In 1986, Terminal One at O’Hare Airport was being finished and a documentary, “O’Hare: My Kind of Town” was produced by Jamie Ceaser and Tom Weinberg. It has exclusive footage inside the tower with the air traffic controllers which would be impossible to do now because of security requirements. In this video, producer Joel Cohen introduces a lively video commemorating the 1986 NBA All Star Game, shot for the series “Once A Star,” which profiled former athletes. In […]
May Day likely originated as a pagan celebration of spring, but it’s probably better known today as International Workers’ Day. Although not officially recognized by the US government, which favors a Labor Day in September, May Day’s labor connotations actually have their roots in Chicago’s history, as Studs explains in this video. May Day was officially selected as International Workers’ Day in 1889 by the Second International, an organization of socialist and labor parties in Paris, in memory of Chicago’s […]
Media Burn is proud to have played a small role in making this screening possible. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see films and videos from the Kartemquin archive that have never screened publicly! Part I of “The Streets and the Classrooms: Educational and Industrial Films in an Era of Massive Social Change,” created by South Side Projections. Presented by Judy Hoffman (University of Chicago, Kartemquin Films member) and Gordon Quinn (Kartemquin Films Co-Founder) Reva and David Logan Center for […]
Bring a tape of your own to be projected for the audience, or simply show up and enjoy what’s on the screen. Videos will run the gamut from birthdays, parties, pageants, weddings, sports, movie re-enactments, to who knows what! The program will be hilarious, touching and uncomfortable in a way that only home video can be. Nightingale Cinema 1084 N. Milwaukee April 18, 2015 1-5pm, stop by any time Free! http://homevideodaychicago.tumblr.com https://www.facebook.com/events/1084092481604706/ Home Video Day Chicago trailer INSTRUCTIONS Bring your […]
Today, we’re sharing this clip from an episode of the award-winning TV show The 90’s. It was shot by Jim Mulryan in 1991 for an episode about race and racism in America. In it, James Woods, who is African American, and Matthew Lang, who is white, discuss white privilege while driving a pickup truck through the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles. Watching it now, we’re interested in your comments on how you think the conversation and realities about race have […]
As we approach the April 7th run-off election between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his challenger “Chuy” Garcia, join us and our partners at Heartland Cafe for a look at another mayoral election, more than thirty years ago: Harold Washington’s improbable election to become the first African American mayor of Chicago. On April 5th, there will be a new screening of some of the films originally organized by South Side Projections in memory of Mayor Washington. We’ll once again be there with […]
Saturday marks the 106th anniversary of the birth of Nelson Algren (1909–1981), a writer beloved for his works which often captured Chicago’s grittier underbelly, most notably in The Man With the Golden Arm (1949) and the essay Chicago, City on the Make (1951). His impact went far beyond Chicago, though, and he was respected and read across the globe, perhaps most devotedly in Europe.Although he later moved to Paterson, New Jersey, his love for the down-and-out in Chicago has nonetheless […]
We’re excited to announce that we have recently acquired and preserved a collection of tapes by videomaker and University of Oregon professor Julia Lesage. This is our first bilingual collection, with most of the tapes available in both Spanish and English. Primarily shot in Nicaragua during the 1980s, the majority of the tapes focus on how the Sandinista government brought rapid change to the lives of women in the region. The collection also includes two English-only tapes produced at the […]