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Lisa Barcy
Woman Without a Past
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Jesse Seay
Likes to Do Other Things
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MakeOut Club
Grad Screening @ Busker
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Daniel Eisenberg
Something More Than Night
A film that examines the urban environment under the cloak of darkness must
presume to reveal a reality that we don’t know, and tries to dispel
projections and fears that are for the most part located in the imagination,
in a memory of film, television, or the novel. It’s under this general
principle that my work brought me to consider the urban landscape and contemporary
urban conditions. Because I construct images and sounds I mean this less
sociologically than I do sensually. The film work tries to make clear how
the urban environment conditions and reveals social space primarily through
its reception by the senses. Something More Than Night is primarily shot
in public spaces: airports, train stations, malls, downtown offices, industrial
zones, and the many ethnic neighborhoods that make Chicago an exemplary
city of migration at the beginning of the 21st Century. In using images
of the city at night as a fulcrum to re-conceptualize both elapsed and historical
time, it becomes a composite portrait of both the contemporary international
city and our present time of manifold dislocations. In contrast to the city-symphony
films of the 1920’s, whose utopian vision of the industrial age was
a composition made from harmonies of light, this film describes the city
with our own familiar senses of the night; informed by labor, boredom, fear,
fatigue, and anticipation. Something More Than Night recalls the special
relation cinema has to daily life. - Daniel Eisenberg
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