Nightingale Projects: The Root and the Harvest (La Raiz y la Cosecha)
The Nightingale is thrilled to announce that it will host six screenings in 2023 at the Gene Siskel Film Center under the title Nightingale Projects.
February 13
April 10
June 12
August 21
October 23
December 11
All screening dates fall on Mondays and all screenings are at 6pm.
Monday, August 21st at 6pm
Order tickets on the Gene Siskel Film Center website.
Program description in English:
Using found footage, animation and personal videos, these films from Mexico and Chicago speak to each other through long-term experience and using identity as a way of expanding time, connecting desperate times with images, and opposing the immobility of the past. The program highlights both countries and how they use the medium to talk about past events and how they affect the present. These works are ritualistically heightened, using urban video and flickering of colorful projections consisting of dialogue which is reminiscent of an image of aspirational wealth. These works are a visually pleasing, humorous hallucinatory montage consisting of concrete realities which is reminiscent of formal precision and tenderness.
Descripción del programa en Español:
Utilizando metraje encontrado, animación y videos personales, estas películas de México y Chicago hablan entre sí a través de la experiencia a largo plazo y utilizando la identidad como una forma de expandir el tiempo, conectando tiempos desesperados con imágenes y oponiéndose a la inmovilidad del pasado. El programa destaca a ambos países y cómo utilizan el medio para hablar sobre eventos pasados y cómo afectan el presente. Estas obras se realzan ritualmente, utilizando videos urbanos y el parpadeo de proyecciones coloridas que consisten en un diálogo que recuerda una imagen de riqueza aspiracional. Estas obras son un montaje visualmente alucinante, humorístico, de realidades concretas que recuerdan la precisión formal y la ternura.
Program Lineup:
The Reversal (Chicago, 2020, dir. Jennifer Boles, 11 min.)
Mexotico (Mexico, 2021, dir. Karina Rodríguez, 4 min.)
Dance of the Black Racer (Chicago, 2020, dir. Jimmy Schaus, 5 min.)
Inventario Churubusco (Mexico, 2018, dir. Elena Pardo, 7 min.)
Boundarymind (Chicago, 2021, dir. Kera MacKenzie, 12 min.)
My cell phone (Mexico, 2022, dir. Annalisa Quagliata, 2 min.)
El árbol de la noche victoriosa (Mexico, 2020, dir. Annalisa Quagliata, 1 min.)
Ñores (sin señalar) (Mexico, 2018, dir. Annalisa Quagliata, 3 min.)
La vida de un soldado (Mexico, 2018, Adriana López Garibay, 5 min.)
BLOKD (Chicago, 2017, dir. Martin Mulcahy, 7 min.)
Tigre del Carbón (Mexico, 2022, dir. Azucena Losana, 5 min.)
HOW TO STAGE A FIGHT (Chicago, 2019, dir. Danny Carroll, 3 min.)
Mer Depré (Chicago, 2016, dir. Margaret Orr, 6 min.)
You Are Here (Chicago, 2020, dir. Dena Springer, 2 min.)
Press Pound to Connect (Chicago, 2019, dir. Alexander Fingrutd, 3 min.)
Programmer Bios:
Raul Benitez is a film programmer based in Chicago with over 15 years experience. Raul is currently the After Dark and Shorts programmer for the Chicago International Film Festival and is the Senior Programmer for the Midwest Film Festival. Raul also programs for Comfort Station Logan Square, The Nightingale Cinema and Full Spectrum Features. Raul is an esteemed Artist Grant winner for the Department of Cultural Affairs for the City of Chicago in 2022. Raulito.net
Tzutzu Matzin is an audiovisual archivist and film programmer based in Xochimilco, Mexico City. She is part of the programming committee of the Ambulante. Documentary Film Festival since 2018. Tzutzu also promotes and collaborates with other initiatives that program renegade archive material and film works with found footage.