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[September 21-26, 2010]

The Battle of The Stand-Stills will premiere at the 25fps International Festival of Experimental Film & Video in Zagreb, Croatia in September.




[July 12 - 17, 2010]

Iceland Spar will screen as part of a program of animation from Chicago in the Animator Festival in Poznan, Poland.


[June 25 - 27, 2010]

Iceland Spar and Very Similar To will screen in shorts programs in the 17th Chicago Underground Film Festival. Iceland Spar will show at 9:15 on June 25th, and Very Similar To will show (on 16mm) at 1:15 on Sunday June 27th, both at the Gene Siskel Film Center.


[June 19, 2010]

Iceland Spar will screen as part of the 22nd Onion City Film Festival on Saturday, June 19, at 4:00 pm at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.


[May 2010]

An HD version of my 2005 film Errata is now online.





[April 10, 2010]

100 Foot Pull will show in the inaugural installment of Saturday Cinema, which is a monthly film installation project space in Chicago run by Kat Parker and George Monteleone. The films at Saturday Cinema will be rear-projected in the front window of their apartment on a loop every Saturday starting at sundown for two hours. Saturday Cinema is located at 1369 W. Chicago, at Noble St. 100 Foot Pull will screen at sundown on April 10, April 17, April 24, and May 1.





[February 2010]

Winter/Spring program has been set for the Roots & Culture screening series.

February 20, 2010 - Steven Summers
March 13, 2010 - New acquisitions from the VDB collection
May 15, 2010 - Steve Reinke
May 30, 2010 - Jo Dery



[December 15]

I put together a list of all of the Roots & Culture screenings we have done. See them in chronological order here. We just passed the 25 mark.



[Winter 2009]



The Battle of The Stand-Stills (16:00, HD) is finished. It's a movie about match-sprint racing, and is focused on an extended track-stand face-off that took place during the 1990 Match Sprint World Championships.



[December 2009]



I have started a new web project called Collector Not Completist. It's a blog that features original scans of record labels, one posted each day. The project is a collaborative appreciation of record label design by a few record collectors I know.



[September 24, 2009] Full version of my animation Iceland Spar, with soundtrack.

Iceland Spar, 2009, 3:16.



[September 19, 2009] I will be showing two new pieces as part of a group show at FLAT, a one-night-only gallery operated by Erik Brown and Catie Olson. Erik and Catie are both contributing work to the show. Lilli Carre has made a shadow-puppet piece and some drawings for the show. I am showing a new drawn animation, and a mirror sculpture.

FLAT is located at 2332 W. Augusta Ave in Chicago.



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