Comfort Film Presents

My Neighborhood: Chicago Films From The Center Cinema Co-Op

Curated and hosted by
Josh B Mabe

This collection of films serves as a bit of a "greatest hits" of Chicago experimental/underground filmmaking in the late 60s and very early 70s. All these films were distributed by the Center Cinema Co-Op, which ran in Chicago from 1968-1976. While most of the films were returned to the filmmakers, most of these prints are from the collection of filmmaker and teacher Tom Deegan and a few others were recovered recently by Chicago Film Society from a local theater.

Joe Guzaitis & Tom Deegan: De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum, 5m
Louie Grenier: Carousel, 4m
Kurt Hyl: My Neighborhood, 11m
Priscilla Humay: American Myth, 9m
Charles Lyman & David Szabo: Castaway, 9m
Ron Taylor: Song, 4m
Gerald Swatez & Kaye Miller: Study In Leaders: Toward the 1970's, 4m
Wayne Boyer: George & Martha Revisited, 8m
John Heinz: Minions, 4m

Media: 16mm and digital file.

Programed for Comfort Station by Raul Benitez, Emily Perez , Mathew Tapey, and Luna Luxe.

Free inside Comfort Station.