Chicago Movies

Walter Schmitt, a once-prominent Chicago hotel developer, fights to revive his stalled legacy through an ambitious international expansion. When the...

A desperate actor's callback spirals when an embarrassing mishap with the group's intimidating captain forces them into a secret pact.

ca. 1980-81, 4 min, Super-8mm. "In Blue Aura, a man and woman are asleep in bed. The dream begins with a crudely made, whirling paper spiral and the...

Up-and-coming artist Anisa is woefully unprepared for the pettiness and performative antics taking place at the gallery opening for her latest...

A tour de force exercise in optical printing shot in the Chicago Loop

This documentary takes the viewer on a journey along Halsted Street, from the southern tip of Illinois, north through various Chicago neighborhoods,...

"Piano Dance shows the viewer a shadowy piano accompanied by the sound of piano music. The piano is then seen to be a toy, the headdress of a woman...

The story of Adam and Eve is told through stop-motion paper cut-outs.

Footage of the Chicago fire department in the 1890s.

This 1978 documentary classic is an inside look at the old-style Chicago Machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era, where Alderman Vito Marzullo...

An ecstatic exploration of a Chicago parking garage

A love letter to the first three months of the Coronavirus pandemic.

After their roommate commits suicide by ceiling fan, two young men try to distract themselves.