Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL Opens Chicago Underground Film Festival with a “provocative” lineup for its 26th edition
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL Opens The Chicago Underground Film Festival, with the lineup for its 26th edition, taking place on June 5-9.
Known for featuring an international slate of innovative, exciting and provocative films and videos, Chicago Underground Film Festival bookends this year’s film festival with two films that epitomize those three words.
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL Opens The Chicago Underground Film Festival with Nicole Brending’s DOLLHOUSE: THE ERADICATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE as the Closer
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL will screen as the Opening Night selection on Wednesday, June 5, and Nicole Brending’s DOLLHOUSE: THE ERADICATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE is the Closing Night selection, screening on June 9 – both at Logan Theater (2646 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
Chicago Underground Film Festival has diverse slate with over 104 films
In addition to the 12 features on its slate, Chicago Underground Film Festival will also screen 12 thematic shorts programs and additional programming featuring 104 films. Underlining the film festival’s draw as a place where new work and talent make their debut, as well as introducing Chicago and Midwestern audiences to new and exciting voices in cinema, this year’s slate includes 10 world premieres, 1 international premiere, 1 North American premieres, 9 U.S. premieres, and 34 Midwest premieres.
CUFF Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf, said, “This year’s exciting group of films came to us through our ever-growing number of submissions and films that truly struck us at other festivals. It is as diverse a slate as we have ever had, with films that will entertain in the purest sense, but also challenge and surprise our audiences whether it be through the stories told or the documentary subjects that are being focused on. As always, we want to introduce everyone to films and filmmakers that gave us a thrill when we first saw their films, and inspired us to re-think what we just saw and perhaps debate about it with our friends.”
Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL will make its Midwest premiere
Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL will make its Midwest premiere as the Opening Night selection on Wednesday, June 5. In the film, a punk band is ensnared in a murder plot by an indigenous family whose mother communicates telepathically with her meditation companions, a
Rastafarian hacker and a Buddhist whose son is a member of a secret militia. While this motley crew goes about their business, the drones fly overhead, seeing all.
Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL previously screened at Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real festival, and the screening at Chicago Underground Film Festival will mark a return to the film festival by Khalil, whose film INAATE/SE/ (which he co-directed with his brother Zack Khalil) won a jury award in 2017.
Closing Night will feature Nicole Brending’s puppet animation satire DOLLHOUSE: THE ERADICATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE.
The disturbingly entertaining feature film directorial debut of Brending recently won both Best Feature and The Spirit of Slamdance awards at the 2019 Slamdance Film Festival. DOLLHOUSE charts the rise and fall of fictional child pop star Junie Spoons as her life story (and the ensuing disasters) unfold, as told by those who knew her.
From losing her virginity in a sex tape to 24-hour marriages to a Patty-Hearst style kidnapping and bank heist to the murder of her mother, the film reveals the hypocrisies of an opportunistic society that preys on the talents and contributions of women, the film is a scathing look at what it means to be female in a modern world. Assaulted by men, women, the media, and a new era obsessed with identity and entitlement, Junie’s fall from grace is a cautionary tale about the consequences of denying women their own voice and perspective.
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL screen among other notables
Two notable premieres among the feature films include the North American premiere of Ian Haig’s THE FOAMING NODE, which tells the story of the last remaining observers who were members of a cult of sorts who followed the transmissions and evacuations of the mysterious Foaming Node, whose main project and mission was the distribution of the human body.
The U.S. premiere of Marco Porsia’s documentary WHERE DOES A BODY END? focuses on the Swans, from their roots as a post-punk band through their ill-fated bid at mainstream in the 90s indie-rock goldrush, through breakups and chaos to their current status as one of the most accomplished bands in the world.
Among Opening Night Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL
A number of feature films will be making their Midwest premieres at Chicago Underground Film Festival.
Those films include; Adam Sekuler’s immersive verité 36 HOURS, about a woman’s pregnancy and birthing experience; Emmanuelle Antille’s music documentary A BRIGHT LIGHT – KAREN AND THE PROCESS, which focuses on the 60s enigma that was Karen Dalton;
Aaron Schimberg’s CHAINED FOR LIFE, which stars Jess Weixler (TEETH) as an actress who struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on a film shoot;
Kavich Neang’s documentary LAST NIGHT I SAW YOU SMILING, which takes a look at Phnom Penh’s iconic housing block, the “White Building” and the history it has weathered prior to being demolished;
Lonnie Martin’s THE LAST OF THE MANSON GIRLS, which follows a counterculture journalist as he investigates Manson followers Sandra Good, Brenda McCann, and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme;
Peter Parlow’s THE PLAGIARISTS, about a young couple dealing with emotional fallout from a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act done to them.
Stuart Swezey’s documentary DESOLATION CENTER, about the punk rock desert concerts and “happenings” during the Reagan-era, will make its Chicago debut.
Included in the impressive slate of shorts screening this year in the thematic shorts programs as well as accompanying features at CUFF are several short films making their world premieres. Those films include; Patrick Müller’s ACTUALLY, THIS IS NOT A FILM; Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns’ ARK 3: CROSSOVERCHRONICLES; Giuliana Foulkes’ BLACK BOX; Lina Sieckmann, Miriam Gossing, and Nicole Wegner’s CHINA LIGHT; Jake Hart’s COREDEMPTRIX; Robert C. Banks Jr., and John W. Carlson’s DON’T BE STILL; Kate Kapuza’s HUNKS; Ellery Chalmers’ JAMES L THOMPSON CENTER; Monica Panzarino’s MEMORY; and K$K’s WALKED IN.
Festival passes and tickets are on-sale now. For more information, visit www.cuff.org.
2019 Chicago Underground Film Festival Official Selections
FEATURE FILMS
Chicago Underground Film Festival – Opening Night Selection
EMPTY METAL Midwest Premiere
Directors: Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer
Country: USA, Running Time: 85 min
A punk band is ensnared in a murder plot by an indigenous family whose mother communicates telepathically with her meditation companions, a Rastafarian hacker and a Buddhist whose son is a member of a secret militia. While this motley crew goes about their business, the drones fly overhead, seeing all.
Chicago Underground Film Festival – Closing Night Selection
DOLLHOUSE: THE ERADICATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE
Director: Nicole Brending
Country: USA, Running Time: 91 min
The
disturbingly entertaining feature debut of director Nicole Brending,
DOLLHOUSE: THE ERADICATION OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY FROM AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE charts the rise and fall of
fictional child pop star Junie Spoons as
her life story (and the ensuing disasters) unfold,
as told by those who knew her. Set in the bubble gum pop world of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan and told in the
style of VH1’s Behind The Music, Junie’s story tops itself one scandal after another
as she rockets to international stardom
and then faces the aftermath of life under
scrutiny.
36 HOURS Midwest Premiere
Director: Adam Sekuler
Country: USA, Running Time: 77 min
Angelle is in labor. She rides the waves of emotion and physical pain without pharmaceutical intervention as she, along with her partner Nathan and her mother, try to follow a natural birth plan. As her contractions get heavier, though, Angelle gets caught in the undertow of time. Her birth is taking much longer than expected. With her preconceived notions of birth shattered, Angelle must make difficult decisions, bringing into focus the true work of motherhood and womanhood. Weaving together immersive verité filmmaking and expressionistically captured movement sequences is a tour de feminine force.
A BRIGHT LIGHT – KAREN AND THE PROCESS Midwest Premiere
Director: Emmanuelle Antille
Country: Switzerland, Running Time: 94 min
A music documentary, a cinematographic essay that travels across the United States in Karen Dalton’s footsteps. In search of one of the 1960’s most astonishing voices, worshiped by her peers, but unknown to the general public, the film also questions the process of creation, its frantic and mesmerizing paths.
CHAINED FOR LIFE Midwest Premiere
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Country: USA, Running Time: 91 min
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur’s English-language debut.
DESOLATION CENTER
Director: Stuart Swezey
Country: USA, Running Time: 93 min
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era anarchic punk rock desert happenings that still reverberate throughout our culture, DESOLATION CENTER transported punk and industrial music fans in rented school buses into the far reaches of the Mojave Desert for now-legendary performances. DESOLATION CENTER is a feature documentary about these guerilla music and performance events staged in remote and unusual locations. Directed by the principal organizer of the events, Stuart Swezey, DESOLATION CENTER is the true story of how the risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders can unintentionally lead to seismic cultural shifts.
THE FOAMING NODE North American Premiere
Director: Ian Haig
Country: USA, Running Time: 65 min
THE FOAMING NODE tells the story of the last remaining observers who were members of a cult of sorts who followed the transmissions and evacuations of the mysterious Foaming Node, whose main project and mission was the distribution of the human body. This is their story.
LAST NIGHT I SAW YOU SMILING Midwest Premiere
Director: Kavich Neang
Countries Cambodia/France, Running Time: 78 min
Since 1963, Phnom Penh’s iconic housing block, the “White Building”, witnessed a tremendous set of events: the young nation’s “Golden Age”; a traumatic breakdown under a radical regime; decades of cultural revival centered within its walls; and, the rapid pace of capitalist development that would ultimately lead to its demise. Kavich Neang, born here in 1987, is one of hundreds of residents who must leave immediately. He picks up a camera to record. When demolition comes, it’s all a memory.
THE LAST OF THE MANSON GIRLS Midwest Premiere
Director: Lonnie Martin
Country: USA, Running Time: 73 min
Convinced there’s more to the Manson murders than meets the public eye, counterculture journalist Paul Krassner embarks on an LSD tinged investigation of the last of Manson’s disciples: Sandra Good, Brenda McCann, and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.
THE PLAGIARISTS Midwest Premiere
Director: Peter Parlow
Country: USA, Running Time: 76 min
THE PLAGIARISTS follows a young novelist and her cinematographer boyfriend, who are caught in a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend in upstate New York. Needing shelter, a man puts them up for the night. However, months later a discovery puts the evening into a different context, bringing resentments to the surface.
THE WASHING SOCIETY Midwest Premiere
Directors: Lynne Sachs, Lizzie Olesker
Country: USA, Running Time: 44 min
THE WASHING SOCIETY brings us into New York City laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there. A cinematic collage of narrative, experimental and documentary elements creates a dream-like, yet hyper-real portrayal of a day in the life of a laundry worker, both past and present.
WHERE DOES A BODY END? U.S. Premiere
Director: Marco Porsia
Country: USA, Running Time: 121 min
An intimate portrait of the Swans, from their roots as a post-punk band through their ill-fated bid at mainstream in the 90s indie-rock goldrush, through breakups and chaos to their current status as one of the most accomplished bands in the world.
SHORT FILMS
ONLY THE TRUTH DISGUISED IN A DREAM
TRT: 64 min
THE KANSAS CITY GORK (1968)
Directors: Dennis Lo, Thomas Baum
Country: USA, Running Time: 16 min
LINE OF APOGEE (1968)
Director: Lloyd Michael Williams
Country: USA, Running Time: 16 min
UPPE U ESS (1965)
Director: Ronald Nameth
Country: USA, Running Time: 16 min
VARIATIONS (1967)
Director: Mike Kuchar
Country: USA, Running Time: 16 min
Shorts 1: TRASVERSE LINE
TRT: 82 min
CLAMS CASINO Midwest Premiere
Director: Pam Nasr
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:27 min
FEEL GOOD
Director: Kathryn Lee
Country: USA, Running Time: 8:51 min
FORECLOSED HOME MOVIE
Director: Lisa Danker
Country: USA, Running Time: 8 min
FRONTIER WISDOM
Director: Jenna Caravello
Country: USA, Running Time: 5:13 min
LARP: A LOVE STORY Midwest Premiere
Director: Summre Garber
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:33 min
RUSSIAN WINDOWS
Director: Olivia Ebertz
Countries: Russia/USA, Running Time: 15:35 min
STREAKERS
Director: Brielle Brilliant
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:55 min
WINNERS BITCH
Director: Sam Gurry
Country: USA, Running Time: 7 min
WUNDERKAMMER
Director: Jennifer Linton
Country: Canada, Running Time: 5:36 min
Shorts 2: THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
TRT: 86 min
ARK
Director: Michael Morris
Country: USA, Running Time: 7 min
DANNY’S SUPER 8
Directors: Colin Russell, Alec Rodriques
Country: USA, Running Time: 4 min
DON’T BE STILL World Premiere
Directors: Robert C. Banks Jr., John W. Carlson
Country: USA, Running Time: 3:37 min
KODAK Midwest Premiere
Director: Andrew Norman Wilson
Country: USA, Running Time: 30 min
LOVE AND THE EPIPHANISTS (PART 1) Midwest Premiere
Director: Scott Stark
Country: USA, Running Time: 30 min
NEGATIVE 25 Midwest Premiere
Director: Jenny Stark
Country: USA, Running Time: 3 min
NIGHT CLERK
Director: Damon Mohl
Country: USA, Running Time: 1:35 min
VERA Midwest Premiere
Director: Karen Yasinsky
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:51 min
Shorts 3: THE KISS
TRT: 85 min
FLING
Director: Levni Yilmaz
Country: USA, Running Time: 23:30 min
IT’S A MATCH
Director: Annabella Schnabel
Country: USA, Running Time: 13:42 min
MAKE OUT PARTY
Director: Emily Esperanza
Country: USA, Running Time: 24:33 min
NOBODY LIKES YOU AS MUCH AS I DO? Midwest Premiere
Director: Jerzy Rose
Countries: USA/France, Running Time: 15 min
TWO GIRLS ONE AFTERNOON Midwest Premiere
Director: Katrina del Mar
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:30 min
Shorts 4: THE TREACHERY OF IMAGES
TRT: 85 min
24 (TWENTY-FOUR) BURNED EYELASHES U.S. Premiere
Director: Tetsuya Maruyama
Countries: Brazil/Japan, USA, Running Time: 1:57 min
A STUDY OF FLY
Director: Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
Country: USA, Running Time: 12:45 min
ABSENT REFERENT
Director: Riikka Gröndahl
Countries: Finland/Sweden, Running Time: 10:14 min
THE AIR OF THE EARTH IN YOUR LUNGS
Director: Ross Meckfessel
Countries: USA/Japan, Running Time: 11 min
CHINA NOT CHINA Midwest Premiere
Director: Richard Tuohy
Countries: Australia/Taiwan/Hong Kong, Running Time: 14 min
JAMES R. THOMPSON CENTER World Premiere
Director: Ellery Chalmers
Country: USA, Running Time: 5:20 min
LAS BREAS Midwest Premiere
Directors: Laura Kraning, Blue Kraming
Country: USA, Running Time: 12:20 min
NEVER NEVER LAND Midwest Premiere
Director: Michael Fleming
Countries: The Netherlands/USA, Running Time: 9:15 min
SIR BAILEY U.S. Premiere
Director: Matthew Ripplinger
Country: Canada, Running Time: 8 min
Shorts 5: HARMONY SQUARES WITH CONCENTRIC RINGS
TRT: 87 min
A PROTEST, A CELEBRATION, A MIXED MESSAGE International Premiere
Director: Rhea Storr
Country: UK, Running Time: 11:46 min
HOARDERS WITHOUT BORDERS 1.0
Director: Jodie Mack
Country: USA, Running Time: 5:44 min
OPERATION JANE WALK Midwest Premiere
Directors: Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner
Country: Austria, Running Time: 16:14 min
ORE U.S. Premiere
Director: Claudia Larcher
Country: Austria, Running Time: 6 min
RECKONING 7
Director: Kent Lambert
Country: USA, Running Time: 4:34 min
ROUGHLY DELICATE
Director: Heqiuzi Wang
Country: USA, Running Time: 16:14 min
SWATTED
Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Country: France, Running Time: 21:15 min
TRIGGER WARNING
Director: Scott Fitzpatrick
Country: Canada, Running Time: 5 min
Shorts 6: THE NINTH WAVE
TRT: 86 min
ARTIST STATEMENT Midwest Premiere
Director: Shayna Connelly
Country: USA, Running Time: 5:15 min
ATOMKRAFTWERK ZWENTENDORF
Director: Hope Tucker
Countries: USA/Austria, Running Time: 16:40 min
THE COMIC SANS VIDEO
Director: Roger Beebe
Country: USA, Running Time: 8:22 min
HALL OF FISHES
Director: Jennifer Boles,
Country: USA, Running Time: 9:04 min
IT’S GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL Midwest Premiere
Directors: Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
Countries: USA/Mexico, Runtime: 8:41 min
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Director: Bill Brown
Country: USA, Running Time: 28:13 min
ON THE LINE Midwest Premiere
Director: Tina Takemoto
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:40 min
THE REAL THING
Director: Julianna Villarosa
Countries: USA/Mexico, Running Time: 2:45 min
Shorts 7: THIS KNOT OF LIFE
TRT: 87 min
BLACK BOX World Premiere
Director: Giuliana Foulkes
Country: USA, Running Time: 20:30 min
THE EDDIES
Director: Madsen Minax
Country: USA, Running Time: 16:05 min
EXIT STRATEGY #2
Director: Kym McDaniel
Country: USA, Running Time: 5:18 min
FIVE SECRETS TO MOM
Director: Charles Dillon Ward
Country: USA, Running Time: 1:58 min
FLAME U.S. Premiere
Director: Sami van Ingen
Country: Finland, Running Time: 15 min
HER MOUTH WAS Midwest Premiere
Director: Haley McCormick
Country: USA, Running Time: 8:17 min
PIEDAD U.S. Premiere
Director: Naya (The Outdoor Cat)
Country: Spain, Running Time: 14 min
SLOWER
Director: Kelly Gallagher
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:49 min
Shorts 8: THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE POET
TRT: 92 min
BOOKANIMA: DANCE
Director: Shon Kim
Country: South Korea, Running Time: 7:31 min
E-TICKET
Director: Simon Liu
Countries: Hong Kong/UK, Running Time: 13 min
_GALORE
Director: Bernd Lützeler
Countries: Germany/India, Running Time: 8:30 min
GONE SALE
Director: Matt Meindl
Country: USA, Running Time: 5 min
MUDANZA CONTEMPORÁNEA
Director: Teo Guillem
Country: Spain, Running Time: 20 min
THE SEQUENCE OF YEARS
Director: Ben Balcom
Country: USA, Running Time: 8:30 min
UNTITLED (TIME)
Director: Julie Murray
Country: USA, Running Time: 14:53 min
WATERMARKS Midwest Premiere
Director: Sara Suarez
Country: USA, Running Time: 14:03 min
Shorts 9: EXILE FROM THE SHORE OF REASON
TRT: 85 min
2000 WOMEN NAMED STACY
Director: Jessie Darnell
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:04 min
A COLLECTION OF ATTEMPTS IN ASTRAL TRAVEL
Directors: Ryan Betschart, Rachel Nakawatase
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:18 min
ANIMAL CONDENSED>>>ANIMAL EXPANDED #2 U.S. Premiere
Director: Jennet Thomas
Country: UK, Running Time: 14:06 min
ARK3: CROSSOVERCHRONICLES World Premiere
Directors: Darrin Martin, Torsten Zenas Burns
Country: USA, Running Time: 25:10 min
HUNKS World Premiere
Director: Kate Kapuza
Country: USA, Running Time: 2:48 min
MY DADDY WAS A GUNMAN
Director: Jimmy Schaus
Country: USA, Running Time: 1:47 min
TECHNOLOGY LAKE: MEDITATIONS ON DEATH AND SEX
Director: Brandon Daley, Running Time: 8:09 min
TOPOGRAPHIES OF A DISTANT NOISE
Director: Agustin Telo
Country: Argentina, Running Time: 3:03 min
WE LOVE ME
Director: Naween Noppakun
Country: Thailand, Running Time: 13:18 min
Shorts 10: THE NIGHT WATCH
TRT: 88 min
A LEAF IS A SEA IS A THEATER
Director: Jonathan Schwartz
Country: USA, Running Time: 16:24 min
AND BY THE NIGHT
Director: Anna Kipervaser
Countries: Ukraine/USA, Running Time: 9:45 min
CALDER FOR PETER
Director: Ephraim Asili
Country: USA, Running Time: 11 min
CONSOLAR Midwest Premiere
Director: Susan DeLeo
Country: USA, Running Time: 4:52 min
COREDEMPTRIX World Premiere
Director: Jake Hart
Country: USA, Running Time: 7:07 min
GLORIA’S CALL
Director: Cheri Gaulke
Country: USA, Running Time: 16:47 min
I HOPE I’M LOUD WHEN I’M DEAD
Director: Beatrice Gibson
Countries: USA/UK/Italy, Running Time: 20:47 min
TULIPS ARE MY FATHER’S FAVORITE FLOWER U.S. Premiere
Director: Nisha Platzer
Country: Canada, Running Time: 1 min
Shorts 11: I WAS A RICH MAN’S PLAYTHING
TRT: 86 min
DO IT AGAIN
Director: Curtis Miller
Country: USA, Running Time: 8:43 min
THE FILM MACHINE
Directors: Sonia and Miriam Albert-Sobrino
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:05 min
GOODBYE FOREVER PARTY
Director: Jonni Phillips
Country: USA, Running Time: 19:14 min
HEDGE
Director: Amanda Bonaiuto
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:05 min
MIDNIGHT CONFESSION Midwest Premiere
Director: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Countries: Germany/USA, Running Time: 10:22 min
WALKED IN World Premiere
Director: K$K
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:14 min
YELLOW HAIR Midwest Premiere
Director: Lee Lynch
Country: USA, Running Time: 25:18 min
Screening with Features and Events
A CHORUS OF BLACK VOIDS SINGS IN Midwest Premiere
RAYS OF UNSEEABLE LIGHT
Director: Michael Morris
Country: USA, Running Time: 15 min
(Screens at Opening Night After Party)
ACTUALLY, THIS IS NOT A FILM World Premiere
Director: Patrick Müller
Country: Germany, Running Time: 4:42 min
(Screens with THE PLAGIARISTS)
THE BLESSED ASSURANCE Midwest Premiere
Director: Isabelle Carbonell
Country: USA, Running Time: 21:32 min
(Screens with THE WASHING SOCIETY)
CHINA LIGHT World Premiere
Directors: Lina Sieckmann, Miriam Gossing, Nicole Wegner
Country: Germany, Running Time: 4 min
(Screens with DESOLATION CENTER)
EVERY GRAIN OF RICE
Director: Carol Nguyen
Country: USA, Running Time: 6:19 min
(Screens with THE WASHING SOCIETY)
IVRY
Director: Jake Oleson
Country: USA, Running Time: 9:26 min
(Screens with LAST NIGHT I SAW YOU SMILING)
LICENSE & REGISTRATION Midwest Premiere
Director: Jackson Ezinga
Country: USA, Running Time: 9:50 min
(Screens with THE LAST OF THE MANSON GIRLS)
LUMEN Midwest Premiere
Director: Richard Ashrowan
Country: Scotland, Running Time: 3:09 min
(Screens with THE WASHING SOCIETY)
MEMORY World Premiere
Director: Monica Panzarino
Country: USA, Running Time: 4:12 min
(Screens with DOLLHOUSE)
PRESSED
Director: Kimberly Forero-Arnias
Country: USA, Running Time: 5:20 min
(Screens with 36 HOURS)
PITUVAHALAYÂ (THE EXILE) Midwest Premiere
Director: Rajee Samarasinghe
Country: Sri Lanka, Running Time: 7:49 min
(Screens with THE WASHING SOCIETY)
SHADOWBANNED U.S. Premiere
Director: Jon Rafman
Country: Canada, Running Time: 8 min
(Screens with THE FOAMING NODE)
SKIN OF MAN Midwest Premiere
Director: Jimmy Joe Roche
Country: USA, Running Time: 10:18 min
(Screens with THE FOAMING NODE)
Expanded Cinema Performances
LINEAGE (FOR NORMAN MCLAREN)
Director: Roger Beebee
WHAT IS NOTHING (AFTER WHAT IS NOTHING)
Director: Kristin Reeves
Running Time: 10 min
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s EMPTY METAL Opens Chicago Underground Film Festival with a “provocative” lineup for its 26th edition
By provocative do you mean transphobic? Brending’s film is the most disgusting piece of hate art I’ve seen since they made me watch Birth of a Nation in school.