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Thursday, April 25
7:00pm – FREE Film Trivia
9:00pm – Sweet Void Delights
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$5 /General Public & Members
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FACETS Film Trivia is back with our classic brand of infotainment quiz show fun, followed up by a very special after-trivia screening of a selection of shorts from Sweet Void Cinema’s monthly festival.
This shorts program is an abridged and handpicked selection of entries from Sweet Void Cinema’s monthly shorts festival. It is a hodgepodge of avant-garde and narrative work from that which is materially created to digitally reconstructed.
Sweet Void Cinema is a production company and microtheater located in Humboldt Park dedicated to making and screening locally made work. They have produced three features and a dozen shorts, and in the past year have screened over three hundred Chicago-made shorts. They also run different workshops ranging from screenwriting, avant-garde and film theory. Currently, the screenwriting workshop takes place in person and virtually on Wednesdays at 6pm and once a month two feature screenplays are given a table-read and critique session. To get in touch about screening requests/programming or for other inquiries, email contact@sweetvoidcinema.com or direct message them on Instagram @sweetvoidcinema.
THE FILMS
Content warnings: Drinking, flashing lights, swearing, near nude SIMs.
Portrait 001: Security Guard by Tanner Masseth (2023, 11 mins)
A security guard ruminates on his life, profession and its history.
Pravda 7 by Jack McCoy (2024, 8 mins)
Narrative formal experiment with a variety of constraints: 57fps, 7 camera pans to the right, 7 whip pans, 7 mid-shot ISO shifts, 7 grapes, 7 pans upward, 7 static shots
Benthos of Synthetic Suns by Kelly Xi (Ongoing, 20 mins)
Kelly Xi (MFA 2023) uses light and glass to cultivate community with life-supporting microorganisms, creating habitats for bacteria, fungi, and algae within her neon sculptures.
Window(s) by Craig Hard (2023, 9 mins)
Two window washers, on a long summer day off, have no obligations conversations. An open linen shirt, heat wave, kind of slog. Like a slow-moving cigarette on the stoop.
Green Lights by Jason Nimako (2018, 13 mins)
James, a driver, picks up two passengers. One is a crush from his past and the other is her boyfriend.
Dick Gregory Was Right About Everything by Raphael Jose Martinez (2024, 5 mins)
Juxtaposing photojournalistic images from the racially charged riots of the summer of 2020 with quotidian footage of those same locations now, Dick Gregory speaks from the grave reminding us that not enough has changed in the U.S. during the 50 year twilight of the long American Century. All images shot on Super 8mm and 35mm film.
Demodification by Angelica Texcahua (2023, 6 mins)
A film entirely shot in Sims 4 POV camera mode, observing how full “free-will” sims react on their own with mods activated.
Cerecloth by Sophie Chevako (2023, 11 mins)
When long-awaited rest is found amidst lonesome insomnia, our dreams visit us with those we wish to sleep beside again, unseen selves, the mourning dove, and birthday cake.
Hermit Film by Jay Casillas (2023, 4 mins)
A girl stays in her room watching videos she’s recorded before.
Blow Your Trumpets Angels and Arise! Arise! by Nicholas Swanton (11 mins)
‘Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace
When we are there; here on this lowly ground
Teach me how to repent; for that’s as good
As if thou’hadst seal’d my pardon with thy blood.
Where a Tear Meets the Sky by Jonathan Anderson (2023, 5 mins)
From the Sweet Void Cinema avant-garde workshop, the prompt led filmmakers to create a movie which obscured its creation process.
FILM TRIVIA – 4/25 @ 7pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
FACETS Film Trivia is a FREE monthly event hosted in FACETS’ Lounge. Test your film knowledge against your friends & fellow cinephiles for both bragging rights and take-home prizes! Questions from the arthouse to the multiplex. From current cinema news to the nitrate nights of yesteryear. We’re here to push your brain ’til the celluloid snaps.
Come out and have some winter fun with us and see if your team of up to 4 people are actually the smartest people in the room!
Follow us on Instagram (@facetsfilmtrivia) for trivia clues & news!
MEMBER TICKETING
If you are a FACETS Film Club member, you and your guests may use your complimentary free tickets for this screening. Please note that walking up with a ticket does not guarantee a seat in the case of a sell-out. We invite you to reserve your complimentary seats by contacting FACETS Help Desk (phone 773-281-9075, ext. 1 or email help@facets.org). After advance reservation, the free ticket(s) must be brought and redeemed at the FACETS Box Office when you arrive for the screening.
