Blog: Avant/Chicago

High Video Art YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. Short list announced. A selection of the most unique, innovative, groundbreaking video work being created and distributed online during the past two years. Wish we could comment on some of...

Groove Me (Video) The highly anticipated first visual impression of Dave Sitek's solo project Maximum Balloon has arrived.

Heading to Editing After an amazing weekend of shooting the first year festival in Union Park, we are ready to head into editing for the Doc project we're curating on the event. We captured the moments both on-stage, behind-the-scenes and...

Burrito Quest Comes To The Southside We moved to Bridgeport and it only took us a day to try out a nice little spot on 35th Street. Read the full review here. Being located on the Northside for almost 10...

About As Busy As It Gets We've had little time for blogging in the past couple weeks. We... moved to Bridgeport have been working diligently to plan for our shooting of the North Coast Music Festival Documentary started teaching classes...

Another Lotus Webisode Through the Mirror Episode 10from LotusVibes. The beat goes on.

Summerdance II - Photos, Thoughts Summerdance III is just days away. Here's last years recap. Anytime you're around groups of positive folks, old friends and new, listening to amazing music, the outcome is going to be a special one. When...

New Project Announced FlowFeel Films and North Coast Music Festival are excited to announce that Brent Kado, in conjunction with Flowfeel Films, will be shooting an intimate documentary about the music and personalities of the Chicago event. Flowfeel Films finished...

A Few Shots From Our Last Trip To The Lake You know we like to take photos. If it's not concerts, then it's usually nature. Last year at our Lake Place we took a couple rounds of photos. Areas included...

Another Episode of our 'Through The Mirror' Web Series Nematode from the Web Series. Shot by Zach and Doug at Nateva in Maine.

Bazin, What Is Cinema? Last week we finished a paper for our summer PhD class, an independent study titled 'Contemporary Film Theory - A Critical Analysis'. Here is one of the annotated bibliography examples. This collection of essays in which...

Welcome To Gentle Waters Film Screening Monday Hear ye, hear ye. Monday will be the first chance (and last for a few months) for the general public to get a look at our latest film, Welcome to Gentle Waters. We're...

Nice Press For The Film In Indiana And here are the links to two of three from the past week. Pre-screening Post-screening

Prepping For The Screening Last Week Joel and I, pre-screening last week in North Webster.

2010 Silent Summer Film Festival The Silent Film Society of Chicago is proud to present The 2010 Silent Summer Film Festival for six consecutive Fridays beginning July 23, 2010. Harold Lloyd, Ramon Navarro, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney and Mary Pickford...

Cell Photos From Last Week on Webster Two of the best cell pics we took during our latest week in Webster.

Public Enemies to Transformers Chicago has long been a location used in film and thankfully in the past couple years it has rebounded from a film set funk of sorts. Currently Transformers is shooting downtown and the whole city seems...

What A Week In Webster Sounding like a broken record, we we're once again back at the summer crib in Lake Webster. Besides some major grillin' and chillin', we hit the shops at Winona Village for some delish sushi and...

Closing the Digital Frontier The matrixed, hyperlinked Internet was both cause and effect of the libertarian ethos of Silicon Valley. The open-source mentality, in theory if not always in practice, proved useful for the tech and Internet worlds. Facebook and...

Watch Us Live On JTV Over The Next 3 Days Our history with Justin.tv is deep. We had been in the running to be one of the original 60 channels launched in the summer of '07 but sadly that it...