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Third Coast Filmless Festival
March 28, 2009 / 11am - 6pm / Evening program at 7:30pm
The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts / 777 N. Green Street
$25 / $20 (students / CPR members) Festival Pass, includes evening program -
sold
at the door March 28, cash only
$8 Tickets for individual screening blocks - sold at the door March 28, cash only
$12 Ticket for evening program - sold at the door March 28, cash only
Overview:
The first-ever Third Coast Filmless Festival presents a day of
listening indulgence, with five audio “screenings” and a special
presentation by Jad Abumrad, host and producer of WNYC’s RadioLab.
Each screening runs for 75 minutes, showcases a variety of audio work inspired
by a particular theme, and is followed by a Q&A session with a featured
producer. The stories come from near and far, and reveal the world in
surprising and provocative ways.
Read more about individual screening blocks.
Featured TCFF guests include: Jad Abumrad (RadioLab),
John Biewen (Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University), Yoko Noge
(blues musician), David Wilcox (This American Life contributor),
Neenah Ellis (regular NPR contributor), Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister (Long Haul Productions), and the dynamic duo of Ann Heppermann
and Kara Oehler (Weekend America, Chicago Matters, Hearing Voices).
The TCFF culminates at 7:30 pm with a special program honoring Chicago's favorite oral historian: Echoes of Studs:
Extraordinary Stories of Everyday People. Hosted by journalist Alex
Kotlowitz (author and The New York Times Magazine and This American
Life contributor), the event will celebrate the power and relevance of
storytelling, with the help of distinguished guests Gordon Quinn (Kartemquin
Films), Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler and Neenah Ellis.
Throughout the day, audio installations will be
available for viewing (and hearing!) in the Chicago Center for the Performing
Arts lobby.
Click to enlarge the photos, by Jesse Shapins and Jerry Schulman.
The TCFF is presented in partnership with
Chicago Public Radio Presents,
and is sponsored by:
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| PLAN YOUR TRIP |
Snacks
If you get noshy during the day, no worries.
Blue Sky Bakery and Cafe will be setting up shop, with sandwiches,
salads, muffins, cookies and more for sale.
Location / Parking
The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts is located at
777 N. Green St., near the intersection of Chicago Ave. and Halsted St.
Parking is available ($8 per car) directly across Green St., next to the
restaurant Thalia.
Hotel
If you're considering coming from outside the Chicagoland area, (and we
hope you will) you'll find a fantastic room rate of just $119 (+ tax) per night
at the Wyndham Chicago, just ten minutes fromthe CCPA. Contact
Jim Edgar at the Wyndham Hotel to make a reservation. And trust us.
That's an amazing rate for downtown Chicago!
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| SCREENING BLOCKS - OVERVIEW |
(schedule and screenings are subject to change)
SCREENING BLOCK A
11:30am / Theater 1
Cities, Real and Imagined
Noon / Theater 2
History is the New History
SCREENING BLOCK B
1:30pm / Theater 1
Backstage Pass
2pm / Theater 2
The Ties That Bind
SCREENING BLOCK C
3:30pm / Theater 1
Noisy Experiments in
Storytelling with Jad Abumrad
4pm / Theater 2
Stories of Who
GRAND FINALE
Echoes of Studs: Extraordinary Stories of Everyday People
Hosted by Alex Kotlowitz with special guests
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| SCREENING BLOCK A |
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11:30am - Theater 1
Cities, Real and Imagined
From Morocco to Minnesota to the mind’s eye: stories that traverse
landscapes urban, suburban and unreal.
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister (Long Haul Productions) will be on-hand for a Q&A following the screening.
City X , by Jonathan Mitchell (15:25) - USA
Fez, Morocco, by Jim Metzner (12:42) - USA
Forest to Desert, by Sarah Boothroyd (2:35) - CAN
The Loaves & the Fishes (& the Ducks) by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister (9:00) -USA
The View from Here, by Melanie Wilson (14:20) - UK
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Noon - Theater 2
History is the New History
A long-buried tale of labor conflict in Illinois, a trailblazing woman at one hundred years old, a renegade broadcast from Mexico: stirring histories that dig into our audible past. Producer Neenah Ellis will be on-hand for a Q&A following the screening.
Bells in Europe, by Peter Leonhard Braun (4:00 exerpt) - GER
A Big Time Hurt: Zenith Closing Ten Years Later, by Ben Calhoun (10:56) - USA
The Herrin Massacre, by Gary Covino (32:01) - USA
Ruth Ellis, by Neenah Ellis (9:16) - USA
They Didn't Get Along, by Rick Moody and Michael Hearst (2:30) - USA
The X Factor, by Jamie York (16:59) - USA
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| SCREENING BLOCK B |
1:30pm - Theater 1
Backstage Pass
Is John Denver the Anti-Christ? Is Sun Ra from space? Can a choir of rural
school children break the Top 40? Stories of music, memory and unexpected
stardom. Producers Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler and Katie Mingle will be on-hand for a Q&A following the screening.
Bent, by Delaney Hall (11:02) - USA
In the Key of DNA (from The Nerve), by Chris Brookes, Paolo
Pietropaolo, and Jowi Taylor (14:29) - CAN
Mrs. Morris, by Charles Spearin (1:26) - CAN
Not a New Wave Band from New Jersey, by Katie Mingle (6:15) -
USA
The Other Worlds of Sun Ra, by Brent Clough and John Jacobs (24:28) -
AUS
Rocky Mountain High, by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler (3:40) - USA
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2pm - Theater 2
The Ties That Bind
A woman in search of her thirteen siblings, a lingering artifact from an ex, a sister’s fierce – though not always kind - love for her autistic brother: Delving into the relationships that hold us together and push us apart. Producer David Wilcox will be on-hand for a Q&A following the screening.
Cassette from My Ex, by Joe DeCeault (9:19) - USA
Except Me, by Erin Davis (6:25) - USA
Scared, by John Biewen (3:00) - USA
Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill, by Phyllis Fletcher (29:00) - USA
This Can Go On Forever, by Vige Millington and Shea Shackelford (10:24) - USA
Thinking Inside the Box, by David Wilcox (9:05) - USA
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| SCREENING BLOCK C |
3:30pm - Theater 1
Noisy Experiments in Storytelling with Jad Abumrad
Sperm warfare in ducks, the afterlife and the vast universe of stuff that inspires RadioLab: Jad Abumrad spins together music, stories, anecdotes and more to reveal the art of radio storytelling.
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4pm - Theater 2
Stories of Who
A blues singer from Japan, a famous poet and his much younger lover, a
lobotomy survivor in search of his past: stories that reveal the when, why,
what, and how behind the WHO.
Musician Yoko Noge will be on-hand for a Q&A following the screening.
Holy Soul, by Matthew Power (17:43) - USA
Musical Migrants: Yoko Noge, by Rachel Hopkin (13:59) - UK
My Life as a Cup, by Sean Hurley
(2:30) - USA
My Lobotomy, by David Isay and Piya Kocchar (22:00) - USA
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| EVENING
PROGRAM
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Echoes of Studs: Extraordinary Stories of Everyday People
7:30 - Theater 1
The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts / 777 N. Green Street
Included with Festival Pass, or individual $12 tickets sold at the door March 28
Hosted by journalist Alex Kotlowitz, with special guests Gordon Quinn
(Kartemquin Films), producers Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler and Neenah Ellis, and
others TBA.
Top off the day with a grand finale of listening - to tales about
those who Studs Terkel liked to call the "etceteras" of the
world. These are stories that capture the poetry of everyday
lives. Stories that celebrate the uncelebrated. Radio. Film. Print.
For this final event of the TC Filmless Festival, the medium
doesn’t matter. It’s all about the power of plain old, good,
storytelling...in the spirit of Chicago's favorite storyteller.
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| AUDIO INSTALLATIONS - ONGOING THROUGHOUT THE DAY |
| Stroll through the CCPA lobby at your leisure
and check out audio installations by sound artists and creative radio producers
from across the country...
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Chorus of Refuge
By Jason Cady, Ann Heppermann, and Kara Oehler
Chorus of Refuge is a sound installation that transmits the stories of six
refugees, living in different cities across the U.S. to six radios. The voices
of the refugees are superimposed and coordinated in both rhythm and tonality to
unite their narratives of struggle, survival and triumph. |
GOWANUS: Over/Under-Water
By Kevin T. Allen
Gowanus: Over/Under-Water is a sonic exploration of the Gowanus Canal
in Brooklyn, NY. Using stereoscopic photography and binaural underwater
recordings, it is a first person journey above and below one of America’s
most polluted waterways. The installation is housed within an anachronistic
audio-visual instrument called a phonoscope that urges us to
become better consumers of our everyday environments. |
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Normal Sized Thing
By Jill Summers and Chris Hefner
Normal Sized Thing is a meeting point between author Jill Summers and multimedia artist Chris Hefner. It began with a fragment of text from Audrey Niffenegger, which Summers further fragmented into the chapter titles for an imaginary book entitled “In The Realm of Normal Sized Things”. These titles were each assigned an “excerpt” from Summers’ supposed novel. These were then recorded and handed over to Hefner for interpretation into a short film and a viewing apparatus, Summers looking on sternly all the while.
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WEXC
(From the Exquisite City)
Radio station and tower by Kathleen Judge
Turntable and microphone by Susan Hall
Mixing console by Jon Rauhouse
Last winter, seventy local Chicago artists collaborated to build a miniature city
out of cardboard. It was a patchwork of styles and scenes, and the mini
metropolis traveled to several locations around Chicago. We've brought WEXC,
the Exquisite City radio station, to broadcast its tiny tunes throughout the
CCPA lobby.
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