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The fifth volume of the Chicagoland Shorts anthology offers a look into different worlds. With films spanning genres of narrative, experimental, and docu-fantasy, the collection will take you from an 8-year-old’s nightmares to the last remaining freed slave settlement. Artists in our collection include a Sundance Documentary Fellow, a Fulbright-García Robles Foundation Award recipient, and a Cannes award-winning director.

Curated by:
Raul Benitez (Lead Programmer) - Comfort Film
Melika Bass - Filmmaker, Professor
Emily Eddy - Onion City Film Festival

The Films

Featured
I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone Ashley Thompson Two estranged sisters return to the suburbs of Chicago ten months after their father’s sudden death to clean out their childhood home.

I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone
Ashley Thompson

Two estranged sisters return to the suburbs of Chicago ten months after their father’s sudden death to clean out their childhood home.

Smart Nightmares Marisa Tolomeo Hannah narrates her nightmares while her family argues about who's to blame for her creepy Internet searches.

Smart Nightmares
Marisa Tolomeo

Hannah narrates her nightmares while her family argues about who's to blame for her creepy Internet searches.

Hall of Fishes Jennifer Boles An immersive archival film about the limits of visual knowledge and the webs of power and violence behind our desires to see, contain, and consume the ocean.

Hall of Fishes
Jennifer Boles

An immersive archival film about the limits of visual knowledge and the webs of power and violence behind our desires to see, contain, and consume the ocean.

Sheebop! Shebopp! Sheebopp! Jiayi Chen and Cameron Worden An edited-in-camera, hand-processed super 8 film grown out of a conversation about Florida and Disney World. To one, it is unfamiliar terrain. To the other, it is impending homecoming. P

Sheebop! Shebopp! Sheebopp!
Jiayi Chen and Cameron Worden

An edited-in-camera, hand-processed super 8 film grown out of a conversation about Florida and Disney World. To one, it is unfamiliar terrain. To the other, it is impending homecoming. Part of an ongoing experimental home movie series.

Scaling Quelccaya Meredith Leich A surreal exploration of a melting glacier in Peru and an altered future in Chicago, weaving together 3D animation, satellite imagery, archival NASA footage, and speculative math about climate and snow.

Scaling Quelccaya
Meredith Leich

A surreal exploration of a melting glacier in Peru and an altered future in Chicago, weaving together 3D animation, satellite imagery, archival NASA footage, and speculative math about climate and snow.

Exodus: Sounds of the Great Migration Lonnie Edwards Told through live performance, dance and spoken word, Exodus looks into how the Great Migration gave birth to many artists that influenced and empowered black culture.

Exodus: Sounds of the Great Migration
Lonnie Edwards

Told through live performance, dance and spoken word, Exodus looks into how the Great Migration gave birth to many artists that influenced and empowered black culture.

Palenque Sebastián Pinzón Silva Guided by motifs of life and death, Palenque is an ode to a small town that has greatly contributed to the collective memory of Colombia: San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken f

Palenque
Sebastián Pinzón Silva

Guided by motifs of life and death, Palenque is an ode to a small town that has greatly contributed to the collective memory of Colombia: San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken free from European domination.

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