Apr 07, 2007, 8:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers

MFA Film and Video Screening
at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark Street, 2nd Floor

UIC School of Art and Design
MFA Film and Video Screening
at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark Street, 2nd Floor

Supervillian, Dennis Hodges, 7min, mini-dv, 2006
Appropriated video that creates an unstable narrative of guilt and condemnation, that repeats and collapses in its portrayal of a nameless perpetrator.

Bedouins, Basma Al-Sharif , 11min, mini-dv, 2007
A structuralist video that narrates the story of two girls who disappear off an unnamed shore to find themselves in a kind of pre-apocalyptic village.

The Magic Lie, Irena Knezevic, 1min, mini-dv, 2006
A simple spell in the theatre of occult gymnastics: a shadow attempts flight for the first time.

Strip, Marie Martino, 15min, mini-dv, 2007
When routine choreographies fail, one must improvise. Disconnect, collision, and entanglement abound in queer and familial love.

The Phonological Loop and the Visuospatial Sketchpad, Brandon Alvendia,
5 seconds, mini-dv, 2007
A brief exploration of memory.

Coronach, Irena Knezevic, 15 min, mini-dv, 2007
An endless mesmeric seafaring dirge. Last call for all who embark to the Underground Forest where all you know is true and music has no mercy.

Interlude, Kirsten Leenaars, 5min, 16mm color with optical sound, 2004
An intimate portrait of the artist’s ninety two year old grandmother who is slowly beginning to loose her grip on time, drifting from one world into another.

Moth, Shannon Benine, 2min, HD video, 2006
A negotiation of the politics of mediation and the private domestic life of people caught in the geographies of war.

Light is Waiting, Michael Robinson, 11min, mini-dv, 2007
A special episode of television’s Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea.


With additional works by Isak Berbic, Kenyatta Forbes, Trevor Gainer, and Selina Trepp.

Running time: approximately 100min