Blog: Avant/Chicago

Chicago Comedy Film Fest Wrap-Up The 1st Annual CCFF was nothing short of phenomenal. Screening nearly 40 films, having filmmakers come in from NYC, LA, Omaha, amazing press coverage, full houses for many shows and a fun, welcoming vibe from...

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Avant-Garde Diaries Short video interviews with the cultural creators of the world.

More From Vogue - Video Lab Last week we mentioned Vogue's short film series. This week we shine a light on their Video Lab. A conjoining of haute creativity.

Chicago Small Gauge Film Festival This weekend Super 8 filmmakers present their works in the film festival setting. Plenty of films, artists and events. Here for more.

Hot Video & Music Mashup Rolling in the Beats mixes music and video almost flawlessly. 24 videos and 24 tracks.

Mentioning The Death Of Postmodernism Is En Vogue We've seen two articles in the past week mentioning the death of Postmodernism. In the socio-political sense we wrote about this in our MA Thesis published in 2005. Guess this proves that...

Umphlove Podcast on Music and Technology We were so happy to be a guest on this episode of Umphlove, a weekly podcast on the Chicago band Umphreys McGee. We talked about our experience in filming the band's Northcoast Fest set...

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Photos of Maple County - Beyond The Cellphone Some past photos from Indiana - a place that's called Maple County in our mind.

Its All Comedy Film Festival We'll be holding it down at Showplace Icon Theater all weekend for the Chicago Comedy Film Festival. Follow along here. Tickets still available for some movies here.

Finding More Time For Blog & Photo (hold sacred all) which can exalt and excite your intelligence... (and) ... seek to provoke ... and to perpetuate ... these fertile stimuli, because they can push the intelligence to its maximum creative...

A Photo and A Poem We were on our way to get a movie - forgot which one. Nothing like the hangover - permitless food tents on street. The camera has eyes - down Palmer square site lines .A dog...

Boys Will Be Boys This post from the Fall of '08 still brings over a 100 hits a day to my site. A 100 per day! Somebody's tilted that's for sure! Lol. Is this place even open still? Coming in...

New NAS - Nasty (Music Video)

A Short Film With - Vogue Music, Fashion and Art all mesh wonderfully in these short films from Vogue.

UnTitled Road - A Photo Each line is a sign. Each sign is a gesture. Signs are the roots of communication.

October, The Journal This art and theory journal from MIT champions itself at the vanguard of modern creativity. Their summer issue focused on themes of film and video. Some articles available free, other through JStor.

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Chicago Comedy Film Festival Is This Weekend This weekend one of only a few comedy film fests in the world launches from ShowPlace Icon Theater in Chicago's South Loop. Formed and ran by Chicago comedy stalwarts, the Fest features shorts,...