Weekend Preview: 2015 Chicago Underground Film Festival

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Sunday, May 17th

”Shorts #10: Proud of His Scientific Achievement”



Eight short films in this program. Curated by Emily Oscarson.

5/17, 2pm

”Evaporating Borders”

Documentary. USA/Cyprus. Directed by Iva Radivojevic

5/17, 3pm

”Shorts #11: My Sweet Old Etcetera”

Ten short films in this program.

5/17, 4pm

”Shorts #12: Of Ever-Ever Land I Speak”

Eleven short films in this program.

5/17, 5pm

“Living Stars”

Documentary. Spain. Directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn

5/17, 6pm

”Privilege and Obsession”

Documentary.USA. Directed by Stephen Graves.

5/17, 7pm

CLOSING NIGHT FEATURE “Burnt in Memory”

Burnt in Memory
Photo credit: Chicago Underground Film Festival

Documentary. USA. “‘Burnt in Memory’ chronicles life in Chicago. Its impressionistic tableau has no dialogue, no characters, no story, and no acts. It is just a glimpse of people and their places, their in between places, and their forgotten places…The film/video is an experiment to rewind and strip away the conventions about narratives in documentaries…The musicians include Azita Youssefi on piano, Amber Amar-Walton on cello, Justin Martin on guitar, Nandini Khaund on the Folktek Quadrum, and Ben Clarke as musical director….It’s a city steeped in stereotypes, but after wandering around the city day after day its true personality comes forth. Its beauty and ugliness, its power and frailty, its inhabitants and its abandoned caverns are what make this city intriguing…We’re simply sharing what we see.” – Robert Stockwell

5/17, 8:15pm

By PATRICK McDONALD Senior Staff Writer HollywoodChicago.com pat@hollywoodchicago.com