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Join Us for Our 20th Anniversary Screening at the Gene Siskel!

Can you believe that it’s been 20 years since ExTV was founded? Since 1998, the student-run organization ExTV has been building an archive of SAIC students’ time-based works. Despite the FVNMA department being the second largest department at SAIC, film, video, new media, and animation works have always been underrepresented at various on-campus exhibits. In order to provide more prominence to these works, ExTV focuses on creating a community that not only connects students within the filmmaking community but also familiarizes a broader public outside of school with the moving image medium. With 20 works from the early 2000s till now, ExTV’s 20th Anniversary Screening takes a look back at the various topics, narrative styles, post-production editing techniques both parallels and at time transcends its respectful technological development. Through genres such as experimental documentary, narrative driven from personal history and cultural traditions, […]
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ExTV Presents: Rinse, Wash, and Repeat

As the great Mr. Miyagi would say: “Wax on, wax off.” This month, we feature two specific video performance works dealing with repetition and intervention. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “At Rest (The Body in Architecture)” – Michael and Alan Flemings (2007) (@00:12) “Amidst Endless Repetition Lies Equally Endless Variability” – Matty Davis (2014) (@14:42)
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Blog, Campus Monitors

November 2018 Monitor Programming

As the weather dips back down to its Chicago norm we are all spending more time inside, so for this November we’re covering some maybe too familiar territory in celebration of the coming winter. All of us filmmakers are also no doubt about it stressed and plagued – maybe not now but soon will be – with an undeniable artist’s block. What are we supposed to film? What is it possible to film (when it’s twenty below outside)? For this month, we’ve answered the unanswerable. What else or more relevantly who else are we spending more time with, now that we’re stuck inside, than with our pets? So for this month’s monitors, ExTV is focusing on animals so if you’re stuck get inspired! If you don’t have animals, find one like Hannah Schiff did with their piece Don’t fuck with Birds or become […]
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Blog, ExFEST, News

Thanks for Coming to ExFEST 2018 and Congrats to All Our Winners!

That’s a wrap on this year’s ExFEST! We had so much fun putting it together and seeing everyone’s work this year. Thank you to all who submitted and congratulations on our winners of ExFEST 2018. Jury Award – “Tell us what happened that November” by Jullian Musielak Audience Favorite – “Ellipse” by Catie Rutledge Best Animation – “Smart Nightmares” by Marisa Tolomeo ExTV Staff Pick – “苏 Soo” by Yitong Lu We’d like to give our thanks to our judges and everyone who came and voted. This was the biggest turnout we’ve had at ExFEST, and we couldn’t be any happier and more excited to get ready for next year’s festival. See you next year!
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Come to ExFEST 2018!

Join us on October 26 at the Leroy Neiman Center! ExFEST is SAIC’s 13th annual film festival and held every year in the fall semester. Made by students, for students, this gives our filmmakers and artists a great way to win festival awards, show their work in front of a select jury and audience, and showcase some of the best video art made at SAIC! ExTV strives to bring students of the FVNMA department and those with interest of video work together and engage a community that fully represents all our video artists at SAIC. In our 13th year hosting ExFEST and 20th year anniversary of ExTV, we are honored to be screening 12 outstanding artists and 14 different works in total and seeing all of you there! Artists participating in ExFEST 2018: Yitong Lu Marisa Tolomeo Kathryn Lee Jillian […]
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ExTV Presents: A Familial Halloween

In the shadow of the coming of Halloween, we celebrate this fun holiday with a consideration of family. In what ways do myths, monsters, and fears guide the ways we maneuver our relationships with our parents and our children? This month we highlight two very special videos for a special edition of ExTV Presents. This month’s featured artists are shown as listed: “Mother and daughter learning how to play Ghost in the Graveyard in the presence of their future graves” – Katie Condon (2013) A simplistic work that showcases a relationship between a mother and daughter, performing exactly what the title suggests. (@00:08) “Lover Boy” – Zia Angry (2010) For his ninth birthday Myles asks for nothing but wood. With his once vivacious grandmother slowly dying, and his burdened mother struggling for relevance he is constructing […]
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Blog, Campus Monitors

October 2018 Monitor Programming

This month our monitor programming are all videos that were submitted to us without any sound because what’s a more perfect mood than silence for the month of Howl-o-ween – when sometimes no sound can be scariest sound of them all. But instead of going way way back to the bygone era of silent horror films we’re thinking of shooting forward into the new, a new month, a new age, the digital age. All included works deal with the new digital realm whether they’re meant to be screen savers, PSA’s (sort of) that take a closer (more critical) look into popular social media platforms, or whether they’re showing some BTS (behind the scenes) by manipulating the image that we take for granted. If it’s wasting time, hyper-masculinity, or even knowledge that scares you we’ve got something for everyone this month so check […]
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Blog, News, Opportunities

ExTV Fall Open Meeting!

Happy fall semester! If you’re interested in ways to put your work up publicly or submitting to future events, come to our open meeting at MacLean 1401 (right next to the lounge and elevators) to meet the team that makes that happen and find out new opportunities to share your video art. You can ask us all the questions you’ve been wondering about, including how to submit and how to create your own ways to connect with the FVNMA community at SAIC. You’ll get to see the behind-the-scenes of how we plan our programs and upcoming events, including ExFEST and our 20th-anniversary screening. Though ExTV is a student-run organization and NOT a student group, we’re still looking for a new member to join us on the team! We are also now hiring a new production assistant to join our team! […]
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Join Us for Our 20th Anniversary Screening at the Gene Siskel!

ExTV Presents: Rinse, Wash, and Repeat

November 2018 Monitor Programming

Thanks for Coming to ExFEST 2018 and Congrats to All Our Winners!

Come to ExFEST 2018!

ExTV Presents: A Familial Halloween

October 2018 Monitor Programming

ExTV Fall Open Meeting!

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