This touring program of international digital films continues Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22, at the Biograph, 2433 N. Lincoln. Tickets are $10; a $55 pass (available to the first 150, and $65 thereafter) admits you to all festival events. For more information call 866-737-3378 or 773-348-4123.
Cinema Electronica
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Music videos for various electronic pop bands, including Mouse on Mars, Daft Punk, Super Furry Animals, Gorillaz, Orbital, Radiohead, Etienne de Crecy, Red Snapper, and Fatboy Slim. Traktor, the Swedish collective best known for its MTV and Miller Lite commercials, directed the Fatboy Slim video Ya Mama, in which a hick vacationing in the Caribbean finds a cassette tape that chants “push the tempo” and sets off a feverish dance at a native bazaar. The catchy tune almost surmounts the absurdity of a beer-bellied American bringing rhythm to the islands. Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland’s 19-2000 imagines the happy-go-lucky Gorillaz tune as an anime highway journey (complete with Japanese subtitles), during which the band’s Mad Max car careens through a series of death-defying obstacles. Other filmmakers include Shynola, Floria Sigismondi, Paul Donnellon, Ben Stokes, and Spike Jonze. 67 min. (TS) (10:00)
Altered States
Short films that blur the line between narrative and graphic design, from Germany, the UK, and the U.S. Among them, Johnny Hardstaff’s The Future of Gaming revives pop-art imagery to convey the allure of video games; it’s clever but never rises above the level of an art-school exercise. 87 min. (TS) (6:00)
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