Film
Pranking the Powerful: Culture jammers the Yes Men appear at the Co-Prosperity Sphere
June 19, 2007. The scene is a large, fluorescently-lit conference room, walls draped in threatening black curtains, the air chiming with the scattered tinkling of metal, glass, and thick, cream-colored hotel-grade dinnerware. Slight murmurs drift upwards from a series of round tables filled with the occupants’ self-satisfied smiles. If it weren’t for the overabundance... »
Farming on Film: Mitra Sticklen documents life on the urban farm
“It’s not hard to make this stuff look good,” says filmmaker Mitra Sticklen, pausing in between shots of the bright green kale and collards on display on a stand at the 61st Street Farmers Market. “It’s beautiful stuff—beautiful footage.” The stand belongs to Windy City Harvest, an urban agriculture job training program of the... »
Doc of Love: From Ozu to Grit to WTF, what’s playing this quarter at the University of Chicago
Be still my caffeine-addicted, jumpy heart. Spring might not be in the air quite yet, but this quarter brings a new Doc Films calendar to plaster dorm and apartment walls across Hyde Park. And who should be on this quarter’s sepia-toned, oversized broadsheet but Cary Grant, heartthrob? Though Doc calendars are usually relegated to... »
Stereoscopic Dreams: Zoe Beloff uses archaic media to explore the boundary between illusion and reality
Though it’s been a goal of artists for centuries to simulate the experience of dreaming while awake—from lush romantic canvases of pastoral excess to surrealistic disjunction—the medium in which such a state is achieved shifts with time and technology. Artist Zoe Beloff, who works primarily in film and live performance, takes the dream almost... »
