Bail or No?
@ The Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Sunday, October 14th, from 8 PM - 10 PM
Bail or No? takes its name from a moment of indecision, the intuitive, instinctual moment where one decides to either bail from a skate trick or to ride it out. The shorts assembled as part of this program, while disparate in their approaches and proximity skateboarding, ruminate on the spirit of skating and the ways in which it has embraced individual and idiosyncratic contributions to the form and how the very practice insists on risk in the face of both futility and injury.
Bail or No? is an experimental shorts program in the format of a collage film, with concrete and asphalt video-poetry riffing on the aesthetics of skate media, DIY culture, bailing as form, and the metaphor of micro-rebellion. Aware that such rebellions are easily commodified and co-opted, the program is nonetheless knit together by a mutual spirit—that having to bail is okay, but to move without risk or chance, is to throw in the towel regardless.
Featuring contributions by Brandon Alvendia, Liz Cambron, Chris Johanson, Joe Castrucci with Future Islands, Molly Colleen O’Connell, Rick Silva and Jordan Tate, Jennifer Chan, John Auer, Dina Kelberman, Caitlin Ryan, Jacob Riddle, Rick Charnoski, Philippe Blanchard, Thad Kellstadt, KC Milliken with Eric Fleischauer, and surprise cameos by many more. Programmed by Chris Reeves and Aaron Walker.
Sunday, October 14 at 8:00 PM
Suggested donation of $7-10
Total screening time: 60 minutes
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Tags: Aaron Walker, Bail or No?, Brandon Alvendia, Caitlin Ryan, Chicago, Chris Johanson, Chris Reeves, Dina Kelberman, Eric Fleischauer, experimental cinema, Future Islands, Jacob Riddle, Jennifer Chan, Joe Castrucci, John Auer, Jordan Tate, Liz Cambron, Molly Colleen O'Connell, Noble Square, Philippe Blanchard, Rick Charnoski, Rick Silva, skateboarding, Thad Kellstadt, The Nightingale, West Town
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