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  For Cryin’ Out Loud: On the Floor of the Chicago Board of Trade

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  Today marks the end of an era for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade (CME merged with CBOT in 2007). For more than 160 years, the open outcry pits were a raucous and noisy place where people in colorful jackets jockeyed and shouted orders for commodities like corn, cattle, and pork bellies. Today, 99% of trading volume occurs electronically and all but one of the futures pits have been closed. During its heyday, the noise on […]

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  We Are Columbine: Help Finish The Film

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  Personal Note from Tom Weinberg: I’ve known Laura Farber since she was in her first film class at Columbia College Chicago in 2002.I was her teacher in a course about writing your personal documentary story and crafting a proposal with the help of the class and instructor.When Laura told about being at Columbine High School the day of the shootings, and what she went through that day and ever since, it became clear that it was a documentary story that […]

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  Love Wins: Studs Terkel celebrates a remarkable family

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  Today, nation-wide marriage equality was achieved through a historic decision by the US Supreme Court. The ruling is the culmination of decades of activism, and is an important moment for human rights, especially for the couples and families directly affected all across the country. In celebration, we’d like to share this video of Studs telling the story of two women who fell in love under almost unbelievable circumstances.

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  6/22/15: IT’S THE 90’s AGAIN! The most innovative TV of our time, livestreaming 24/7 all week

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  The livestream is happening here: http://www.acretv.org/ Each episode will play 3-4 times on its designated day. Check out the schedule and rundowns for each day below: June 22: Pilot and Episodes 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 June 23: Episodes 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113 June 24: Episodes 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207 June 25: Episodes 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215 June 26: Episodes 216, 217, 218, 219, 301, 302, 303, 304 June […]

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  A musical tribute to the enigmatic Marilyn Monroe

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  This weekend, Lifetime will be showing the two-part miniseries The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, whose celebrity continues to fascinate long after her tragic death in the summer of 1962. In 1988, Phoebe Legere, a performance artist with classical music training at the prestigious Julliard School, composed a song in tribute to her enigmatic idol. The music video, which we present below, was featured on an episode of Image Union and is now preserved in our archive. You can also […]

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  Sharing a hot dog with Tony Fitzpatrick: “You can tell a real pervert when they put ketchup on a hot dog!”

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  There are few things as Chicago as the Chicago-style hot dog, and now that Memorial Day weekend is on its way, Chicagoans are going to be eating a whole lot more of the distinctive menu item. Everyone has a favorite spot, and in this video from sometime around 1990, multimedia artist and character extraordinaire Tony Fitzpatrick takes us downtown to show us his favorite Chicago hot dog joint. Joined by his friend Marcus Casa Madrid and videomaker Joe Angio, Fitzpatrick […]

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  5/18/15: Media Burn at Live to Tape Artists Television Festival

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  Live to Tape is a week-long celebration of artist television performances and screenings curated by Jesse Malmed. From May 18th to 24th, the festival will showcase video and performance works by more than sixty artists-spanning four decades-that take television as object, as concept, as antagonist, as material, as form, as inspiration. We’re honored to have been invited to present a video as part of the “Aesthletics” program on Monday May 18. DETAILS: WHAT: LIVE TO TAPE ARTIST TELEVISION FESTIVAL: AESTHLETICS […]

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  NEA awards $50k grant to Media Burn to digitize collections of Kartemquin Films

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  On May 6, 2015, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a grant of $50,000 to FITV/Media Burn for a project which will digitize and create access to 224 videotapes from two unfinished or previously unreleased collections from the Kartemquin Films archives that document artistic communities and the role of art in society. None of these collections has ever been accessible to the public before, and we are very excited to be a part of this landmark project! Media Burn […]