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November 2019 Programming

Similarly to the sentiment “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” just because you can doesn’t mean you’ve got to. To color or to not color is the age old question causing rifts, disputes and outright wars between production crews since color was invented in the 1930s. Is a black and white palette a timeless classic or antiquated? Is it a cheap trick? I’m not here to say one way or other but I am here to provide several contemporary examples of artists using black and white. Choose your side wisely. Fight Beining Liu A fight of sands. The Patient and The Doc Jabari Jefferson Inner Pep Talk is a short video piece focusing on the internal emotional frustration of an anonymous character. My focus for this piece was to use lighting and sound to illustrate the fluctuating stages of […]
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December 2019 Programming

The end, the end approaches! With the stress of finals among us none are spared but yes there it is a light at the end of the dark, cloudy Chicago tunnel. These days might all feel sorta the same and so there’s no better month than this to indulge drastic change. Break out of your rut and do something different. This month’s monitor programming is all about altering the appearance of either a space or a person. Our selections include pimple popping, wig transformations, or some text to image juxtaposition, among others. Deformation Beining Liu A portrait of mine beginning of a normal day. A Film Noir Clark Woods A dialogue less film thats both an homage to film noir and an exploration of it’s gendered stereotypes, while also being an exploration of gender in itself and as a performance. […]
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January 2020 Programming

As temperatures drop and we all return from break to prepare for the beginning of spring semester, you might be craving some comfort food to help tide you over. These videos all explore the deep and undeniable human connection to food. Whether you personally prefer to play with your food, reminisce with it, or imagine surreal landscapes inspired by it, we are sure you will be able to connect with the theme of this month’s monitor programming. Comfort Food Leaf Silver This video piece is a bitter-sweet gesture to the importance of food in constructing an identity of home. The idea of home and longing for comfort are reflected in the literal nourishment of one’s body with food as well as a longing for physical comfort through the sense of touch. Sticky Lo Thomas This piece was created to take […]
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ExTV Presents: Eats & Sweets

In the wake of the holiday season of acceptable gorging, this month’s program features work that interrogates the presence of food in our lives, consumption, and the individual lives of the things we consume. This month’s featured artists are listed as shown: Comfort Food Leah Silver 2017 7:47 This video piece is a bitter-sweet gesture to the importance of food in constructing an identity of home. The idea of home and longing for comfort are reflected in the literal nourishment of one’s body with food as well as a longing for physical comfort through the sense of touch. Philippine Neapolitan Jerico Domingo 2017 5:00 Exploration of the consumption, digestion, and regurgitation of commodified culture. tim. Chanina Katz 2017 3:51 There is an emptiness inside tim, but he doesn’t know whether it is because he is hungry or lonely.
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ExTV Presents: ExFest 2019 Program Part II

On October 11th, 2019, ExTV put on its 14th annual student-run film festival, ExFest. The night was a great success thanks to our lovely participants and attendees! This month’s web program gives you a chance to revisit your favorite works from the night or if you were unable to attend, the opportunity to watch some new and fantastic student work. The works featured in part two of the two-part program will be below:
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ExTV Presents: ExFest 2019 Program Part I

On October 11th, 2019, ExTV put on its 14th annual student-run film festival, ExFest. The night was a great success thanks to our lovely participants and attendees! This month’s web program gives you a chance to revisit your favorite works from the night or if you were unable to attend, the opportunity to watch some new and fantastic student work. The works featured in part one of the two-part program will be below:
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ExTV Presents: ExFest Retrospective

As we quickly approach the next iteration of our annual student moving image festival, ExFest, with this month’s web program we look back at past participants whose work demonstrates the spirit of ExTV and the moving image community at SAIC. This month’s featured artists are listed as shown: Goosed 1:35 Sara Payne 2014 Two friends have a brief misadventure with geese in a corn field. Participated in ExFest 2014. Winter 4:44 Tian Yang 2013 Shot on 16mm and Super 16mm negative, this short film conveys my feelings of living in Chicago during the 2013 winter season. Participated in ExFest 2013. The Barroom Scene 3:05 Stephen Goza 2015 Animation set to found audio. Participated in ExFest 2016. Apple Jacks 7:19 Christine Janokowicz 2013 Experimental video using multiple glitching processes to show parallels between my childhood and the childhood of characters in […]
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ExTV Presents: Nature Narratives

The setting of nature or the immersion of the artist in nature gives way to narrative development that is rich in introspection and grounded by a reckoning with individual or collective memory. Besides the potential effect of nature upon the subject, there can also exist an attention to nature itself, which possesses its own evolving identity, origin, and memory. September’s web program highlights artists who either explore nature as a foil towards personal/collective rumination or as a dedicated and independent subject, or both. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: The TreeLizi Breit20101:40A brief evolutionary study. Natural ArtificialYuan Zheng20157:41 Observation of a series of artifacts, landscape and artificial nature, where live or dead animals has detached from its original habitat and context, the relationship between animal and us has been transformed too. 4 Movement and the Birth of the […]
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November 2019 Programming

December 2019 Programming

January 2020 Programming

ExTV Presents: Eats & Sweets

ExTV Presents: ExFest 2019 Program Part II

ExTV Presents: ExFest 2019 Program Part I

ExTV Presents: ExFest Retrospective

ExTV Presents: Nature Narratives

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