"The one with all the ass. A lively abstraction of a sexy summer day in downtown Chicago." - Center Cinema Co-Op Filmmakers' Distribution Catal...
Underexposed scenes from a backyard barbecue in Logan Square, featuring members of the "Logan Square Rhinos" — a group of small gauge filmmakers th...
Experimental short featuring light and shadow patterns around an apartment and on filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans' legs and feet. It was likely made whil...
Julia Lesage has described Rape as "an explicitly feminist documentary film which uses experimental techniques" in order to tell the stories of rap...
An eight-minute dialectical film about the politics of representation. More specifically, it examines the politics of filmic representation of wome...
A short film centered on a woman idly walking through a farm, and along the shores of a beach. Some of the imagery is meant to recall the story of ...
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 ...
Kenji Kanesaka, one of the founding members of the “Film Independent” group and the Japan Filmmakers Co-op in Tokyo, was commissioned by Chicago pr...
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...
A young boy must choose between the Benedictine Community and the industrialized modern world. Images of both race through his mind set to the sco...
Experimental film made by Metro Movie Club member Joe Domin.
An amateur experimental film made by Sol Falon and distributed by the Society of Amateur Cinematographers (SAC).
A compilation reel featuring candid footage and interviews with various prominent members of the early-'80s Chicago independent film scene, many of...;Most well-known for his off-beat and darkly comedic documentaries about life on the margins, legendary Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo took his fir...
This color footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl is from around 1959 and it includes images of a circus sideshow, various domestic and wild animals ...
This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl is from around 1963 and it shows adults and children at an art fair, probably in or around Chicago. Among...