Holy bananas, what a year! Four different episodes, six shows, two outdoor screenings, a special event with live music, and more… Click here for one-page info sheet about our 07 season. Thanks for making our premiere-year great!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Film Brigade: THE BEST
Thursday, JANUARY 24 at Gene Siskel Film Center
8:15 PM Screening and Awards
Join us at the deluxe, high-art environs of the Siskel Center for 100-minutes’ worth of short film thrills (includes intermission), and stick around to help us give out some awards. Just one film will walk away with the Audience Award of $350.
This program also re-runs Sunday, January 27th at 5:30 PM (screening only).
So! After much debate (at times a tad heated and emotional) we carefully reviewed all 52 films from our 07 season, whittling it down to just 13 selections.
WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE SELECTIONS FOR THE
CHICAGO SHORT FILM BRIGADE’S BEST OF 2007:
OYSTER PUFFS (Animated Comedy)
Brett Harding, Chicago/New York
A man with undulating-hands, the ostrich-lady on a date, an inconsolable hippo, and a fly in the wrong place at the wrong time.
RIDE OF THE MERGANSERS (Documentary)
Steve Furman, Minnesota
Just 24 hours after hatching, tiny Merganser ducklings make a perilous leap to the ground below in an age-old rite rarely observed by humans.
WINTER IS OUTSIDE (Live Action Drama)
Micah Barber, Chicago
When two religious visitors visit Shawn’s west-side neighborhood, it leads to an unexpected conversation.
SOME GHOSTS… (Animation/Experimental)
Aay Preston-Myint, Chicago
Enter the dream world of a spaceman in his sleep chamber, where malevolent spirits escape from a haunted medicine cabinet to descend on houndstooth hillsides.
PIE CYCLE (Animation/Experimental)
Christina McClelland, Iowa City
Hand-drawn illustrations make up a fresh, swift series of interactions between mysteriously quilted humans, big dark bears and cherry pies.
CARMICHAEL & shane (Live-Action Comedy)
Alex Weinress/Rob Carlton, Australia
A single father has his own approach to raising twin boys… Choose a favorite.
BOBBY BIRD: THE DEVIL IN DENIM (Animation)
Carson Mell, California
Through flashbacks, a tour of an aging rock star’s various tattoos. Why is a spider on his chest, a nude acrobat on his neck, and the names of many women etched in his flesh?
BUOI CHIEU/AFTERNOON
Kim Spurlock, New York (Live Action Drama)
Vietnamese ghost story of quiet death and family bonds transmitted via radio airwaves.
HAND OF BRIDGE (Live Action Musical)
Curtis Taylor, Seattle
Filmed in the saturated palette of a Hollywood melodrama, this is the first film version of a 1959 Samuel Barber/Gian Carlo Menotti comic chamber opera.
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.
MACHINE WITH CHAIR (Experimental)
Arthur Ganson, Massachussetts
Breathtaking kinetic sculpture by a one-man artist, engineer, filmmaker.
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.
THE BITE (Animation)
Jeff Harms, Chicago
A man tries to protect the woman he loves.
