We Don't Know Yet: What a Cinema Can Do

How to See in the Dark
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[We Don't Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do: expanded cinema

April 4, 2025 | 7-11:00pm | Public Works, 2141 W North Ave
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[We Don't Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do: A Night of Live Sound and Moving Image

April 5, 2024 | 20:00-23:00 | Public Works, 2141 W North Ave
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OPEN CALL: [We Don't Know Yet] What a Cinema Can Do: A Night of Live Sound and Moving Image

Closes March 1, 2024 | 23:59 | Public Works, 2141 W North Ave
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CCAM team

Kim Nucci

Kim Nucci is a Chicago-based media artist, composer, and technologist.

AJ Mendelsohn

AJ Mendelsohn is a Chicago-based curator, modern and contemporary art historian, and film/video programmer. He is currently the Program Coordinator for the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

grace grace grace

grace grace grace is a Chicago-based sound and media artist, researcher, and theorist. His transdisciplinary work engages Guattarian process theory, politics and the production of collective subjectivity through computational media.

Kristin McWharter

'Kristin McWharter uses performance and play to interrogate the relationship between competition and intimacy. Inspired by sports narratives and strategies for collective decision making, her work blurs the boundaries of intimacy and hype culture to challenge viewer's relationships to affection and competitive drive.'

Muindi Fanuel Muindi

Muindi Fanuel Muindi is a social practice artist, philosopher, and poet, with Lacustrine Bantu roots in the Rift Forests of Eastern Congo and the Mara Wetlands in Tanzania. As a social practice artist, Muindi coordinates assemblages of administrative statements, technical implements, built environments, and dramatic elements, which function as laboratories in the Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences.

Onion City Film Festival team

Nicky Ni

Nicky Ni is a Chinese expat living and working between Chicago and Beijing. She writes and curates exhibitions and screenings. Currently she is Assistant Editor at Newcity, Contributing Editor at Sixty Inches From Center, and Programmer for Onion City Experimental Film Festival. She is Co-Founder of [LITHIUM/TNL.

Elise Schierbeek

Elise Schierbeek (they/she) is a writer, media archivist, and film programmer living in Chicago.

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Onion City Film Festival

The Onion City Experimental Film Festival is one of the premiere international festivals exclusively devoted to experimental film and video. Their mission is to provide local and regional audiences with an opportunity to view a wide variety of contemporary experimental works, focused on artistic excellence, but also with an eye towards representing differing styles, forms, and nationalities.

Public Works

Public Works is an art & design gallery and storefront in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Chicago Filmmakers

Chicago Filmmakers is a not-for-profit media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation, and understanding of film and video as media for artistic and personal expression. Their organization is a catalyst for media of important social and community impact.

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