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AESTHETIC UNDERGROUND AND HECHO DF.
2001-3, Various Directors, USA/Mexico, 90 min.


AESTHETIC UNDERGROUND AND HECHO DF.
Still from: Ensayo para un dia conmigo

Works made with flash and panash, independent music video, eye candy for existentials, startling and beautiful techniques, animative skill and experimental video. The program includes:

DOMO DARKO
2002, Cory Wrench, UK, 4 min.
Japanese animation cult vs. Donnie Darko. Domo-kun is a web cult. You must have seen him, he looks like a weetabix with a mouth. His 30 second stop-motion vignettes exude a charm and warmth that have brought him fame greater than his real job as the mascot of Japanese satellite TV show BS2. Fnord has taken clips and remixed them with the song Mad World from Donnie Darko. The result is unlike anything we've featured on b3ta before. It's exquisite. - Techy Musings

OPTIMIZER CUSTOMIZER
2002, Jan van Neunen, The Netherlands, 10 min.
Biotechnology, modern values, absurdity and madness are some of the themes explored in this technically and artistically groundbreaking animated video. Action unfolds like an amusing yet terrifying nightmare as tough questions are posed about the way we live. - konscious

BUSCAM No. 2
2001/2002, Matthias Fritsch, Germany 4 min.
Experimental film filmed in Cuba.

GUMBY AND EXTREME ANIMALS
2003, Paper Rad, USA, 10 min
The notorious art collectives' offering of new psychedilic video work remixing weird christian children videos, espn clips, and gumby flash animations.

hp, kw, sl, lw
2003, Robert Miller,USA, 4 min.
Segments of experimentation in frame rates and filtering.

ALLAHU AKBAR
2003, Usama Alshaibi, USA, 6 min.
Hypnotic, mathmatical arabic patterns.

AUTUMN CHASER
2003, Positron, USA, 12 min.
A segment of stylistic forms and music mix

EXPLOSIVE
2003, Seven 3.6 & Chris Eichenseer, USA, 4min
A music video made for Chicago's own Diverse.

YUPPSTER VIDEO
2003, Jon Satrom, USA 3 min.
The new school of lo-tech html graphic arts.

COMPOSITION IN RED AND YELLOW
2002, Roger Beebe, USA, 2.5 min.
In our time of national crisis, who can we turn to? Look to the Golden Arches™, my friend. Look to the Golden Arches™.

HECHO DF
HECHO DF is a 30 min. program of 10 shorts from young mexican video artists. Included is new work from Gabriel Amaro, Juan José Rivas, Monica Martinez, Eduardo de la Mano, Ricardo Rendon, Georgina Bringas, Eusebio Bañuelos, Amanda Gutiérrez, Ricardo Caballero and Daniel Urria. Various formats.


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 | Gene Siskel Film Center | 7:00pm