[The 90’s Election Specials raw: Bob Kerrey at Finkl Steel]
Raw footage shot for The 90’s Election Specials. Bob Kerry campaigns at Finkl Steel in Chicago. Tour, speech, hard hats, hot metal.
Raw footage shot for The 90’s Election Specials. Bob Kerry campaigns at Finkl Steel in Chicago. Tour, speech, hard hats, hot metal.
This brief documentary traces the creative and historical forces behind Donna Blue Lachman’s creation of Tracing the Light, a play about an internment camp in wartime Prague.
A show about wartime Jews in an encampment known as Terezin, Tracing the Light is a play written by Donna Blue Lachman. It’s seen here accompanied by a documentary about Lachman’s process in creating the work.
This short documentary details how the Chicago film scene grew under Lucy Salenger’s direction, specifically following John Landis as he scouts locations for Blues Brothers.
Abstract compositions inspired by the imagery of North American indigenous cultures. Created using the Sandin Image Processor.
In seven short days, Chicagoans saw their greatest joy sour and their country descend into slow-rolling chaos. Shooting for this documentary began in early fall of 2016, to capture, in Guerrilla TV-style, the masses of people that we saw more and more frequently on the streets of Chicago. We started with the debauchery surrounding the Cubs winning the World Series. A week later, Mary Otoo and Lucia Ahrensdorf found themselves filming a citywide protest against the election of Donald Trump. […]
“The Pop Video Test” was a joint effort between Scott Jacobs and Tom Weinberg of the Chicago Editing Center, and the Video Group of the Bell and Howell Corporation. This cooperative effort between the independent video community and a corporate video distributor was intended to test the viability of the home video market. The videomakers assembled ten hours of video pieces meant as an alternative to available pre-recorded programming (ie Hollywood movies). Fifty VCR owners in the Chicago area agreed to examine and review the tapes. Test viewers then received the programming two hours at a time, in groupings labeled Video Art, Documentary, Entertainment, and Potpourri.