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Chicago Filmmakers is presenting the Found Footage Program of the film and book tour Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pacific Film Archive’s “Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area” project is both a cinema series and a new book exploring the history of Bay Area experimental media. This program presents a survey of found footage films from 1978 through 2004 in which filmmakers repurpose original media – newsreels, cartoons, serials, and surveillance footage - in order to create new meanings. (1978-2004, 81 min., 16mm, video)

Program:

Valse Triste – Bruce Conner (1978, 6 min, 16mm) Conner evokes his boyhood in Kansas.

Futility – Greta Snider (1989, 9 min, 16mm) Two personal tales of diminished expectations are told by the same narrator.

Conscious – Julie Murray (1993, 10 min, 16mm) Mysterious associations are made by combining footage of animals with instructions on how to resuscitate human life.

Anaconda Targets – Dominic Angerame (2004, 12 min., video) Aerial footage of U.S. bombings in Afghanistan is repurposed to critique military aggression.

Common Mistakes – Jeanne Finley (1986, 14 min., video) Grievous cultural errors in naive educational films make wrongdoing seem like an institutionalized misstep.

Thine Inward-Looking Eyes – Thad Povey (1993, 2.5 min., 16mm) A series of gazes are taken out of context.

Noema – Scott Stark (1998, 11 min, 16mm) Pornographic videos are mined for the unerotic moments in between.

Decodings – Michael Wallin (1988, 16 min, 16mm) An allegorical search for identity through images of the 40’s and 50’s create a sense of longing.

Admission: $8 suggested donation