{"id":3489,"date":"2011-06-03T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:53:54","slug":"iow-nice-to-c-u-on-cublog-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Nice to C-U on CUBlog, pt.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> has never been taken off-line for maintenance, so we have to fit in the back-end chores when time allows during our weekly madness. Currently, we\u2019re cleaning up our desktops at the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> which includes reorganization of electronic files pertaining to the movies of Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond. Filtering through these assets, we couldn\u2019t help but set a few aside to share with our dearest readers!<\/p>\n

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For the next three \u201cImages of the Week<\/strong>\u201d postings, we\u2019ll present images that have never appeared before on CUBlog <\/strong>or in C-U Confidential<\/strong>, starting with this \u201call student\u201d grouping! We begin with promotional artwork for the unfinished slasher flick FACES IN THE MIRROR<\/strong>, directed by Chicago <\/strong>videographer Brian Patrick <\/strong>while a senior at University High School<\/strong> in Urbana. Streaming clips tucked away on Patrick\u2019s portfolio Web site<\/a> under the \u201cWatch\u201d tab imply he\u2019s worked on it since the Uni High premiere in 2006. Apart from being a product of ambitious high school students, FACES <\/strong>gained notoriety when rumors flew that local businessmen invested $30,000 worth of money, equipment, and software into the project.<\/p>\n

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Above is a screen grab lifted from the defunct Web site for LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD<\/strong>, a low-budget comedy action feature made by Illinois State University<\/strong> graduates Jason Huls<\/strong> and Paul Brooks<\/strong> in Bloomington-Normal<\/strong> and Decatur <\/strong>a few years ago. We snagged this shot for sentimental reasons; the basement studio in which actors Travis Huls, Ashley O\u2019Neil<\/strong>, and Brooks hole up during AFTERNOON <\/strong>is WESN 88.1 FM<\/strong>, the low-power radio station of Illinois Wesleyan University<\/strong> where your humble alumnus editor co-hosted \u201cThe RadioActive Doghouse<\/strong>\u201d show in the early Nineties. Brooks and Huls have reinvigorated their label Ten Wing Films<\/strong><\/a> in Chicago with new projects including an almost-completed short called THE DRONE<\/strong> and the more elaborate CITIZEN IN THE TEMPLE<\/strong>, which Huls will submit as his thesis film<\/a> in DePaul University<\/strong>\u2019s Digital Cinema program.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the overt “Indiana Jones” costume reference, a gag CUBlog <\/strong>is hardly immune to<\/a>, we simply like this candid set photo from Premonition Pictures\u2019 ONE FINE DAY!<\/strong><\/a>, which we\u2019ve covered previously<\/a>. In the first season\u2019s Episode 3, \u201cMental Ability<\/strong>,\u201d college friends and fellow resident assistants Steven (Kevin Zaideman<\/strong>) and Mitch (Daniel Papas<\/strong>) drag along Alexis (Brittney Refakes<\/strong>) on a campus scavenger hunt during Halloween<\/strong>. Since creators Marc Morin, Jr.<\/strong>, and Derek Klein<\/strong> filmed the complete series at their alma mater<\/em>, the University of Illinois<\/strong>, OFD!<\/strong> marathons frequently pop up on student lab station UI-7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re often asked which movies are pictured on the cover of CUZine<\/strong>, to which we slyly reveal the mystery scenes are staged exclusively for the magazine. This scheme is not without precedence here at MFHQ<\/strong>, for way back in 1999 we taped more than an hour of \u201cfake video\u201d spoofing THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT<\/strong> from which to grab images for the cover of that year\u2019s Freaky Film Festival<\/strong> program. One screen capture never before seen is this smiley group shot of then-UI students Bilal Dardai<\/strong> of Chicago<\/a>, Christopher Lavery<\/strong> of Tinley Park<\/strong>, and Danielle Cloutier<\/strong> of Los Angeles<\/strong><\/a>, who employed pure improvisation in their on-camera search for nothing particularly important. However, they did <\/em>find themselves a cornfield despite an inept sense of direction. Take that <\/em>Heather, Josh<\/strong>, and Mike<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Concluding this round is a rare UI campus flier from the early Seventies promoting screenings of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE<\/strong> along with other activities and actions at the Red Herring Coffee House<\/strong> in Urbana. The graphic comes to us from the personal collection of CUBlog <\/strong>friend and former UI student Leith Adams<\/strong>, now the senior archivist at Warner Bros. Studios<\/strong><\/a> in Burbank, CA<\/strong>. We\u2019re pretty certain the presence of a WB picture on the flier is sheer coincidence. Or, is it foreshadowing? Hmmmmm<\/em>.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,19,23,274,13,18],"tags":[721,310,147,103,722],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alums-done-good","category-images-du-cu","category-preservation","category-print-matter-du-c-u","category-public-events","category-student-film","tag-faces-in-the-mirror","tag-freaky-film-festival","tag-late-afternoon-of-the-living-dead","tag-one-fine-day","tag-red-herring-coffee-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}