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Saturday, September 19th, 2015From 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 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.: Let’s take a whirlwind tour of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, on film … even though it took trips the world over for various filmmakers to depict the BloNo home front!
The largest rock music gathering ever in central Illinois is chronicled in INCIDENT AT KICKAPOO CREEK, the long-in-the-works film by R.C. Raycraft of Raycraft Productions International.
In our continuing quest to educate you on the video unknown, we tell you a bit about Champaign native and Los Angeles independent filmmaker Samuel M. Oldham.
We challenge you, dearest arts supporters, to jump right on in and help out these efforts. We would not have Champaign-Urbana film culture without ’em!
Fool your friends! Fluster your fellow film fans! Flock to Chicago’s The Elbo Room for a fantastic fundraiser to benefit Juan Francisco Moctezuma’s newest horror freak-out, DEMONOID (1970)!
EXTRA! Interview with the series creator of RE-ELECTION.
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: We’re never ones to let good material go wasted … even if we’re a few years late! Here’s a 2004 flashback of former UIUC students, including Illini Film & Video alum Paul Karpenko, making ASSASSINS.
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Round and round and round it goes (in the UI-7 schedule) and where it will stop, nobody knows! We provide belated love to the University of Illinois student-made series, FOR THE RECORD.
Student filmmakers in downstate Illinois are invited to submit their work between now and Friday, October 10, 2014, for possible inclusion in the tenth annual Embarras Valley Film Festival at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL.
The next meetings of Illini Film & Video will be on Tuesday, September 2, 2014, and Thursday, September 4, 2014, both at 8 p.m. in Room 66 of the UIUC Main Library.
Today, PDF stands for “pretty darn fascinating” as we point you towards a free ePDF promotion of film book publisher Michael Wiese’s unorthodox autobiography, “Onward & Upward.” You can read, dearest readers, can you not?
New informants bring their perspectives to the table in highlighting “Ebertfest” 2014. In the second filing, Brian Paris navigates the crest of emotion that greeted LIFE ITSELF.
New informants bring their perspectives to the table in highlighting “Ebertfest” 2014. In the first filing, editor Jason Pankoke elects for dependency even as an independent.
From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: A quartet of thirtysomethings attempt to reconcile past with present by reforming their rock group in the upcoming independent drama WE HAD THIS BAND, filmed in Bloomington-Normal. We have the teaser trailer for you.