Remembrance: A Portrait Study (1967)
Begun by a trio of projectionists in 2011, Chicago Film Society is an independent organization dedicated to analog film exhibition and preservation in a digital age. Their growing archive encompasses rare 35mm prints of Hollywood features, as well as the detritus of cinema; trailers, snipes, sponsored films, and other orphan works. CFS co-founder (and Selznick School alumnus) Kyle Westphal will host a program of odd and arresting films from the CFS collection, including trailers, silent shorts, avant-garde films, and the scariest home movie you've ever seen. Program includes:
The Scratchman
(Heather McAdams, US 1980, 16mm, 3 min.)
The Spider and the Fly
(Harry and Lily Fulscher, US 1938, 16mm, 12 min)
Doll Messengers of Friendship
(Committee on World Friendship Among Children, US 1927, 35mm, 11 min)
Welcome to Come
(Fred Camper, US 1968, 16mm, 3 min)
The Editor’s Notebook
(Wilding Pictures Productions, US 1950, 35mm, 28 min)
James R. Thompson Center
(Ellery Chalmers, US 2018, 16mm, 6 min)
Jerry’s Deli
(1974, Tom Palazzolo, US 1974, 16mm, 9 min.)
Remembrance: A Portrait Study
(Edward Owens, US 1967, 16mm, 6 min)
The Scratchman, The Spider and the Fly, Doll Messengers of Friendship, and The Editor’s Notebook have been preserved by Chicago Film Society with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Welcome to Come and Remembrance: A Portrait Study have been preserved by Chicago Film Society through the NFPFs Avant-Garde Masters Program and the Film Foundation with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Remembrance: A Portrait Study was restored in a joint project undertaken by Chicago Film Society, The New American Cinema Group, Inc./The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and the John M. Flaxman Library at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Screening hosted by Kyle Westphal, co-founder of the Chicago Film Society, who will also participate in a Q&A after the screening.