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The persistence of vision, the persistence of the memory of the moving image. The persistence of cinema as a reference for a point in time. ECHOVIDEOPRAXIS.

A freewheeling video essay about Bob Dylan's underexamined work as a filmmaker, based on the book by Michael Glover Smith

a supercut of trunk shots from the 60s to today, scored by Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.

an adaptation of The Peace of Wild Things, read by Wendell Berry, visually scored to images from the films of William Girdler using sounds gathered from Stevie Nicks' song Wild Heart.

FRAMPTONxYEEZY/After Sturtevant

zombified logos scrambling for recognition

A film made with a single dollar bill

a match-shot-collision between the final scene of I, Tonya and it's referents in Raging Bull.

an etude of decomposition exploring the shape of the image in a sequence from the film ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

A film by Ben Creech shot at Frank Lloyd Wright houses

Before Brakhage and Landow, there was Kurt Heyl, a South Side native, musician, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s first film student, who briefly held together that school’s experimental film program with spit, spirit, and stubborn grit. Built from Heyl’s own words and images, this video essay kicks off the Chicago Media Histories Project with a rough-edged tribute to a nearly forgotten chapter in underground cinema.

a reconstruction of a race riot or, which side are you on?

Everyone’s got one special thing – Dirk Diggler is part of a different Pink Pony Club. A collision between Chappell Roan’s hit song and Mark Wahlberg’s camp acting from Boogie Nights.

after dante/mccall/duchamp

after shellie fleming // persistence of attention

A Midwest roadtrip symphony on the way to witness totality.