It still blows our minds that this is our fourth and final show of the season.
Thanks for making our premiere-year great!
Join us THURSDAY OCTOBER 25
at our favorite microcinema, Hideout 1354 W. Wabansia St. (off Elston)
Show starts 8:30 PM, runs about 90 minutes, includes a break.
Tickets are $8 at the door. Advance tickets are recommended, though there is a $2 fee.
This will be a non-smoking show, with lovely patio smoking available.
Hideout is 21+. (All ages additional location coming soon, bear with us!)
For sale during the show: Hot popcorn! Fresh made Sugarkist pies!
We proudly present:
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WINTER IS OUTSIDE (Live Action Drama)
Micah Barber, Chicago
When two Mormon missionaries visit Shawn’s west-side neighborhood, it leads to an unexpected conversation.
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MERMAID (2-D Stop Motion Animation)
Lisa Barcy, Chicago
The marriage of Carl and Doris, darlings of the marine biology world, has gone south. She attempts to salvage its remains, he pines for the most elusive of sea creatures.
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CRONE
Ben Gerlis & M.E. Please, London (Stop-Motion Animation)
The dark, surreal tale of a quaint village green in which all is not quite as it seems.
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HAND OF BRIDGE (Live Action Musical)
Curtis Taylor, Seattle
Married couples settle in for a nightly bridge game. During polite card-play, they each secretly pine for hidden desires. Perversions and lust briefly rise. Filmed in the saturated palette of a Hollywood melodrama, this is the first film version of the 1959 Samuel Barber/Gian Carlo Menotti comic chamber opera.
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TEAT BEAT OF SEX (Animation)
Signe Baumane, Latvia/New York
Lighthearted rants about sex. Musings on insatiable desire, awkward sizing, and Mother’s ill-fated, unconvincing advice.
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CASHMERE ON CREDIT (Live Action Narrative)
Maximilian Hult, Sweden
A man suspects he’s dying but doesn’t trust doctors. If his tailor agrees to make him an expensive suit on credit, does that mean he’s not doomed after all?
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PUSS IN BOOTS (Live-Action Experimental)
Julie Fab & Heather Marie, Chicago
So wrong it’s right? A foot-fetish delight.
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CACKLE (Live Action Experimental)
Erin Diebboll, Brooklyn
A woman captivated by a clucking noisemaker directs a surreal factory equipped with an assembly line of doily-ed eggcups and marching chickens.
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DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’ (Music Video)
Mark Bachara & Michael McGrath, Chicago
A guilty pleasure featuring a ridiculous homage to late 70s and 80s music videos.
A visual salute to Chicago.
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CREATION (Live Action & Animation)
Zea Barker & Michael Pope, Massachusetts
An artist deep in frenzied inspiration labors to draw characters as they begin to take on a life of their own.
