[cgfc] place films this thursday

[Sarah Kanouse]

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An Informal Film Series About Place presents:

Lo Fi Landscapes: Films by Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford
A touring program with the filmmakers in-person

Chicago-based, independent filmmakers Bill Brown and  Thomas Comerford 
visit the University of Illinois with a program of their films entitled 
Lo Fi Lanscapes: Films by Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford. Both 
filmmakers  have been making independent films over the past 
decade--many of their shared concerns in the films include: human 
interactions with the landscape; examining senses of place; and 
exploring the role of perception and media.

The "Cinema Obscura" Series by Thomas Comerford:
Départ - 2000 - 6 mins
Fey Eyes Pin Holes Drums Hum - 1999 - 14 mins
Figures in the Landscape - 2002 - approx 10 mins
ILLA CAMERA OBSCVRA - 2001 - 12 mins

Films by Bill Brown:
Confederation Park - 1999 - 32 mins
Buffalo Common - 2001 - 23 mins

All films are 16mm with optical sound.

Thursday, March 4, 9 pm

Graduate Painting
2109 S. Griffith
Champaign, IL 61820

south on first street >> west (right) on gerty drive >> north (right) 
on griffith drive >>
graduate painting is the fifth building on the left

An Informal Series About Place screens films weekly on Thursday nights 
at 9 pm.
For more information see: www.walkinginplace.org/film

Thomas Comerford is a media artist and educator who resides in Chicago. 
He currently teaches film production at the School of the Art Institute 
of Chicago and also serves on the Board of Directors at Chicago 
Filmmakers. Since 1997, he has been at work on a series of films (the 
"Cinema Obscura" series) created entirely with pinhole cameras and 
found or homemade sound capturing equipment. These films have screened 
at festivals and venues which include the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 
Thaw, Chicago Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, Northwest Film 
Forum, New Nothing Cinema and in an international pinhole  photography 
exhibit at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.

Bill Brown has been making films for the past decade and currently 
teaches film production at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 
His films have screened  at many festivals and venues across the 
country. Among his recent awards are an Honorable Mention at the 40th  
Ann Arbor Film Festival for Buffalo Common.

Film series support is generously provided by the Art Graduate Student 
Organization, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Democracy 
in a Multiracial Society, the Illinois Program for Research in the 
Humanities, the Labor Education Program, the Office of Lesbian, Gay, 
Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns, SORF, the Unit for Criticism and 
Interpretive Theory, and the Office of Women's Programs.   Special 
thanks for tonight's program goes to Kevin Hamilton, Bill Brown, and 
Thomas Comerford.