C-U Blogfidential

Jason Butler was not the only Pi Omega Omega brother named Jason to aim a projector on a flat surface at Mike n’ Molly’s. Here is the 10-cent skinny on MICRO-FILM indie cinema shows staged there in 2003 and 2006.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: For once, these here images are of our own making and with good reason. Skim through past issues of C-U Confidential before picking up the next!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Motes, We the Animals, and Elsinore provide the soundtracks for today’s gallery of music videos produced by John Isberg of Swede Films in Urbana.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Oops, we did it again, but we’re driving to catch up on sharing New Art Film Festival photographs by Dora Valkanova starting here with a 2015 set!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Two titans of cinematography, gone. Three footnotes in Champaign-Urbana film history, remembered. Four rare archival photos, presented in full FLESH AND BLOOD.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Cancer survivor and creative dynamo Kimberly D. Conner of Springfield has unveiled a trailer for her next feature film, BEFORE ‘I DO,” which is nearly done and delivered!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: On Sunday, December 20, 2015, all C-U cinema patrons will gather at the Art Theater Co-op to get a first look at the locally produced micro-film HOLLY. Yes? Correct? Perchance, we dream…

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, all the C-U consumers of CONSUMED will gather at the Art Theater Co-op to get a first look at this locally shot, out-of-town indie. Will you be one of them?

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Hide your Easter baskets! Lock up your children! The decidedly mature Freeky Creek Short Film Festival returns on October 29-31, 2015, with rabbit and cat to be pulled from their hats!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We bet you didn’t see an IOW featuring Japanese monster icon Mothra coming your way, did you? Read on to learn how the fabulous Miss M. relates to the C-U.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Our man Colin Price critiques the contemporary horror cinema in his new first-person Web series, “Priceless B Movies,” on YouTube. Watch and see if you agree!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Heroic Age Studios of Mt. Zion, IL, celebrates “The Art of Fear” with activities all day on Saturday, October 10, 2015, at their Heroic Age Art Center.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The Dark History Con of Champaign welcomes veteran dark artist Hart D. Fisher and his infamous locally-filmed opus, THE GARBAGE MAN, back to town.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The Chinese Independent Film Society enters its fourth academic year at the University of Illinois with movies to watch and make. Here’s our introduction to their club activities.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We’ve just invented a new consumer “holiday” for which the main catalysts are misfit toys from our youth and lo-fi ingenuity from the present day. In other words, ROBOT COP!