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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Experiment 752” (April 26-May 2)
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Experiment 752” (April 26-May 2)

I take control of my sublime experience from outside abstract control into my own hands. The outer control is religion, state, and government. for centuries external forces controlled what is forbidden and what was allowed, thus controlling my consciousness – what I think, enjoy, and what makes me feel awe or spiritually elevated. To develop into the state of post-human, I need to shed the old restrictive skin of current thinking. The object I am trying to control, the lost ship of my mind is in its own entity.

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Silence is Deathly Painful” (April 19-25)
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Silence is Deathly Painful” (April 19-25)

The audio used in this work comes from an archive of recordings that were conducted by a computer program. This program listened to talk radio broadcasts across the United States from 2019-2022 and recorded what happened before, during, and after moments of silence that occurred on these broadcasts. This software generated an archive of recordings that captured the voices and ideologies of broadcasters commentating on events that happened throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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THIS WEEK’S IMAGE UNION FEATURE: “Festival De Mujeres” (April 19-25)
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S IMAGE UNION FEATURE: “Festival De Mujeres” (April 19-25)

“Festival De Mujeres,” June 30, 1979, by Eleanor Boyer and Karen Peugh. Color video. Documentary about a women’s festival in Chicago’s predominantly Latinx Pilsen neighborhood. Salima Rivera reads several of her poems, one is an ode to Pilsen, another dedicated to women searching for their sons after the Allende government in Chile was overthrown.

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Frustum Culling” (April 12-18)
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Frustum Culling” (April 12-18)

A scrolling maze on shifting ground.

Conceived as a performable webpage, Frustum Culling is a prose poem of text and sound, animation and HTML. It is a guided tour through a vessel populated by ghoulish characters, each surveilling and seeking: others, objects, assets. Reflecting upon architecture, labour, and gaming vernacular, the work extrapolates the present, suggesting a coming absurd predicament.

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "White Noise” (March 22-28)
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "White Noise” (March 22-28)

“White Noise” is an abstraction of the social and political concerns currently reverberating throughout the United States. A video that travels through an anonymous American landscape is juxtaposed with the increasingly chaotic sounds of newscasts and punditry. The banal time and space of everyday life take on an ominous atmosphere as the radio gives voice to a stream of issues pulling at our social fabric, while the image of the landscape fragments and falls out of sync with itself, transforming what was once familiar into a threatening experience.

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Lick Fire” (March 8-14)
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Lick Fire” (March 8-14)

Through intimate reflections, Lick Fire delves into the ecstasy and turmoil that spring forth from the limitless realm of imagination, while fearlessly contemplating the impending consequences of artificial intelligence in breathing life into these captivating and unreal realms.

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Maria’s Silence” (March 1-7)
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Maria’s Silence” (March 1-7)

This film is based on documentary material but is not, strictly speaking, a documentary film. Nor it is a work of fiction. The film rather appeared to us like a dream, not a nocturnal dream, but one which unfolded day by day while shooting. A dream shared between the photographer-director and the actress (or, better, the woman portrayed in the feature), which nevertheless seemed to follow its own, enigmatic necessity through which the daily shots joined almost magnetically, interweaving in a pattern of superimposed layers that unceasingly merge and dissolve one in another, in the constant flux, crystallization and reshaping of psychic interior.

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LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (March ONLY): “The Alien & the Border Guard”
Michael Workman Michael Workman

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (March ONLY): “The Alien & the Border Guard”

LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (MARCH ONLY)

Inspired by the U.S./Mexico border situation, this sci-fi short film is about struggle and transformation; it is about understanding and accepting the other. A non-traditional love story about discovering one’s authentic self. It is the story of how love can blossom within devastating apocalyptic times or our current times, when there is no longer THE OTHER, but unconditional love that is based in respect and acceptance of differences.

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM (Dec. 31-February 29): "Danse!”
Michael Workman Michael Workman

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM (Dec. 31-February 29): "Danse!”

September 9, 2012: After months of preparation, 370 amateur dancers participated in the La Biennale de la Danse parade in the choreography "Pluie de Danses" directed by Bouba Landrille Tchouda.

9 years later, Danse! tell about this wonderful human adventure through the eyes of those who lived it.

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