{"id":206,"date":"2008-09-26T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=206"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:21:36","slug":"screening-october-2nd-6pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/09\/26\/screening-october-2nd-6pm\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Years of the Chicago Underground Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, October 2, 6pm<\/strong> | <span><em>Festival director Bryan Wendorf and CUFF filmmakers in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/cuff450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1461\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/cuff450.jpg\" alt=\"CUFF\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roger Ebert once said of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuff.org\/\">Chicago Underground Film Festival<\/a>, \u201cWhat you get for your money is not just admission to the films, but admission to a subculture.\u201d For 15 years, CUFF has exhibited the vibrant media emerging from Chicago\u2019s schools, production houses, music and performance scenes, and occasionally, from out-of-the-blue. Tonight\u2019s program, co-curated by CUFF co-founder and Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf, charts the festival\u2019s history through the city\u2019s own, from Jennifer Reeder\u2019s 1996 riot grrrl call-to-arms, <em>Clit-O-Matic: The Adventures of White Trash Girl<\/em><span><em><\/em><span> (1995) and James Fotopoulos\u2019 transgressive experimentation, <em>Drowning<\/em><\/span><span> (2001) to Jim Finn\u2019s Marxist-inspired history of the gerbil,<\/span><\/span><em>W\u00fcstinspringmaus<\/em><span><span> (2002) and Ben Russell\u2019s transcendent concert film,\u00a0<em><span>Black and White Trypps #3<\/span><\/em> (2007). Also featured: <em>Velvet Welk<\/em><span> (Darren Hacker, 1996), <em>Wheels of Fury<\/em><\/span><span> (Dan and Paul Dinello w\/Amy Sedaris, 1998), <em>Stuffing<\/em><\/span><span> (Animal Charm, 1998), <\/span><\/span><\/span><em>D\u00e9part<\/em><span><span><span> (Thomas Comerford, 2000), <\/span><\/span><\/span><em>Bouncing In The Corner #36DDD<\/em> <span><span><span>(Dara Greenwald, 1999), <em>Receiver<\/em><\/span><span> (Jon Leone, 2001), <\/span><\/span><\/span><em>I Am a Conjuror<\/em><span><span><span> (Emily Vey Duke &amp; Cooper Battersby, 2003), and <\/span><\/span><\/span><em>Security Anthem<\/em><span><span><span> (Kent Lambert, 2003). CUFF presents a second retrospective program on Friday, October 3 at the Nightingale. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/cuff.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cuff.org<\/a> for details.<\/span><\/span> 1995\u20142007, various directors, USA, multiple formats, ca 90 min.<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 2, 6pm | Festival director Bryan Wendorf and CUFF filmmakers in person! Roger Ebert once said of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, \u201cWhat you get for your money is not just admission to the films, but admission to a subculture.\u201d For 15 years, CUFF has exhibited the vibrant media emerging from Chicago\u2019s schools, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/09\/26\/screening-october-2nd-6pm\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 15 Years of the Chicago Underground Film Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[152,217,468,516],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","tag-curators-and-programmers","tag-experimental-narrative","tag-performance","tag-saic-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8737,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/8737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}