Chicago Filmmakers (map) | April 5 | 7PM Central | 81 Mins

Get ready for an evening that celebrates the magic of film: swirling light and sound rhythmically glide together to create pools of bodily-soothing, mind-cooling, and thought-provoking moving images. A program that includes works made on a wide range of mediums and formats, from 16mm to 3D animation to AI-generated images, LIGHT BATH invites you to swim through history, breathe in the shimmer and the convoluting, immerse yourself in the sea of sunk memories and drift into subconsciousness.

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Chicago Filmmakers does not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to make a donation. Please email coop [at] chicagofilmmakers.org to inquire about free admission.

Leaned Back | Adam Jason Cohen | USA | 2022 | 20 Mins

In a city where citizens often stay in their districts for fear of violence and designed segregation, Chicago Bike Life is facilitating the building of communities from across its neighborhoods.

Superfund | Charles Cadkin | USA | 2023 | 3 Mins

A camera roll and investigation into the landscape of West Chicago’s former Rare Earth’s Facility, Kress Creek and Reed- Keppler Park. Commissioned by Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive as part of Century of 16mm.

Anti Social Studies | Jose Luis Benavides | USA | 2023 | 15 Mins

A video collaboration with Chicago industrial band Conjunto Primitivo. An exploration of the ills of industrialization and urban decay, this essay film works as an anti-city symphony, while toeing the line as a dark love song to the gritty cityscape, Chicago, which the artists call home.

Glitter for Girls | Federica Foglia | Canada | 2023 | 4 Mins

A handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children).

Ardent Other* | Alice Brygo | France | 2022 | 16 Mins

A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.

*In-Person Screening Only

Lion in the Wind | TT Takemoto | USA | 2023 | 5 Mins

A fugue for forgetting windmills in the West. This cameraless “emulsion lift” film was made from a discarded 35mm reel of a Hong Kong martial arts Western featuring Jet Li as a Kung Fu master who loses his memory and fights bandits and windmills as he makes his journey to Chinatown.

HYPNOSUGGESTION | Per Bifrost | Sweden | 2023 | 8 Mins

After the technological singularity dissolved man into time and space, a fragment of human memory lives on in a computer-like consciousness. HYPNOSUGGESTION is a collaboration between a human and an AI, a hypnotic sci-fi thriller consisting only of still images generated by an AI, an examination of our memory and subconsciousness.

The Winged Stone | Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | 2023 | 10 Mins

Through the floating garden, into the mountain of signs and chants, arises the path of the winged stone. A stone that used to be a fossil.

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Tags: Adam JAson Cohen, Alice Brygo, Charles Cadkin, Chicago, Chicago Filmmakers, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Edgewater, Federica Foglia, Jose Luis Benavides, OCFF 2024: LIGHT BATH, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Per Bifrost, TT Takemoto