A collage of diaries and fragments. Fleeting, hazy, at times hypnotic, AFTERIMAGE moves like a flâneur, walking across space and time. Saturday, April 11 at 2pm, Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema (1326 W Hollywood Ave). Competition No.3.
Guarita | Lua Borges | 2025
A one-roll unedited 16mm film that collages the multiplicity of guard houses in São Paulo city.
Palimpsest One: Now U See Us | Michael Alexander Morris | 2025
A series of one-reel diary films made up of improvised superimpositions. The mundane and the absurd aspects of contemporary life overwrite one another.
Mist | Brittany Gravely | 2025
A phenomenon captured in the park, days after the death of a friend.
WRIGHTFILM | Ben Creech | 2024
A road movie shot at three Frank Lloyd Wright houses.
My Grandma Still Cleans My Uncle's Room (Mi Mamita Todavía Mantiene el Cuarto de Mi Tío) | Alex Guerra | 2026
An undocumented immigrant recounts memories of his childhood home while telling the story of the handmade wallet tied to his journey across the border.
Fjord Time | Jonathan Johnson and Carleen Maur | 2025
Two young sisters guide us through a meditation on time, play, and nature, using the present moment as a spell against acceleration.
(for once I dreamed of you) | Kate Solar | 2025
As night falls over the fields, a woman looks into unknown areas: the space after a poem, the distance between map and territory, the darkness between film frames.
CÂINE PIERDUT | Jules Bourbon | 2025
In a dense, opaque city, a man walks at a distance, cut off from the world. He collects fragments, post-its that he keeps without really knowing why.
The Garden of Electric Delights | Billy Roisz | 2025
The film transforms Bosch’s surreal visions into a shifting, electric world of moving color and sound. Flickering signals and synthetic nature create a sensually charged, otherworldly landscape.
Another Earth | Ben Russell | 2025
From mouth to cave to fire to screen to war to skin, this is a dizzying 16mm portrait of an increasingly chaotic present, one whose political contours are seemingly affected by everything and nothing all at once.
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