Underground Film Journal

2015 Onion City Experimental Film And Video Festival: Award Winners

The 26th annual Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival — which was held last month on January 28-31 in Chicago, Illinois — has announced their trio of award winners, plus a host of Honorable Mentions. Judges for this year’s fest were three local curators: Christy Lemaster of The Nightingale, independent filmmaker/curator Jesse Malmed and Erin Nixon of Gallery 400.

Taking home the top prize was media remix artist Jesse McLean for her film I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining, which is an “experimental portrait of a famous Hollywood actress’s stand-in and body double.”

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Millennium Film Workshop: Jerry Tartaglia: A Short History of the Future

February 28, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Millennium Film Workshop
119 Ingraham St., Suite 126
Brooklyn, NY 11237
(Entrance on Porter St. at Johnson St.)

Jerry Tartaglia will be in person at the Millennium Film Workshop to screen selected work from his lengthy film career, including a special live performance of his expanded cinema project The Projectionist.

Tartaglia is a pioneer of Queer Identity cinema and this program will include some of his pioneering earlier work, such as Ecce Homo (1989), a meditation on watching queer sex; and 1969 (1991), a personal — and perhaps unreliable — remembrance.

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Feature Film Online: Ok, Good

Los Angeles is a city where dreams are made. But, for most people looking to find a career in the entertainment industry, this town can become an unending nightmare. The torture of an L.A. working actor’s existence is exquisitely captured in Daniel Martinico’s Ok, Good.

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