Mar 2005 Doings
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Listening

• Pandelis Karayorgis, Dave Rempis, Frank Rosaly @ Lux Gallery
• Steve Lantner with Dave Rempis, Kent Kessler & Michael Zerang @ Empty Bottle
• Henry Grimes Quartet with Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson & Avreeayl Ra @ HotHouse (2 nights)
• Acoustic Hard Cell [Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey] @ Chicago Cultural Center
• Jim Baker solo; All Ears Sextet @ HotHouse

Reading

• Chicago: City on the Make - Nelson Algren
• 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II - Peter Boswell, Bruce Jenkins & Joan Rothfuss
• New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right - Thomas Frank [free d/l here]
• Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty - Richard Rorty, Derek Nystrom & Kent Puckett [free d/l here]

Watching

• Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005) @ WIDC Festival, Chicago Cultural Center
• "The Animation Show 2005" @ Landmark Century Centre:
  • Bunnies (Jakob Schuh & Saschka Unseld, 2002)
  • Guard Dog (Bill Plympton, 2003)
  • The F.E.D.S. (Jen Drummond, 2002)
  • Pan With Us (David Russo, 2003)
  • Ward 13 (Peter Cornwell, 2003)
  • Rock Fish (Blur Studio/Tim Miller, 2002)
  • L'Homme sans ombre [The Man With No Shadow] (Georges Schwizgebel, 2004)
  • Fallen Art (Tomek Baginski, 2004)
  • When the Day Breaks (Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby, 1999)
  • Fireworks (PES, 2004)
  • The Meaning of Life (Don Hertzfeldt, 2005)
• "I Can't Sleep at Night" (videos) @ WIDC Festival, Chicago Cultural Center:
  • Carla Cope (Eileen McCormack, 2004, video)
  • Simulation (Cynthia Madansky, 2005, video)
  • Disunion of the Union of Suffering (Wenhwa Ts'ao, 2004, video)
  • I Come From Iraq (Nadia Shihab, 2004, video)
  • Newspaper Only (Carola Dertnig, 2004, video)
  • Operation Invert (Tara Mateik, 2003, video)
  • Erasing Memories (DeepDish, 2004, video)
  • Energy Country (Deborah Stratman, 2003, video)
• "Chicago's Own: Animated Adventures with Jim Trainor" @ Chicago Filmmakers:
  • From Microbe to Man (1974)
  • Antrozous (1976)
  • The Bat and the Virgin (1996)
  • The Minor Deities (1997)
  • A Net (1997)
  • Plants (1999)
  • Torn Up (1999)
  • Harmony (2004)
  • Leafy, Leafy Jungle (2005)
  • Blood (2005)
  • "The Clans; Sosom the Castrated Giant" slide show
  • + "Eveready Harton" in Buried Treasure (?? poss. Winsor McCay, c.1925)
      
• Quixote (Bruce Baillie, 1964-65) @ Chicago Filmmakers
• "Ten 16mm Films by Stephanie Barber" @ Gene Siskel Film Center:
  • Shipfilm (1998)
  • They Invented Machines (1997)
  • A Little Present (For My Friend Columbus the Explorer) (1997)
  • Flower, the Boy, the Librarian (1996)
  • Metronome (1998)
  • Letters, Notes (2000)
  • Dogs (2000)
  • City at Heart (2002)
  • Total Power - Dead, Dead, Dead (2004)
  • Catalog (2005)
• Crossroads (Bruce Conner, 1976) @ Chicago Filmmakers
• "Peter Kubelka: Metric Films" @ UofC Film Studies Center:
  • Adebar (1956/57) x 2
  • Schwechater (1957/58) x 2
  • Arnulf Rainer (1958/60)
  • Dichtung und Wahrheit (2003)
• "Peter Kubelka: Metaphoric Films" @ UofC Film Studies Center:
  • Unsere Afrikareise (1961-66) x 2
  • Mosaik im Vertrauen (1954/55)
  • Pause! (1977)
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon, 1973) @ HotHouse (projected DVD)