The second annual Chicago Underground Film Festival runs Friday through Sunday, July 21 through 23, at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan, and Saturday, July 22, at the International Cinema Museum, 319 W. Erie. Tickets for all programs are $5, with the exception of the Kenneth Anger and Ivan Stang programs, which are $8; a $40 pass will admit you to all festival screenings and events, and a $20 pass will admit you to five regular programs. For further information, call 866-8660.
Short Videos 1
Jeff Vilencia’s Images (see Critic’s Choice) heads a program of works by Dan and Paul Dinello, Craig Smith, Guy Benoit, and Aaron Sutherland. (5:00)
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A narrative film feature by Cyrus Amini described as a “slice-of-life comedy.” To be shown with Critizen, a documentary short film by Michael LaHaie. (8:30)
Short Films 2
An interesting experimental short by two American sisters, Lynne and Dana Sachs, traveling from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi and recording their conversations with various local people en route. On the same program, a half-hour documentary portrait by Dana Plays of her 90-year-old grandmother, Love Stories My Grandmother Tells, Part One. (International Cinema Museum, noon)
