These 8 films from jellystone robinson’s participation in The Filmmaker’s Mixtape Challenge provide a peek into the worlds brewing just beneath the surface of Chicago’s young, black and constantly displaced.
Tyler Michael Balantine Presents…Sunday’s Best
jellystone robinson: Short Films
Sunday, February 22
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Sunday, February 22
2:00pm – Introduction & Shorts Program
3:00pm – Post-Screening Q&A with jellystone robinson
4:00pm – Reception with Food in Studio
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Kids bring to life the ghosts of public housing projects, lovers meet only in dimensions where that thing didn’t happen, and fugitives run across the geography of time. These experimental, no-budget films, each made in under a month, provide an opportunity to wonder about what parts of us might thrive when we sit down perfectionism and tend responsibility to the possibility housed in starting from scratch.
List of Films: (IN ORDER OF PLAY)
poems about the wells 5:56 (July, 2025, jellystone robinson)
Chicago public housing residents attempt to remember their demolished homes.
A Sunday on Blackstone 7:50 (June, 2025, jellystone robinson)
Two potential lovers struggle to connect across time.
Flame N Da Wind – 9:58 (March, 2025, jellystone robinson)
Syn finds themselves in a rideshare with his ex.
Dream Station – 5:00 (May, 2025, jellystone robinson)
Celestine seeks the help of DJ Bonita Appleblunt to remember a forgotten dream.
ENTER JELLYSTONE – 7:39 (April, 2025, jellystone robinson)
A computer uses a human worker to experience being alive.
UDK – 6:00 (September, 2025, jellystone robinson)
To identify himself in the present, Fonzo goes on a journey to locate his past across the many layers of “home” he finds in the Footwork Circle.
Foresight – 6:23 (February, 2025, jellystone robinson)
After experiencing a life changing event, Ominira conjures an alternative.
Outro – 7:10 (December, 2025, jellystone robinson)
The fugitive escapes.
Total Runtime – 49 minutes
jellystone robinson (they/them), is a black, agender digital artist and filmmaker from the Ida B. Wells Extensions projects on the South Side of Chicago. In their creative practice, they are attempting to retrieve ancestral memory, self actualization and prescriptions for communal healing through due diligence, time travel, self expression, love and pleasure. This manifests in their work as a creative producer, curator and historian, friend, lover and citizen of the world. jellystone’s work has screened at Blanc Gallery, the National Public Housing Museum, Sisters in Cinema, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at the Black Harvest Film Festival. They currently work as Assistant Curator and Registrar at the National Public Housing Museum and have just completed Briana Clearly’s Filmmaker’s Mixtape Challenge, a year long experiment in creating one film a month for free.
TYLER MICHAEL BALENTINE PRESENTS… SUNDAY’S BEST
From the programmer of Life Within the Lens at Music Box Theatre, Tyler Michael Balentine brings Sunday’s Best, a Black History Month program featuring short films from local Black filmmakers who are either currently working in Chicago or have done so in recent years.
