Animated film made by four boys (Mardik Sikat, Philip Tascon, Richard Saenz and Rayundo Villarreal) from St. Thomas of Canterbury grade school. "Fe...
Metro!!! The School Without Walls (Rod Nordberg, 1970) is an eighteen-minute documentary about the Chicago Public High School for Metropol...
A documentary presentation from the point of view of the Vice Lords, a group of boys on Chicago's West Side, a description of their world as they k...
Shot by filmmaker Jeff Kreines on Veterans Day in 1970 when he was only 16 years old, the film showed at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and was select...
A University of Chicago student film production and “Young Chicago Filmmakers Festival” award winner in 1971, Holden Franz Aust’s "In The Divine Pl...
A South Shore High School student film that is an allegory on the wastefulness of war and the duplicity of those who wage it. Filmmaker Wayne Willi...
A two-and-a-half minute image-packed expression of the evolution of man out of suffering seen through the use of animated portraits, decaying clay ...
Animated student film about a personified automobile. The film is part of a series of student films that all won awards at the 1971 Young Chicago F...
A stop-motion film set to the song “Close to You” by The Carpenters. It was made by a Chicago high school student David Strutzel as a hobby in 1971...
Student film made at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago set to "Sugar Mountain," a song by Canadian folk rock singer and composer Neil Youn...
Student film about a young girl who witnesses food coming to life in a kitchen. The film is part of a series of student films that all won awards a...
Columbia College student film about a young man receiving and responding to his Vietnam draft card. The film is part of a series of student films t...
University of Illinois Chicago (UICC) student film that documents the Chicago Fire Department house and fire officers of 158 West Erie Street. Imag...
University of Illinois Chicago (UICC) animated student film about being drafted to the Vietnam War. The film is part of a series of student films t...
"Kali Nihta, Socrates" ("Goodnight, Socrates") is a story-documentary film about the destruction of a small Greek community in Chicago to make way ...
Humorous short film depicting a mother who waits for her son to return home for what seems to be decades. On the outset a serene figure, cooking an...