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WELCOME!
2015 marks CIMMfest No. 7 - music, films and concerts from around the world. What started 7 years ago at the Green Eye Tavern with a conversation between a filmmaker and a musician has since grown into a conversation with a city and a culture.
Through the efforts of so many great volunteers, friends, venues, supporters, partners, and artists, we are able to present something that is truly
unique in the festival landscape. Over the years, we have created something that has no parallel. There is nothing like CIMMfest.
For our 7th year, we continue to expand our reach beyond Milwaukee Avenue from Wicker Park to Logan Square, and into the neighborhoods
and venues throughout the city. We have expanded our partnership with the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special
Events through Lake FX, a creative convergence event throughout the city.
Premiere films from 21 countries. Movies about the legendary Sam Lay, the Kinks, Devo, Muddy Waters, Johnny Moped, the Residents, Joe
Strummer, the Mekons and the Official Record Store Day film: Jaco with directors, producers, and stars on hand!
Live music expands yet again, featuring over 100 bands from Chicago, the Region, and beyond. From Screen to Stage, our Live Score programming roars back with monster guitarist Marc Ribot, the Chandeliers scoring a Hungarian Anime, Sones de México Ensemble Chicago with a
world premiere of their ¡Que Viva México! live score, and East meets West when Buster Keaton goes Bollywood.
CIMMcon, the professional and entrepreneurial media industry conference, returns with a slate of killer panels and presentations along with our
Baadassss Award going to renowned director and UK music-head Julien Temple. We’ll have a slate of his best films and videos and give him
the award before a night of live band karaoke at the Emporium Arcade Bar.
We welcome the weird, the strange, and the spectacular to Chicago each spring to continue that conversation and have a blast while doing it.
See you at the fest and welcome to No. 7!
with gratitude,
the Directors
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SHORTS PROGRAMS
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LIVE MUSIC
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FREE STUFF: LAKE FX/CIMMCON /
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STUDENT FILM COMPETITION
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INDEX
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SPONSORS
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CONTENTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MEET THE JURY/ADVISORY BOARD
SCREEN TO STAGE
JULIEN TEMPLE RETROSPECTIVE/
BAADASSSSS AWARDS
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
SUB-SAHARAN CINEMA
SCHEDULE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
HILLEL FRANKEL // BOARD CHAIR
Hillel is a partner at the entertainment law firm of Leavens,
Strand & Glover, LLC. and CEO of an artist management
company NoVo Management. He also is a musician in the
bands: Heavy Manners, P1 and Grammy-nominated Liquid
Soul.
ERIC MCKEEBY // CO-CHAIR
As Vice President, Health, at Edelman PR, Eric brings
more than 15 years of communications and public affairs
experience with an emphasis on health, science and visual
communication.
SCOTT GELMAN // TREASURER
President of one Eleven Productions, a full service concert
production company producing both public and corporate
events. He sits on the steering committee for Ad books
online, and is an official PRO with the social networking
site Rocket 21.
AMY BOSSOV // SECRETARY
Founder and Chief Yes Woman of YES Promotions,
Amy oversees business operations and has worked
with companies to promote their brands in Chicago
and the world for over 23 years.
MARK VANECKO
Mark is an attorney in Chicago and is the legal counsel
for C3 Presents and Lollapalooza.
LOUIS BLACK
Louis is a co-founder of the SXSW Film and Music Conference and The Austin Chronicle. His producing credits
include: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van
Zandt and Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah.
JOSH CHICOINE
After years of touring with The M’s & other Chicago
bands, Josh co-founded CIMMfest with Ilko Davidov in
2008. He currently plays in the band Sabers.
CIMMfest thanks our past colleagues.
CIMMfest is grateful for all the contributions from the hundreds
of volunteers and dedicated professionals who have helped
make the festival what it is today.
Laurie Glenn Board Member 2009-2013. Our first and most
powerful Board Chair, Laurie brought the energy, vision and
drive on a quest to become a cultural organization of significance. She brought her incredible ability to forge partnerships
with like-minded people, and those who could expand our
reach. She was a great ambassador, mentor, generous host
and friend to CIMMfest.
Lucia Palmarini Executive Director 2014, Festival Manager
2013. Lucia brought organization and much needed structure
to CIMMfest. She built an army of artists and students to march
to her drum. CIMMfest doubled in size while keeping its character in tact with Lucia at the helm.
Layne Jackson VIP Coordinator 2010-2014. Layne took
great care of our most dynamic and ornery guests, with grace
and charm. Her ability to befriend everyone she met made
CIMMfest a place our guests loved to be.
ILKO DAVIDOV
Ilko founded BulletProof Film in 1995, where he has
produced, edited, and directed numerous award
winning documentaries. In 2008, Davidov co-founded
CIMMfest with Josh Chicoine.
STEVEN A. JONES
Steven is the producer of many films including Mad
Dog and Glory, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Wild
Things, The Promotion, The Merry Gentleman, and
The Harvest. He is Producer in Residence at DePaul
University, director of television commercials, and director of videos and stage video content for the band Styx.
JOHN MCNAUGHTON
John is a film and television director, and is best known
for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Mad Dog and
Glory, Wild Things, Homicide: Life on the Street, and
most recently The Harvest.
RICK PANDOLFI
Rick is co-owner and VP of Sales and Marketing with
MKAdvantage, Inc., a Chicago-based hi-tech consulting company. His son Julian and daughter Jenna are
students at U-High.
JULIE SPENCER
Julie is the Director of Contracts Management for
Edelman PR. She loves music and is an avid concert
attendee. Julie also loves movies ranging from large
blockbusters to independent films and documentaries,
especially ones about music.
ANITA HARRIS ALEXANDER
Anita brings a wealth of non-profit expertise to
CIMMfest from her experiences at Motorola Solutions
Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, and The
Cumberland Community Foundation.
Michael W. Phillips Jr. Director of Film Programming
2009-2012, 2014. Mike’s knowledge of film and culture made
CIMMfest the versatile entity it is. His love of great stories and
diverse culture made every CIMMfest film a unique experience.
Luli Buxton Hospitality Coordinator 2012-2014. Luli took care
of us all while making sure the bands, filmmakers and guests
reaped the most out of their time at CIMMfest. And most importantly, she threw great parties!
Maxton Koc Director of Music Programming 2012-2014,
Venue Manager 2011. Maxton put together incredible lineups
for CIMMfest, spread over 20 venues with a budget not quite
enough for an open mic. His job was among the most difficult,
and he did it with sheer determination and a nearly constant
smile.
Ricky Biethan Promotion Music Director 2012-2014 as well
as A/V technical support and Live Event SWAT Commander.
Ricky left us for California and took CIMMfest rising star Stephanie Myers with him. Much love!
Thanks to all for your time, energy and heart – we look forward
to seeing you dancing in the front row!
MEET
THE JURY
KEIRDA BAHRUTH
Keirda Bahruth is best known for her documentary film, Bob and The
Monster, which won Best Feature Doc at CIMMfest 2011, as well as
producing We Live In Public, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2009. She has also directed and produced shows for many
networks including Dreamworks, NBC/Universal, and MTV. Her latest,
Hardcore Devo Live! was released in February 2015.
CHRISTINE DAVILA
Christine Davila is the Director of Ambulante California founded by
actors and filmmakers Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Pablo Cruz
and Elena Fortes. She is a programmer at Sundance, Los Angeles,
and Curaçao International film festivals. Davila tracks independent
filmmakers on her blog chicanafromchicago.com.
ROBERT GORDON
Robert Gordon has written four music-themed books including Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion, and Can’t Be
Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, which he also made
into a documentary. His latest film, Best of Enemies premiered and
sold at the Sundance Film Festival 2015. Gordon is a Grammy Award
recipient for his liner notes chronicling the career of Big Star.
KEIRDA
BAHRUTH
CHRISTINE
DAVILA
ROBERT
GORDON
CHARLES COLEMAN
Film lecturer and writer, Charles Coleman, is the Film Program Director
of Facets Cinémathèque, responsible for bringing to Chicago rare,
one-of-a-kind screenings. In addition, he organizes and programs film
courses at the Facets Film School, and teaches at the University of
Chicago.
CHRISTOPHER KAMYSZEW
Film producer, Christopher Kamyszew is the founder and chairman
of the Society for Arts, home of the largest showcase of Polish cinema outside of Poland, and founder of the Chicago International
Documentary Festival. He has curated over 500 art exhibits and 700
international film programs worldwide. His film Wygrany (The Winner)
screened at CIMMfest in 2012.
BRUCE SHERIDAN
Professor Bruce Sheridan has been Chair of Cinema Art + Science
at Columbia College Chicago since 2001. He writes, produces, and
directs drama and documentary for the screen. He has produced
acclaimed music videos for bands such as Crowded House and the
Beastie Boys.
CHARLES
COLEMAN
CHRISTOPHER
KAMYSZEW
BRUCE
SHERIDAN
ADVISORY BOARD
FRAN ALLEN-LEAKE
REID HYAMS
BRUCE SHERIDAN
Emmy Award winner and Director, Born in Chicago, Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE, and Sam
Lay in Bluesland.
TONY KARMAN
HARVEEN SINGH
MARTIN ATKINS
Art patron, music enthusiast, and executive
manager for domestic and international
markets.
MICHELLE OLSON
HANK LOTT
LYNN ORMAN-WEISS
JOE SHANAHAN
LUCIA PALMARINI
Music Producer and owner of LJet Productions
and former VP of The Recording Academy.
JOHN ANDERSON
Author, lecturer and instructor at SAE Chicago
and drummer for Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and
Pigface.
VICTORIA AUERBACH
Executive with the Secretary of State of IL,
political community activist, and event planner.
STEPHEN COLLINS
Internet streaming pioneer and new media executive; Head of Operations, EverSport Media.
Over 40 years in music and recording;
co-founder of EARS (Engineering and Recording Society of Chicago).
Founder and president of Expo Chicago.
PETE LEMKE
Film, music and art connoisseur; Chairman of
the Chicago Sports Academy.
Music promoter and owner of Metro Chicago
and The Double Door.
Filmmaker, musician, professor and Chair of
Cinema Art + Science at Columbia College
Chicago.
Finance manager
Communications.
at
Edelman
PR
and
President and Chief Strategist, Mission Point,
specializing in nonprofits.
Creative Director and producer at Orman
Music & Media Group.
2014 CIMMfest Co-Exec Director; Youth
media technology manager, Free Spirit Media.
KATIE TUTEN
Co-owner of Hideout and a social justice
advocate.
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MOVIE
WHEN: Saturday, April 18, 7:00 PM WHERE: Logan Theatre 2 PRICE: $12
John Anderson includes tales and live performances
with Sam Lay and Corky Siegel, clips from Anderson’s
new movie Sam Lay in Bluesland, and a full set with
Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials at 9 PM on Saturday,
April 11, at Rosa’s Lounge.
CIMMfest Presents:
Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame
Send-Off Celebration: Sam Lay
Sam Lay kicks off CIMMfest’s 2015 festival with an event
hosted by Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker
MUSIC
Sam Lay was on drums when Bob Dylan went electric
at Newport. He was in the studio and on the road with
blues greats Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little
Walter and James Cotton. He was a founding member of the groundbreaking Paul Butterfield Blues
Band. At 79, he’s still an active part of the Chicago blues
scene and the man some call “the greatest drummer of
all time.” And on April 18, he’ll be inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame with The Paul Butterfield Blues
Band. The film, Sam Lay in Bluesland, featuring
appearances by James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, Iggy Pop and more, tells Lay’s story through
his own words. (See page 28).
WHEN: Saturday, April 11, Doors: 9:00 PM
WHERE: Rosa’s LoungePRICE: $15
FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
CIMMfest Presents:
Mark Ribot Live Scores
The Docks of New York
A blue-collar dock worker finds his life immeasurably
changed after saving a woman attempting suicide in
the 1928 silent film, The Docks of New York. Unfortunately, his new love is much more obsessed
with material possessions than he realizes. CIMMfest
is pleased to announce that American guitarist and
composer, Mark Ribot, will perform a live score.
Ribot was a member of the soul/punk Realtones,
and from 1984-1989 John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards.
Between 1979 and 1985 Ribot also worked as a side
musician with Brother Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chuck Berry
and many others.
WHEN: Sunday, April 19, Doors: 5:00 PM
WHERE: 1st Ward
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PRICE: $18
FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
WHEN: Sunday, April 19, 2:15 PM WHERE: Logan Theatre 3 PRICE: $12
MOVIE
CIMMfest & City Winery Chicago Present:
The First Waltz and Todd Snider LIVE
Director Justin Kreutzmann brings us an insightful, snapshot of a
fertile collaboration for musicians Todd Snider, Dave Schools, Neal
Casal, Chad Staehly, Duane Trucks and Jesse Aycock in The First
Waltz. He reminds us that rock ‘n’ roll is as much a birthright as The
Constitution. Singer-songwriter Todd Snider, featured in the film and
whose work continues to reflect his outsider point-of-view, leftwing politics, and good nature, will be performing Sunday at City Winery as well.
Also playing will be special guest Rorey Carroll. (see p 17)
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 6:00 PM WHERE: Abbey PubPRICE: w/PASS ONLY
MUSIC
Opening Night at First Ward
Emanation – A Percussion Event FREE – Opening Night
Thursday, 4-16 // 1st Ward
After-Party w/Numero Group
Doors: 6:30 PM / 7:00 PM // $10 advance / $12 door
DJs
Thomas Benko, Chris
Hainey, Nora Bratton, Colin
Campbell, Odd River Percussion
This program features several different
highly acclaimed percussion artists
from around the country. Using a
variety of instruments, these artists
perform percussion sets that range
from light to heavy and everything in
between. Sit back, relax, and enjoy
the beat.
Thursday, 4-16 // 1st Ward
Doors: 10:00 PM // FREE
The Numero Group has been
recognized as the leading saviors
of lost and forgotten music in the
United States. Now they bring their
upbeat gems and jams to the 1st
Ward for CIMMfest No. 7’s Opening
Night Free Dance Party. Calling all
lovers.
PRICE: $12
MOVIE
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 8:00 PM Doors WHERE: Abbey PubPRICE: $10
Strange Relations 9:00 PM
Bad Bad Hats 10:00 PM
Vapors of Morphine 11:00 PM
MUSIC
WHEN: Friday, April 19, 7:00 PM CIMMfest Presents:
WHERE: Logan Theatre 3
Morphine: Journey of Dreams
and Vapors of Morphine
From the ashes of the band Morphine rose Vapors of Morphine, a group
consisting of surviving members Jerome Dupree and Dana Colley
with New Orleans musician Jeremy Lyons – whose story is told in the
documentary, Morphine: Journey of Dreams (see page 20 for film
info). Long a staple of the Boston music scene, the band expands on
Morphine’s original low-rock sound, adding elements of African music, Delta blues and noise rock. Following the screening,
Vapors of Morphine will perform at 11:00 PM. (See page 19)
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FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
P re s e n t e d by
CIMMfest and Lake FX Present:
Dominic Johnson and Saraswathi Ranganathan Live
Score Buster Keaton
Goes to Bollywood
New Millennium Orchestra co-founder Dominic
Johnson and Chicago veena musician Saraswathi
Ranganathan collaborate on a stunning mash-up of
East meets West, as they take the Buster Keaton
film Seven Chances on a trip to Bollywood. Interwoven with brilliant video imaging created by Davis
McCarty and highlighted with Kalapriya Dancers,
this live-scored silent gem brings together the viola
and veena in tabla trance music.
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 7:00 PM
WHERE: 1st Ward
PRICE: FREE
CIMMfest and Lake FX Present:
Sones de México
Ensemble Chicago performs
a Live Score of ¡Que viva
México!
The 1930s ¡Que Viva Mexico! by Russian avant-gardedirector Sergei Eisenstein sets the inspirational stage
for this original live score by the Mexican folk sextet,
Sones de México Ensemble Chicago. A most interesting pairing as the sextet’s philosophy promotes Mexican
culture through innovative performance and education
as Eisenstein’s film did with his depiction of the Mexican
Revolution that inspired the Russian Revolution.
WHEN: Saturday, April 18, 7:00 PM
WHERE: The National Museum of Mexican ArtPRICE: FREE
Lake FX is a FREE conference and expo for artists,
creative professionals, and entrepreneurs.
For more CIMMfest and Lake FX programming, see page 38
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FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
CIMMfest Presents:
Cruising Tracks/
Slo ‘Mo Dance
Party
Serocene, a cabaret-style drag show,
created by Jordan Arsenault, headlines CIMMfest’s Cruising Tracks.
An outspoken voice for the queer
community, Arsenault uses movement, music, and animation to convey his personal experiences with
contracting HIV, body dysmorphia
and childhood trauma in the hopes of
bringing awareness to queer issues
and enlightening others. Blair Bogin
rounds out this program with a fascinating, interpretive performances.
WHEN: Friday, April 17, Doors: 7:30 PM / 8:00 PM
WHERE: The HideoutPRICE: $8 // $10 @Door
Slo ‘Mo Dance Party to follow. Cruising Tracks ticket purchase incluedes admission to Dance Party.
Dance Party only $5
WHEN: Sunday, April 19, 1:20 PM WHERE: Logan Theatre 1 PRICE: $12
MOVIE
CIMMfest Presents:
Killer B3 and Chris Foreman
at the Green Mill
Over eight years in the making, Killer B3 puts you in front,
behind, and inside the more than 425-pound keyboard often
called the beast, the Hammond Organ, responsible for the
unique sounds in gospel, jazz, blues, rock, country and
reggae music. Killer B3 will be followed up by a very special
performance from Chris Foreman at the Green Mill. Blind
since birth, 57-year-old Foreman is considered a B3 master and
has only now released his first recording under his own name.
(see p 19)
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 5:00 PM Sunday, April 19, 11:00 PM
WHERE: Green MillPRICE: $4 Door Only
MUSIC
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MOVIE WHEN: Friday, April 17, 7:15 PM
WHERE: Logan Theatre 2
PRICE: $12
CIMMfest, SoundCulture, and Martyrs’ Present:
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
Playing w/ D Bess & Byzantine Time Machine
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have risen like a
phoenix out of the ashes of war to ignite the passion of
fans across the globe with their uplifting songs of hope,
faith and joy. The band is a potent example of the redeeming power of music and the ability of the human
spirit to persevere through unimaginable hardship and
emerge with optimism intact. Following the Sierra
Leone’s Refugee All Stars documentary (see page
20 for film info), CIMMfest will also be hosting a live
performance by the group at Martyrs’, also featuring
acts D Bess and Byzantine Time Machine.
MUSIC WHEN: Friday, April 17, 9:00 PMWHERE: Martyrs’
PRICE: $17 // $20 at Door
CIMMfest Presents:
Chandeliers Live Score
Fehérlófia (Son of the White Mare)
Chandeliers have performed the music of Terry Riley, Moondog, and Steve Reich, among others. Last year, at CIMMfest
2014, they performed a set of songs by The Residents for
the premier of The Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The
Residents. This year, the group will complete the live score
of Fehérlófia, a 1981 Hungarian film about the son of a divine
horse who sets out to avenge injustices and free three captive
princesses.
WHEN: Sunday, April 19, Doors: 8:30PM / 9:00 PM
WHERE: 1st Ward
WHEN: Sunday, April 19, 7:30 PM PRICE: $10
WHERE: Music Box Theatre PRICE: $12 // $20 Door
The Sound of Silent Film
ACM’s Sound of Silent Film Festival features newly composed scores performed
live to modern silent films from around the world.
In celebration of their 10th Anniversary in conjunction with CIMMfest and
Music Box Theater, we present:
Marquee by Brian Zahm
Junk Girl by Mohammad Zare
Hitclown by Chris Mancini
Pillow Girl by Ronnie Cramer
Burial by Jon Paul Burkhart
Into the Cave of Wonders by Manuel Benito de Valle
The West Begins at 5th Avenue by Donald Gray and Kryssa Schemmerling
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FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
CIMMfest and City Winery Chicago Present:
An Evening of Music,
Film & Wine with Spike Lee
Legendary director Spike Lee is provocative, outspoken,
and controversial, but most of all – he is a great storyteller!
His films reopened the conversation about race relations,
gender roles, and stereotypes that sat idle since the end
of the civil rights era, while he presented characters with
compassion, empathy, and humor.
As a filmmaker, his impact on culture and politics is unmatched in his generation. Films like Do the Right Thing,
Mo’ Better Blues and Malcolm X had immediate and long
lasting impact on music, fashion, and political mindset.
CIMMfest and City Winery are proud to present: An Evening of Music, Film & Wine with Spike Lee. Lee will discuss and show selected scenes spanning his 36 Joints
as well as share an exclusive sneak peek of his latest, Da
Sweet Blood Of Jesus. All tickets include six wines specially chosen and paired with Lee’s films topped off by a
Special Music Performance.
WHEN: Saturday, April 18, Doors: 6:00 PM / 8:00 PM
WHERE: City Winery Chicago
PRICE: $110*
*ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SPIKE LEE PASS
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 9:00 PM
WHERE: Logan Theatre 1
PRICE: $12
CIMMfest Presents:
MOVIE
808: The Movie, followed by Live Sets featuring
Hank Shocklee, Searchl1te, Striz, DJ Warp, MC ZULU
Hank Shocklee (Bomb Squad) loved the 808. The legendary producer of Public
Enemy will unleash the iconic sound that revolutionized the rap world–The Roland
TR-808. The instrument’s history is fascinatingly told through the eyes (and ears) of some
of today’s most influential artists in the documentary 808. (see p 15)
Playing With:
Searchl1te mixes are loaded with his own field recordings and samplings from his nerdy
vinyl collection;
Striz rocks any environment with his unique blend of downtempo, broken house beats.
DJ Warp sets are never the same--exposing listeners to the latest in cutting-edge
electronic music, and various styles of international music.
MC ZULU pushes the sonic envelope with deliberate worldly rhythms as the backdrop
for his rapid fire, randomized cadence.
WHEN: Friday, April 17, Doors: 9:30 PM
WHERE: 1st Ward
PRICE: $15
MUSIC
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BAADASSSSS AWARDS SHOW
present a select retrospective of his films including Absolute
Beginners on 35 mm; Dave Davies: Kinkdom Come; Ray
Davies: Imaginary Man; Rio 50 Degrees; Oil City Confidential;
and fresh from SXSW, The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson.
“I’ve tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas
of the Sex Pistols”
– JULIEN TEMPLE
Absolute Beginners
USA // 108 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 10:00 PM // Gene Siskel Film Center
Julien Temple
Julien Temple is one of the greatest film chroniclers of music bar none. His groundbreaking
music videos are what most people think of
when they conjure up images of the early days
of MTV—he directed videos for the Rolling
Stones, David Bowie, Neil Young and Janet
Jackson, among others.
Julien Temple’s bravura musical adaptation of Colin
MacInnes’ novel set in the late ‘50s youthquake London was an absolute flop upon release, but has since
won reappraisal and a cult coterie for its stylized, Hollywood-by-way-of-MTV production numbers, saturated
neon ambience, and a killer soundtrack featuring David
Bowie, Sade, and Ray Davies. All have parts in the film
orbiting around party-mad teens, Eddie O’Connell and
Patsy Kensit (in her breakout role) as they fall in and out
of love against a backdrop of cool jazz, simmering racial
tension, and pop machinations. This is a rare chance
to luxuriate the film’s gaudy charms in glorious 35mm.
(followed by Q&A with Julien Temple)
The scope of Temple’s impact on music film is
remarkable. He’s produced scores of highly
acclaimed documentaries beginning with his
recounting the rise of the Sex Pistols in The
Great Rock and Roll Swindle, fiction films such as
Bullet, Absolute Beginners, and even the comedy
hit Earth Girls Are Easy. In 2006, he returned to
the punk rock scene with Joe Strummer: The
Future Is Unwritten, a documentary about his
longtime friend.
When it comes to the marriage of Movies and
Music, few embody this idea as well as Temple—a true Baadasssss. CIMMfest is proud to
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
C I M M fest 2015
Awa rds Pa r t y!
Saturday 4-18 // 6:00 - 8:00 PM
AT EMPORIUM WICKER PARK
Join us for the best of the fest jury
selections along with a keynote address by
CIMMfest 2015 Baadasssss Julien Temple.
Meet our filmmakers, musicians and panelists--and raise a glass to their inspiration.
Jury selected filmmakers will receive one-of-a-kind awards designed by David Rocco Facchini.
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UK // 80 MIN // $12 EACH OR $20 TOGETHER
Friday 4-17 // Society for Arts
7:00 PM // Dave Davies: Kinkdom Come with Q&A
8:55 PM // Ray Davies: Imaginary Man with intro
A rare double-feature treat for fans of Britain’s most underrated legendary band. Julien Temple grew up near
the Davies family and used to cut school to hang out
at the pub where The Kinks drank. He indulges his lifelong love of the band (about which he has also been at
work on a narrative film) in this pair of wistful, eloquent
BBC documentaries. Imaginary Man and Kinkdom
Come track the Davies brothers through their favorite
haunts - North London for Ray, the Exmoor countryside
for Dave - as they candidly reflect on their working-class
upbringing, The Kinks’ many musical phases, their
stormy fraternal relationship, and their divergent, deeply
personal responses to fame. (followed by Q&A with
Julien Temple)
CHICAGO PREMIERE
The Ecstasy of
Wilko Johnson
UK // 91 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 4 PM // Logan Theatre 1
In early 2013 ex-Dr. Feelgood guitarist, songwriter, and showman Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. Given
a few months to live, he recorded a final album,
went on a farewell tour, and told the world that
he’d never felt more acutely, joyously alive. But
a funny thing happened on the way to Valhalla:
the months ticked by, and Wilko didn’t die. Julien
Temple, who’d been enchanted by Johnson’s wit
and erudition while making the Feelgoods doc Oil
City Confidential (also screening at CIMMFest),
was there for the ride. The result is an uplifting
exploration of how to live with impending death,
and what to do when you’re then sentenced to
live. (followed by Q&A with Julien Temple)
RIO 50 DEGREES
Rio 50 Degrees
OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL
Oil City Confidential
UK // 104 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 1:45 PM
Logan Theatre 3
Briefly popular then largely forgotten, Dr. Feelgood “fell
through a gasoline crack in history,” guitarist Wilko Johnson says. Oil City Confidential rectifies that gap in music
history, chronicling the influential English band whose
gutbucket R&B blasted through the pomp rock bloat of
the ‘70s and helped clear the way for punk. Abetted by
the charismatic Johnson, a natural-born storyteller whose
chopping guitar and onstage strut defined the Feelgoods
in their prime. Director Julien Temple beautifully locates
the band’s soul in the mud flats and plants of Canvey
Island, their flood-prone home in the Thames River estuary.
(followed by Q&A with Julien Temple)
UK // 93 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 12:00 PM
Logan Theatre 3
If you don’t speak metric, 50° Celsius = 122°
Fahrenheit, and this portrait captures the heat of
Rio de Janeiro in every sense. The third in Temple’s
series of music-minded urban histories (following
Requiem for Detroit? and London – The
Modern Babylon), this is a 360-degree view of
Rio in all its contrasts: black and white, rich and
poor, Catholic and Candomble, Copacabana
Beach and the hillside favelas. Artfully mixing old
movies and news footage with striking contemporary views, Temple shows how Rio became the
city it izs, not as imagined by tourists, but as lived
and shaped by millions of Cariocas, perpetually
on the move and never without a beat. (followed
by Q&A with Julien Temple)
JULIEN TEMPLE RETROSPECTIVE
Dave Davies: Kinkdom Come
& Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
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Join us for an evening of music and movies in Hyde Park with our friends from IBP.
The evening will feature 2 music films, live musical performances and DJ sets throughout the evening.
The Orchestra - Claudio Abbado & The Mozart’s Orchestra Musicians takes a look into the
world of the Mozart Orchestra of Bologna and their beloved leader, Maestro Claudio Abbado.
Shield and Spear is a satiric juxtaposition of the
present-day creeping authoritarianism
with a “rainbow nation” 20 years in the future.
Bicycle Notes combines hauntingly beautiful images with a
live accompaniment by Joel Styzens, and a live set following
the film.
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FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
WORLD PREMIERE
American B-Side
CHICAGO PREMIERE
808
ALEXANDER DUNN // UK // 94 MIN // $12
Friday 4-17 // 9:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1
In 1980, a Japanese electronics manufacturer
unwittingly unleashed one of music history’s
most important instruments upon the world:
The Roland TR-808. More than just a drum
machine, the 808 became the backbone of
countless hip-hop and R&B tracks before injecting itself into nearly every genre imaginable.
From Afrika Bambaataa & LL Cool J to
Marvin Gaye & Phil Collins, musicians from
all walks of life wanted that iconic 808 sound.
Director Alexander Dunn immerses you in the
story of this iconic instrument, as told through
the eyes (and ears) of some of the most influential artists of the past four decades. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
PURE // SHORT DOC
KARIM HUU DO // UK / 11 MIN
Follow a ten-member hip-hop collective Last
Night In Paris (think the UK’s Odd Future)
on an ethereal journey out of the British urban
sprawl, and into the surrounding forest to experiment with a mind-altering substance. An intoxicating mix of Lars von Trier’s atmosphere with
a shoe commercial slickness, Pure celebrates
the otherworldly potential of music.
Almost There
AARON WICKENDEN, DAN RYBICKY
USA // 93 MIN // FREE (NO RESERVATIONS)
Saturday 4-18 // 8:15 PM / Logan Theatre 3
Almost There is a coming-of (old)-age story about
83-year-old Peter Anton, an “outsider” artist living in
isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes
when two filmmakers discover his work and storied
past. Shot over eight years, Almost There documents
Anton’s first major exhibition and how the controversy
it generates forces him to leave his childhood home.
Each layer revealed reflects on the intersections of social
norms, elder care, and artistic expression. (With Q&A)
JOSEPH FLETCHER // UK // 88 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 8:45 PM // Logan Theatre 3
British DJ, record collector, writer and filmmaker Joseph
Fletcher joined Academy Award-winning Bedlam Productions (The King’s Speech) to tell this deeply personal, often
surreal story of heartbreak and self-discovery. Years of digging through dusty crates of LP’s have yielded Fletcher many
obscure, down-home gems from the States--the unheard
songs and stories of dreamers, deadbeats and devotees.
Are the artists who created these fragments of Americana
still out there somewhere? This curious outsider travels to the
American South to lose himself amongst the region’s unique
landscapes and eccentric personalities. Expecting to find
comrades who will share in his misery, he is instead greeted
with hope and unshakable faith at every turn.
PLAYING WITH:
THE AMAZING MR. ASH // SHORT DOC
BRIAN GERSTEN // USA // 12 MIN
A day in the life of a beloved Chicago-area magician and
owner of Ash’s Magic Shop, one of the last remaining
magic shops in the city, is celebrated. The endearing
74-year-old Ashod Baboorian shares his story as an
Iraqi-Armenian emigrant, a US Army draftee, a country-western singer, and of course a world famous magician.
Basically, Johnny Moped
Presented in conjunction with:
Got Kinda Lost Records
FRED BURNS // UK// 77 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 10:30 PM // Logan Theatre 3
Formed in 1974 by a group of school friends, the British
proto-punk band Johnny Moped were named for their
leader, the enigmatic Paul Halford (aka Johnny Moped).
With a lineup that included Captain Sensible, iconic guitarist of The Damned, and Chrissie Hynde, who was
kicked out of the band twice, the band seemed poised
for success – briefly. Filmmaker Fred Burns catches up
with the members of Johnny Moped today in a funny and
often-moving tribute to punk’s great lost band.
PLAYING WITH:
BLACK BANANAS // “HEY ROCKIN” // MV
IAN KENNEDY // USA // 3 MIN
A fever dream of 80s music videos, Slasher flicks, and S&M, the
new Black Bananas video is weird, sexy, and kind of disgusting – the perfect accompaniment to their scuzzy, lo-fi sound.
Presented in
conjunction
with
P r e s e n t e d by
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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
CHICAGO PREMIERE
ARIEL TAGAR // ISRAEL // 57 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 12:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1
BRENDAN TOLLER // USA // 104 MIN // $12
Thursday 4-16 // 7:15 PM // Logan Theatre 3
Congo Beat the Drum
Take a journey through Jamaica’s storied reggae culture led
by Ariel “Kalbata” Tagar, a
techno producer known for
his inventive remixes and Uri
“Mixmonster” Wertheim, a
member of the funk band The
Apples. In the midst of recording
an album of dub music, Kalbata & Mixmonster travel from Tel Aviv to the streets of
Kingston in search of their favorite but long-neglected
reggae musicians. The result is an eye-opening film & a
heart-pounding soundtrack.
PLAYING WITH:
Danny Says
A documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields,
who played a pivotal role in music and “culture” of
the late 20th century: working for The Doors, Lou
Reed, Nico, Judy Collins and managing groundbreaking artists like the Stooges, the MC5 and
the Ramones. Danny Says follows Fields from
Harvard Law dropout to Warhol’s Silver Factory to
Director of Publicity at Elektra Records. Handcrafted
from over 250 hours of interviews and items from Field’s
immense archives (thousands of photographs, audio
cassettes, ephemera). Danny Says weaves candid
interviews, animation, archival video, photographs, performance footage, radio shows, demos and taped phone
conversations spanning decades. (With Q&A)
ANGELO SPENCER ET LES HAUTS SOMMETS
“MELATONIN AND WEED” // MV
REMI COSNIER // CANADA // 4 MIN
A groovy animation of Quebec-band Angelo Spencer
et Les Hauts Sommets plays like an indie rock update
of “My Favorite Things,” with a list including tigers, sex,
drugs, surfing, and fruit (especially pineapples).
PLAYING WITH:
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten
Cambodia’s Lost Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Dicks from Texas
CINDY MARABITO // USA // 70 MIN // $12
Thursday 4-16 // 7:00 PM // Society for Arts
Long before Austin made weirdness a civic virtue, The
Dicks made it a cause. Three rawboned Marlboro Man
types fronted by Gary Floyd, a fat queer with a penchant for
fright wigs, this self-described “commie faggot band” helped
put the Texas capital on the punk map in the early ‘80s with
anthems like “Dicks Hate the Police” and “Wheelchair
Epidemic.” Cindy Marabito was there, and her super-DIY
documentary is an affectionate oral history of a truly distinctive hardcore scene that, like the band and community it
chronicles, makes up in attitude and personality what it lacks
in polish.
PLAYING WITH:
DONZELLE // “LIBIDO MACRO” // MV
SIMON HARRISON AND NAMAÏ KHAMPO
CANADA // 5 MIN
Libido Macro is a glimpse at how Donzelle and her dancers get ready before they go out and get what they want.
THRONE // “THARSIS SLEEPS” // MV
NICOS LIVESEY AND TOM BUNKER // UK // 5 MIN
A sci-fi throwback to the 1981 animated anthology
feature Heavy Metal with a mind-blowing twist – every single frame is embroidered, sewn together stitch by stitch.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Presented in conjunction with
The Cambodian Association of Illinois
JOHN PIROZZI // USA // 105 MIN // $12
Thursday 4-16 // 7:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1
During the Vietnam War,
Cambodian musicians crafted
a sound from the various rock
music styles sweeping America,
England and France adding in
unique melodies and hypnotic
rhythms of their traditional music.
Then on April 17, 1975, the Khmer
Rouge began wiping out all traces of modernity and Western
influence. Intellectuals, artists and musicians were specifically
and systematically targeted and eliminated. Don’t Think I’ve
Forgotten provides a new perspective on a country, usually
associated only with war and genocide.
PLAYING WITH:
UNCLE ESSY // SHORT DOC
A SHORT HISTORY OF MADNESS // SHORT FICTION
NIYAZ SAGHARI // IRAN // 22 MIN
ISABELLE HAYEUR // CANADA // 27 MIN
A touching portrait of the oldest record stallholder in
A beautifully choreographed journey through visceral and
Tehran’s largest bazaar, Uncle Essy became a well-known
poetic perspectives of a reality that transcends time. This
musical source, and an inspiration to young people in Iran
evocative, dance-centric film follows the history of treating
after the revolution. Emotional interviews at his stall reveal
mental illness when contemporary dance and architecture
deep ties to a music collection he lovingly shared with others.
merge inside the mind and movement of psychosis.
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CHICAGO PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
East Nashville Tonight
The Front Man
BRAD BARNES AND TODD BARNES
USA // 85 MIN // $12
Friday 4-17 // 10:45 PM // Society for Arts
In 2013, cult indie filmmakers and brothers Todd and Brad
Barnes set out to shoot a documentary about the burgeoning East Nashville singer-songwriter scene, but weed, whiskey, and musician Todd Snider took over and the result is a
hilarious alternative-universe Opryland. Showcasing a host
of local stalwarts, beloved hippie bard Snider and his buddies
smoke, joke, bang out bent ballads, and somehow put on a
shambolic tryout talk show for the East Nashville chanteuse
and David Letterman favorite Elizabeth Cook. Another
pair of movie siblings, Jay and Mark Duplass, declare that
the Barnes Brothers “have revealed a side of Nashville you
definitely won’t see on CMT.”
PAUL DEVLIN // USA // 73 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 6:15 PM // Logan Theatre 3
The culmination of a 27-year-journey of a man seeking fame
and stardom in the music business, The Front Man follows
the life of Jim Wood, the charismatic lead singer of New
Jersey “party rock” band Loaded Poets. Disillusioned by
the broken promise of rock ‘n’ roll, but unable to let go of his
dreams of celebrity, Wood sets out to find the true meaning
of success while reconciling the joy of creating music with
his wife’s desire to expand their family. Five-time Emmy
Award-winner Paul Devlin comes along for the ride to document Wood ’s quest, a crooked path that takes them through
the homes of musicians who “made it,” onto the set of a cult
horror movie, and even on national television. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
POSSESSED BY PAUL JAMES
“THERE WILL BE NIGHTS WHEN I’M LONELY” // MV
USA // 5 MIN
Country folk band Possessed by Paul James weaves
through memories both good and bad.
Hardcore Devo Live!
KEIRDA BAHRUTH // USA // 85 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 8:45 PM // Logan Theatre 1
PLAYING WITH:
VELCRO LEWIS GROUP
“THEY’RE HAVING A PARTY” // MV
KENNY REED // USA // 5 MIN
The party was going just fine until a Satanist spiked the
punch bowl – join the freak-out with Chicago’s one-andonly occultist funk rock outfit.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
The First Waltz
JUSTIN KREUTZMANN // USA // 94 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 2:15 PM // Logan Theatre 3
Mixing intimate concert performances, road scenes,
personal tales, and studio footage, Hard Working
Americans The First Waltz arrives at a crucial moment
to remind us that Jerry Garcia is as important as Ben
Franklin, and that rock ‘n’ roll is as much a birthright as
The Constitution. Director Justin Kreutzmann brings us
an insightful, copacetic-minded snapshot of a fertile collaboration for musicians Todd Snider, Dave Schools,
Neal Casal, Chad Staehly, Duane Trucks and Jesse
Aycock. (With Q&A) See also: page 7.
Todd Snider Live at City Winery
PLAYING WITH:
LUCETTE // “BOBBY REID” // MV
BLAKE JUDD // USA // 2 MIN
A classic Southern gothic tale of salvation and murder
showcases the pipes of Canadian folk singer Lucette.
The theory of de-evolution took musical shape in Akron, Ohio
basements where a bunch of ex-art students spent the mid ‘70s
honing their satiric notion of human regression into something
like, but also quite unlike, a rock band. Devo largely retired
their primordial songs in the wake of unlikely pop success, but
last year they marked the band’s 40th anniversary with a tour
devoted to these seminal tracks. Energetically shot by Keirda
Bahruth (director of 2011’s CIMMfest doc award winner Bob
and the Monster), this concert film is a must for Devotees,
capturing one of the key bands of the post-punk era reclaiming
their musical past with unbridled gusto. A set of Devo covers
will be performed by The Gomers at Emproium after the film.
(With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
TRUTH ABOUT DEVOLUTION // SHORT DOC
CHUCK STATLER // USA // 10 MIN
The first Devo music video was routinely screened before
Devo live concerts! Join Booji Boy as he finds his inner
Jocko Homo and learns the truth about de-evolution.
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CHICAGO PREMIERE
Official Record Store Day Film
Reckless Records and RecordStoreDay.com
PAUL MARCHAND // USA // 109 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 6:15 PM // Logan Theatre 1
Critics once hailed bassist Jaco Pastorius as “the future of
modern music,” and Bootsy Collins once said, “Before Jaco,
bass didn’t know what it was yet.” Now more than 25 years
since his violent and untimely death comes the long-awaited
portrait of the once poor and
unknown, scrappy Florida boy,
whose inventive approach to
the electric bass earned him
international recognition. Featuring a post-screening Q&A
with director Paul Marchand
and the film’s executive producer Robert Trujillo – the bass
player of Metallica! (With
Q&A)
CHICAGO PREMIERE
CHICAGO PREMIERE
KENNETH PRICE // USA // 79 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 9:00 PM // Society for Arts
MURV SEYMOUR // USA // 93 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 1:20 PM // Logan Theatre 1
Jaco
Presented in conjunction with
The Hip-Hop Fellow
The Hip-Hop Fellow follows Grammy Award winning
producer Patrick Douthit’s (9th Wonder) tenure at
Harvard University as he teaches The Standards of Hip-Hop,
conducts research for his thesis, and lectures at Duke University.
The film centers on the emerging significance of incorporating
hip-hop music studies into academia, and highlights the scholars
at the forefront of preserving 40 years of hip hop culture. Featured
interviews include Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Henry Louis Gates,
Jr., Ab-Soul, Young Guru, Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Big
Pooh, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Dr. Marcyliena Morgan,
and DJ Premier.
PLAYING WITH:
CAKES DA KILLA: NO HOMO // SHORT DOC
JA’TOVIA M GARY // USA // 13 MIN
Killer B3
Over eight years in the making, Killer B3 puts you in front, behind and
inside the more than 425-pound keyboard often called the beast. The
Hammond Organ is responsible for the unique keyboard sounds in
gospel, jazz, blues, rock, country, and reggae music. The film is a
cross-country venture with stops in almost a dozen cities, and features
perennial B3 players like Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Papa John
DeFrancesco, Jimmy Smith, Jr., and many others. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
JUMP INTO MY ARMS // SHORT DOC
REX CARTER // USA // 9 MIN
A devoted husband-and-wife lounge act create beautiful melodies together with lives joyfully choreographed to a swing-step,
but their happiness on stage belies a darker reality behind the
curtain. Through it all, the spirit of their music keeps them united.
An unapologetic portrait of a young artist determined to
create and live life on his own terms, Rashard Bradshaw aka Cakes da Killa is a 23 year-old hip-hop artist
who leads an openly gay life, shattering the preconceived
notions of what it takes to be a respected lyricist.
WORLD PREMIERE
CHICAGO PREMIERE
After eight intense years in the media spotlight, The Clash’s
frontman Joe Strummer carved out a new creative path to
Spain. While in Madrid he served as producer of 091’s second
album, Más de Cien Lobos, where Spain’s most famous rock
band Radio Futura helped Strummer buy a Dodge that he somehow lost. This documentary aims to discover what initially drew
Strummer to Spain, the search for the car, as well as Strummer’s
own search for meaning and redemption in those wild years.
Aptly titled, Lee Scratch
Perry’s Vision of Paradise
chronicles the career of reggae
music’s inimitable architect of
Dub, a subgenre of reggae.
Filmed over a 13-year period,
director Volker Schaner spent
countless hours at Perry’s
home, culminating what he
considers, “the most intimate,
extensive and fascinating adventure you can possibly have
with Lee Perry.” Not your typical documentary as it also serves
as Perry’s own spirituality, and the pre-eminent guide on how to
change the world with art and music. (With Q&A in Lounge)
PLAYING WITH:
PLAYING WITH:
I Need a Dodge!
Joe Strummer on the Run
NICK HALL // SPAIN // 67 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 7:30 PM // Logan Theatre 1
PINK AVALANCHE // “YOUR COLLAPSE” // MV
KATIE KAPUZA & MOLLY MCCANDLESS // USA // 4 MIN
There’s not much to say about a claymation, trippy video in
which an anthropomorphized sun licks a mustachioed walrus
except to see it!
Lee Scratch Perry’s
Visions of Paradise
VOLKER SCHANER // GERMANY // 93 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 4:10 PM // Logan Theatre 3
CHRISTYLEZ BACON // SHORT DOC
AARON FISHER // USA // 4 MIN
A deft and witty portrait of progressive hip-hop artist Christylez
Bacon, illustrates his unique style, incredible beatboxing skills,
and his own personal philosophy of music.
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CHICAGO PREMIERE
Morphine: Journey of Dreams
How Sweet the Sound
The Blind Boys of Alabama
MARK SHUMAN// USA // 94 MIN // $12
Friday 4-17 // 7:00 PM // Logan Theatre 3
A two-string bass, saxophone, drums, and front man Mark
Sandman’s deep, hushed vocals – not the makings of your
typical rock band lineup. However, Morphine managed to
produce some of the best alternative albums of the 1990s,
riding their genre-defying sound to worldwide success.
Morphine: Journey of Dreams follows the meteoric rise
of this idiosyncratic band, from their beginnings in the underground Boston music scene and the recording of their
breakthrough album Cure For Pain to their untimely and
tragic end. Featuring interviews with surviving members
& their contemporaries, including Joe Strummer & Henry
Rollins. (With Q&A)
US PREMIERE
Never Release My Fist
(绝不松开我的拳头)
SHUIBO WANG // CHINA // 87 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 9:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1
LESLIE MCCLEAVE // USA // 95 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 2:15 PM // Society for Arts
The Blind Boys of Alabama met as children at the Talladega Institute for the Blind, a segregated vocational school.
Buoyed by their local popularity and faced with the bleak
career choice of making brooms and mops for a living, the
blind youngsters quit school and hit the road. Since the
1930s, the group has been performing around the world
with their unique sound – a once popular jubilee quartet
singing tradition mixed with a powerful hard-gospel style.
The Orchestra: Claudio Abbado &
the Musicians of the Mozart
Orchestra (L’orchestra. Claudio Ab-
bado e i musicisti della Mozart)
FRANCESCO MERINI // ITALY // 59 MIN
Saturday 4-18 // 6:00 PM // Academy of Music at
University Church (See pg. 43)
A look backstage and in the homes and hotel rooms on the
road of highly talented musicians and the passion they feel for
their instruments, the music they play, and the adoration they
have for their beloved leader, Maestro Claudio Abbado. The
gentile, soft-spoken, and world-acclaimed conductor is the
revered Mozart Orchestra of Bologna. The joy and enthusiasm of these esteemed musicians, mixed with the varied and
unlikely backgrounds from around the world, is fascinating and
revealing.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
The Poet of Havana
Never Release My Fist is a documentary on the life and
music of punk rockers in Wuhan, the largest Chinese
industrial city sometimes referred to as the “Chicago of
China.” In the late ‘90s, Wuhan was the center stage of
punk rock, and home to one of China’s most outspoken
and longest-running punk band, SMZB. The film follows
its lead singer Wu Wei, who grew up in a blue-collar
neighborhood in Wuhan and is regarded as its godfather
of the punk rock movement.
PLAYING WITH:
MINES // “HYPEROVERCRITICAL” // MV
JENNA CARAVELLO // USA // 3 MIN
This 2013 release from Chicago-based band MINES uses
gritty 16mm film to portray a man losing himself to an inner
voice from the past. Visceral images paired with guttural
shrieks from frontman Bill Satek, the band’s raw punk
sound, and many a Jell-O molds produce a haunting and
emotional video.
RON CHAPMAN // CANADA, CUBA // 97 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 5:10 PM // Society for Arts
An exploration of the internationally renowned Cuban
musician Carlos Varela, recognized as one of the most
influential artists of his time as he marked 30 years as
a singer-songwriter. This moving documentary highlights
one artist’s struggle for individual freedoms and his efforts
to build bridges between Cuba, the United States, disenfranchised Cubans, and the people of the world. Shot
in Havana with unique access, stunning concert and insider backstage moments, and exclusive interviews with
international stars – Varela’s friends like Jackson Browne,
Benicio del Toro, Luis Enrique, Juan and Samuel Formel,
X Alfonso, Alexander Abreu and more.
PLAYING WITH:
BROKEN FLOWERS PROJECT
“DÍAS DESIERTOS” // MV
EDUARDO AVILA FLORES // MEXICO // 4 MIN
A stunning and hypnotic imagery accompanies this poprock tune of “desert days” from Guadalajara, Mexico.
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SUB-SAHARAN CINEMA
As Old As My Tongue
The Myth & Life of Bi Kidude
ANDY JONES // UK, TANZANIA // 66 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 2:00 PM // Society for Arts
When world music took off in the West, one of its most
remarkable “discoveries” was the Zanzibar Taarab singer
Fatma binti Baraka, better known as Bi Kidude. Well
into her 80s (or maybe beyond) when she was ushered
onto the global stage, Kidude was a rebel rocker of the
old school, a smoker, drinker, and drummer who broke
taboos for Muslim women and presided over sexual-initiation ceremonies for brides-to-be. This 2006 portrait
- screening with Jones’ brand new follow-up I Shot Bi
Kidude - is a fiercely entertaining look at Kidude’s life
and music and the many myths that grew up around her.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Shield and Spear
Presented in conjunction with
“impressive
and engrossing”
The International
Beethoven
Project
PETTER RINGBOM Charlie Gillett
“A remarkable documentary unveiling a genuine legend of world mus
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
USA, SOUTH AFRICA
// Songlines
89 MIN
Simon Broughton,
Magazine
delight
from
to end”
Saturday“A
4-18
// 6:00
PMbeginning
// Chicago
Howard Male, The Independent
Academy
of
Music
at
University
Church
ANDY JONES // UK, TANZANIA // 75 MIN // $12
A fascinating look at South Africa 20 years into
Saturday 4-18 // 3:30 PM // Society for Arts
democracy, as viewed by a bevy of creatively
In late 2012, Tanzanian media reported that centenarian
bursting musicians and activist artists whose
singer and national cultural icon Bi Kidude had been kidstories limn issues of race, identity, and freenapped by a relative who claimed that longtime musical
dom of expression in the would-be “rainbow
and business associates were mistreating her. British filmnation” and whose work casts an optimistic
maker Andy Jones, who examined Kidude’s mythic life in
66minutes. © 2006
eye on the country’s democratic, pluralistic
the documentary As Old As My Tongue (screening with
future while challenging the creeping authoritel:+44 7960 393785 (Andy Jones)
this film), returned to Zanzibar to investigate. A doc thriller
tarianism of its present.
(see page 43)
info@screenstation.net
with a deep emotional core, I Shot Bi Kidude chronicles
www.asoldasmytongue.net
www.mypsace.com/screenstation
CHICAGO
PREMIERE
the strange final months of a music legend while telling
I Shot Bi Kidude
a documentary film
by ScreenStation Productions
with Busara Promotions
how a white filmmaker from England’s West Midlands
forged an abiding bond with Africa’s oldest singer.
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
Presented in conjunction with
Akasuba
ZACH NILES, BANKER WHITE // USA // 78 MIN // $12
Friday 4-17 // 7:15 PM // Logan Theatre 2
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have risen like a phoenix
out of the ashes of war, and ignite the passion of fans across
the globe with their uplifting songs of hope, faith and joy. The
band is a potent example of the redeeming power of music
and the ability of the human spirit to persevere through unimaginable hardship and emerge with optimism intact. From
their humble beginnings in West African refugee camps,
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have performed on some of
the world’s most prestigious stages and matured into one of
Africa’s top touring and recording bands. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
They Will Have to Kill
Us First
JOHANNA SCHWARTZ
UK // 105 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 4:05 PM // Society for Arts
When Islamic militants overran northern Mali
in 2012, they banned
music - a mortal blow
in a society that has
revered its musicians
for centuries and now
watched as they were
forced into silence or
exile. From battlefields
to refugee camps to
the stages of Timbuktu and London, They Will
Have to Kill Us First tells the chilling, inspiring,
and joyous stories of displaced artists struggling
to reclaim their musical birthright.
WILLIAM PILGRIM & THE ALL GROWS UP FEAT.
BRENTON WOOD // “GIMME LITTLE SIGN” // MV
SEE ALSO: Feature Fiction PAGE 31
PM ROMERO, SCOTT MONTGOMERY // US // 4 MIN
Rain the Color Blue with a Little
Shot at the historic People’s Climate March in New York,
Red in It
William Pilgrim & The All Grows Up join forces with
Presented in conjunction with Akasuba
Brenton Wood in a contemporary twist on the classic 1967
Friday 4-17 // 11:25 PM // Logan Theatre 1
hit, ‘’Gimme Little Sign.”
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CHICAGO PREMIERE
The Possibilities Are Endless
EDWARD LOVELACE // UK // 83 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 12:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1
In 2005 Scottish singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins (of
Orange Juice fame) suffered a catastrophic stroke that
more or less wiped clean his brain. This intimate, elliptical film, named for a phrase that was inexplicably on
Collins’s lips when he emerged from a coma, chronicles
his intensely personal experience of regaining language,
memory, and music with structural daring, visual imagination, and sublime empathy.
PLAYING WITH:
TONITA’S // SHORT DOC
BEYZA BOYACIOGLU & SEBASTIAN DIAZ // USA //
21 MIN
The last of its kind in New York’s Puerto Rican community, The
Caribbean Sports Club is kept alive and well by the community’s
beloved matriarch, Maria Tonita, and fills the screen with colorful
characters, tight knit bonds, and flavorful music..
Revenge of the Mekons
JOE ANGIO // USA // 95 MIN // FREE (No Reservations)
Friday 4-17 // 6:45 PM // Logan Theatre 1
The Road to God Knows Where
ULI M SCHUEPPEL // GERMANY // 90 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 5:30 PM // Logan Theatre 1
Twenty-five years before Nick Cave bared his quasifictional soul in 20,000 Days on Earth (CIMMFest 2014),
Schueppel - then a student at the German Film Academy,
now one of Berlin’s most respected indie filmmakers - got
a peek behind the veil, accompanying Cave and the Bad
Seeds on a US tour and emerging with this riveting and
rarely screened verite document of life on the road.
PLAYING WITH:
THE PEACH KINGS // “MOJO THUNDER” // MV
BENJY BROOKE // USA // 4 MIN
A shady character tries to escape his even darker past by
indulging in the usual vices: booze, broads and murder. A
neo-noir animated music video for sleaze-rock outfit The
Peach Kings.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Rye Coalition:
The Story of the Hard Luck 5
The Mekons have been called political provocateurs, social agitators, and punk’s reigning contrarians. Director and Chicago
native, Joe Angio, chronicles the group’s unlikely formation as
British art students who came together in the first blast of punk
rock in 1977, despite being geographically dispersed and lacking commercial success, to tour and make adventurous and
challenging albums. This engaging documentary also delves
further into the band’s ranks to spotlight individual Mekons’
ancillary, yet impactful artistic lives as painters and avant-garde
artists. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
VOICE OF ENGLEWOOD // “COLD WORLD” // MV
JEAN-MARC GIBOUX // USA // 4 MIN
“The young leave before the old ...Why this world so cold?” Chicago hip-hop artists rap about the realities of inner-city violence.
Recorded in Englewood’s Crusher’s Club, an organization that
redirects the path of youth.
JENNI MATZ // USA // 77 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 6:45 PM // Logan Theatre 3
Rye Coalition did everything they were supposed to
do. For a decade, the Jersey City post-hardcore band
starved daily and rocked nightly, crisscrossing America
to build an audience gig by gig. And just as they signed
to a major label with a certified rock star to produce their
record, it all fell apart. Culled from 20 years of footage
and featuring testimonials from Dave Grohl, Steve
Albini, and other fans from bigger bands, Matz’s documentary charts Rye Coalition’s slow rise and spectacular
fall, painting an underdog portrait of five guys who went
through the music biz wringer and came out bloodied
but ultimately unbowed. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
GATES // “NOT MY BLOOD” // MV
BRYAN RACINE // USA // 6 MIN
Presented in conjunction with:
New Jersey band Gates brings their heavy sound to the
Lake FX Summit + Expo.
blasted-out interior of an abandoned church in Gary, Indiana. Produced by Audiotree.
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It had been another long day. He leaned back too far in the chair, daring Destiny to take him over backward. She didn't, and he smiled having cheated her one last
time. He didn't know it, but it wouldn't be his last opportunity to do so before the sun returned from the other side of the world to char him all over again. He
stood up and went to the book closet at the opposite end of the room. He opened the stainless steel door and entered the access code. Once inside he closed
the door behind him and made his way to the rear compartment. He lifted his hand, palm out and chest high, to feel for the Bio-I.D. pad that would allow him,
and only him, to enter the inner chamber where the article of his attention tonight lay on a luminous blue pad. Standing in front of the article a person is quickly
taken by the sense of mass it conveys despite its modest size. It is inside of a rectangular box of about 14 inches across and 8 inches deep. The box is made of
a metallic material but a closer look reveals it to be made of an almost fleshy metalized film with a fine pore-like texture to it. He has never opened it and most
others who know of its existence hope that he never will. It is said to contain the Law, or something like the Law. At first thought, knowing the actual text of the
Law would seem to make the meaning of life here on Earth clearer and possibly even purposeful. However, after a long argu-ment, some of the world's greatest
thinkers concluded years ago that given human nature, knowledge of the true nature of the Law, no matter what it was, would quickly render life as we have
known it, meaningless. Only chaos and suffering could result. Now, after decades of stew-ardship of the Law, he had determined his course of action and tonight
and no man or petty tyrant would keep him from his rondesvous with destiny. He closed his eyes and removed the lid, setting it aside. He opened his eyes and
squinted at the glare from the article. He reached in with both hands, cradled it in his palms, and lifted it out of the box. Holding it in one hand, he brushed it up
and down against his shirt to shine it up a bit before raising it to his face. Opening his mouth slightly and wetting his lips, he placed it between his front teeth
and, with a wet crunching sound, bit a noisy tangent through the article and chewed. Sensing a familiar flavor spreading across his tongue he decided that; Yes,
sometimes an apple is just an apple..."I have come to this edge tonight for a reason". She thought as she stepped over the scupper and onto the brick knee wall.
Twelve stories up and there would be no mistake about it. As if in a dream, her center of gravity moved out and over the edge of the building. The lights of the
taxis and busses below swirled together with the reflections in the wet pavement and the figures of New Years Eve revelers party-bound for champagne. Above
this noisy street scene, the only sound she could hear was the satiny rush of air by her ears as she slipped past the 11th floor windows. She seemed to be falling
slower as she took in the smell of the air and the beauty of the lights. A peculiar lightness came over her and all of the weight that had pressed on her seemed
lifted from her. Falling turned to floating. Dying became living. Some-thing resembling regret came to her now as she almost hovered by the lonely old guy's
window in 7D. She had never actually met him and now wished she had. Slowly, she stretched out her long pale arms and faced the world below for a moment,
and then turned towards the stars. Slowly, she rose upward. Lightness turned to stillness as she lofted back past the clothes hung out at apt 9A, and then to
optimism as she passed the flowered boxes outside of 11C. Her arms still outstretched, she looked back down at the New Years Eve scene and laughed out loud.
Her hair played in silly curls around her face and joy streamed down her cheeks. Her toes gently touched back onto the knee wall at the roofs edge. Eyes closed
and smiling, she wrapped herself in her own arms and squeezed until she felt herself returning at last. Down from the roof now and falling awake, she turned
over in her bed and smiled. She knew this would be the last time she would have this dream of falling. Falling again now, this time asleep, she the pictured the
faces of every person she had ever known and vowed to dream a new dream of life for a life in the new year...Slowly, the forensic pathologist peeled back the
thin film of skin that covered the bloody pulp of a skull that lay before him on the examining table. Only hours earlier the stuff he was working on now was a
living human being. Reduced by a speeding semi to a viscous meatloaf, the fetid pile of toad slime showed no sign of life. The only remnant that might suggest
the prior inhabit-ants identity was the single bugging eyeball. It seemed to twitch left and right from time to time. The pathologist looked shook it off and
returned to the dissection. It was a curious sequence of events that landed this load of slop in the morgue. The lucky victim was skulking down the street with
an air of aggressive paranoia when a semi-truck driver, who was digging out a wad of ear wax with a screwdriver swerved onto the sidewalk and caught our
hero on the undercarrige of the cab. cab.After scraping him along screaming for 50 yards or so, our hero came loose and was pureed under the balance of the
16 wheels that follow the truck cab. For most people this might have been enough, but not for our little scum -bag. He was still alive and blinking out of that
cue-ball eye socket. As chance would have it, an airliner crashed moments later on the very blinking spot where he lay, thoroughly lacerated. If that wasn't
enough, a passing freight train derailed and accordianed itself onto the pulpy mess. That very train was transporting a circus car. The impact loosed a Grizzly
Bear that meandered over and began lapping and chewing on our hero. For him it had been a very bad day indeed, because just then, the whole mess erupted
in flames and burned for days on end. Choking back a good belly laugh, the doctor put away his scalpel and invited our hero's former girlfriend out to dinner... I
drive mostly back roads far from the lights in the part of the night just ahead of the dawn. It is a world between worlds, maybe the upper or maybe the lower
world. You could argue about which is which, but for me, the intersection of a back road and three a.m. is a sanctuary. A vector where no God rules and a man
can move freely. Just like this morning, far from the visual stench of eastbay refineries and gas station lasers, I saw the new comet low in the northeastern sky,
pure and alone. It had stolen the sky from lesser stars that for centuries had only too carelessly occupied the spot. I drive on through this scene and later past
four baby skunks who are following a parent into traffic. Past the deer-like street folk caught for a moment in my headlights, past dark houses and blinding
semi's. Through all of this stuff I am driving, and although I am tired of driving, I keep my eyes on the road. The tank is on empty, but I never stop to refill.
Maybe I'll pull over and rest, if I can just get over this hill. I'm sick and tired of driving. When, after you roll past the detritus of some poor son-of -bitch's bad
judg-ment in the fast lane, in the dark, alone with the man, and bleeding to death in red and blue moonbeams, don't you have to wonder if the repo-man from
the movie was right when he said that 'the more you drive, the stupider you become'? So how is it now that we're all out here together, dedicated road warriors,
driving, jockeying for the whole-shot, and no one is certain where to or where from. Grinding down the sharp edge of our I.Q.'s like the disintegrated retreads
we dodge in the lanes. Until I hear different, I'll meet you in the number one lane when I have to, and on the narrow back roads when I can. Out here, far from
the lights... Hello Salvatore Dolly Pardon hymn number 24 hours in a Doris Day Care center of the universe, as we know it. Even with large records and whey
com-panies have Miss Muffet sat on a blender of several shades of blue and seen grazing out on the range over the Prairie Avenue Book Stories where out past
there are several more than their mothers would have us believe. Meanwhile on the international scene with outside the studi-o-my-gosh, it's with Ives, Weburn,
and Krenick, together now for the first time in a concerted effortless motion to over- rule the prosecution on a point of law the size of my grandmothers little
cucumber dressing in front of an open window. Never-the-lesster the molester is available for a limited time to problem solve in four dimensions and run amok
that can remove even the nastiest stains with Piquancy and Aplomb, the famous Danish explorers. Closer to home is where the heart wrenching is it true, time
after time has a way back into the past, cut them off at the past, past- your-eyesed milking it for all it's worth, although more evidence may, or may, not be
forth-coming to a theater near you? After all for one and one for after all may seem to satisfy even the heartiest appetite for that chocolately good-ness and the
promise of bread. And you may ask yourself; Self, what does all this have to do with beer? In a word of wisdom to the wise from one who nose hairdo you really
believe in the way back down the mountain grown coffee cop car doughnut piss anvil head life story of a veteran of foreign adven-turless women who can peel
back your scalp with only a weasel? Is it any coincidence? Don't you have to wonder what it all has to do with Beer? Well? beer? Well?... In the beginning, there
were ales. As far as anyone knows, the first beers made were 'top fermented', which is longhand for 'Ale'. Sometime before the 1860's, beers became popular
that were made in northern Europe with a bottom fermenting yeast strain that liked the colder temperatures. Because they had to spend weeks aging before
they tasted their best, they were known as 'Lager' beer. Lager is the German word for 'storage'. Since they had to sit a while, they took up more time and space
and as such were harder and more expensive to make. But they were crisp and light and you could slam them down if you wanted to. Where ales are meaty, lagers
are sinewy. Where ales are street, lagers are 'haute couture'. Where an ale might hit you over the head and take your wallet, lagers donate to charity and adopt
stray cats. While an ale might steal your car or try to date your daughter and keep her out all night for who-knows-what purpose, a well-bred lager would offer
to clean your house while you're on vacation and leave fresh scones and coffee for you when you return. Now, don't get us wrong, ales can be a lot of fun to hang
out with when you're in the right mood, and if you have bail money on you. But what's wrong with livin' uptown from time to time, on a nice street, where the
doormen all wear those funny uniforms, the air smells of flowers, and lagers rule the Earth... Although the table in the cafe on Grant Street at which they sat was
round, the man and the woman from up north sat on opposite sides of it. Something had come between them. The sun sang it's final strains in the western sky
as the cold blue song of the moon rose in pitch and even the waitress could not help these two doubting lovers. Together they read their menus separately. Two
as one, one as two. Their pitifullittle scene brought only cruel amusement to the bartenders with the sweat stained armpits who smoked the cheap cigars and
wagered on the misery of lovers like these. They had seen it all before and felt only contempt. The two wept openly now and still they could not decide whether it would be Pale Ale or I.P.A. with the entree and if there would be Gnarlywine for dessert. They all felt the loneliness of love and the tragic tyranny of beer...
Well, well, well. The head brewer stood opposite the massive brewing vessels that were his to command. His mind raced through the possibilities. What is the
temperature of the malt in the grist case overhead? Was the hot liquor tank up to temp? Would the ambient temperature affect the final mash temperature?
Should he compensate for the delta temp by running a little higher mash-in temperature? A single degree in either direction would have a life changing effect
on both the brewer and the brewee. The beer could be too sweet if a degree high, or too mild and dry if a niggling degree too low. The character of the future
beer that this batch would be hung in the balance. The brewer drew a bead on the temp-probe, the mash tun waited, and the world held its breath...
PETALUMA, CALIF. & CHICAGO, ILL.
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FILM
Logan 1
7:00
Logan 3
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten:
Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
7 PM start
Society for Arts
The Dicks from Texas
7 PM start
Danny Says
7:15 PM start
Q&A
9:00
Tuff Luck
9:05 PM start
Q&A
Shake the Dust
9:25 PM start
Keep in Touch
9:45 PM start
Q&A
MUSIC All times are start times PASS HOLDERS PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY
7 PM
7 PM
8 PM
8 PM
The MId, Lake FX
Kick-off
Next Generation,
The Fox & The Hounds, and
Lili K
1st Ward
Emanation- A
Percussion Event 7:00PM
Double Door
The Right Now
with Zaramela
Martyrs’
Fort Knox Showcase
Phosphene, AudioBakery,
Halfmoon Mad
8 PM
9 PM
9 PM
9 PM
The Hideout
Liam Hayes/
Thomas Comerford/
Robbie Skye
Township
Miss Alex White
Presents:
Digital Leather,
Mac Blackout
The Holy Motors
The Mongrels
Empty Bottle
The Soft Moon
and Population
Reggie’s Music Joint
Bullfights on Acid
Ars Nova
Steady Flow
8 PM
Burlington
Yakuza and Rabble Rabble*
10 PM
1st Ward
CIMMfest Opening
Night After-Party:
Featuring
Numero Group DJ’s
*FREE*
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FRIDAY a p r i l 1 6 t h
FILM
Logan 1
6:45
7:00
9:00
Revenge of the Mekons
6:45 PM start
Q&A
808
9 PM start
Q&A
Logan 3
Society for Arts
Morphine:
Journey of Dreams
7 PM start ;
Q&A
Dave Davies:
Kinkdom Come
7 PM start
Q&A w/Julien Temple
Teenage Ghost Punk
9:15P PM start
Q&A
Ray Davies:
Imaginary Man
Introduced by
Julien Temple
8:55 PM start
Logan 2
Sierra Leone’s Refugee
All Stars
7:15 PM start
Q&A
10:00
East Nashville Tonight
10:45 PM start
11:00
Akounak Tedalat Taha
Tazoughai
Rain the Color of Blue
with a Little Red in it
11:25 PM start
Brasil Bam Bam BamThe Story of Sonzeira
11:30 PM start
MUSIC All times are start times PASS HOLDERS PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY
7 PM
Reggie’s Rock Club
The Suicide
Machines, Break
Anchor, Bastardous,
Derek Grant,
All Eyes West
7 PM
First Ward
Live score Buster Keaton
Goes to Bollywood
Featuring Sara and
Dom Johnson
8;30 PM
8 PM
9 PM
Subterranean
The Magic Beans
EGi
Business as usual
presented w/Lake FX
Reggie’s
Music Joint
Possessed by Paul
James / JP Harris &
The Tough Choices /
Pale Green Stars
Burlington
Clearance,
The Velveteens,
The Hecks,
Blizzard Babies
9 PM
8 PM
9 PM
9 PM
9 PM
9 PM
9 PM
9 PM
9 PM
10 PM
Rosa’s
John Primer
Emporium
The Claudettes/
The Cell Phones/
Lonesome Still
The Hideout
8 PM
Cruising Tracks
10 PM
Slo ‘Mo Dance Party
The Empty Bottle
Bright Light
Social Hour
Martyrs'
Sierra Leone’s Refugee
All Stars with D Bess
and Byzantine Time
Machine
Abbey Pub
9 PM Strange Relation
10 PM Bad Bad Hats
11 PM Vapors of
Morphine
Metro
DJ Sneak, Mark
Farina, Derrick Carter
Double Door
Shotwell Booking
Presents: Bailiff,
Sidewalk Chalk, My
Gold Mask, Jamaican
Queens, Smoker,
Fess Grandiose
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Moe's
Rat Hammer, Gnar
Wave, Rangers,
Shiloh, Joy Kills
First Ward
Hank Shocklee, Bomb
Squad, Searchllte,
Striz, DJ Warp,
MC Zulu, Liviu Pasare
of Stoptime Live
12:00
Logan 1
Logan 3
Society for Arts
The Possibilities are Endles
12 PM start
Porch Stories
12 PM start
Shorts Program 1
12 PM start
1:00
Oil City Confidential
1:45 PM start
Q&A w/Julien Temple
2:00-
Abby Singer Songwriter
2 PM start
Q&A
As Old as My Tongue:
The Myth and Life of Bi Kidude
2 PM start
3:00
4:00
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
4 PM start
Q&A w/Julien Temple
Lee Scrath Perry’s
Visions of Paradisee
4:10 PM start
Q&A
5:00
6:00
The Poet of Havana
5:10 PM start
Jaco
6:15 PM start
7:00
Q&A
The Front Man
6:15 PM start
Q&A
Logan 2
Sam Lay inBluesland 7 PM start
8:00
9:00
Hardcore Devo Live!
8:45 PM start
Q&A
10:00
11:00
I Shot Bi Kidude
3:30 PM start
SATURDAY a p r i l 1 8 t h
FILM
Sex and Broadcasting
10 PM start
Y/Our Music
7:15 PM start
Q&A
Almost There
8:15 PM start
Q&A
Basically,Johnny Moped
10:30 PM start
Academy of Music at University Church
The Orchestra-Claudio Abbado and
Shield and Spear program w/live music: 6 PM start
Gene Siskel
Absolute Beginners
10 PM start introduced by Julien Temple
MUSIC All times are start times PASS HOLDERS PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY
6 PM
International
Beethoven
Project Hyde Park
6 PM
Emporium
Awards Party
8 PM
Burlington
Twin Cousins
Records Presents:
Goodwolf, Bishops,
Coyotes in Boxes,
Ona, Tyler Childers,
J. Marinelli, William
Matheny
6 PM
Metro
Hank Green Driftless
Pony Club, Harry and
The Potters,
Rob Scallon, Andrew
Huang Doors
9 PM
Moe’s
The Luck Of Eden
Hall, WaxWorks,
Chicago
Semisweet
The Hip-Hop Fellow
9 PM start
7 PM
7 PM
The National
Museum of
Mexican Art
Sones de Mexico
Ensemble performs
a live score of ¡Que
viva México!
Martyrs’
ChicagoMusic.Org
Presents: Elle
Casazza, Scotch
Hollow, Fletcher,
The Damn Choir,
Matthew Santos
9 PM
9 PM
Empty Bottle
NE-HI, Tweens,
Trin Tran
The Hideout
Chicago Mixtape
Presents: Santah,
Pet Lions,
Weatherman
8 PM
8 PM
Thalia Hall
Lisa Fischer
City Winery
An Evening of
Music, Film & Wine
with Spike Lee
Host: Spike Lee
Performance
8 PM
10 PM
10 PM
Subterranean
Get Up With the
Get Downs
Nasty Snacks
Cole DeGenova
Charles Walker
Band
Emporium
Rosa’s
CIMMfest/Record
Jimmy Burns
Store Day Wrapup Party follows
Hardcore Devo Live
Performance: The
Gomers do DEVO +
Live Karaoke
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SUNDAY a p r i l 1 9 t h
FILM
Logan 1
Logan 3
Society for Arts
12:00
Congo Beat the Drum
12 PM start
Rio 50 Degrees
12 PM start
Q&A w/Julien Temple
Shorts Program 2
12 PM start
Q&A
1:00
Killer B3
The First Waltz
2:15 PM start
Q&A
How Sweet the SoundThe Blind Boys of Alabama
2:15 PM start
Billy Mize and
the Bakersfield Sound
4:30 PM start
They Will Have to Kill Us First
4:05 PM starts
Rye Coalition:
The Story of the Hard Luck 5
6:45 PM start
Q&A
American Girl
6:15 PM start
American B-Side
8:45 PM start
Come Worry with Us!
8:00 PM start
1:20 PM starts
Q&A
2:00
3:00
Theory of Obscurity: A Film
About the Residents
3:35 start
4:00
5:00
The Road to God Knows Where
5:30 PM start
6:00
7:00
I Need a Dodge!
Joe Strummer on the Run
7:30 PM start
8:00
9:00
Never Release My Fist
9:00 PM start
MUSIC All times are start times PASS HOLDERS PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY
5:30 PM
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM
1ST Ward
Mark
Ribot Live Scores
Docks Of New
York/ Daniel Knox
City Winery
Todd Snider,
Rorey Carroll
7 PM
Reggie’s
Rock Club
Jucifer
Burlington
The Gunshy,
Ditches,
Andrew Bryant
The Hideout
Get Off The Couch:
Host: Sam Wahl
Performance: Dickie, Frances Luke
Accord, Free Lion,
Laura Joy
9 PM
1ST Ward
Film: Fehérlófia
Live Score:
The Chandeliers
7 PM
Martyrs’
Fatbook and Natty
Nation,
Kevin Kinsella
11 PM
Green Mill
Chris Foreman
8 PM
MONDAY 4/20 Logan 3
That Was Awesome! 7 PM start
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7 PM
Metro
Local H
Fig Dish
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WORLD PREMIERE
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Sam Lay in Bluesland
Shake the Dust
The man some call “the greatest drummer of all time” is
recognized almost as much for his signature double-shuffle
beat — his capes, crowns, canes and cowbells are the stuff
of legend — Sam Lay has played a key role in the evolution
of the blues for almost 60 years. He was on drums when
Bob Dylan went electric at Newport… He was in the studio
and on the road with blues greats Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy
Waters, Little Walter and James Cotton... He was a
founding member of the groundbreaking Paul Butterfield
Blues Band. At 80 years old, Sam Lay is still an active part
of the Chicago blues scene. This documentary tells Lay’s
story through his own words, music and personal films, and
features interviews with past bandmates Elvin Bishop,
Charlie Musselwhite, James Cotton, and includes fierce
admirers like Iggy Pop. (With Q&A)
Breakdancing unites people worldwide – Colombia,
Cambodia, Uganda, Yemen – in the common languages
of movement, expression and hip-hop. In this feature
documentary, rap superstar and producer Nas presents
a broad look at a movement inspiring hope in global
urban communities. (With Q&A)
CHICAGO PREMIERE
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Sex and Broadcasting
Theory of Obscurity
A Film About the Residents
JOHN ANDERSON // USA // 90 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 7:00 PM // Logan Theatre 2
TIM K SMITH // USA // 76 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 11:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1
An up-close and revealing account of Jersey City’s
WFMU station that manager Ken Freedman describes
as, “radio for people, picked last on the basketball team;
for that one person who didn’t go to senior prom; for
the misfits and malcontents; the slackers, hobos and
dreamers; the musicians, artists, weirdos; the onanistic
shut-ins, mutants, and all other people who are clearly
not working up to their potential.” Since 1995, Freedman
has endeavored to preserve and uphold WFMU’s legacy
as the world’s oldest Freeform radio station. A delightful look at the station’s equally committed army of 800
volunteers and 60 unpaid DJs, Sex and Broadcasting
explores the 21st century cultural landscape and serves
as a reminder of an American tradition that values independence and freedom above all else. (With Q&A)
ADAM SJÖBERG // USA // 108 MIN // $12
Thursday 4-16 // 9:25 PM // Logan Theatre 1
PLAYING WITH:
DOUCE ANGOISSE
“THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD” // MV
TONY MINES // CANADA // 4 MIN
Douce Angoisse perform Night of the Living Dread at
Hackney Wicked Festival 2011.
SINKANE // “HOW WE BE” // MV
NICK BENTGEN // USA // 4 MIN
SuperFly dance moves in gritty urban locations populate
this joyful music video for Sudanese pop artist Sinkane.
DON HARDY // USA // 87 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 3:35 PM // Logan Theatre 1
The long-awaited story of the enigmatic San Francisco
band The Residents whose members always performed
wearing masks and costumes thanks to The Residents’
management company, The Cryptic Corporation, is
told in the aptly named Theory of Obscurity. Director
Don Hardy and his crew had unprecedented access to
the group’s archival materials and video collection, culminating with footage from the band’s recent world tour
celebrating their 40th anniversary.
PLAYING WITH:
FLAKONKISHOCHKI FEAT. MUMIY TROLL //
“КАЖЕТСЯ” // MV
ANDREY FLAKONKISHOCHKI // RUSSIA // 4 MIN
An innocent little girl boards a train in which every compartment is the gateway to another world. A surrealist animated video collaboration between Russian band Mumiy
Troll and artist Andrey Flakonkishochki.
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CHICAGO PREMIERE
Tuff Luck
ANDREW KLEIN // USA // 97 MIN // $12
Thursday 4-16 // 9:05 PM // Society for Arts
In the mid-1980s, metal band Tuff Luck was the hottest attraction on the local South Florida music scene, routinely drawing
thousands of fans to their gigs. They opened for the likes of
Stryper and Dokken, and were well on their way to becoming
the next big thing. So why haven’t you heard of them? Despite
their virtuoso talent and drive to make it happen, success in the
music business just wasn’t in the cards for Tuff Luck. Directed by Andrew Klein, the younger brother of the band’s late
drummer Todd Kelly, Tuff Luck documents the dramatic rise
and fall of a band on the verge of super stardom – four close
friends with big dreams that ultimately never came true. (With
Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
SHAMAN’S HARVEST // “DANGEROUS” // MV
KYLE COGAN // USA // 4 MIN
A malicious drug lord forcing beautiful women to stuff teddy bears
full of heroin gets exactly what he deserves in this over-the-top,
violent, and totally awesome hard rock music story.
White Mystery’s
“That Was Awesome”
ALEX AND FRANCIS WHITE // USA // $12
Monday 4/20/15 // 7:00 PM // Logan Theatre 3
May 13-17 at the Logan Theatre
2646 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Festival Passes and Tickets
On Sale Now at www.cuff.org
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Y/Our Music
Presented in conjunction with
The Chicago South Asian Film Festival
WARALUCK HIRANSRETTAWAT EVERY, DAVID
REEVE// THAILAND, UK// 81 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 7:15 PM // Society for Arts
Delirium! Horror! Hilarity! Just a few of the running rampant
emotions on a three-month music tour as five filmmakers
chronicle Chicago-based White Mystery siblings, Miss Alex
White and Francis Scott Key White, who are living the
breakneck nomadic lifestyle of a touring rock act. This is a notto-be missed peek inside the telepathic minds of White Mystery
as they perform in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Georgia. Will the
movie live up to the expectations set by its title?
PLAYING WITH:
PLAYING GAMES // SHORT DOC // USA // 6 MIN
Where does the Thai musical identity lie? In the traditional songs
of work and faith from the sprawling rural region of Isan? In the experimental art-rock honed in Bangkok basements and galleries?
In the bamboo saxophones laboriously handmade by a jazz-loving
optician? Yes, yes, yes, and more. Y/Our Music takes a sonic journey through Thailand from rice fields to urban markets, spanning
generations and geography to reveal a diverse and at times
divided musical culture, and reveling in the artistry of singers and
players working to preserve and update the old ways.
PLAYING WITH:
DIAL IN // “RHXQ” // MV
SHAN KHAN // USA // 4 MIN
This stone-cold beautiful, kaleidoscopic music video perfectly
matches the electronic precision and hypnotic groove of Chicago duo Dial In. Produced by Audiotree and Black Rider.
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CHICAGO PREMIERE
Billy Mize &
the Bakersfield Sound
WILLIAM SAUNDERS // USA // 98 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 4:30 PM // Logan Theatre 3
Can’t Be Satisfied
ROBERT GORDON, MORGAN NEVILLE
USA // 90 MIN // FREE
Friday 4-17 // 7:00 PM // Harper Theatre
California’s indigenous country music became known as
“The Bakersfield Sound,” made popular by the likes of
Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Rose Maddox. It
was also pioneered by equally talented but lesser known
individuals, like Billy Mize whose golden voice could be
heard in west coast honky-tonks throughout the ‘50s and
‘60s. In this deeply personal tale about identity and sacrifice, Mize’s grandson, filmmaker William J. Saunders
explores his grandfather’s evolutionary role in the emergence of a musical genre and how his charm became
legendary among country music’s elite. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
POSSESSED BY PAUL JAMES
“SONGS WE USED TO SING” // MV
TODD TUE // USA // 5 MIN
A trip through an empty farmhouse becomes a poignant
journey in discovering the artifacts of families who lived
there before.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Brasil Bam Bam Bam
The Story of Sonzeira
CHARLIE INMAN, BENJAMIN HOLMAN
BRAZIL, UK, USA // 75 MIN // $12
Friday 4-17 // 11:30 PM // Logan Theatre 3
Muddy Waters is considered the “father of modern
Chicago blues,” but his impact has been global. In honor
of what would have been Waters’ 100th birthday comes
a timely reprise of the 2003 “American Experience”
landmark film made by author/filmmaker Robert Gordon and director Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from
Stardom). The film features never-before-seen archival
footage as well as candid interviews with Chuck D, BB
King, Bonnie Raitt and many others. (With Q&A)
Presented in conjunction with Lake FX Summit + Expo.
P r e s e nt e d by
US PREMIERE
Come Worry with Us!
HELENE KLODAWSKY // CANADA // 81 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 8:00 PM // Society for Arts
Join globetrotting DJ, producer, and label owner Gilles
Peterson as he ventures to Rio de Janeiro to fulfill a
dream of making a record with some of Brazil’s most
revered artists - including Seu Jorge, Elza Soares, and
Ed Motta - while soaking up history and street culture in
the home of samba, bossa nova, and baile funk.
PLAYING WITH:
THE HIDDEN CAMERAS // “CARPE JUGULAR” // MV
KAI STÄNICKE // GERMANY // 5 MIN
The dance floor is a battlefield as everybody’s getting their
groove on, and their asses kicked in this hybrid nightclub/
Fight Club.
Violinist Jessica Moss and singer/guitarist Efrim
Menuck of the critically acclaimed band Thee Silver
Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, weigh complicated
choices when they must decide to bring their young son,
Ezra on tour with them. Financially squeezed by a downloading generation as well as trying to buck the music
industry’s restrictive culture has never been more difficult
for the musicians to make a living on the road. Against
these odds, Moss and Menuck along with fellow band
members Sophie Trudeau, Thierry Amar and Dave
Payant maintain their integrity and core values while
striving for financial success.
PLAYING WITH:
THE SOIL & THE SUN // “LEVIATHAN” // MV
BRYAN RACINE // USA // 5 MIN
Recorded live in their tour bus, the Soil & the Sun unleash “Leviathan,” an epic rocker from their 2014 album
Meridian. Produced by Audiotree.
FEATURE FICTION
WORLD PREMIERE
Abby Singer Songwriter
ONUR TUKEL // USA // 73 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 2:00 PM // Logan Thtr 1
In the mid ‘90s, Jamie Block was a bona fide indie rock star, riding a fleeting wave of fame all the way to
a major label deal with Capitol Records. While his brand of anti-folk music made him a critical darling, the label
dropped him after album sales failed to meet expectations. Under pressure to provide for his young family, Block did
a 180 and became a Wall Street stockbroker. 15 years and one divorce later, he records a new album and meets
hapless filmmaker Onur Tukel, who persuades him to sink all of his savings into a series of increasingly absurd music
videos to promote his comeback. Abby Singer Songwriter is a hilariously original experiment in hybrid filmmaking,
blurring the line between real life & fiction (with hallucinatory music videos in between). (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
SABERS // “MONEY EDDIE” // MV // JIM SIKORA // USA // 5 MIN
A visually striking pop confection of a music video for jangly Chicago indie rock band Sabers.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
AMY CAMPIONE // USA // 81 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 6:15 PM // Society for Arts
What happens when your (public) private social
media information catches the eye of a really interesting guy? Well, if he’s a good looking, exciting,
well-connected A&R guy who introduces you to
all the coolest bands in town, you fall in love... that
is, until you find out how he came to pursue you.
SAM KRETCHMAR // USA // 105 MIN // $12
Thursday 4-16 // 9:45 PM // Logan Thtr 3
After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his
long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in
a car accident many years prior. His online search leads
him to her younger sister, an aspiring musician who bears
a striking resemblance to his first love. Quickly becoming
obsessed, he arranges a not-so-chance meeting and a
relationship blossoms between the two before he has a
chance to disclose his true identity. In his directorial debut,
Chicago-native Sam Kretchmar (who also co-wrote &
shot the film) paints an intimate portrait of a relationship
based on deceit. Featuring original music and performances by singer-songwriter Gabbi McPhee, Keep in
Touch is a film about love, family, and finding self-worth.
(With Q&A)
American Girl
PLAYING WITH:
FIRST AID KIT // “MASTER PRETENDER”//MV
KYLE COGAN // USA // 4 MIN
Follow the whimsical adventures of the Söderberg
sisters, a Swedish folk rock duo as dolphins,
spaceships, and the Statue of Liberty all make
appearances.
BROKE JUKE // SHORT DOC
ANTHONY E. CABRAL // USA // 5 MIN
Struggling to comfort his regular customer with the
loss of her husband, a bartender repeatedly plays
their song on a jukebox that no longer works. This
Chicago-shot film touches upon music as a calming escape from grief’s haunting silence.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Porch Stories
SARAH GOODMAN // CANADA // 73 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 12:00 PM // Logan Theatre 3
Each of the three tales in writer-director Sarah Goodman’s
thought-provoking comedy/drama is spun from a different
porch in the same multicultural neighborhood. The common thread is how life’s unpredictable twists and turns
can make us rethink even our most cherished goals and
relationships. Emma (Sarah Barrett) is focused on her
upcoming wedding when an old friend (Jose Miguel Contreras) drops by; an elderly Portuguese husband and wife
Keep In Touch
PLAYING WITH:
ELEGY // SHORT FICTION
RAPHAËL OUELLET // CANADA // 12 MIN
Teenager Camille channels all of her angst into her
cello as she practices for the most important concert
of her young life. The spare storytelling style plus an incredible performance from the young actress prevails
in this personal tale of family and loss.
bitterly face the prospect of dissolving their marriage;
and a brother and sister plot their path to becoming
rock superstars with reckless abandon. Filmed in
black-and-white underscores the emotional impact of
Goodman’s film.
PLAYING WITH:
THE SOIL & THE SUN // “ARE YOU?” // MV
BRYAN RACINE // USA // 6 MIN
Michigan freak folksters, the Soil & the Sun perform
their beautiful music live from a CLIFF! Cliff ... cliff ... in
the Texas desert. Produced by Audiotree.
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MIDWEST PREMIERE
Rain the Color Blue with a Little
Red in It (Akounak Tedalat
Taha Tazoughai)
CHRISTOPHER KIRKLEY // USA/NIGER
75 MIN // $12
Friday 4-17 // 11:25 PM // Logan Theatre 1
Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to Purple
Rain. Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and
reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language
(which has no word for “purple,” hence the title).a Resplendent in a purple robe and matching chopper, smoking
hot guitarist Mdou Moctar arrives in a music-mad Niger
town and sets about wooing a local beauty, clashing with
his pious father, and fencing with the jealous king of the
local scene (Kader Tanoutanoute, as wily and dapper
as Morris Day) until their climactic six-string shootout.
PLAYING WITH:
CHOP MY MONEY // SHORT DOC
THEO ANTHONY // CONGO // 13 MIN
Filmed on location in the Congo, a hallucinatory blend of
narrative, documentary, and music video gets inside the
heads of three badass street kids, who also co-scripted
the film. Featuring the music of Montreal-based musician
Dirty Beaches.
SHORTS
PROGRAMS
“More Than a Hobby”
SHORTS PROGRAM 1 // 100 MIN // $12
Saturday 4-18 // 12:00 PM // Society for Arts
These films are all character driven in many different ways
– some by their passions, desires and obsessions, others
by big scary dogs and the need to consume magic potions from the rear end of a large beetle. Yes, you read that
right. It’s about to get weird.
CHOP MY MONEY
THEO ANTHONY, USA
PINK AVALANCHE - “YOUR COLLAPSE”
KATE KAPUZA & MOLLY MCCANDLESS, USA
PLAYING GAMES
HANNAH WELEVER, USA
ELEGY
RAPHAËL OUELLET, CANADA
PURE
KARIM HUU DO, UK
CAKES DA KILLA
JA’TOVIA GARY, USA
THE PEACH KINGS - “MOJO THUNDER”
BENJY BROOKE, USA
SMALL INSTRUMENTS
EDYTA WROBLEWSKA, POLAND
ANDANTE
GAVIN CARVER, UK
CHICAGO PREMIERE
Teenage Ghost Punk
MIKE CRAMER // USA // 99 MIN // $12
Friday 4-17 // 9:15 PM // Logan Theatre 3
When a family moves from rural Michigan to a Victorian
home near Chicago, strange things start happening.
Creepy noises. Unexplained messes. Old punk rock albums go missing. Suspecting the house is haunted, they
hire a wacky medium and a team of bumbling paranormal investigators to help, but teenage daughter Amanda
discovers on her own that the house is haunted by the
ghost of a 17-year-old punk guitarist named Brian, and
his fun-loving band of dead pals. Amanda and Brian form
a friendship that soon veers toward romance, but the
past collides with the present. (With Q&A)
PLAYING WITH:
ARCHIE POWELL & THE EXPORTS // “HOLES” // MV
BRYAN RACINE // USA // 3 MIN
Level up with an arcade-inspired music video for Chicago
rock roustabouts Archie Powell & The Exports. Produced
by Audiotree.
“Hello, It’s Me”
SHORTS PROGRAM 2 // 100 MIN // $12
Sunday 4-19 // 12:00 PM // Society for Arts
Yes, it’s you! All of the shorts in this program feature vibrant, unusual characters declaring their existence.
SOVEREIGN PAPERWORK
LALA SEVERI, URUGUAY
MARY IN THE LOCKER ROOM
JAMIESON PEARCE, AUSTRALIA
FIRST AID KIT- “MASTER PRETENDER”
KYLE COGAN, USA
TODD WHO?
GAVIN BOND, AUSTRALIA
BROKE JUKE
ANTHONY CABRAL, USA
SPOKE
HENRY HORENSTEIN, USA
THE FALL FOUR: SIREN SONG
KYLE COGAN, USA
SHOWFOLK
NED MCNEILAGE, USA
(with Q&A )
CHANGE
THURS APRIL 16
Miss Alex White Presents:
Digital Leather, Mac Blackout, The
Holy Motors, The Mongrels
Thursday, 4-16 // Township
Doors: 8:00 PM / 9:00 PM Show
$10 advance / $12 door
Miss Alex White, founder of Missile X Records,
is a Chicago musician whose current group,
White Mystery, has played with Shonen Knife,
the Stooges, and Weezer. This program presents headliner Digital Leather, the long-running
brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Shawn Foree.
Digital Leather’s quirky blend of lo-fi synth-wave
and indie punk is disarmingly catchy, capturing
the essence of the ‘80s dance scene. The group’s
newest album, All Faded, is set for release through
FDH Records in June. Mac Blackout, a visual
artist and musician, is also featured.
LIVE MUSIC
Liam Hayes, Thomas Comerford,
and Robbie Skye
Thursday, 4-16 // The Hideout
Doors: 8:30 PM / 9:00 PM Show // $12 advance / $15 door // 21+
Three eclectic performers join forces for this showcase. Liam Hayes is
often compared to Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach. His mastery
of 1960s influences is evident throughout his six albums and his score
for a Roman Coppola film. Thomas Comerford followed his folky
debut Archive + Spiral with II, a darker effort that draws from Bowie,
country, and the 1970s. Robbie Skye creates glam-infused power pop
on his debut Love Where You Live that evokes Marc Bolan.
Yakuza & Rabble Rabble
HALFMOON MAD
Fort Knox Showcase:
Phosphene, AudioBakery,
Halfmoon Mad
Thursday, 4-16 // Martyrs’
Doors: 8:00 PM / 9:00 PM Show // $8 advance/
$10 door
Fort Knox, a music incubator operating a music
rehearsal and recording studio facility on Chicago’s north side, presents a showcase of local
artists. Female-fronted pop-metal rockers, Phosphene, lead the way for this showcase. With
various endorsements under their belt, including
Voodoo Amps and Truth Custom Drums, this
group is immensely popular in the Chicago area.
Phosphene’s motto is that, “sometimes things
fall apart so better things come together.” Local
powerhouses AudioBakery and Halfmoon Mad
will also be performing.
Thursday, 4-16 // Burlington
8:00 PM // $8 advance / $10 door // 21+
Two adventurous hard rock bands comprise this showcase. Yakuza
has grown accustomed to venturing far beyond the metal genre’s
boundaries on albums like Transmutations. That includes bringing an
unbridled energy to a cover of jazz icon John Coltrane’s “Seraphic
Light.” The coed quartet Rabble Rabble forges its own brand of rock
with punk and psychedelia on albums like Brain Hole, and it will be
armed with several new songs for this event.
The Soft Moon and Population
Thursday, 4-16 // Empty Bottle
Doors: 9:00 PM / 10:00 PM Show // $10
Led by mastermind Luis Vasquez, Oakland, California’s The
Soft Moon specializes in a mad, sensual fusion of psychedelia,
Krautrock, post-punk, and dark wave. The band’s appearance
at CIMMfest comes just before the release of its upcoming third
album, Deeper (Captured Tracks) and subsequent U.S. and
European tours.
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The Right Now, Zaramela
Thursday, 4-16 // Double Door
Doors: 7:30 PM / 8:00 PM Show
$12 advance / $15 / 21+
Having recently signed with Shotwell Booking, this 7-piece
Chicago soul & pop outfit has been busy with two albums
and an impressive list of appearances and opening stints for
artists John Legend and Bettye Lavette. Now with recent song
placements on TV shows and in the multi-million selling video
game Watch Dogs, their success continues to flourish. Their
on-stage energy and elegantly raw performances are sure to
get you on your feet.
CIMMfest & Reggie’s Present:
Bullfights On Acid, Ars Nova,
and Steady Flow
Thursday, 4-16 // Reggie’s Music Joint
8:00 PM // $5 // 21+
Named after a line from the movie Caddyshack, local
groove-rockers Bullfights On Acid are a somewhat recent
addition to the Chicago music community, having formed a few
short years ago. The band takes influence from a variety of
sounds, but will most likely appeal to jam band, psych, and
improv aficionados.
FRIDAY APRIL 17
The Bright Light Social Hour
Friday, 4-17 // Empty Bottle
Doors: 8:00 PM / 9:00 PM Show // $10
THE CLAUDETTES
Hailing from Austin, Texas, award-winning The Bright Light Social
Hour specializes in a feel-good fusion of southern rock, psych,
and neo-soul, making
it a popular choice for
large-scale festivals
(including Lollapalooza 2013). The
four-piece comes to
CIMMfest just after the
release of its second
full-length, Space
is Still the Place on
Frenchkiss Records.
The Claudettes, The Cell
Phones, Lonesome Still
Friday, 4-17 // Emporium
Doors: 8:00 PM / 9:00 PM Show // FREE // 21+
Playing ragtime and blues with a punk rock attitude, The
Claudettes create a high-octane sound that’s both wildly impassioned and tightly controlled. Recently added
singer/dancer Yana rounds out the group nicely, expanding its previously instrumental-only repertoire. The Cell
Phones take elements of punk, girl group, New Wave,
R&B, and more, mix it all together and distill it into an
eclectic, chaotic sound that everyone from metalheads
to bubblegum pop fans love. Lonesome Still opens.
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CIMMfest & Reggie’s
Present:
Possessed by Paul James,
J.P. Harris & The Tough
Choices, Pale Green Stars
Friday, 4-17 // Reggie’s Music Joint
8:00 PM // $12 advance / $15 doors // 21+
Talk about possessed, Konrad Wert is…in the way we like
our music! He’s a one-man-band from Texas performing under
the moniker Possessed by Paul James. With an arsenal of
instruments including banjo, fiddle, guitar, and stomp-box his
arrangements will hook you with thoughtful song writing that
encompasses country, folk, bluegrass, punk and blues—and we
promise his spirit won’t be exorcised…
Also featured: J.P. Harris & The Tough Choices play Country-Goddamned-Music-Period/Syracuse-based PALE GREEN
STARS redefine gut-bucket twang with a punkadelic cutting
edge that’s as sharp as a barbershop straight razor.
Rosa’s Presents: John Primer
Friday, 4-17 // Rosa’s Lounge
Doors: 8:00 PM / 9:30 PM Show
$15 advance / $20 door
As the title of his critically acclaimed Atlantic Records CD suggests, John Primer is truly “The Real Deal.” The Grammy Award
and Blues Music Award nominee does not mess around. At 70
years old he’s been playing the blues for over five decades —
hard to believe, but he started with a homemade guitar built on
his kitchen wall with a broom wire, two nails, and two rocks — to
make it tight before he was eight! Primer was instantly hooked
with the sounds of Jimmy Reed, Little Milton, and Muddy Waters
and easily fills their shoes as one of the greats. As a song of
his soulfully cries, “Keep On Loving the Blues”…it would be our
pleasure, John Primer!
Shotwell Booking
Presents:
Bailiff, Sidewalk Chalk, My
Gold Mask, Jamaican Queens,
Smoker, Fess Grandiose
Friday, 4-17 // Double Door
Doors: 8:00 PM
9:00 PM Show // $15 // 21+
Shotwell Booking is a boutique
agency dedicated to artists that
create rare and interesting music.
This show is headlined by none
other than Chicago’s own Bailiff,
who draws influences from everything from Native American
chants to West African blues
and distills that into a bass-heavy
blues rock with a wickedly catchy
electro-pop hook. This show also includes Siouxsie-esque group
My Gold Mask, funk band Sidewalk Chalk, psychedelic rockers
Smoker, Detroit-based trop goths Jamaican Queens, and DJ
Fess Grandiose.
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
D Bess and Byzantine Time Machine
Friday, 4-17 // Martyrs’ // 9:00PM // $17 advance / $20
Formed by refugees displaced to Guinea by the Sierra Leone
Civil War, the Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have won the
hearts of audiences around the world for their traditional West
African sounds and global spirit, as well as their dedication
to raising awareness for humanitarian causes (including the
ongoing Ebola crisis). The group was the subject of 2005 documentary, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, and counts the
likes of Sir Paul McCartney and Ice Cube among its fans.
Vapors of Morphine, Bad Bad
Hats, Strange Relations
Friday, 4-17 // Abby Pub // 11:00 PM // $10
Strange Relations 9:00 PM, Bad Bad Hats 10:00 PM,
Vapors of Morphine 11:00 PM
Clearance, The Velveteens,
The Hecks, Blizzard Babies
Friday, 4-17 // Burlington
Doors: 8:00 PM / 9:00 PM Show
$10 advance / $12 // 21+
Clearance is an independent, four-member rock band based
out of Chicago. With songs full of lively guitar riffs and an upbeat cadence, Clearance can most accurately be described
as vivacious. This group is sure to be a fun experience. Their
album, Catalogue Nos. (CS), is available at bandcamp.com.
From the ashes of the band Morphine - whose story is
told in the CIMMfest featured film, Morphine: Journey of
Dreams – rose Vapors of Morphine, featuring surviving
members Jerome Dupree and Dana Colley, plus New
Orleans musician Jeremy Lyons. Long a staple of the
Boston music scene, the band expands on Morphine’s
original low-rock sound, adding elements of African
music, Delta Blues and noise rock. With Minneapolis
upbeat indie pop trio Bad Bad Hats and Minneapolis
mates Strange Relations.
Please join us after the screening of the feature documentary Morphine: Journey of Dreams (7pm-9:15pm) at
the Logan Theater for this very special concert.
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Cruising Tracks /
Slo ‘Mo Dance Party
Friday, 4-17 // The Hideout
Doors: 8:00 PM / 9:00 PM // $8 advance// $10 doors
Serocene, a cabaret-style drag show, created by Jordan Arsenault, headlines CIMMfest’s Cruising Tracks.
An outspoken voice for the queer community, Arsenault
uses movement, music, and animation to convey his personal experiences with contracting HIV, body dysmorphia
and childhood trauma in the hopes of bringing awareness
to queer issues and enlightening others. Donzelle, Lyra
Hill, and Blair Bogin round out this program with their
fascinating, interpretive performances. (see p 9)
FOLLOWED BY:
DJ SNEAK
DJ Sneak, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter
Friday, 4-17 // Metro
9:00 PM Show // $26 advanced / $31 doors // 21+
A pioneering figure in Chicago’s second wave of house music,
DJ Sneak (Carlos Sosa) remains one of the genre’s most
celebrated artists. World-renowned DJ and musician Mark
Farina honed his craft in Chicago before becoming a major
player in San Francisco’s dance music scene with his signature “Mushroom Jazz” style. Coming of age in the city’s underground dance community during the 1990s, house music
legend Derrick Carter is inextricably tied to Chicago music
history and the global electronic music scene.
Ticket includes access to Smart Bar with: Phuture/DJ Pierre/
Michael Serafini/Garrett David
Slo ‘Mo, slow jams for homos (and their fans), is Chicago’s
party for lovers hosted by Kristen Kaza with grooves by DJs
Tess and Audio Jack, spinning Anita Baker, Sade, Frank
Ocean, Prince, and more. Slo ‘Mo does regular sets at Logan
Square’s the Whistler the third Thursday of every month as well
as Satellite Slo ‘Mos hosted throughout Chicago. Slo ‘Mo welcomes people of all identities, bodies, and expressions uniting
under the equal opportunistic style of soul music.
Hank Shocklee Showcase:
Hank Shocklee / Bomb Squad, Searchl1te,
Striz, DJ Warp, MC ZULU, Liviu Pasare of
Stoptime Live
Friday, 4-17 // 1st Ward // 10:00 PM // $15
The supreme being of the rap world, and legendary producer of the hip-hop group Public Enemy, Salt-N-Pepa,
Ice Cube, and Bell Biv DeVoe, Hank Shocklee headlines
this amazing all-star event. He’ll get a little help from
his friends by some of the world’s most influential DJs
including Searchl1te, Striz, DJ Warp and MC ZULU.
Rat Hammer, The Gnar Wave Rangers,
Shiloh, The Joy Kills
Friday, 4-17 // Moe’s // 9:00 PM // 21+ // $5 at door only
Four-man punk powerhouse Rat Hammer headlines
the party at Moe’s Tavern Friday night. Want to get hammered? This is most definitely the way to go. Also performing are funk-punk heroes The Gnar Wave Rangers
and neo-soul alternacore darlings Shiloh. The Joy Kills
round out the show nicely with an unforgettable psychpunk smack-down.
CRUISING TRACKS - DONZELLE
Funkfest Chicago & CIMMfest
Present: The Magic Beans, EGi,
Business as Usual
Friday, April 17 / Subterranean // Doors at 8:30 PM //
$10 // 17+
Harmonica Dunn ‘s 2-day Funk Fest joins CIMMfest .
The Magic Beans are genre-bending masters of good
times. They combine Americana, funk, rock, and
electronica into one distinct sound, and oftentimes in
the same song, seamlessly.
EGi run the gamut from funk to bluegrass, hip-hop to
metal and progressive rock. Their live performances are
epic and unique, dripping in energy. Business As Usual,
a Chicago-based, four-piece produces an original blend
of rock, electronica, funk, dub and bits of ska.
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CIMMfest & Reggie’s Present:
The Suicide Machines, Break Anchor,
Bastardous, Derek Grant, All Eyes West
Friday, 4-17 // Reggie’s Rock Club
7:00 PM // $18 advance / $20 doors // 17+
The Suicide Machines formed in 1991 in Detroit under
the original name Jack Kevorkian and The Suicide
Machines, but these guys won’t be putting anyone to
sleep at least not the ska/punk crowd! Though they officially broke up in 2009, their occasional reunion shows
(including a blistering secret-show appearance at Riot
Fest 2011) eventually blossomed into a full-blown reunion.
For CIMMfest, they will play their 1996 classic album, Destruction by Definition, in its entirety. Also featured:
SATURDAY APRIL 18
Chicago Mixtape Presents:
Santah, Pet Lions, Weatherman
Saturday, 4-18 // The Hideout
9:00 PM // $10 // 21+
Chicago Mixtape is a local institution presenting the
eternally sunny disposition of Santah, the infectious indie
pop songs of Pet Lions, and the experimental pop duo,
Weatherman.
Funkfest Chicago & CIMMfest
Present: Get Up With The Get
Downs, Nasty Snacks, Cole
DeGenova, Charles Walker Band
Saturday, April 18 // Subterranean Subterranean //
Doors 8:00 PM // $15 day of // 17+
Harmonica Dunn ‘s 2-day Funk Fest joins CIMMfest
Four funky, soulful acts bring their magic: eight-piece,
Get Up With The Get Downs perform deep cuts from the
Golden Age of Funk, and work the crowd into a dance
frenzy; reminiscent of Kool & the Gang, and Earth, Wind
& Fire, Nasty Snacks work the horns and blistering R&B
grooves; pianist, vocalist and composer Cole DeGenova
works his eclectic artistic sensibility; while the soulful
fusion of funk, R&B and Motown that the Charles Walker
Band works, truly amazes.
GET UP WITH THE GET DOWNS
Thalia Hall & CIMMfest
Present: Lisa Fischer
LISA FISCHER
Saturday, 4-18 // Thalia Hall // 7:00 PM
*Choose this event with CIMMfest or VIP Pass only
CIMMfest is proud to present Grammy Award-winning
vocalist Lisa Fischer. Following her early solo success in
the 1990s, Fischer established herself as one of the hottest
backup singers around, performing in sessions and touring
internationally with The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, and Luther Vandross, among others. Fischer previously appeared
onscreen at CIMMfest as a featured artist in the 2013, Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom.
ChicagoMusic.Org Presents:
Elle Casazza, Scotch Hollow, Fletcher,
The Damn Choir, Matthew Santos
Saturday, 4-18 // Martyrs’
7:00 PM // $10
ELLE CASAZZA
ChicagoMusic.Org is the hub for Chicago’s vibrant music
communities, providing a look into Chicago’s music
scene through the eyes of a local. This show presents
headliner Elle Casazza, a singer who has the ability to
make you dance throughout the night with her sultry,
powerful sound. Playing on the same stage as her will
be other great acts such as Scotch Hollow, an acoustic roots band from Nashville; the quirky Brit-rock trio
Fletcher; The Damn Choir; and lastly, two time Grammy
nominated indie artist Matthew Santos.
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F R E E
S T U F F
CIMMfest is proud to be a co-producer of the inaugural Lake FX Summit + Expo, a free conference
for artists, creative professionals and entrepreneurs, April 16-19, 2015. Lake FX includes a series of
free evening showcases in Hyde Park, Pilsen, West Town, Logan Square and Uptown.
CIMMfest CURATED EVENTS:
•Lake FX Kick-off Showcase
Performers Next Generation, The Fox & The Hounds and Lili K. with live projections by Liviu Pasare of Stoptime
Live
Thursday, April 16 at 8 pm, The Mid
•Buster Keaton Goes to Bollywood
A live score performed by Saraswathi Ranganathan and New Millennium Orchestra’s Dominic Johnson (p 8)
Friday, April 17 at 7 pm, 1st Ward
•Synergies
A large-scale video installation featuring Chicago-based artists and filmmakers with a live music performance
by Modern Tapes recording artist Froe Char
Friday, April 17 at 7 pm, Chicago Art Department
•Can’t be Satisfied
In honor of Muddy Waters’ 100th Birthday, Robert Gordon’s documentary Can’t be Satisfied: The Life and
Times of Muddy Waters (p 15)
Friday, April 17 at 7 pm, Harper Theater in Hyde Park
•Revenge of The Mekons
A documentary chronicling the unlikely story of radical British art students who formed in the first blast of punk
rock in 1977! Q&A with director Joe Angio, Jon Langford and Sally Timms follows (p 21)
Friday, April 17 at 6:45 pm, Logan Theatre
•Sones de México Ensemble Chicago
An original live score of the 1930s ¡Que Viva México! (p 8)
Saturday, April 18 at 7 pm, The National Museum of Mexican Art
•Almost There
Kartemquin Films-produced documentary by Aaron Wickenden and Dan Rybicky about “outsider” artist Peter
Anton (p 14)
Saturday, April 18 at 8:15 pm, Logan Theatre
CI M MCON SU M M IT AT L A K E F X
•Revenge of The Mekons
Director Joe Angio, musician Jon Langford and Music Box Films’ Brian Andreotti will talk about the making of
the film and distribution.
Friday, April 17 at 1:30 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center
•Sound Recording & Scoring for Film
Leslie Ann Jones, Director of Music Recording and Scoring at Skywalker Sound, speaks on her incredible
career and shares her expertise on recording orchestras for film as well as scoring for video games.
Saturday, April 18 at 12 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center
Pres ented by
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Comfort Station is a multidisciplinary art space whose mission is to
present challenging and stimulating programming that is open and
accessible to everyone. CIMMfest and Comfort Station will present a
series of free films, music videos and music, throughout the festival.
Schedule and times will posted @ http://www.comfortstationlogansquare.org/ and CIMMfest,org/comfortstation
Yximalloo
TADHG O’SULLIVAN / IRELAND
76 MIN
Friday, April 4, 17 / 8:00 PM
Comfort Station / FREE
Naofumi Yximalloo Ishimaru is an obscure cult
musician from Japan who has spent most of his 57
years on the fringes of music and society. This portrait captures the extreme dichotomy of a man who
becomes frantic and eccentric when he’s performing
his music, and then a terribly difficult personality in
his private life. Discover Ishimaru and his true masterpiece music, and probably the biggest opportunity the artist has ever had at being discovered.
Live from UB
LAUREN KNAPP/MONGOLIA/84MIN
Sunday, April 12 / 6 PM
Comfort Station / FREE
A profile of hard rock in Mongolia set in the
capital city, Ulaanbaatar (UB). Live from UB
tells the story of how urban Mongolians have
used rock music to overcome the powers of
soviet-style socialism, Orientalism, and globalization for the past three decades. Featuring
Altan Urag, Mohanik, and Nisvanis.
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CIMMfest’s Official
Record Store Day Wrap Party
The Gomers Live Karaoke, Gramps the
Vamp, Nooky Jones
Saturday, 4-18 // Emporium
9:00 PM // $8 advance / FREE // 21+
CIMMfest is happy to present our official Record Store
Day Wrap-up Party that celebrates the culture of independent record stores with The Gomers for a little Live
Band Karaoke. The Gomers are a Madison, Wisconsin
based comedy rock/experimental rock band that has
a holiday named after them in Madison (February 1st).
The Gomers take their name from the television series
“Gomer Pyle.” They’ll play a set of Devo covers after the
film, Hardcore Devo, Live!
Rosa’s Presents: Jimmy Burns
Saturday, 4-18 // Rosa’s Lounge
Doors: 8:00 PM / 10:00 PM // $10 advance / $20
What do you get when you combine Delta roots with R&B
and soul? You come up with the unique sounds of Jimmy
Burns. His charismatic performances--expressive, soulful
voice and a melodic guitar style--are unmatched. With a
keen sense of his musical heritage, Burns has created an
upbeat style that has won critical acclaim as an award
winning American soul blues and electric blues guitarist,
and a singer-songwriter. When you hear “Leaving Here
Walking,” you’ll know why it was a hit right out of the gate
and why you are at Rosa’s Lounge.
NE-HI, Tweens, Trin Tran
Saturday, 4-18 // Empty Bottle
Doors: 8:00PM / 9:00 PM // $10
NE-HI’s guitar-driven indie rock calls to memory pleasantly nostalgic images of Chicago backyard rock shows
and sweaty DIY basement spaces. The Cincinnati-based
Tweens’ power-pop tinged punk has captured fans across
the country after The Breeders took them out as openers
on their recent tour. Electro magician Trin Tran combines
the garage-rock background of his native Madison, WI with
New Wave influences into modernist disco-punk.
THE GOMERS
Twin Cousins Records Presents:
Goodwolf, Bishops, Coyotes in Boxes, Ona,
Tyler Childers, J Marinelli, William Matheny,
Nights and Weekends
Saturday, 4-18 // Burlington
Doors: 7:00 PM / 8:00 PM // $10 adv / $12 door // 21+
Twin Cousin Records is a small label that’s new to the
scene, hailing from West Virginia. They present a noteworthy collection of acts headlined by Goodwolf, a nod to ‘90s
grunge era music. Goodwolf frontman Tyler Grady has a
knack for taking disgruntling life experiences and spinning
them into pure gold. Also performing are Bishops, Coyotes
in Boxes, Ona, J Marinelli, Tyler Childers, and William
Matheny. The show boasts a wide range of sounds from
garage rock (Bishops) to country (Tyler Childers) to a oneman punk explosion (J Marinelli).
J MARINELLI
The Luck of Eden Hall, WaxWorks,
Chicago Semisweet
Saturday, 4-18 // Moe’s // 9:00 PM // 21+ // $5 at door only
Saturday night’s mega party is hosted by Moe’s Tavern with
performances from The Luck of Eden Hall, WaxWorks,
and Chicago Semiswzeet. As the headliner of this event,
The Luck of Eden Hall will be transporting you to happiness with a psychedelic pop party akin to something like
jamming out on Saturn. WaxWorks will take you back to
real rock with their 60s inspired musical time machine and
Chicago Semisweet will make you wish you were sipping a
drink on the bayou with their sweet, sweet soul.
Hank Green, Driftless Pony Club, Harry and
the Potters, Rob Scallon, Andrew Huang
Saturday, 4-18 // Metro
Doors: 5:00 PM // $21 advance / $23 door / ALL AGES
Known for his YouTube channel VlogBrothers, Hank Green
is an accomplished musician, touring the country with his
almost-but-not-quite rap styled tunes. Driftless Pony Club
describe themselves as “midwestern indie rock that was
semi-popular in the 90s when it was called college rock.”
Nerd rockers Harry and the Potters give any budding witch
or warlock a run for their money with their magical beats
and wizardly lyrics. Chicago artist Rob Scallon is an accomplished guitar player with lightning fingers and songs full of
complicated riffs. Andrew Huang is a new media artist who
integrates his love for music, video and audience participation into a single, fascinating show.
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SUNDAY APRIL 19
Todd Snider
Sunday, 4-19 // City Winery Chicago // 8:00 PM
*Only available with Fest Pass reservation
Singer-songwriter Todd Snider has been making audiences smile since the mid-1990s when he released the
satirical, “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues.” His work
continues to reflect his outsider point-of-view, leftwing
politics, and good nature, most recently in his 2014
memoir I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like.
Get Off The Couch
at CIMMfest:
DICKIE (Dick Prall), Frances Luke Accord, FEE LION, Laura Joy
Sunday, 4-19 // The Hideout
6:00 PM doors / 7:00 PM Show // $8
GET OFF THE COUCH (GOTC), hosted at The Hideout
Inn, is Chicago’s longest running singer/songwriter showcase for area artists. Performed Nashville-style, it’s typically held on the first Sunday of every month and hosted
by Sam Wahl. Now GOTC and CIMMfest are bringing the
show to you with headliner DICKIE (Dick Prall) and other
showcase artists Frances Luke Accord, FEE LION, Laura
Joy, and special guest host Myles Hayes.
CIMMfest Presents:
Local H, Fig Dish
LOCAL H
Sunday, 4-19 // Metro // 7:00 PM
$13 advance / $15 door // ALL AGES
This heavy-hitting rock band has been around for over
25 years but they still manage to lend a new sound to
popular favorites, most notably their heavy, guitar-laden
version of Lorde’s “Team.” Their new album, Hey, Killer is
set for release on 4/14/2015. Fig Dish opens.
The Gunshy, Ditches, Andrew Bryant
Through his long-running musical project, The Gunshy,
raspy-throated songwriter Matt Arbogast has been sharing visceral stories through earnest punk anthems and
world-weary folk rock. Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter (and Water Liars co-founder) Andrew Bryant comes
to CIMMfest from Mississippi with stripped-down, southern-tinged rock that bears dual stamps of soulfulness
and humility.
THE GUNSHY
Sunday, 4-19 // Burlington
Doors: 8:00PM / 9:00 PM Show // $8 // 21+
CIMMfest & Reggie’s Present:
Fatbook, Natty Nation and Kevin Kinsella
Sunday, 4-19 // Reggie’s Rock Club
7:00 PM // $12 advance / $15 // 17+
Sunday, 4-19 // Martyrs’ // 7:00 PM // $10 // 21+
Fatbook has a Latino feel with a reggae beat all wrapped
up in a groove that is almost sensual. There are seven
members in this band and it seems as though each one
inserts his personal influence. Natty Nation describes
itself as the “all original hard roots rock reggae band,”
combining the best sounds from both genres. Heavy on
guitar and an old-school reggae drumbeat, this island
sound will be loved by Marley fans.
Jucifer with TBD (check CIMMfest.org)
A metallic tour de force, Gazelle Amber Valentine and
Edgar Livengood are to be reckoned with. Formed in
1993 in Athens, Georgia, the couple has been nomadic for
close to 15 years, touring the country in their Winnebago.
They have amassed a devoted cult following from around
the globe for their sludgy, genre-bending sounds, and
with their dramatic concerts featuring a 28-piece wall of
amps enough to blow over a couple Winnebagos!
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PRODUCING THE FUTURE
THEIR STORIES ARE OUR STORY. WE PRODUCE MORE THAN MOVIES. WE PRODUCE FILMMAKERS.
colum.edu/cinema
RHEA BOZZACCHI (BA ’12)
Director & Writer: vCARD
COLLIN SCHIFFLI (BA ’09)
Director: ANIMALS
Debut feature; winner 2014 SXSW Grand Jury Prize;
winner 2014 Chicago Film Critics Association
Audience Award
Director: Ghostophobia
Second feature (in development)
Debut feature (in production); initially developed
in Columbia College’s Semester in LA program at
Raleigh Studios, Hollywood
Writer: Cheat, Cheat, Bang, Bang: short film for
Fulton Market Films
Intern: Fulton Market Films, Chicago; Hutch
Parker Entertainment, LA; FilmEngine, LA
GARY MICHAEL SCHULTZ (BA ’01)
Director & Writer: VINCENT-N-ROXXY
ROBERT-CARNILIUS (MFA ’15)
Director & Writer: JASPA JENKINS
2014 Student Academy Award finalist (winner
Midwest regional award)
Director & Writer: Pulse
Thesis short film (in production)
Director & Writer: McTucky Fried High
Comedic animated web series (in production)
Unified Pictures production starring Anton Yelchin
and Megalyn Echikunwoke (in production)
Director & Writer: Devil in My Ride (2013)
Multiple award-winner now in wide Video On
Demand release
Co-Producer: Rudderless (2014)
William H. Macy’s feature directing debut starring Billy
Cruddup; premiered at 2014 Sundance Film Festival
Cinema Art + Science
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CIMMfest Announces our
first annual Student Film Competition!
We are excited to extend an invitation to students and recent graduates
to submit their films to CIMMfest No.7, taking place April 16-19, 2015.
JURY:
Steven A. Jones and John McNaughton
(Mad Dog and Glory & Wild Things)
Adam Montgomery
(Senior Manager of Programming, Sundance Film Festival & CIMMfest Programmer)
Andy Markowitz
(Co-founder, MusicFilmWeb.com & CIMMfest Programmer)
Best Film will be awarded $200
Audience Favorite Film will be awarded $100
10 jury selections will be screened during the festival at
Columbia College Chicago. Time and location TBD
WHAT: Short student films in all genres and music videos
WHEN: Submission deadline is April 8, 2015
HOW: cimmfest.org/submit/
SUBMISSION FEE: $30
(*free for Columbia College students - use promo code: COLUMBIA)
For further information, go to CIMMfest.com/studentfilm
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Staff List 2015: CIMMfest No 7
DIRECTORS
Dave Moore // Executive Director
Josh Chicoine // Co-Founder, Artistic Director
Carmine Cervi // Director at Large
Gary Kuzminski // Marketing Director
Film Programming
Adam Montgomery // Director of Film Programming
Andy Markowitz // Specialty Program Director
John Fecile // Film Program Team Coordinator
Nina Wieda // Student Film Competition Coordinator
Rebecca Lavoie // Cruising Tracks Programmer
Promo Videos
Chris Rose, Jack Wensel, Carmine Cervi
Film Program Team
John Fecile, Jon LeVert, Kerry Ambruster, Kevin Podgers,
Nick Allen, Tressa Ferrella, Ryan Claudio
Creative & Web
Joe Delci // Lead Web Developer
Jun Hyung Kwon // Assistant
Vinh Tran // Graphics Director
Patti Corcoran // Program Book Design
Brittany DeBaltz // Program Manager
David Rocco Facchini // Awards Designer
Music Programming
Josh Cannata // Director of Music Programming
Seth Riley // Assistant
Copy Writers and Editors
Steve Karras, Dani McMartin, Jamie Ludwig, Moria Dailey,
Molly Wagner, Tressa Ferrella, Terry Flamm
CIMMcon Programming
Ana Wright // CIMMcon Coordinator
Joelle Ballam-Schawn // Assistant
Public Relations
Rob Walton and Liza Massingberd // Publicists
The Silverman Group
Operations
Sarah Hildreth // Festival Manager
Rondell Merrill // Assistant Director
Jennifer Boylen, Kylie Zermeno // Box Office
Olivia Newcomb, Joshua Conner // Volunteers
Marketing
Ashley Charleson // Assistant Marketing Director;
Tim Butler // Marketing Manager
Tanisha Hemphill // Outreach Project Manager
Sasha Ongtengco, Eric Lauryn // Outreach Coordinators
Marcey Abramovitz, Jackie Alcantara // Music Marketing
Managers
Randall Sawyer // Social Media Manager
Street Team // Mark Harris, Renee Lawson, Larry Biela,
Joshua Conner
Venues
Bruce Krippner // Manager
LeRoy Fields, Joe Ruffner, Mark Harris, Jim A. Cabrera
Hospitality
Maja Henderson // Manager
Michele Rischman, Pete Lemke, Jason Kim, Christine
Hartigan, Chris Walker
Sponsorship
Tony Creed, Anne Bustamante, Jason Felsenthal
Program Illustration
Gary Kuzminski (aka Sir Real Labs)
Photography & Videography
Paolo Cascio, Michael Monar, Chuck Przybyl, Chris Batte,
Jesse Lirola, Jean-Marc Giboux, William Fagiano, Gerri
Fernandez, Vivianne Linou
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INDEX
SPECIAL EVENTS
BADASSSSS Awards......... p.12
Buster Keaton
Goes to Bollywood......p.8, 38
Cruising Tracks ..............p.9, 36
The Docks of New York
Live Score by
Mark Ribot ........................p.6
Feherlofia
Live Score by
Chandeliers...................... p.10
Julien Temple................ p.12, 13
Sones de México Ensemble
Chicago performs
¡Que viva México!........p.8, 38
Sub-Saharan Cinema............20
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
808.................................p.11, 15
American B- Side .............. p.15
As Old As My Tongue ........p.20
Basically,
Johnny Moped ................ p.15
Billy Mize & the
Bakersfield Sound .............p.30
Can’t Be Satisfied ........p.30, 38
Dave Davies:
Kinkdom Come ............... p.13
The Dicks From Texas ....... p.16
The Ecstasy of Wilko
Johnson .......................... p.13
The First Waltz ............... p.7, 17
Hardcore Devo Live! .......... p.17
The Hip-Hop Fellow .......... p.18
I Need a Dodge!
Joe Strummer
on the Run ...................... p.18
I Shot Bi Kidude .................p.20
Jaco ................................... p.18
Killer B3 ..........................p.9, 18
Lee Scratch Perry’s
Vision of Paradise ........... p.18
Morphine: Journey Of
Dreams .................. p.7, 19, 35
Never Release My Fist ...... p.19
Oil City Confidential .......... p.13
The Poet of Havana ........... p.19
The Possibilties
Are Endless......................p.21
Ray Davies:
Imaginary Man ................ p.13
Revenge of
The Mekons ....................p.21
Rio 50 Degrees .................. p.13
The Road to
God Knows Where .........p.21
Rye Coalition:
The Story of
Hard Luck 5 ....................p.21
Sam Lay
In Bluesland ................p.6, 28
Sex & Broadcasting ...........p.28
Shake The Dust .................p.28
Shield and Spear ......... p.14, 20
Sierra Leone’s Refugee
All Stars ............... p.10, 20, 35
That Was Awesome!...........p.29
They Have To
Kill Us First.......................p.20
Theory of Obscurity ..........p.28
The Amazing Mr. Ash ........ p.15
Andante...............................p.32
Cakes da Killa:
No Homo ................... p.18, 32
Christeylez Bacon ............. p.18
Showfolk.............................p.32
Small Instruments..............p.32
Spoke..................................p.32
Todd Who?..........................p.32
Tonita’s ...............................p.21
Truth About Devolution...... p.17
Uncle Essy.......................... p.16
“Your Collapse”......... p.18, 32
Possessed by Paul James “Songs We
Used to Sing”..................p.30
Sabers –
“Money Eddie”.................p.31
Shaman’s Harvest “Dangerous”....................p.29
Sinkane “How We Be”...................p.28
The Fall Four “Siren Song”....................p.32
The Hidden Cameras “Carpe Jugular” ..............p.30
The Peach Kings “Mojo Thunder” ........p.21, 32
the Soil & the Sun “Leviathan”......................p.30
the Soil & the Sun“Are You?” .......................p.31
Throne “Tharsis Sleeps”.............. p.16
Velcro Lewis Group “They’re Having
A Party”............................ p.17
Voice of Englewood “Cold War”.......................p.21
SHORT FICTION
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Tuff Luck ............................p.29
Y/Our Music........................p.29
FEATURE FICTION
Abby Singer
Songwriter ......................p.31
Absolute Beginners ........... p.12
American Girl .....................p.31
Keep In Touch ....................p.31
Porch Stories .....................p.31
Rain the Color Blue
With a Little Red in it.......p.32
Teenage Ghost Punk..........p.32
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
A Short History of Madness
(Une courte histoire
de la folie)......................... p.16
Broke Juke ...................p.31, 32
Chop My Money ................p.32
Elegy ............................p.31, 32
Jump Into My Arms ........... p.18
Mary in the
Locker Room...................p.32
Playing Games.............p.29, 32
Pure .............................. p.15, 32
Sovereign Paperwork.........p.32
MUSIC VIDEOS
Angelo Spencer et les Hauts
Sommets –
“Melatonin and Weed”.... p.16
Archie Powell &
The Exports “Holes” ............................p.32
Black Bananas “Hey Rockin’” ................. p.15
Brenton Wood and
William Pilgrim
& The All Grows Up “Gimme Little Sign” ........p.20
Broken Flowers Project “Dia Desiertos”................ p.19
Dial In - “RHXQ”.................p.29
Donzelle “Libido Macro”................ p.16
Douce Angoisse “The Night of the
Living Dread”...................p.28
First Aid Kit “Master Pretender”....p.31,32
Flakonkishochki feat
Mumiy Troll —
“Кажется”.......................p.28
Gates - “Not My Blood”.....p.21
Lucette - “Bobby Reid”...... p.17
Mines “Hyperovercritical”.......... p.19
Pink Avalanche -
All Eyes West .....................p.37
Andrew Bryant ...................p.41
Andrew Huang ...................p.40
Ars Nova.............................p.34
AudioBakery ......................p.33
Bailiff...................................p.35
Bastardous.........................p.37
Bishops...............................p.40
Blizzard Babies...................p.35
Bomb Squad................. p.11, 36
Break Anchor......................p.37
The Bright Light
Social Hour .....................p.34
Bullfights On Acid ..............p.34
The Cell Phones.................p.34
The Claudettes ..................p.34
Chicago Semisweet ..........p.40
Chris Foreman .....................p.9
Chris Hainey.........................p.7
Clearance............................p.35
Colin Campbell ....................p.7
Coyotes in Boxes................p.40
Cruising Tracks ..............p.9, 36
The Damn Choir ................p.37
D Bess & Bzyantine
Time Machine.................. p.10
Derek Grant........................p.37
Derrick Carter.....................p.36
Dickie (Dick Prall)................p.41
Digital Leather....................p.33
Ditches................................p.41
DJ Sneak............................p.36
DJ Warp......................... p.11,36
Driftless Pony Club.............p.40
Elle Casazza.......................p.37
Emanation.............................p.7
Fatbook ..............................p.41
Fee Lion..............................p.41
Fess Grandiose .................p.35
Fig Dish...............................p.41
Fletcher...............................p.37
Frances Luke Accord.........p.41
The Gnar
Wave Rangers.................p.36
The Gomer’s
Live Karoke ................p.17, 40
Goodwolf............................p.40
The Gunshy.........................p.41
Halfmoon Mad ...................p.33
Hank Green.........................p.40
Hank Shocklee ............ p.11, 36
Harry and the Potters.........p.40
The Hecks...........................p.35
J Marinelli............................p.40
J.P. Harris............................p.35
Jamaican Queens .............p.35
Joy Kills...............................p.36
Jucifer.................................p.41
Laura Joy ...........................p.41
Liam Hayes ........................p.33
Lisa Fischer ........................p.37
Liviu Pasare of
Stoptime Live ............p.36, 38
Local H ...............................p.41
Lonesome Still ...................p.34
The Luck of Eden Hall .......p.40
Mac Blackout .....................p.33
Mark Farina.........................p.36
Matthew Santos ..................p.7
MC Zulu..............................p.36
My Gold Mask ...................p.35
Natty Nation........................p.41
NE-HI .................................p.40
Nora Bratton ........................p.7
Odd River Percussion .........p.7
Ona .....................................p.40
Pale Green Stars ...............p.35
Phosphene..........................p.33
Population ..........................p.33
Possessed by
Paul James......................p.35
Rabble Rabble....................p.33
Rat Hammer.......................p.36
Record Store Day
Wrap-up Party........... p.18, 40
Rob Scallon........................p.40
Robbie Skye.......................p.33
Santah.................................p.37
Scotch Hollow....................p.37
Searchl1te...........................p.36
Send-Off Celebation:
Sam Lay ......................p.6, 28
Shiloh..................................p.36
Sidewalk Chair ...................p.35
Sierra Leone’s
Refugee All Stars ...... p.10, 35
Slo ‘Mo Dance Party .....p.9, 36
Smoker ........................ p.35
The Soft Moon ............ p.33
Steady Flow................. p.34
Strange Relations ....... p.35
Striz.........................p.11, 36
The Suicide Machines.p.37
Thomas Benko............... p.7
Todd Snider ........... p.17, 41
The Tough Choices...... p.35
Trin Tran .............................p.40
Tweens................................p.40
Tyler Childers......................p.40
Vapors of Morphine........ p.7, 35
The Velveteens...................p.35
WaxWorks ..........................p.40
Weatherman ......................p.37
William Matheny ......... p.40
Yakuza.......................... p.33
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