The Onion City Film Festival returns to Chicago April 4 and will run for ten days. Programmed by curator, writer and LITHIUM/TNL gallery co-founder Nicky Ni, Paige Naylor and Anna Johnson, the festival highlights experimental film and video art from internationally renowned artists. On April 5, the festival will join with the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines [CCAM] to host [we don’t know yet] what cinema can do - a night of live A/V performances alongside three installations - at Public Works.
“The Question of Grief” (2023), a piece by Liyan Zhao incorporating lecture, light, sound and found footage, will interrogate the nature of grief and its effect on imagination and folklore. Hunter Whittaker-Brown’s “The Emissary (A Prayer)” (2024) is a vocal piece with live sound and visual processing. Brown’s work is informed by Black cosmology and Afrofuturism, and looks at mass media through an archival lens. “I am invested in breaking down the form of moving image and further unpacking the possibilities of its reconfiguration as a synecdochic act of disassembling and remaking contemporary culture at large,” Brown wrote of this piece.
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