Agitate: Chicago - Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival 2024

$10.00

Saturday, September 28th - 6:00 PM

AGITATE CHICAGO brings together Chicago-born avant-garde artists with an international group of filmmakers who now call Cook County home. Chicago has long been an overlooked hub for the avant-garde, but this program gives a snapshot into a flourishing local scene, creating work that plays freely with media and form while inventing new languages, non-dogmatic in their approach to documentary and narrative cinemas. Moments of overwhelming trance and noise are punctuated by deeply personal cinema, direct and emotive. The surreal and uncanny juxtaposes with verité, in what is a fitting portrait to Chicago itself, underpinned by aching personal expression and vulnerability. AGITATE CHICAGO showcases some of the best talent in our local scene, as the avant-garde continues to push the boundaries of experimental cinema. 

Do Not Feed the Pigeons by Brian Zahm

at the bamboo green by Xiaolu Wang

Godspeed by Sonnie Wooden

Forgetting French #1 by Alicia Mujynya

A Place to Rest Syncopated by Oona Taper

camera roll 3 by Charles Cadkin

No More Tears by Jay Villalobos

Exit Metropolis by Alice Avery

Studies on the Negative Architectures of the Digital Sickness by M. Woods (with live sound)

Programmed by M. Woods

Total runtime: 71 min

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Saturday, September 28th - 6:00 PM

AGITATE CHICAGO brings together Chicago-born avant-garde artists with an international group of filmmakers who now call Cook County home. Chicago has long been an overlooked hub for the avant-garde, but this program gives a snapshot into a flourishing local scene, creating work that plays freely with media and form while inventing new languages, non-dogmatic in their approach to documentary and narrative cinemas. Moments of overwhelming trance and noise are punctuated by deeply personal cinema, direct and emotive. The surreal and uncanny juxtaposes with verité, in what is a fitting portrait to Chicago itself, underpinned by aching personal expression and vulnerability. AGITATE CHICAGO showcases some of the best talent in our local scene, as the avant-garde continues to push the boundaries of experimental cinema. 

Do Not Feed the Pigeons by Brian Zahm

at the bamboo green by Xiaolu Wang

Godspeed by Sonnie Wooden

Forgetting French #1 by Alicia Mujynya

A Place to Rest Syncopated by Oona Taper

camera roll 3 by Charles Cadkin

No More Tears by Jay Villalobos

Exit Metropolis by Alice Avery

Studies on the Negative Architectures of the Digital Sickness by M. Woods (with live sound)

Programmed by M. Woods

Total runtime: 71 min

Saturday, September 28th - 6:00 PM

AGITATE CHICAGO brings together Chicago-born avant-garde artists with an international group of filmmakers who now call Cook County home. Chicago has long been an overlooked hub for the avant-garde, but this program gives a snapshot into a flourishing local scene, creating work that plays freely with media and form while inventing new languages, non-dogmatic in their approach to documentary and narrative cinemas. Moments of overwhelming trance and noise are punctuated by deeply personal cinema, direct and emotive. The surreal and uncanny juxtaposes with verité, in what is a fitting portrait to Chicago itself, underpinned by aching personal expression and vulnerability. AGITATE CHICAGO showcases some of the best talent in our local scene, as the avant-garde continues to push the boundaries of experimental cinema. 

Do Not Feed the Pigeons by Brian Zahm

at the bamboo green by Xiaolu Wang

Godspeed by Sonnie Wooden

Forgetting French #1 by Alicia Mujynya

A Place to Rest Syncopated by Oona Taper

camera roll 3 by Charles Cadkin

No More Tears by Jay Villalobos

Exit Metropolis by Alice Avery

Studies on the Negative Architectures of the Digital Sickness by M. Woods (with live sound)

Programmed by M. Woods

Total runtime: 71 min