Shorts 9: Skin I’m In
Chicago Underground Film Festival
July 6, 2022
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SHORTS 9: SKIN I’M IN
Swerve
Wearing the tell-tale masks of our daunting now, five NYC performers search for a meal in a Queens market while speaking in verse. A meditation on writing and making images in the liminal space between a global pandemic and what might come next. Inspired by the writing of Filipino-America poet Paolo Javier.
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2022 Director: Lynne A. Sachs
Runtime: 7 minutes Screenwriter: Pablo Javier
Language: English, Tagalog Cast: Inney Prakash, Ray Ferriera,
Country: United States Jeff Preiss, Juliana Sass,
Premiere: Chicago Premiere Caredral
Counter Compositions – Truth to Material
This work started with a single reel of B/W silent film.
This found footage having been disassociated from its intention raises questions about the unseen and forgotten aspects of workers lives and technological histories.
The images focus on the bodies and gestures of the persons working within this factory environment.
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2022 Filmmaker: Simon Rattigan
Runtime: 14 minutes
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Amnesia
I get rid of memories selectively, as a form of self-salvation. A playback of the episodes I have lived renders no clue of who I think I am in the present. I guess many “me” reside in different parts of my memory. And the me of the present chooses to eliminate one of them.
Like the replicant interrogated in Blade Runner, the person I am now is subjected to the scathing gaze of others. And now he decides to disintegrate his existential consciousness, by sending that of the past into exile, to the horizon where it truly belongs.
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2020 Filmmaker: Yan Zhou
Runtime: 6 minutes
Language: English, Mandarin Chinese
Country: China, United States
Premiere: US Premiere
Fraktura
Fraktura is an abstract horror evoking a unique German expressionist atmosphere. Featuring lead type from the Gutenberg Museum (Mainz) and printing blocks from the Hatch Show Print (Nashville), the typographic forms, printed directly on 35mm film, move to the rhythm of an original score performed on a church organ.
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2021 Director: Judith Poireir
Runtime: 5 minutes Producer: Judith Poirier
Country: Canada, Germany Music: Jean-François Gauthier
Premiere: US Premiere
For Haruko
“I made this film for the artist Haruko Tanaka. It is footage I shot in the summer of 2018 when I was in residence at the Putnam Cottage at MacDowell, a studio Haruko had worked in the winter before. I often thought of her in the month I was there. Haruko passed a few months after I returned; I made this film in her memory.” – Lee Anne Schmitt
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2021 Director: Lee Anne Schmitt
Runtime: 10 minutes Screenwriter: Lee Anne Schmitt
Language: English Producer: Lee Anne Schmitt
Country: United States
Premiere: World Premiere
A City w/o A Map
signal communications proliferate across borders.
incongruent shapes subtracted from form.
fractal topographies without document.
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2021 Director: Josh Weissbach
Runtime: 8 minutes Producer: Josh Weissbach
Language: English
Country: United States, Cuba, Israel
Premiere: US Premiere
Nullo
A fascinating portrait of an individual with penis dysmorphia who appears to be much happier and content without the very appendage that provides many men – especially gay men – with their entire raison d’être. (Bruce LaBruce)
read full text: https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2679/
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2021 Director: Jan Soldat
Runtime: 16 minutes
Language: German
Country: Australia, Germany
Premiere: Midwest Premiere
Incantation
A serendipitous ritual of memory
Colliding archives of body and place
A cine-incantation to freedom and (be)longing
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2021 Filmmaker: Kalpana Subramanian
Runtime: 9 minutes
Language: English
Country: United States, India
A.I. Mama
A young programmer attempts to resurrect their lost mother by building an A.I. with human memories
Showings:
Sun, Jul 31st, 4:30 PM @ Logan Theatre
Year: 2020 Director: Asuka Lin
Runtime: 5 minutes Screenwriter: Asuka Lin
Country: United States Producer: Giuliana Foulkes
Premiere: Midwest Premiere Cast: Reinabe
Logan Theatre
2646 N. Milwaukee Avenue
July 31, 2022, 4:30 – 6:30 PM CDT
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