Screening
On August 21st and 22nd at 7pm, filmmaker and curator M Woods brings the inaugural film festival "Fugue State" to the Film-Makers' Cooperative.
inaugural Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. Screening August 20-24, 2025 in Chicago, including outdoor screenings at Chicago's historic Lawrence House. The festival will then travel to multiple venues through the Agitate21C artist network.
Festival Director, lead curator, and multidisciplinary artist M. Woods conceived of this festival as a way to embrace the convergences within video art, experimental film, and interactive design, encouraging new media, installation, photography, and expanded cinema/mixed-media performances. Open to art film, genre film, and any other type of cinema, so long as it transgresses the accepted and formulaic languages of the medium.
August 21st Program:
Lunette - 8’
Mark Street
On What Continent is the Country Amnesia? - 5’
Kurtis Matthew Russell
Wetland Impulse - 2’
Jimmy Schaus
Parallel Botany - 11’
Magdalena Bermudez
FLORE - 2’
Emily Sasmor
Seagull Dog Child - 9’
Sebastian Vaccaris
On the Second Floor - 5’
Neil Ira Needleman
The Beginning - 4’
Sage Ó Tuama
Monad - 20’
Dana Dawud
Intended to Hurt - 9’
Cameron Chester Black
August 22nd Program:
American Foreskin - 2’
Sonia Rose Kahn
Tulsa - 15’
Scott Stark
L’étranger - 4’
Anna María Helgadottir
Monsters don’t exist - 18’
Mehdi Ackermann
Hemorrhage - 4’
Ruth Hayes
Patria Im(age)itate - 7’
Long Pham
Myself Two Seconds to Cry - 16’
Erik Sutch (Live Musical Score)