master who loses his memory and fights bandits and windmills as he makes his journey to Chinatown.
HYPNOSUGGESTION | Per Bifrost | Sweden | 2023 | 8 Mins
After the technological singularity dissolved man into time and space, a fragment of human memory lives on in a computer-like consciousness. HYPNOSUGGESTION is a collaboration between a human and an AI, a hypnotic sci-fi thriller consisting only of still images generated by an AI, an examination of our memory and subconsciousness.
The Winged Stone | Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | 2023 | 10 Mins
Through the floating garden, into the mountain of signs and chants, arises the path of the winged stone. A stone that used to be a fossil.
Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema
In-person screenings are held at Chicago Filmmakers’ Firehouse Cinema located at 1326 W. Hollywood Ave in the Edgewater neighborhood. Please be sure to arrive 15 minutes prior to showtime and be ready to present your order confirmation number for admission.
