Video Dérive (drift), is a collective project that activates the subjective experience of a walk within an urban context, documenting several group journeys into one single time line and digital map. The Drift will
“Video Drift” Amanda Gutierrez
“The Indian Boundary Line” Thomas Comerford
The Indian Boundary Line, 2010, 16mm/8mm/super-8mm on digital betacam, color. 41 mins. From 2001-2010, Chicago musician and filmmaker Thomas Comerford made a series of quietly-observed films that contemplate the entwined social, political, and environmental histories
“Dead (air)” Danny Giles
As a direct action, the die-in has appeared in public spaces to represent unrepresentable loss. In recent months, mass numbers of variously raced bodies have assembled to mimic the death of black men killed
“The New Fort and Swimming In There” Melina Ausikaitis
“My performance is the telling of a story called, The New Fort, followed by the video, Swimming in There. The two pieces together have a transformative effect on each other. They build into the
“Fuck Individualisierungsschub” Neal Vandenbergh
A performance that is really just a PowerPoint lecture responding to an e-mail sent from one co-worker to the others suggesting anyone who would cast a pro-union vote should participate in a drum circle
Wesley Wodgers: Camera Cop in “When to Shoot” Leslie Rogers
Wesley’s newly required uniform camera for accountability is quite a nuisance. It makes him all self conscious, and that’s not right. Join him in deciding if and when to turn his camera off, I
Direct Object/Direct Action LIVE
Wesley Wodgers, Camera Cop in When to Shoot, Leslie Rogers ACRE TV will stage a LIVE event in which the stream will operate as a prop/instrument/soundtrack for the night of IRL performances as part of
“Soup Exchange” Soheila Azadi
The Soup Exchange is a blank/black video with subtitles. This video is approximately two hours of conversations between women in Iran and in the US. This conversation highlights the issues of race, gender and sexuality specifically
“The Society of the Spectacle” Heath Schultz
The Society of the Spectacle (2013, 75 min.) takes infamous Situationist Guy Debord’s film of the same name as a starting point and skeleton for a new video project. Through intensive research and
“Evening News” Theo Shure
“Evening News draws from local, regional, national, and global headlines in order to select a representative program of the evening’s top reports. I transcribe the reports from the major news channels accessible on Chicago