TAILWIND | IN-PERSON (4/5) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival
TAILWIND | IN-PERSON (4/5) | Onion City Experimental Film Festival
Chicago Filmmakers (map) | Saturday April 5, 2025 | 2:00PM
Pack the trunk and we are hitting the road, baby! This program is a collection of roadtrip memories, travelogues, family movies, and film diaries. There’s a revisit of a historic journey, a daydream in a parking lot, and—remember the solar eclipse last year that passed through the Midwest right after Onion City, on April 8? Filmmakers were not going to miss that good opportunity to make films. They are the star chasers, and their cameras, as we shall say with Jonas Mekas, “The camera is always running!”
Lineup
First Love / Late Spring | Brian Lu
As Rae drives along the road leading off campus for the last time, trapped between luggage and brimming duffel bags, she wills time to rewind itself and bring her back.
it's called round like a head | Molly Pattison, Andrew Wood
A film about two people shooting the same horizon and the staccato experience by which they try to piece together empirical knowledge of a place.
Walking from Paris to Brest | Vincent Le Port
In 1927, filmmaker Oskar Fischinger traveled for three weeks along the side roads between Munich and Berlin, filming frame by frame the people he met along the way. This is a 2020 remake of the film during a month-long walk between Paris and Brest.
We Make The Road By Walking | Ben Creech
A Midwest roadtrip symphony on the way to witness totality.
a film with sound (take three) | Josh Weissbach
A father and daughter make a new movie after the daughter requests to make a film with sound after making a silent one the previous year.
Rain | Vasilios Papaioannu
Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast-paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people.
rigmarole | Tristen Ives
Diary entries via walking around with a camera and reacting to immediate reality: light pulses, expressions of gender identity, moving across the country, and dancing like a slut.
A Home Movie | Renato Garvez Umali
Shot on color 16mm, this film is a rumination about the value of a home movie, in light of special events and the people in them.
Fantasia (The Weary Wheel) | Brett Swenson
A film that explores reproductive fantasies of suburban middle class American life, with moments of real tenderness.
Park & Ride | John Clark
A guy visits his favorite parking lot and invites viewers to reflect on the mundane and the hidden beauty within it.
How to Run a Trotline | Carl Elsaesser
A rhythmic reflection on paternal tethers, both filmic and genealogical, that fishes for something alive and kicking in each of its brimming images.
