The Chicago Underground Film Festival is now accepting submissions for
our 17th festival to be held June 24 – July 1 2010 at the Gene Siskel
Film Center. Early Deadline is March 1 2010, Final Deadline March 15.
For entry forms and guidelines please visit http://www.cuff.org
Since 1994, the Chicago Underground Film Festival has presented the
finest in new underground, experimental and documentary film and
video. In 2008 the festival entered into a partnership with
IFP/Chicago and in 2009 the festival moved to the state of the art
Gene Siskel Film Center. 2010 will mark another major change for the
festival as we move from our traditional fall dates to the spring.
2009 Chicago Underground Film Festival jury selected the following
works as festival winners. Our 2009 jury was comprised of Patrick
Friel (White Light Cinema/Onion City Film Festival), Adam Hart
(University of Chicago Experimental Film Club) and author and media
activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. Winning films were given one of a kind
hand-made trophies designed by Chicago artist Luke Breckon.
Best Narrative Feature: Blondes In The Jungle (Whitney Horne and Lev Kalman)
Best Narrative Short: All Ghost Women Play The Theremin (Jerzy Rose)
Best Documentary Feature: It Came From Kuchar! (Jennifer Kroot)
Best Documentary Short: Me Broni Ba (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
Best Experimental Film: Jaws (Sabine Gruffat)
Best Animation: Elfmädchen (Mirka Morales)
Made In Chicago Award: Somewhere Only We Know (Jesse Maclean)
Audience Award: American Radical- The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
(David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier)
Come to the final night of this years festival with the feature documentary American Radical: the trials of Norman Finkelstein, with film maker Nicolas Rossier in attendance.
3pm
The Entire Cycle
Shorts Program | 77 min.
plays with…
Simultaneous Contrast | Chris Kennedy 2008
Honorable Mention | Kevin Everson 2009
The Shutdown | Adam Stafford 2009
Earl | Nick Harvey 2008
We Began By Measuring Distance | Basma Al-Sharif 2009
Kalendar (from The Ukranian Time Machine Project) | Naomi Uman 2008
Me Broni Ba (My White Baby) |
3:15pm
China Town
Lucy Raven 2009 | Documentary Feature | 53 min.
plays with…
Between The Sheets | Warren Cockerham 2008
12 Explosions | Johann Lurf 2008
5:00PM
American Radical
David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier 2009 | Documentary Feature | 84 min.
** Note: World Premiere, Directors in Attendance
5:15PM
Coconuts and Cocaine
Shorts Program | 84 min.
plays with…
Untitled RPG | JD Walsh 2008
Jaws | Sabine Gruffat 2009
My Third Painting | Usama Alshaibi 2009
Papal Broken Dance | Marie Losier 2008
Myth Labs | Martha Colburn 2008
Constant Craving | Shana Moulton 2009
Blondes in the Jungle | Ball Deep International 2009
7:00PM
Time Machine/In The Jungle Performance
Live Event | 120 min.
** Note: Filmmakers in Attendance
plays with…
The Time Machine | Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat 2009
In the Jungle | Stephanie Barber 2009
3pm
This Must Be the Place
Shorts Program | 80 min.
plays with…
Trypps #6 (Malobi) | Ben Russell 2009
Developer | Karthik Pandian 2009
Arcadia, Downtown | Yaron Lapid 2009
Wound Footage | Thorsten Fleisch 2009
American Dreams # 4 | Moira Tierney 2008
Transmissions | Grey Gersten 2009
Dick Cheney in a Cold Dark Cell | Jim Finn 2009
Dogs of Straw | Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong 2009
5:00 PM
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Julien Nitzberg 2009 | Feature | 84 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
5:00PM
The Watchful Eye
Shorts Program | 75 min.
plays with…
Freude (Delight) | Thomas Draschen 2009
The Citizens | Jerome Everson 2009
The Image World | Adele Horne 2008
San Quentin, CA 94964 | Katherin McInnis 2007
Boy/Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein’s “Narrative of a Child Analysis” | Steve Reinke 2008
Behind the Walls and Under the Stairs | Christina Battle 2006
The Book of Salt: Chapter 1: Mary’s Garden | Andrew Busti 2008
Groundplay | Robert Todd 2009
1-9 | Mary Billyou 2008
The Body Parlor | Frédéric Moffet, Katrina Chamberlin and James Kubie 2009
7:00PM
Cellar
Steve Staso 2009 | Short | 87 min.
** Note: World Premiere, Director in Attendance
7:15PM
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Jessica Oreck 2009 | Documentary Feature | 89 min.
** Note: Midwest Premiere
plays with…
The Sound of Crickets | Justin Chouinard 2008
9:00PM
Gold
Bob Levis 1968 | Feature | 91 min.
** Note: 40th Anniversary Screening
9:15PM
Magic Hands
Shorts Program | 81 min.
plays with…
Elfmädchen | Mirka Morales 2009
Twilight Spirit | Jodie Mack 2009
Peaches | Anders Nelson 2008
Faust | Steve Emmons 2009
Peeks | Jo Dery 2009
Launderman | Scott Cummings 2009
All Ghost Women Play the Theremin |
