Our Annual Seasonal Potluck
Nightingale Trailer 2013
Sunday, November 24th at 2:00 pm, Free
It’s time again for The NIGHTINGALE’s annual holiday shindig. Let’s all gather together and fortify for the coming winter. Please bring a dish or drink to share. Chloe and I will handle the basics: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes. Jay will brew a special home brew beer.
As in years past, we will be shooting a trailer for the upcoming year, so scrub up and look camera pretty. Kickstarter awards will be available for claiming. Music will be playing for dancing. Friends will be around for chatting up.
Doors at 2:00 pm
Dinner at 3:00 pm
Shoot at 4:00 pm
Kids are welcome, and please consider bringing a shelf-stable item for our food drive!
Thanks For Supporting Chicago Cinema!
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Friday, November 22nd at 8:00 pm, $7-10
Artists in Person!
This screening will showcase eleven of the films, and several readings from the Strange Attractors collection. Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities, is an extraordinary 288 page, full color, book and 120 minute DVD encompassing art, writing and film.
Strange Attractors includes the work of 70 artists, writers and filmmakers who have created remarkable explorations of possible extraterrestrial life forms and their multifarious sexual desires. A joint publication of Encyclopedia Destructica and The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality, Strange Attractors straddles the line between speculative scientific exploration and artistic imagination.
Program Notes:
Videos Part I
1) Kate Gilbert and Jenn Kolmel “Alien Sex Video”
2) Bum Lee “Recombination”
3) Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin “AnimatronLove”
4) Jacob Ciocci “Take Me”
5) Peggy Ahwesh “The Third Body”
Reading by Vanessa Roveto
Videos Part II
6) Amy Johnson “Sing Siren Song”
7) Mike Harringer and Joshua Thorson “Masturbation in Space”
8) Scott Andrew “Neraides Fall of Subterrestrial Hive”
9) Shana Moulton “Green Portal 43″
10) Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver “The Obligate Symbionts of Colubus Grand”
11) Michael Mallis and Mikey McParlane “Love Puddles”
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animation,
artist in attendance,
experimental
Saturday, November 16th at 8:00 pm, $7-10
Artists in Person!
www.jennifer-chan.com
Jennifer Chan works with video, performance, and web-based media. She makes deliberately kitsch remix videos as a form of social commentary on art and gender after the Internet. Chan has had solo exhibitions at the Marshall McLuhan Salon in the Embassy of Canada in Berlin for Transmediale 2013 (Germany), Vox Populi (Philadelphia) and VideoFag (Toronto). Her work recently showed Moving Image (London), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), Trinity Square Video (Toronto), Brooklyn International Festival of Performance Art (Brooklyn), Future Gallery (Berlin), Abandon Normal Devices Festival (Manchester), Interstate Projects (New York City), and Images Festival (Toronto).
She is a recipient of the Mississauga Art Awards for Emerging Visual Talent in 2008. Chan has presented on her work at Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK) and Hyperallergic’s tumblr art symposium (New York City, US). Her work has appeared on Rhizome, Furtherfield and ArtForum. She has a HBA in Communications, Culture, Information Technology from University of Toronto and a MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University. Chan was born in Ottawa and raised in Hong Kong. She currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
In this evening’s program you can expect to see feminist identities on the net, post internet art practices, juvenile masculinity, consumer culture, and of course sex, love, and pain. Don’t miss it!
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animation,
artist in attendance,
experimental,
new media,
performance
Films by Chris Kennedy
Wednesday, November 13th at 8:00 pm, $7-10
The Nightingale is pleased to present a program of (mostly) 16mm film work by Chris Kennedy.
Program Details:
lay claim to an island-13 minutes, 16mm on video, 2009
Janes Window- 10.5 minutes, 35mm on video, 2005
Memo to Pic Desk- 6.5 minutes, 16mm, 2006
Tamalpais- 14 minutes, 16mm, color, 2009
Brimstone Line- 10 minutes, 16mm, 2013
Genesee- 3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 2011
Chris Kennedy (b. 1977 Easton, Maryland) is an independent filmmaker, film programmer and writer based in Toronto. He programmed for the Images Festival from 2003-06 and Pleasure Dome from 2000-06. He co-founded and co-programs Early Monthly Segments and programs TIFF Cinematheque’s The Free Screen. He is the new Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. His short experimental films have screened at over one hundred film festivals worldwide and have been featured in solo shows at the Canadian Film Institute, Los Angeles Film Forum, Nam June Paik Art Center, the La Plata Semana del Film Experimental and the Pacific Film Archive. He has presented the work of others in Belgium, Egypt, Germany, the US and Canada. He holds an MFA from an art school in San Francisco, where he was co-founder and host of a weekly film salon. His work as an artist and programmer operates in dialogue with the history of film as art, exploring the medium’s materiality in a contemporary context.
“Often combining a careful concern with the apparatus and a high degree of formal rigour with thoughtful attention to social reality and history, Kennedy’s films examine the interpenetration of a kind of phenomenology – how the things of the world appear to consciousness – with the material possibilities of film (multiple exposures, hand processing, found footage, multi-frame presentations).” - Scott Birdwise, Canadian Film Institute
http://theworldviewed.com/
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experimental,
film,
found footage
