Chicago Underground Film Festival and Filmmakers Summit 2008

Display Plays With:
time rating title venue
Wednesday, October 29th
7:30 PM
Anywhere USA
Chusy Haney-Jardine 2008 | Feature, Narrative Feature | 123 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
10:00 PM
Opening Party
Party | 240 min.
Beat Kitchen
Thursday, October 30th
5:00 PM
ECU (Extreme Chicago Underground)
Panel
Viaduct Bar
5:30 PM
An Alternative to Slitting Your Wrist
Owen Lowery 2007 | Documentary Feature | 82 min.
** Note: Chicago Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
5:45 PM
Mermaid Island
Shorts Program | 80 min.
  • Mermaid | Lisa Barcy 2007
  • The Eye You Lost In the Crusades (Califone) | Jay Eckensberger 2007
  • Ellie | Robert OConnor 2006
  • The Hijab Of Dena | Erika Rydell 2007
  • Mud & Glory | Ines Sommer 2007
  • Huge Flag | Jessie Stead 2007
  • Separating Ourselves | Rachel Walker 2008
  • Nowhere Island | Hsu Ya-Ting 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
7:15 PM
How To Cross A Border
Tim Parsa 2008 | Documentary Feature | 70 min.
** Note: World Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
7:30 PM
Reel Moments
Shorts Program | 80 min.
  • Death of the Reel | Benjamin Meade 2008
  • 'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett | Andrew Filippone Jr. 2008
  • Artist Statement | Daniel Barrow 2006
  • Condensed Movie #2 | Kent Lambert 2008
  • The Universe & Young Pilot Nelson | Jerzy Rose 2008
  • City Wasp | Tod Steven, Stephan Wicki 2007
  • Paul and the Badger - Episode 3 | Paul Tarrago 2006
  • The Last Moment | Deco Dawson 2007
Viaduct Theater 2
9:00 PM
The Auteur
James Westby 2008 | Narrative Feature | 80 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
9:15 PM
Urban Artifacts
Shorts Program | 70 min.
  • Undefeated | Kevin Jerome Everson 2008
  • Waiting On God | Scott Smith 2006
  • He Hates To Be Second | Kelly Sears 2008
  • Broad Day | Kevin Jerome Everson 2008
  • Tripp | Alexander Rojas 2007
  • Ninety-Three | Kevin Jerome Everson 2008
  • The Scrapper | Jonathan Olshefski 2008
  • Mrs. Henderson's Kids | Veena Rao 2007
Viaduct Theater 2
10:00 PM
Thursday Night Party
Party | 240 min.
** Note: Free Event
The Hungry Brain
10:30 PM
Hoopeston
Thomas Bender 2007 | Documentary Feature | 79 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
Friday, October 31st
11:00 AM
TUG: Anatomy of a Red Camera Project
Panel, Production and Technology | 90 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
12:45 PM
The Digital Intermediate Workflow
Panel, Production and Technology | 90 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
2:30 PM
Music and Sound Design
Panel, Production and Technology | 75 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
3:00 PM
Break-out Session: Kodak
Panel, Production and Technology
Viaduct Theater 2
4:00 PM
“Night Tide” Case Study
Panel, Production and Technology | 75 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
5:00 PM
ECU (Extreme Chicago Underground)
Panel
Viaduct Bar
5:30 PM
The Golden Age of Fish
Kevin Jerome Everson 2008 | Experimental Feature, Narrative Feature | 70 min.
Viaduct Theater 1
6:00 PM
Hard Work
Shorts Program | 86 min.
  • 1956 | Jenny Stark 2007
  • Tour/Tower | Roger Beebe 2008
  • Isabell | Kathleen Rugh 2008
  • Dig | Robert Todd 2007
  • From Saturday to Sunday | Natalija Vekic and Christian Bruno 2008
  • A Love Story (I Want You - Pt. 1 and No Matter What - Pt. 2) | Kali Heitholt 2007
  • Victory Over The Sun | Michael Robinson 2007
  • Bumblebee | Eric Ostrowski 2007
  • Yard Work is Hard Work | Jodie Mack 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
7:15 PM
She’s A Boy I Knew
Gwen Haworth 2007 | Documentary | 70 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
7:45 PM
Travel Guide
Shorts Program | 75 min.
  • Pop Bridge | Jason Halprin 2007
  • Mylar Balloon Rip-off | Jason Halprin 2007
  • Monongahela Ghost Train | Jason Halprin 2007
  • Obar | Taylor Dunne 2008
  • Frank | Bill Basquin 2005
  • Sanctuary | Vanessa O’Neill 2008
  • Themes & Variations For The Naked Eye | Caitlin Horsmon 2007
  • 21 Alleys | Robert Todd 2007
  • Ah, Liberty! | Ben Rivers 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
8:00 PM
Night Tide
Curtis Harrington 1961 | Narrative Feature | 85 min.
Gene Siskel Film Center
8:45 PM
A Necessary Death
Daniel Stamm 2008 | Narrative Feature | 101 min.
Viaduct Theater 1
9:15 PM
Research Methods
Shorts Program | 73 min.
  • Motion Studies: Inertia | Jeff Mahaffy
  • Black and White Trypps Number Four | Ben Russell 2007
  • Degradation # 1, X- Ray | James June Schneider 2007
  • Teslamania | Joel Schlemowitz 2007
  • On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts, 1969 - 1972 | Alexander Stewart and Peter Miller 2008
  • Speechless | Scott Stark 2008
  • Case Studies in Psychotherapy | Tony Gault 2008
  • Artifices #1 | Alexandre Larose 2007
  • Severing The Soul | Barbara Klutinis 2008
  • The Eternal Quarter Inch | Jesse McLean 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
10:00 PM
The Chicago Underground Film Festival presents the 9th Annual Jukebox of the Dead
Party | 240 min.
The Empty Bottle
10:30 PM
Such Hawks, Such Hounds: Scenes From The American Hard Rock Underground
Jessica Hundley, John Srebalus 2007 | Documentary Feature | 81 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
Saturday, November 1st
10:00 AM
Working the Festival Circuit
Getting Your Movie Seen, Panel | 60 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
11:15 AM
Gallery and Art Film Exhibition
Getting Your Movie Seen, Panel | 60 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
12:30 PM
New Media Exploitation
Getting Your Movie Seen, Panel | 60 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
1:00 PM
The Atom Smashers
Monica Ross, Clayton Brown 2008 | Documentary Feature | 81 min.
Viaduct Theater 1
1:45 PM
CUFF Directors Panel
Getting Your Movie Seen, Panel | 60 min.
Viaduct Theater 2
2:45 PM
Wellness
Jake Mahaffy 2008 | Narrative Feature | 94 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
3:15 PM
Rays of Light
Shorts Program | 38 min.
  • Light Is Waiting | Michael Robinson 2007
  • Canons | Keith Tassick 2008
  • Terraform Dance Party | Jeremy Bailey 2008
  • The Visit and the Play | Stephanie Barber 2008
  • Out Of Print | Danny Plotnick 2008
  • The Truth And The Pleasure | Jennet Thomas 2006
  • Tony Conrad, Dreaminimalist | Marie Losier 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
4:30 PM
Between Something & Nothing
Todd Verow 2008 | Narrative Feature | 105 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
5:00 PM
Look Out There
Shorts Program | 82 min.
  • P.R. | Bryan Leister 2006
  • Dirty Pictures | John Smith 2007
  • Circles Of Confusion | phoebe tooke 2007
  • Landscape In A Portrait | Dustin Thompson 2006
  • Norte y Sur - North and South | Luis Sanchez Ramirez 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
5:00 PM
ECU (Extreme Chicago Underground)
Panel
Viaduct Bar
6:30 PM
The Juche Idea
Jim Finn 2008 | Experimental Feature, Narrative Feature | 62 min.
** Note: Chicago Premiere
  • Whoop Draft (Water Babies) | Usama Alshaibi 2007
Viaduct Theater 2
6:45 PM
We Are Wizards
Josh Koury 2008 | Documentary Feature | 78 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
8:15 PM
Curtis Harrington Shorts
Shorts Program
  • A Fragment of Seeking | Curtis Harrington 1946
  • Picnic | Curtis Harrington 1948
  • On the Edge | Curtis Harrington 1949
  • The Wormwood Star | Curtis Harrington 1956
  • The Assignation | Curtis Harrington 1952
Viaduct Theater 1
8:30 PM
Accidents At Home And How They Happen
Jennifer Reeder 2008 | Experimental Feature, Narrative Feature | 101 min.
** Note: World Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
9:30 PM
Sleep Weep (The Zookeeper)
James Fotopoulos 2008 | Experimental Feature, featured | 111 min.
** Note: World Premiere
Viaduct Theater 2
10:15 PM
Mock Up On Mu
Craig Baldwin 2008 | Narrative Feature | 114 min.
Viaduct Theater 1
12:00 AM
I <3 Presets
Party, Performance | 120 min.
Viaduct Theater 1
Sunday, November 2nd
10:00 AM
Chic-A-Go-Go Film & Dance Party
Party, Shorts Program
** Note: Free Screening
  • The Early Nineties | Andrew Mailliard 2008
  • Digital Underpants | Matt Meindl 2008
  • It's hard to wreck a nice beach/ It's hard to recognize speech | Adebukola Bodunrin 2007
  • Hay Daze | Cindy Stillwell 2007
  • New Educational Series - Canaries In Colour | Jill Kennedy 2007
  • Missouri Fish | Gregory Gutenko 2085
  • Goblin Good Day | Jake Austen 2008
Viaduct Theater 1
1:00 PM
Silhouette City
Michael Wilson 2008 | Documentary Feature | 90 min.
Viaduct Theater 1
1:30 PM
Restless Mind
Shorts Program | 75 min.
  • The Ugly Turkey | David Essman 2007
  • His Holiness Rael | Harvey Benschoter 2007
  • Forget Her - Magic is Kuntmaster | Kristie Alshaibi 2008
  • Literally | Marty Shea 2008
  • Only Just Begun | Jennet Thomas 2006
  • Penguin Relocation | Raymond Noelle 2008
  • Spirit (Patti Smith) | Jem Cohen
  • The Adventure | Mike Brune 2007
  • Karaoke Show | Karl Tebbe 2007
  • Missing Pieces
Viaduct Theater 2
3:00 PM
It's In The Game
Dylan Griffin 2008 | Documentary Feature | 83 min.
** Note: US Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
3:15 PM
Opera Calling
Shorts Program | 76 min.
  • pea vs. carrot | Ben Hicks 2007
  • Action Film | Jennifer Hardacker 2007
  • Sog | Paddy Jolley 2007
  • Murder Capital | Marcy Saude 2007
  • The Green Grass Of Twilight | Richie Sherman 2007
  • Heron Pond: Boardwalk View | Cade Bursell 2007
  • Spider House | andrew wilson 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
4:30 PM
Deliver
jennifer montgomery 2008 | Narrative Feature | 100 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
Viaduct Theater 1
4:45 PM
Short Social Sing-alongs
Shorts Program | 65 min.
  • A Short social commentary on dancing in Second Life | Visakh Menon 2008
  • Hold Me Now | Michael Robinson 2008
  • Launch | Brian Doyle 2007
  • Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) On My Cell Phone | Darrin Martin 2008
  • Anaconda Targets | Dominic Angerame 2004
  • Prison - Beta | Lucas W. Dimick 2008
Viaduct Theater 2
5:00 PM
ECU (Extreme Chicago Underground)
Panel
Viaduct Bar
6:30 PM
Essential Information
Shorts Program | 75 min.
  • Future Antiquity: Domestic Surveillance | Lewis Weinberg 2008
  • Hobbit Love is The Greatest Love | Steve Reinke 2007
  • Ceibas: Beneath the Pressure of the Sky | Evan Meaney 2008
  • The Lincoln Library of Essential Information Volume 20 | Kelly Oliver and Keary Rosen 2008
  • Armored Cars: Protect Yourself From Ballistic Attacks | Angie Waller 2007
  • This Shall Be a Sign | James T. Hong 2007
Viaduct Theater 1
6:45 PM
The Eternal Internal
Shorts Program | 71 min.
  • Through These Trackless Waters | Elizabeth Henry 2007
  • Studies In Transfalumination | PETER ROSE 2008
  • 1 to 8 | Amy Schwartz 2008
  • The Acrobat | Chris Kennedy 2007
  • Ring | Robert Todd 2007
  • Faux Mouvements | Pip Chodorov 2008
  • Degradation #2, Scratch | James June Schneider (made in collaboration with Paul Bishow) 2008
  • Office Suite | Robert Todd 2007
Viaduct Theater 2
8:30 PM
Song Sung Blue
Greg Kohs 2008 | Documentary Feature | 87 min.
Viaduct Theater 1
10:00 PM
Closing Party and Festival Awards
Party | 240 min.
The Bottom Lounge