"Westermann" at ArtYard
Mar
23
7:00 PM19:00

"Westermann" at ArtYard

Join ArtYard for a screening of “Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea,” a 3D documentary film that chronicles the story of a marine veteran who navigated the profound traumas of war by making art and becoming a hero to generations of artists, including his friends Ed Ruscha and Frank Gehry, among others interviewed in this immersive film.

A talkback with Director Leslie Buchbinder follows the screening.

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Westermann @ 2024 Golden State Film Festival
Feb
27
2:00 PM14:00

Westermann @ 2024 Golden State Film Festival

We’re honored to screen Westermann as part of the 2024 Golden State Film Festival, hosted at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Tickets are available at the box office or via the festival webpage. To purchase a ticket online, scroll down to 02/27 and select “Block GGG.” The Golden State Film Festival is designed to be a contending platform for independent filmmakers to promote independent films in California The "Golden State". The festival caters to independent filmmakers of shorts and feature projects looking to promote to distributors and film aficionados in the Los Angeles area and California.

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Westermann 3-D | Smart / FSC Screenings + Special Collections Viewing
Jan
27
11:30 AM11:30

Westermann 3-D | Smart / FSC Screenings + Special Collections Viewing

Pentimenti is proud to announce two FREE screenings of its feature-length, 3-D H.C. Westermann documentary, written and directed by Leslie Buchbinder, Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea (86min, 3-D DCP) on Saturday, January 27 at the Logan Center for the Arts (915 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637), hosted in association with the Smart Museum and the Film Studies Center.  In between screenings there will be a special collections viewing at the Smart Museum (5550 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637), also free to the public.

11:30AM SCREENING

1:30PM - 4:30 PM | Post-screening special collections viewing from the Smart Museum’s H.C. Westermann Study Collection, one of the most significant public collections of artwork and archival material related to Westermann’s life and work.

5:00PM SCREENING | Post-screening panel discussion featuring John Corbett (Corbett vs Dempsey), Berit Ness (Smart Museum of Art), Leslie Buchbinder (Pentimenti Productions), and artist Alex Chitty.

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Westermann | San Francisco Premiere
Oct
6
5:15 PM17:15

Westermann | San Francisco Premiere

Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea" closes the Veterans Film Festival, 10/06 at 5:15pm! The screening will take place at the Veterans War Memorial Building, located at 401 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, CA.

Presented by OneVet OneVoice, the Veterans Film Festival is a robust forum for active duty, Veterans, and civilian filmmakers to express their creativity and to share their stories, which in turn helps further healing and brings greater awareness to the public on the challenges our nation’s Veterans face. The festival spotlights active duty, Veterans, and civilian filmmakers addressing issues about Veterans and military-related topics.

Please find more info at: onevetonevoice.org

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THE QUINCE TREE SUN 35mm Screening with Chicago Film Society
Jul
26
7:30 PM19:30

THE QUINCE TREE SUN 35mm Screening with Chicago Film Society

This Wednesday night at NEIU we’re excited to present a very rare 35mm screening of Victor Erice’s THE QUINCE TREE SUN co-presented with Chicago Film Society. Tickets are $10 at the door.

This extraordinarily rare documentary–acclaimed as one of the best films of the 1990s by the cinephiles of TIFF Cinematheque but barely distributed in the US–resurfaces as Victor Erice returns to Cannes with his first new film in three decades. Quince Tree is an exacting portrait of artist Antonio López García and the world contained in his backyard, from his family and nearby Polish laborers to the elusive beauty of the titular quince tree.

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"Hairy Who" — French Premiere
Mar
14
5:00 PM17:00

"Hairy Who" — French Premiere

To accompany their exhibition, The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, Frac Lorraine will screen our award-winning, critically-acclaimed film, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists. While Hairy Who has screened in London, Vienna, and other cities around the globe, this screening marks its premiere in France. Frac Lorraine, in collaboration with Triangle - Astérides, Marseille and the Fondation Antoine de Galbert, undertook the translation, which will be made available to other institutions interested in screening the film with French subtitles. For more information about the Christina Ramberg exhibition and the screening, please visit the Frac Lorraine website.

In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists. Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era—Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image, Marriage Chicago Style. Kissing cousins to the contemporaneous international phenomenon of Pop Art, Chicago Imagism took its own weird, wondrous, in-your-face tack. Variously pugnacious, puerile, scatological, graphic, comical, and absurd, it celebrated a very different version of ‘popular’ from the detached cool of New York, London and Los Angeles. Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell their wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story.

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“Here Is a Man Who Stood Up”: An Afternoon With Ed Paschke
Mar
8
3:00 PM15:00

“Here Is a Man Who Stood Up”: An Afternoon With Ed Paschke

Ed Paschke Art Center proudly partners with Media Burn Archive and Pentimenti Productions to present:

“Here Is a Man Who Stood Up”: An Afternoon With Ed Paschke

A Chicago Lost and Found event hosted by Paul Durica, with Jamie Ceaser, Jason Nargis, and Tom Palazzolo in person!

Sunday, March 8th, 2020

3:00-5:00pm

Ed Paschke Art Center

5415 W Higgins Ave, Chicago, IL 60630

PLEASE NOTE: This event is currently sold out.

Free, but spaces are limited and RSVP is required.

To attend, contact the Ed Paschke Art Center: info@edpaschkeartcenter.org

“Here Is a Man Who Stood Up” is an immersive experience that uses archival objects, never-before-seen footage, and one-time-only re-stagings to animate the life and work of lifelong Chicago artist Ed Paschke

Paschke (1939-2004) was known for his dark version of Pop Art, which featured American icons painted in nightmarish, lurid neon colors. “Here is a man who would not take it any more… Here is a man who stood up” from 1976’s Taxi Driver  served as Paschke’s answering machine message.That movie’s disturbed and lonely protagonist, Travis Bickle, resembled the elements of society that fascinated Paschke throughout his life and found expression in his art. 

“Here is a Man Who Stood Up” at the Ed Paschke Art Center is hosted by Paul Durica, Director of Exhibitions at the Newberry Library, and features rare archival items and ephemera presented by Northwestern University’s Jason Nargis; screenings of Tommy “Chicago” Palazzolo’s short film The Tattooed Lady of Riverview and Chicago-based producer Jamie Ceaser’s documentary Ed Paschke: The Artist Behind the Mask; and a “virtual” true crime tour inspired by Paschke and led by Durica.

Anchoring the event and framing these activities is newly discovered and restored footage of Paschke produced by Ceaser. The footage follows Paschke around Chicago as he narrates the seamy history that has taken place on ordinary streets and offers a chance to engage with the man himself and his cultural preoccupations.

“Here is a Man Who Stood Up” is part of Media Burn Archive’s Chicago Lost & Found series. Media Burn is a nonprofit in Chicago that collects, restores and distributes documentary video created by artists, activists and community groups. Its mission is to use archival media to deepen context and encourage critical thought through a social justice lens. 

Partnering with Media Burn on the event is Pentimenti, a film production company and nonprofit arts organization in the city of Chicago with a mission to produce and distribute high-quality educational documentaries on the visual arts.The inaugural project of Pentimenti Productions is the documentary Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, the first feature film presentation of the work and history of the group of artists who have come to be known as the Chicago Imagists.

The mission of the Ed Paschke Art Center is to preserve and provide public access to the work of legendary Ed Paschke; to serve as an educational resource for youth, adults, artists and academics; and to function as an accessible platform for artists to showcase their work.

Chicago Lost & Found is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

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Videography Workshop for Entrepreneurs
Feb
29
to Mar 1

Videography Workshop for Entrepreneurs

Videography Workshop for Entrepreneurs

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Pentimenti is pleased to partner with the Polsky Center to host another Videography Workshop for Entrepreneurs.

Whether you need video of your product, team, or for your Instagram channel, join us for an intensive, two day crash course on the essentials of video production. Through illustrative examples from a wide range of media and hands-on exercises, this class will leverage concepts from documentary filmmaking to help participants create dynamic product and marketing videos, learn how to better shoot footage on a smartphone, and expand their visual identity with cinematic techniques.

The curriculum will cover the essential stages of the production process, with the first day devoted to cinematography and the second day focused on editing. Exercises involve: choreographing and shooting an interview; creating and editing a project in Adobe Premiere; and integrating stock footage and music. All experience levels welcome.

Polsky is excited to present this workshop in partnership with the Hyde Park Art Center and Pentimenti Productions, a documentary production company with a mission to make films about art and artists.

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4 Films by Suzanne Simpson screens at EPAC!
Jul
21
3:00 PM15:00

4 Films by Suzanne Simpson screens at EPAC!

We're pleased to partner with the Ed Paschke Art Center to present another screening of 4 Films by Suzanne Simpson, a collection of long-lost documentaries digitally restored and re-released by Pentimenti. Each of the four short films by Simpson profiles an artist who spent formative time in California during the 1970s, including Mark di Suvero, Roy De Forest, Hassel Smith and local legend Karl Wirsum, who was briefly a visiting instructor at the California State University, Sacramento. Virtually unseen for more than four decades, Simpson's whimsical quartet of archival films captures these artists flourishing amidst the 1970s Bay Area art scene, when Funk art was thriving. View the trailer for 4 Films by Suzanne Simpson here!

The screening will be followed by a talk-back with Harrison Sherrod, executive director of Pentimenti Productions. Running time: 60 minutes

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Intro to Doc Video @ HPAC
Apr
7
to Jun 9

Intro to Doc Video @ HPAC

Where: Hyde Park Art Center

Dates: Sundays, April 7th - June 9th, 2019*

Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm

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Pentimenti is pleased to continue its ongoing partnership with the Hyde Park Art Center to host another session of Intro to Doc Video, an eight-session workshop covering the essentials of documentary filmmaking. This hands-on class will explore different phases of the production process, including pre-production, cinematography, and editing, as well as a final session on documentary ethics. Through illustrative examples from various films and a unique project based learning approach, participants will learn how to conceive of a compelling subject, shoot an interview, edit footage, and much more.

This class will appeal to: documentarians interested in workshopping a project; artists, curators, and conservators who wish to learn best practices for using video for documentation and marketing purposes; and first-time filmmakers looking for a crash course on production essentials. All experience levels are welcome! As part of our ongoing commitment to accessible arts education, Pentimenti has opted to offer this class as part of HPAC's community pricing model, which allows participants to pay what they are able.

*no class on Easter or Memorial Day weekend

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"Hairy Who" screens at How Chicago! show in London
Apr
4
7:00 PM19:00

"Hairy Who" screens at How Chicago! show in London

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Pentimenti is pleased to partner with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art in London to present a screening of Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists as part of the institution’s programming for their current show, How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s. The screening will take place on April 4th at 7pm — more information and tickets can be found here.

How Chicago! marks the first significant exhibition in the UK in almost 40 years of work by the Chicago Imagists. Igniting the Chicago art scene in the 1960s, the artists associated with ‘Chicago Imagism’ worked across painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, creating distinctive works that were irreverent and often visceral. Variously featuring vibrant colors, distorted figuration, shimmering repetitions, puns and wordplay, the Imagists channeled a collision of art history, folk art, the urban fabric of Chicago, as well as vernacular material cultures such as comic books, pinball machines and advertising.

The show is organized by Hayward Gallery Touring in collaboration with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art and De La Warr Pavilion. It is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy.

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"It Was Here Before, And It's Here After" debuts at HPAC
Jan
27
3:00 PM15:00

"It Was Here Before, And It's Here After" debuts at HPAC

Pentimenti is equally thrilled to announce the premiere of It Was Here Before, And It's Here After: The Murals of Hyde Park, a short documentary made by our Advanced Documentary Video students from the Hyde Park Art Center. The film explores the history of murals in Hyde Park and features interviews with muralists Carol Yasko and Carolyn Elaine, arts journalist Jeff Huebner, and the people of Hyde Park. This event will feature a screening of the film, followed by exclusive interview footage of Yasko, Elaine, and Huebner talking about their work. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and brief reception. Free and open to the public!

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4 Films by Suzanne Simpson - Chicago Premiere!
Jan
24
7:00 PM19:00

4 Films by Suzanne Simpson - Chicago Premiere!

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Pentimenti is pleased to partner with Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art to present the Chicago premiere of the digitally restored re-release of 4 Films by Suzanne Simpson, a collection of long-lost documentaries. Each of the four short films by Simpson, a self-taught director, profiles an artist who spent formative time in California during the 1970s, including Mark di Suvero, Roy De Forest, Hassel Smith and local legend Karl Wirsum, who was briefly a visiting instructor at the California State University, Sacramento. Virtually unseen for more than four decades, Simpson's whimsical quartet of archival films captures these artists flourishing amidst the 1970s Bay Area art scene, when Funk art was thriving.

The screening will be followed by a talk-back with Harrison Sherrod, executive director of Pentimenti Productions.

Running time: 60 minutes

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"Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists" w/ Leslie Buchbinder, Lilli Carré, and Tomeka Reid @ MIA
Dec
6
6:00 PM18:00

"Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists" w/ Leslie Buchbinder, Lilli Carré, and Tomeka Reid @ MIA

When: December 6th, 6pm
Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Pillsbury Auditorium

The critically acclaimed documentary Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists, which provides a lively introduction to Chicago’s vibrant art scene of the late 1960s and 1970s, including the debates around regionalism and marginalization, comes to the Minneapolis Institute of Art next week! The film features several artists included in MIA’s “Art from Chicago” exhibition. A discussion will follow with composer Tomeka Reid, animator Lilli Carré, and director Leslie Buchbinder.

This program is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

$10, $5 My Mia members, free to members of the Paintings Affinity Group. Register online or call 612.870.6323.

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Art in the Twenty-First Century: San Francisco, Johannesburg, Berlin
Dec
1
to Dec 15

Art in the Twenty-First Century: San Francisco, Johannesburg, Berlin

When: December 1st, 8th, and 15th @ 1:00pm
Where: Hyde Park Art Center, 2nd Floor Pond

Pentimenti is pleased to partner with Art21 to present all three episodes of Season 9 of Art in the Twenty-First Century at the Hyde Park Art Center throughout December. All screenings are free and open to the public!

Dec. 1st: San Francisco Bay Area
Dec. 8th: Johannesburg
Dec. 15th: Berlin


Each episode charts art-making in three urban centers across three continents: Berlin, Johannesburg, and the San Francisco Bay Area. From the post-Cold War cultural and economic rebirth in Berlin, to the dramatic fall of apartheid in South Africa and the technological boom in the Bay Area, the twelve artists and one non-profit art center highlighted in this season respond to the forces that have shaped the places where they live and work, while pursuing their personal visions for a better future.

As each artist draws inspiration from their surrounding communities, they also travel to museums and public spaces internationally to share their work, reminding us of the increasingly global nature of the world we live in. The artists in this season examine the complicated histories of colonization, war and migration, offer new perspectives on our interactions with technology and the environment, critique our conceptions of gender, sexuality, and race, and ultimately inspire us to see our world in new ways.

Included in the new season are Creative Growth Art Center, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, David Goldblatt, Katy Grannan, Nicholas Hlobo, Hiwa K, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Zanele Muholi, Susan Philipsz, Robin Rhode, and Stephanie Syjuco.

Credit line: “San Francisco Bay Area,” 2018; “Johannesburg,” 2018; “Berlin,” 2018 from Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century series, Courtesy Art21, founded 1997, art21.org

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"Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists" at the Art Institute of Chicago
Nov
30
3:30 PM15:30

"Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists" at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Please note: this event is now sold out, but more tickets may become available through the AIC website — check here.

We're thrilled to announce that Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists will screen at the Art Institute of Chicago on Friday, November 30th at 3pm in Price Auditorium in conjunction with the museum's exhibition Hairy Who? 1966–1969. Our film is the ideal companion piece to the current show, and the perfect primer to understanding the Imagists in all their glory. From Jim Nutt’s cigar-chomping, amputated women to Christina Ramberg’s studies of corsetry and bondage; from Barbara Rossi’s bejeweled dot paintings to Roger Brown’s secretive, silhouetted figures in windowsChicago’s diverse artists followed no trend, preferring a path they ferociously cleared for themselves. Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell their wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story. Over forty interviews with the artists and a prominent group of critics, curators, collectors, and contemporary artists are featured, intertwined with a wealth of re-discovered archival footage and photographs. Chicagoist called it, "Electric, lovely film-making…Must be seen by all Chicagoans and art lovers, as well as anyone who wants to feel superbly inspired."

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Advanced Documentary Video @ HPAC
Sep
28
2:00 PM14:00

Advanced Documentary Video @ HPAC

When: Sundays, Oct 7th - Dec 2nd | 1:30 - 3:00pm
Where: Hyde Park Art Center

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Pentimenti is pleased to continue its ongoing partnership with the Hyde Park Art Center to offer a new class this fall: Advanced Documentary Video. This course will introduce participants to advanced techniques in documentary filmmaking, including pre-production, cinematography, and editing. In tandem with the instructors, the class will develop and produce a short documentary film exploring how Hyde Park murals reflect the neighborhood’s residents, history, and issues. This class will appeal to documentarians seeking to hone their craft or expand their skill set; artists and curators who wish to learn best practices for using video to document artworks; and local residents interested in exploring their neighborhood through the lens of documentary film. Please note, computer literacy and prior familiarity with filmmaking are required. Participants are expected to attend all eight sessions.

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"Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists" at the Tang Museum
Sep
27
6:00 PM18:00

"Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists" at the Tang Museum

Join us on Thursday, September 27, at 6:00 PM, for a screening of the documentary Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists (2014, US, 105 min., HD), directed by Leslie Buchbinder. The screening is held in conjunction with our exhibition 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980.

In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists. Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era—Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image, Marriage Chicago Style. Kissing cousins to the contemporaneous international phenomenon of Pop Art, Chicago Imagism took its own weird, wondrous, in-your-face tack. Variously pugnacious, puerile, scatological, graphic, comical, and absurd, it celebrated a very different version of ‘popular’ from the detached cool of New York, London and Los Angeles. Hairy Who and The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell their wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story.

This screening is free and open to the public.

The 3-D Doings exhibition and subsequent catalogue are funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, as part of Art Design Chicago.

Art Design Chicago is a wide-ranging initiative to explore the breadth of Chicago’s role as a catalyst and incubator for innovations in art and design. Spearheaded and funded by the Terra Foundation, with significant support from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Art Design Chicago was developed in partnership with more than 40 cultural organizations to celebrate Chicago’s artists, designers, and creative producers. Art Design Chicago will feature more than 25 exhibitions and hundreds of public programs, presented throughout 2018, as well as the creation of several scholarly publications and a four-part documentary.

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Public Art, Past & Present
Aug
21
8:00 PM20:00

Public Art, Past & Present

The second installment of Pentimenti Productions ongoing partnership with Media Burn Independent Video Archive, Public Art, Past & Present is a special screening of short documentaries about public art, hosted at the Logan Square multi-disciplinary space, Comfort Station. The Monumental Art of Marc Chagall (1974) follows the titular French artist as he creates the Four Seasons Mosaic. Director Chuck Olin uses the style of direct cinema along with interviews, to show Chagall's artistic process, and the evolution of his piece from model to its final unveiling in Chicago. Produced for the Chicago Council on Fine Arts, Chicago's Miró (1981) provides an overview of the surrealist's life and work, while chronicling the creation of the famous statue, Joan Miró Chicago. These two films, both courtesy of the Media Burn Archive, will be followed by three short pieces by acclaimed local artist Maria Gaspar made for her 96 Acres project, including: Not Just Another Day (2015), PARK (2016), and Stories from the Inside/Outside (2015). The juxtaposition of these two bodies of work will create a fruitful post-screening discussion between Maria Gaspar and Pentimenti sterographer and Media Burn board member Ben Kolak about the evolving role of public art in Chicago, questions about its intended audience, issues of place & access, and more.

Founded in 2012 and led by artist, Maria Gaspar, 96 Acres Project is a series of community-engaged, site-responsive art projects that involve community stakeholders’ ideas about social and restorative justice issues, and that examine the impact of incarceration at the Cook County Jail on Chicago’s West Side. 96 Acres uses multi-disciplinary practices to explore the social and political implications of incarceration on communities of color. Through creative processes and coalition building, 96 Acres aims to generate alternative narratives reflecting on power and responsibility by presenting insightful and informed collective responses for the transformation of a space that occupies 96 acres, but has a much larger reaching outcome.

Media Burn Archive collects, restores and distributes documentary video and television created by artists, activists and community groups, with a mission to preserve audiovisual records of history and culture and to engage audiences with their creative reuse. Media Burn is a project of the Fund for Innovative TV, which has been producing challenging documentary video and television since 1990.

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Chicago Crossings - Screening and Discussion
May
16
6:30 PM18:30

Chicago Crossings - Screening and Discussion

An unprecedented "premiere" of the unfinished documentary CHICAGO CROSSINGS: BRIDGES AND BOUNDARIES (1994, Kartemquin Films)! *FREE* and open to the public!


Presented by Pentimenti Productions, Media Burn Independent Video Archive and Kartemquin Films, in collaboration with the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership and the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
CHICAGO CROSSINGS: BRIDGES AND BOUNDARIES (1994, Kartemquin Films) was originally created to accompany an art exhibition addressing the relationships of African Americans and American Jews at The Spertus Institute. The film follows twelve artists, six Black and six Jewish, as they prepare their work for the show.


The artists included Othello Anderson (co-curator), Claire Wolf Krantz (co-curator), Edith Altman, Joel Feldman, Marva Jolly, Kerry James Marshall, Gerda Meyer Bernstein, Esther Parada, John Rozelle, Hamza Walker (under the pseudonym Sonny Venice), Fan Warren, and John Pitman Weber.


The program will include a screening of the original rough cut of the film, as well as never-before-seen camera original footage of the featured artists. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Gordon Quinn, producer of the film, and acclaimed artists Othello Anderson and Gerda Meyer Bernstein, who participated in the film.

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Documentary Video Boot Camp
Apr
8
to Jun 3

Documentary Video Boot Camp

Pentimenti & HPAC present: Doc Video Boot Camp

Where: Hyde Park Art Center
Dates: Sundays, April 8th - June 3rd, 2018
Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm

REGISTER HERE

Pentimenti is pleased to continue its ongoing partnership with the Hyde Park Art Center to host another session of Documentary Video Boot Camp, an eight session workshop covering the essentials of documentary filmmaking. This hands-on class will explore different phases of the production process, including pre-production, cinematography, and editing, as well as a final session on documentary ethics. Through illustrative examples from various films and a unique project based learning approach, participants will learn how to conceive of a compelling subject, shoot an interview, edit footage, and much more.

This class will appeal to: documentarians interested in workshopping a project; artists, curators, and conservators who wish to learn best practices for using video for documentation and marketing purposes; and first-time filmmakers looking for a crash course on production essentials. All experience levels are welcome!

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BRIC-A-BRAC: Object Lessons from the Chicago Imagists
Dec
10
3:00 PM15:00

BRIC-A-BRAC: Object Lessons from the Chicago Imagists

The compulsion to collect was a passion shared by many of the Chicago Imagists, who regularly drew inspiration from found objects, ranging from comic books to folk art figurines. These artists, who were famous for criss-crossing the wires of high art and popular culture, offer an opportune gateway for thinking about the practice of collecting vis-à-vis art making.

In Suzanne Simpson’s long-lost gem Karl Wirsum, recently digitally restored by Pentimenti Productions, the titular artist muses on the influence of mass-produced toys and the work of self-taught artists while fashioning marionettes that blur the line between fine art objects and ludic playthings. The Individuality of the Inanimate Object, directed by Seton Coggeshall, examines the prolific collection of artist, teacher, and Maxwell St. Market enthusiast Ray Yoshida, which included dolls, African masks, garments handmade by Japanese farmers, and more.

Tom Palazzolo’s At Maxwell Street offers a window onto Chicago’s historic bustling flea market, home to a treasure trove of miscellaneous trinkets and ephemera that served as a creative catalyst for many of the Imagists. Tom Palazzolo will be joined in conversation by Lisa Stone, Curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brown, a student of Yoshida’s, amassed a diverse collection featuring artwork by fellow Imagists, vinyl LPs, and religious icons, that has been faithfully kept intact for visitors to explore in the form of a home museum and gallery. Panel moderated by Pentimenti Executive Director, Harrison Sherrod.

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FREAK SHOW!
Oct
22
3:00 PM15:00

FREAK SHOW!

This October, Pentimenti Productions is pleased to collaborate with the Ed Paschke Art Center on FREAK SHOW!, a program celebrating the influence of the carnival and freak show aesthetic on the work of the artists affiliated with the Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists, with a spotlight on Ed Paschke, whose paintings often feature lurid, carnivalesque figures adorned in costumes and masks. A similar emphasis on the outré and grotesque is also notable in the work of fellow artists Jim Nutt and Robert Lostutter, among others.

The event will feature a screening of Tod Browning’s iconoclastic 1932 Pre-code masterpiece, Freaks, which by all accounts left a major impression on Paschke. The film, which casted real sideshow performers, elicited outrage and controversy upon its release, though it later received a cult following and was chosen for preservation in the US National Film Registry.

Freaks will be proceeded by Tom Palazzolo’s short film, The Tattooed Lady of Riverview, a hallucinatory portrait of Jean Furella, an inked folk hero of Chicago’s fabled Riverview Amusement Park. Palazzolo, who was a friend and contemporary of the Imagists, will be joined in a post-screening conversation by Jason Nargis, a Paschke scholar. Please note: some imagery might not be appropriate for children. Free admission.

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