C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Ah, the ephemera of the movies of Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond we sometimes forget we have… In this first of three installments featuring images culled from our archives, student bodies of area colleges represent!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Get groovy with the ghoulies invading this week’s installment, in which we posit scientifical evidence that local-ish movies such as THE WINDOW INTO TIME and DOUBLE DOSE OF TERROR!! really exist.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Although media activists Stephanie Stean and Paul Holze have relocated from the C-U to Tucson, Arizona, we’re updating the status of their life-in-South Africa documentary, THE STORY OF HAPPINESS, including what it has to do with YouTube’s push to propagate original content! Also, we like them lots, so just try and stop us.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: With one public display of C-U cinema in the books and another coming up very soon, we recall the 10th anniversary of our original attempt at presenting movies and reveal a failed bid at bonus street cred for our not-ready-for-prime-time efforts.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We provide a final blast of New Art Film Festival madness with this still image gallery and a thank-you to everyone who made the NAFF a big success last night at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Recent C-U arrivals Bogdan Heretoiu and Catrina Choate-Heretoiu make their first artistic mark as a local filmmaking team with the latter’s “dance for camera” thesis project, PROBABILITY OF POSSIBILITIES.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: One more time we dredge up a Dreamscape Cinema cover design, this for the national DVD release of DISCONNECT, and then relate a tale of two trailers issued by distributor Osiris Entertainment!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Our friend Alaric Rocha of Blue Bassoon Pictures in Chicago has completed his Super 8 movie short, WINTER, which he and a local crew filmed in the Decatur outskirts a year ago.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We collect, embed, and dissect a handful of recent videos made by current and former members of Illini Film & Video at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: It’s time for another dose of “remakesploitation” mayhem through the lens of DEJA VIEW, the Web series from Dark Maze Studios of Champaign! We also pass along a new teaser image from their upcoming movie, PRESS START 2 CONTINUE, coming to DVD on March 11!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: At long last, we can share a first look at Pounded Pavement Productions’ feature, FINDING VIRGINIA, which they filmed in Decatur, IL, in October 2009, while we also post the trailer for the feature AMBER ROSE, filmed in Champaign-Urbana, IL, in May 2010.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Watch out! You never know when your future self will show up in the present to sway your life choices as we see in the latest Bill Kephart/Joe Taylor “challenge” videos for PopTent.net!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We provide you a large-size look at the cover design for the national DVD release of Dreamscape Cinema’s SHEEBA, and then we sneak a covert peek at the studio’s brand-new canine tale, MY DOG THE SPACE TRAVELER!

We can hear your answer now: “Hell, no! NAFF won’t go!!!” You may be right. We may be crazy. Any which way, it’s time for you to read on, MacDuffs, and carefully consider the words contained herein “Images of the Week” regarding the New Art Film Festival.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Let’s now take a quick look at the work of Johnnie May and Danny Plotnick that typifies the wide-ranging variety once presented at Champaign-Urbana’s Freaky Film Festival from 1997 to 2000.