CINEMA BY OTHER MEANS
NEW WORDS
February 21, 2015, The Nightingale Cinema
Or: The Lightbulb Joke
Or: The Show is Over
Or: Il Prosto
A screening with no screen, no projector. An introduction, a raffle, a where’s-the-bathroom and a what’s-coming-soon, the lights go down… between each work, a few palate-cleansing seconds of black.
Cinema by Other Means is a willful confusion of the codes incumbent to specific aesthetic forms. A paraphrased Paul Ramirez Jonas instructively noticed that he was once stuck on a sculpture until he started calling it a monument and it started to make a new and better sense. Sometimes when you’re making a soup it starts tasting better when it’s a salad. So, tonight, we offer you a screening of movies that just so happen to not be movies. Some of Chicago’s finest image movers have been commissioned to make performances and give readings, to be bodies and look back at the audience.
New words and works by:
Lyra Hill
Andy Roche
Claire Arctander
Blair Bogin
Andrew Rosinski
