Bill Stamets

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Bill Stamets

Chicago-area freelance writer, photographer, and small gauge filmmaker. He has written (and continues to write) for the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times, and wrote the chapter on film in Art in Chicago: 1945-1995. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, University of Chicago, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Born 1953.

Known For

Stan BrakhageStan Brakhage · 1989
Stan Brakhage
1989
Movie
This film consists of loosely assembled footage including a confrontation between abortion-rights advocates, abortion-rights opponents and police at Chicago's Daley Center Plaza (likely during the protest on June 17, 1989 which attracted approximately 5,000 attendees), a brief shot of Soldier Field, a double exposure of a moonlit rural countryside, a close-up of a car passenger's typing hands, a ship’s steering wheel, a street intersection, a camera which lays next to a loosely scattered pack of batteries and a portrait shot of Bill Stamets as he peers through a still camera’s viewfinder.
Rock Sox Disco SuxRock Sox Disco Sux · 1980
Rock Sox Disco Sux
1980
MovieDocumentary
Super 8mm film documenting "Disco Demolition Night," which took place after game one of a July 12, 1979 doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood.
Novo Dextro: Purity and DangerNovo Dextro: Purity and Danger · 1982
Novo Dextro: Purity and Danger
1982
MovieDocumentary
Documentary by Bill Stamets about the American Nazi Party's 1982 rally held in Chicago's Lincoln Park in response to the city's annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.
Harold is GoneHarold is Gone
Harold is Gone
Movie
An examination of public mourning and political ritual shot in the days following the sudden death of Chicago’s Mayor Harold Washington on November 25, 1987.
Boy With a MicrophoneBoy With a Microphone · 1985
Boy With a Microphone
1985
Movie
In which a child in the Pacific Northwest narrates his world, interviewing people and animals with equal curiosity.
Chi-Nite IthacaChi-Nite Ithaca · 1979
Chi-Nite Ithaca
1979
Movie
An avant-garde home movie featuring Chicago monuments and activities at night and the lyrical rural beauty and architecture of Ithaca, New York.
Pope Visits ChicagolandPope Visits Chicagoland · 1979
Pope Visits Chicagoland
1979
Movie
Which depicts Pope John Paul II’s October 1979 visit to Chicago.

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