THE 21st ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES (Films, Videos, and Installation Works)

Chicago Filmmakers announces the call for entries for The 21st Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. Onion City will take place June 18-21, 2009.

Please read the festival regulations and entry procedures available for download.

Contact Festival Director and Programmer Patrick Friel at onioncity@chicagofilmmakers.org if you have any questions or concerns.

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Last year’s Onion City festival presented 9 programs and a gallery exhibition at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago featuring more than 70 films, videos, and installation works from 12 countries.

The 2008 Judges were: Lorelei Stewart (Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago); Jeremy Rigsby (Co-Artistic Director of the Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario); and Ben Russell (Filmmaker, Instructor, and Curator).

2008 Award Winners

First Place:
Bachelor Machines Part 1 (Rosalind Nashashibi)

Second Place:
Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers)

Third Place:
Victory over the Sun (Michael Robinson)

Honorable Mentions (alphabetical by title):
The Dike of Transience (Gyula Nemes)
Footnotes to a House of Love (Laida Lertxundi)
Garden/ing (Eriko Sonoda)
It Will Die Out in the Mind (Deborah Stratman)
Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn)
Spirit House (Robert Todd)