The Cinema Culture

Cinema Advocates. We promote and exhibit the work of film and video artist at various events, host small festivals, and program exclusive shows

rabbitroom: CALLING ALL CINEPHILES: The Chicago Cinema Society is presenting a (seriously, no joke) ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME 35mm double feature screening of Master of the Flying Guillotine and Fist of the White Lotus at the Portage Theater in Chicago next FRIDAY, JUNE 1st. Advance tickets are a TOTALLY RIDICULOUS $9, and tickets will be $13 at the door. In addition to the double feature, Hollywood Theatre (Portland, OR) programmer and archive director of the 35mm Shaolin Archive DAN HALSTED will be in attendance to discuss their collection, preservation efforts and increasing cultural awareness of Kung Fu cinema in America! Follow Chicago Cinema Society on Facebook and check out our website to stay up to date with future events: http://chicagocinemasociety.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Chicago-Cinema-Society/208637469220413 Tickets are available NOW through Eventbrite: http://ccskungfu.eventbrite.com/

rabbitroom:

CALLING ALL CINEPHILES:

The Chicago Cinema Society is presenting a (seriously, no joke) ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME 35mm double feature screening of Master of the Flying Guillotine and Fist of the White Lotus at the Portage Theater in Chicago next FRIDAY, JUNE 1st.

Advance tickets are a TOTALLY RIDICULOUS $9, and tickets will be $13 at the door. In addition to the double feature, Hollywood Theatre (Portland, OR) programmer and archive director of the 35mm Shaolin Archive DAN HALSTED will be in attendance to discuss their collection, preservation efforts and increasing cultural awareness of Kung Fu cinema in America!

Follow Chicago Cinema Society on Facebook and check out our website to stay up to date with future events:
http://chicagocinemasociety.org/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Chicago-Cinema-Society/208637469220413

Tickets are available NOW through Eventbrite: http://ccskungfu.eventbrite.com/

Flood of Life in Marrakech by Simo Ezoubeiri

Video Diary Sketchbook by Lindsay Denniberg

Godard got it exactly backwards. Cinema is not truth 24 times a second, it is lies 24 times a second. Actors are pretending to be people they’re not, in situations and settings which are completely illusory. Day for night, dry for wet, Vancouver for New York, potato shavings for snow. The building is a thin-walled set, the sunlight is a Xenon, and the traffic noise is supplied by the sound designers. It’s all illusion, but the prize goes to those who make the fantasy the most real, the most visceral, the most involving. This sensation of truthfulness is vastly enhanced by the stereoscopic illusion.

—~ James Cameron in 2008 (via directingfilm)