Nightingale Projects - The root and the harvest/La raiz y la cosecha

Nightingale Projects: The root and the harvest/La raiz y la cosecha
August 21, 2023, 6pm
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
Chicago, IL

Using found footage, animation, and personal videos, these films from Mexico and Chicago speak to each other through long-term experience, using identity as a way of expanding time, connecting desperate times with images, and opposing the immobility of the past. The program highlights both countries and how they use the medium to talk about past events and the ways they affect the present. These works are ritualistically heightened, using urban video and the flickering of colorful projections consisting of dialogue reminiscent of an image of aspirational wealth. These works are a visually pleasing, humorous hallucinatory montage consisting of concrete realities reminiscent of formal precision and tenderness. Programmed for Nightingale Projects by Raul Benitez and Tzutzu Matzin. Followed by a discussion with select filmmakers to be announced.