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Human bodies, animals, children, and plants undulate together on rapidly changing frequencies. Between landscapes of anger and sexual desire, a white-hot climax builds under the surface.

A collaboration between Emily Eddy and Natalie Chami (TALsounds), commissioned by Chicago Film Archives for the 2019 Media Mixer.

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A collaborative multimedia exhibition with artist at performer Katy Albert, held at Roots & Culture Gallery in Chicago, October 11th – November 9th, 2019.

Being behind and in front of a camera is a rough way to live and most of us are living it these days. In Screen Play, Katy Albert and Emily Eddy explore performance between the screen, on screen, off screen, and some screens in between. Razing the standards of good taste, videos range from the grotesque to the intimate in a robust schedule of new and recent work. Objects arranged throughout the space reinforce the anguish and pleasure of living with oneself on the mind.

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VESTURBÆJAR is a combination of footage shot from 2013-2016, blending three places along with the inhabiters of each. Using three different types of video recording devices, Vesturbæjar gives body and character to media. The video flows through a personal narrative connecting videographer and recorder, video and place, place and videographer.

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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a mood piece, a painting, a few small thoughts

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This is mine, but it's for you. I (CAN?) NOT BE DEFEATED Premiered at The Gene Siskel Film Center as part of SAIC's 2013 BFA Screening May 8th, 2013

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NO CHICK IS AN ISLAND is a documented account of the spiritual journey of a girl who wants to tell you all her secrets in embarrassingly accurate yet standard definition detail.

ANNA MIELNICZUK, mac paint archival prints

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MARCELA TORRES, adaptive restraints, looped video

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CALEB YONO, mixed media drawings on paper

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RUBY T, Club, looped video

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MARCELA TORRES, untitled participatory wrestling installation, climbing rope, 2 x 10lb plates, 2 x 15lb plates, pulley

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ANNIE KIELMAN, We Can Remember It For You, wood, screen printed vinyl, foam

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Design by Anna Mielniczuk

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How To Survive, Pinky Swear, October 2017
Jared Brown, Annie Kielman, AJ McClenon, Steve Reinke, Anna Mielniczuk, Ruby T, Marcela Torres, Caleb Yono

HOW TO SURVIVE translates personal, physical, and political trauma into drawings, performance, video, and objects which are simultaneously expressions of emotion and calls to action. These artists are champions of self reliance, persevering in the labor of their forms and creating a community of leaders in a revolution of their own making.

HANNAH PIPER BURNS, Interior Stroll, still from installed video game

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JOEY SCHER, Demystifying the Hapa Girl's Mantra Through Rare Found Footage, digital video

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KELLY GALLAGHER, Pen Up The Pigs, digital video

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LIZ CAMBRON, She Brings In The Tide Change, digital video

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MOLLY HEWITT, The Bachelorette, digital video

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RUBY T, Club, digital video

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ZACHARY HUTCHINSON, Rumble Bumble, digital video

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How To Fight Like A Girl
Compliance Division, Portland Oregon, August 2017
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles California, March 2017
Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, September 2016
Hannah Piper Burns, Liz Cambron, Kelly Gallagher, Molly Hewitt, Zachary Hutchinson, A.J. McClenon, Joey Scher, Ruby T

How To Fight Like A Girl is a look inside a playful, political, gorgeous, ugly, queer-minded aesthetic. These artists' video and new media works call to glitter bomb the pigs, wrangle the bourgeois with pink lasso's, and drown the misogynists in play-doh spaghetti. Using tropes of theater, puppetry, drag, kitsch, and horror intertwined with fiercely intelligent social, political, and personal observations, these artists are paving out a current and important aesthetic like no other. How To Fight Like A Girl has toured to three venues across the US, Nightingale Cinema in Chicago Illinois, Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, and Compliance Division in Portland Oregon.

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Design by Anna Mielniczuk

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Weird Movies From the Middle of America
Mengi, Reykjavík Iceland, April 2016
Carl Elsaesser, Cameron Gibson, Meredith Lackey, Jesse Malmed, Jesse McLean, Emily Oscarson, Steve Reinke

Weird Movies From the Middle of America is a program of experimental film and video artwork from Chicago and the American Midwest. Like the dichotomy of bitter cold Midwestern winters and sticky, humid summers, this show is a pairing of interior and exterior, grace and clumsiness, static and wriggling. Using image and sound, these seven artists' films explain the love and hardship of Midwestern existence, and are all at once heartfelt, funny, emotive, and tragic.

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The Nightingale Cinema is a rough and ready micro-cinema in Chicago, Illinois run by Christy LeMaster and Emily Eddy. Founded by LeMaster in 2008, we have been serving our community of experimental and underground film and video makers for a decade, programming screenings and events for local and international artists, curators, and community organizers. For more information on the Nightingale, check out our website here, http://nightingalecinema.org

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Video! Video! Zine is an online resource devoted to obtaining visibility for moving image makers. Through monthly open calls, we showcase moving image work by artists of all skill levels on our website and at in-person screenings at different venues around Chicago. We create opportunities for emerging artists through mini grants which we award yearly, and we invite artists and curators to take part in our monthly guest curation platform. Check out our website for more information, http://videovideozine.com