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Reckless Inspiration
First impressions, they say, stay with you permanently. A small audience was reminded of this when they gathered on March 11 in the Film Studies Center of the University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall to attend Fire Escape Films’ Winter Screening of new student films. The evening featured six short premieres by both first-time filmmakers... »
Behind the Scenes: UofC students’ feature film premieres at Doc Films
Jack Mayer is nervous. Leaning on a metal desk in the one-room office of Fire Escape Films in the basement of the University of Chicago’s Ida Noyes Hall, surrounded by cameras, cables, and computers, the young film director and fourth-year college student holds the brim of a tropical print ball cap and stares at... »
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... »
The Life and Death of the RSO: A glimpse into the nature of student organizations
College was supposed to be a land of both social and academic opportunity. To a large extent it is, even at a work-intensive school like the University of Chicago. But how exactly these opportunities present themselves, and how ardently we protect them and involve ourselves, is a more complicated tale. »
Two Days, One Film
“It’s a transmitter, D Radio for speaking to God.” Valois Restaurant. Strobe Light. At six o’clock in Cox Lounge this is the only direction in which our team’s film is going. This is the first hour of University of Chicago filmmaking society Fire Escape Films’ Second Annual 48 Hour Film Festival. The goal: One... »
Jared Leibowich and the Anonymous Nothing: A UofC student finishes a feature-length film with a dream and a Super-8 camera
Jared Leibowich, a fourth-year Cinema & Media Studies student at the University of Chicago, has finished postproduction on “John Doe and the Anonymous Nothing,” a film he has been working on since high school. Before his film was screened for the public for the first time, he eagerly agreed to an interview. On the... »
