…he people. why don’t you die for the people.” -Fred Hampton, born Aug. 30, 1948. 0:33 Title for the Image Union. “This is a special edition of Image Union; films and video tapes you don’t usually see on TV. We want to broadcast your comments on the film you’ve just seen.” 0:49 Blinking words “call now” and a number on the screen. An announcer implores viewers to call now, but to make their comments… Continue reading
0:28 Image Union opening 1:13 Cut to woman, Starr, describing her suicidal tendencies and her religious conversion. 1:27 Ex-convict talks about his religious conversion. 1:44 Group of people sitting in a circle. They give their biographies and how they took “wrong turns.” 2:04 “Hello, Jesus” plays over opening montage of Uptown, Chicago. 3:40 Henry Huang gives an introduction about Jesus People, USA and the special, mixed… Continue reading
0:10 Image Union/WTTW Chicago slate. 0:46 Image Union opening. 1:30 Narrator: “It has become a special symbol of the jet-set. Some call it the Hollywood Cocktail: It’s cocaine. The champagne of illegal drugs…This program shows where it’s grown, how it’s processed, and how it gets into the United States.” 2:24 Photo montage from various moments in South America. 2:54 Journalists in Peru: “Felix was 26 yea… Continue reading
0:00 Image Union opening. 0:46 “Festival De Mujeres,”June 30, 1979, by Eleanor Boyer and Karen Peugh. Color video. Documentary about a women’s festival in Chicago’s predominantly Latinx Pilsen neighborhood. Salima Rivera reads several of her poems, one is an ode to Pilsen, another dedicated to women searching for their sons after the Allende government in Chile was overthrown. There are silkscreening and ceramics workshop… Continue reading
0:00 Image Union opening. 0:38 “Dan Sandin” by Christine de Lignieres. Color video. Sandin is interviewed showing his equipment and processing the video of the interview. He describes his work process, which always begins with shooting a sacred place. He talks about his collaboration with Tom DeFanti for computer animation. Sandin sees his image processing machine as a tool to help people learn about images. He talks about his commit… Continue reading
00:00 Image Union opening. 01:40 “Two Boxes” by Mark McKernin. B&W video. A computer animated piece featuring a series geographic patterns. Created on a home computer system. 05:05 “Wandawega Waters” by Dan Sandin. Color video. An experimental piece using computer processed video to give the surroundings of Lake Wandawega an other-worldly appearance. 21:09 “Spiral for A.C.M.” by Dan Sandin. Color video. Di… Continue reading
00:00 Image Union opening. 00:50 “On Strike” by Kartemquin Films. Color video. A short piece documenting a UWAUE (electrical workers’ union) strike at a Stewart Warner plant in Chicago. Workers demand higher pay in the face of high inflation. 09:35 “Grand Turk: The Grand Canyon of Coral” by William M. Stern. Color film. Cousteau-style underwater documentary about the underwater canyon and coral reef off of Grand Tur… Continue reading
00:00 Count-in. 00:22 Image Union opening in black and white. 01:06 “Chairs” by Nick Despota, John Mabey, and Bob Synder. Color video. Footage of the Chicago blizzard of 1979 set to music. We see piles of snow and the typical Chicago practice of chairs saving shoveled parking spaces. 02:55 “Helen Lishman for Mayor” by Warren Leming. Spoof of political ads, shot during the Chicago Blizzard of 1979. “All we get from t… Continue reading