F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Carla Barger

Miranda July understands me and you and everyone we know

I dub Miranda July’s new film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, “the loneliest little movie on the planet.”

Mike Hoolboom Imitations of Life, 1:15:00, 2003

With over 50 films and 30 international awards under his belt, Mike Hoolboom is one of Canada's most respected and prolific experimental filmmakers. Imitations of Life is an intricate dance of images that are at once beautiful and devastating in the truth they lay bare.

BLO Nightly News, Barbie Liberation Organization, 1994

Corporate-driven culture and consumerism run amuck are bad. Very bad. Add sexism and it's even worse. Enter the Barbie Liberation Organization. BLO Nightly News is a mockumentary that combines BLO's own anti-capitalist propaganda with actual clips from Leno, CNN, even The Simpsons.

At the Video Databank

Hester Scheurwater

Chicago International Film Festival

This year's Chicago International Film Festival was a mosaic of styles and genres by dazzling new directors from far corners.

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