Chicago Filmmakers' podcast, …Like Clockwork, curates conversations between Chicago filmmakers, programmers, curators, and multi-disciplinary artists and colleagues from around the world. This is a chance to see some of the incredible work made by our guests, followed by a unique live conversation featuring all of our local filmmakers. Programmed by M. Woods (host of …Like Clockwork) and the Chicago Filmmakers programming intern team!
With a live post-screening discussion moderated by …Like Clockwork guest and former Chicago Filmmakers programming intern, Grace K. Schuler.
See more information or buy tickets here: https://chicagofilmmakers.org/upcoming-screenings-and-events/queerwritersclub-3eg2k-y462x
Featuring the work of previous …Like Clockwork guests Paige Taul, Fernando Saldivia Yañez, Lynne Sachs, Sonnie Wooden, Jason Halprin, Edgar Jorge-Baralt, Ji Stribling, Daniel Watkins & Christina Santa Cruz (CHESTNUT), Michael Mersereau, and M. Woods.
Program notes:
GOAT (Dir. Paige Taul) 2021 About a girl and her j’s. A meditation on the politics of style, collectivity, and personal taste. 2’
THE ROOTS WEAVER (Dir. Fernando Saldivia Yañez) 2021 A poetic observation of the indigenous Yaghan art of grass-weaving. 10’
OPACITY (Dir. Michael Mersereau) 2022 An invitation from one stranger to another to open up about their very first car. A sighting of a witch and a chair to sit in. Opacity is a short video honoring the cryptic and restrained, using obscure symbolism, narrative distance, and an unresolved journey into a hallucinogenic netherworld. Explores semi-biographical events blended with an atmospheric narrative in otherworldly landscapes. 5’
VENTANA (Dir. Edgar Jorge-Baralt) 2021 A retrieved picture of a window elicits memories and the impulse to recreate a lost site. By this same window, an eight year old child feels the cold air on his face and imagines the future. Filmed in Los Angeles during the late summer of 2020 as COVID-19 cases were surging and residents were advised to stay home. The act of shooting became a way to travel back and forth, if not in space, then time. 10’
COVID DIARIES - An Excerpt (Dir. Jason Halprin) 2020 - ongoing A collection of instagram shards, contemporaneous archives of media and waste. From the filmmaker: “Starting in March 2020, I began a social media project in response to the CoVid-19 pandemic. Observations and reflection, but also a sleeping City Symphony for the Montréal neighborhood where I spent lockdown. Meant to be an intervention into the scroll, these diary entries have now been edited into a second draft of personal history.” 6’
GODSPEED (Dir. Sonnie Wooden) 2021 A poetic video-jazz diary of nostalgia for home, the resonance of artistic practice. Documenting the shared and specifically Chicago experience of interactions with family and friends from the perspective of coming home and reacquainting with routes of travel. 14’
CONFESSIONAL (Dir. Michael Mersereau) 2022 A short video about a child's first seizure and descent into a technicolor hell scape of prophetic visions and faceless creatures. An absurdist experimental horror piece, its atmospheric storytelling insinuates a post coup suburban paradise and a journey into the underworld. 5’
MOCKINGBIRD [A MUSIC VIDEO FOR CHESTNUT] (Dir. M. Woods | Music by Chestnut - Christina Santa Cruz & Daniel Watkins) 2021 Chestnut (also known as the multidisciplinary artistic duo Christina Santa Cruz & Daniel Watkins), revels in waves of harmonic noise and nostalgia for an empty place that feels familiar. The titular song from the album Mockingbird, the music video is a trip through “The Numb Spiral”, from the archives of M. Woods’ Disassociative Productions, documenting a Southwestern Hellscape gospel revival. 6’
A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES (Dir. Lynne Sachs | Made with & for Barbara Hammer) 2020 In 1998 lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer took part in a one-month residency at a Cape Cod dune shack without running water or electricity, where she shot film, recorded sound and kept a journal. In 2018 she gave all of this material to Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film with it. 14’
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: Approximately 75’ w/ an additional post-screening event.