- Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses plays in the adults-only portion of this year’s cat-related experimental film program.
There are way too many good screenings scheduled for tomorrow night, presenting Chicago cinephiles with their greatest dilemma since, well, last Friday, when there were concurrent revivals of The Ladykillers, Knife in the Water, and Douglas Trumbull’s Brainstorm (the latter screens again tonight, thankfully). The weeklong runs of James Gray’s masterful The Immigrant and Sam Fleischner’s flawed (yet courageous) Stand Clear of the Closing Doors conclude at the Siskel Center and Facets Multimedia, respectively. The Music Box is showing Patton on 70-millimeter, and Doc Films has Painters Painting (1973), Emile de Antonio’s classic profile of New York’s postwar art scene, on 16-millimeter. Also screening from 16-millimeter is South Side Projections’ second annual program of cat-related experimental shorts, taking place at Co-Prosperity Sphere at 7 PM. The first edition was one of my favorite repertory screenings of 2013, and though there are fewer titles on this year’s program, the selections sound just as strong on the whole, with shorts by such avant-garde luminaries as Ken Jacobs, Robert Breer, and Carolee Schneemann.
