2009 ShortDocs Challenge: Chicago Sound Drops
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I've Never Lived in Chicago
2009 / 02:16
A docu-song about a broken dream, made from interview tape.
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PCAF
2009 / 03:02
A Hoosier attends a show at the lofty, hipster-run Shape Shoppe recording studio, in Chicago.
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Chicago's Gangster
2009 / 03:56
Every July 22nd, a group of Chicagoans gather to memorialize the death of infamous and beloved bank robber John Dillinger, who spent a year evading the authorities and winning American hearts before he was shot dead in July, 1934.
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Lovable Losers
2009 / 02:58
Feel the passion, feel the pain of the faithful followers of Chicago's Lovable Losers.
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Cooler by the Lake
2009 / 06:14
A classical composer, Stuart Brocklehurst, attempts to deal with his writer's block through environmental field recording.
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Dawn at Chicago's Magic Hedge
2009 / 02:18
Summer 2009: A field recording from of The Magic Hedge, where Chicago receives the dawn and migratory birds in lakefront silence.
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Carl, with an El
2009 / 02:45
Carl Sandburg inspires a meditation on private worlds as we ride the El.
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Couple Two Tree
2009 / 03:01
A loving examination of the Chicagoan language by four non-etymologists.
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Beat Street
2009 / 02:58
An aging drummer takes his love of music - and his dreams of something bigger - to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.
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Riding Through the Summer
2009 / 03:34
Pilsen, 2009: Chicago summer is full of life and full of sound - you can hear it best on two wheels.
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The Big City
2009 / 03:31
For the last 20 years, Sherwin Sleeves has traveled the country, composing "theme songs" for cities across the United States. Inspiration for Chicago's song strikes while he's eating dinner at the Green Mill.
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Studs & Jimmy
2009 / 02:59
Jimmy Yancey, the blues pianist and White Sox groundsman, and Studs Terkel, the broadcaster and author, may have lived at different ends of Chicago but they're both as integral a part of the city as the El...