[CIMC-work] [Imc-chicago] Documentary Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson in Person This Weekend!

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CHICAGO FILMMAKERS PRESENTS


Documentary Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson in Person!



Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26
Where Radical Meets Experimental: Documentary Films by Travis Wilkerson
Travis Wilkerson in Person Both Nights!

Ann Arbor, Michigan, filmmaker Travis Wilkerson will present two
programs of his innovative works.  When most politically committed
documentaries these days never move beyond a public television
talking-heads style, Wilkerson infuses his works with experimental
techniques and radical form.  His approach to political/social
filmmaking calls into question documentary conventions and asks whether
"revolutionary" content requires "revolutionary" style.

Friday, April 25  --  8:00pm     Chicago Filmmakers  (5243 N. Clark St.)

An Injury to One + National Archive

An Injury to One (2002, 53 mins., video) "addresses the Butte, Montana,
lynching of Wobbly organizer Frank Little. [Wilkerson] delves into the
history of Montana as a story of modern capitalism. He analyzes
Anaconda, the notoriously predatory copper mining company, detailing
turn-of-the-century union organizing directed at its labor practices and
modern day environmental blight resulting from its policies.  Both a
lament and a call for action, An Injury to One is a work of historical
inquiry, a portrait of a town, a person, and a company, and an example
of a contextual study in which the parts reverberate with intelligence
and complexity." (Kathy Geritz)  Also showing is Wilkerson's National
Archive V. 1 (2001, 15 mins., video) which uses footage from gun sights
on American planes from the Vietnam War to "discover the nexus between
pure form and pure politics."


Saturday, April 26  --  8:00pm     Chicago Filmmakers  (5243 N. Clark
St.)
Accelerated Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez
Premiere of a New Revised Version!

An agitprop film whose cause is an artist, Accelerated Development
(1999/2003, approximately one hour, video), mixes biography,
autobiography, and fiction in an experimental tribute to the life and
work of the great Cuban documentary filmmaker Santiago Alvarez.  It
acknowledges Alvarez's remarkable stylistic and structural innovations
by employing similar devices to tell the story of his own life.
Utilizing a range of film and video gauges, including both new and found
footage, it also seeks to transform images from Alvarez's own films into
biographical fragments.  Above all else, it strives to pay homage to a
remarkable innovator of the documentary cinema in a manner as radical as
Alvarez's work.  Showing with some additional surprises!

Admission: $7 general; $3 Chicago Filmmakers members for each show.


[I'm looking for one or two box office volunteers for both Wilkerson
shows.  Volunteers get in free!  Contact me if you are interested.
Would need to be here at 7:15.]



Reminder:

Wednesday, April 23  --  7:00pm     Chicago Cultural Center (78 E.
Washington St.)
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003): In Memorium / In Celebration
A Special Memorial Screening
Co-presented by Chicago Review and the Chicago Department of Cultural
Affairs

Stan Brakhage, who died on March 9, was a singular, visionary filmmaker
and one of the great artists of the 20th century.  His influence was
profound, as a filmmaker, writer, teacher (including a long period at
the School of the Art Institute in the 1970s and 80s), and person.
Tonight's program, presented in memory of Brakhage the individual and in
celebration of Brakhage the artist, features ten films generously
provided by five Chicago-area admirers of Brakhage's work who personally
own prints of his films: Mimi Brav, Fred Camper, Bruce Cooper, Ken
Eisenstein, and Bill Stamets.  Immediately after the screening, there
will be an informal open microphone for people to share their
remembrances of and stories about Stan and to speak on what his work has
meant to them.  The films showing cover most of Brakhage's amazing 50
year career and include a wide range of the explorations of light,
color, texture, and rhythm that were at the heart of his aesthetic
vision. Program: Desistfilm  (1954, 7 mins., sound); Mothlight  (1963, 4
mins., silent); Door  (1971, 2 mins., silent); The Riddle of Lumen
(1972, 17 mins., silent); The Roman Numeral Series III  (1980, 2 mins. @
18fps, silent); Egyptian Series  (1983, 17 mins., silent); I ...
Dreaming  (1988, 8 mins., sound); Chartres Series  (1994, 9 mins.,
silent); Commingled Containers  (1997, 5 mins., silent); and Stately
Mansions Did Decree  (1999, 5.5 mins., silent).  Plus Encomium  (2003, 2
mins., silent), by Brian Frye. A short portrait film of Stan Brakhage.

Admission is free and open to all.




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