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From the creators of the award winning website Black and Married With Kids.com comes a ground breaking documentary set to challenge negative stereotypes surrounding marriage and family in the black community.
Happily Ever After
Release date: Summer 2009
From August 3 through 30, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents the 13th Annual Black Harvest International Festival of Film, Video and TV, its annual showcase of the black experience. More than 40 entertaining, powerful and provocative features, documentaries and shorts celebrating black cinema worldwide will be featured. This year there will be a new component to the festival - television.
Tickets to films are $9 ($5 for Film Center members), $7 ticket price for all students, $4 for student, faculty, and staff of the School of the Art Institute and of the Art Institute.
For more information, call 312.846.2600.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60601
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Director Lance Weiler has created a “remix” presentation of his cult indie horror flick Head Trauma, the result of which sounds like a good approximation of the future of film. First shown in Philadelphia, the show combines film with live music, theatre, and gaming, resulting in a cinematic ARG (alternate reality game). While the film is shown, a live soundtrack is performed (past performers have included Marshal Allen (Sun Ra), Espers, and Bardo Pond) on top of the film’s dialog and sound effects; meanwhile, props and sets from the movie are strewn throughout the theatre and characters from the movie emerge through the audience for live action shows throughout the film.
Additionally, a phone number appears on screen intermittently through the film; viewers are encouraged to call the number to start a game that lasts through the film’s duration and even follows them home. Participants receive clues to solve a set of riddles, and interact with Head Trauma characters through phone calls and text messages that lead players to more clues online. As theatres increasingly compete with home entertainment, live film presentations such as this could be a way to keep audiences going out to movies. Look for Head Trauma to hit your city soon, as Weiler plans to take the remix on the road this summer, with stops in NYC, San Francisco and London in the works.
