Départ (Departure)

2000, 16mm sound, color, 6 mins. In French w/English subtitles. Rental: 30.00

The landscape of a railroad switchyard in a small Midwestern town and the relationship a French filmmaker has with the railroad. As an homage to Louis Lumière's Arrivée and early cinema, the film emanates nostalgia for the mechanical, intertwined institutions of railroad and cinema. Part of the "Cinema Obscura" series.

Exhibition
• The New Early Cinema Show, The Magic Lantern Series/Cable Car Cinema, Providence, RI, 15
December 2004
• Lo Fi Landscapes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 4 March 2004.
• The Chicago Connection, Dresden Small Film Festival, Germany, 30 May 2003
• Chicago Film Scene(s), Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany, 2 May 2003
• Counterclockwise Culture, Times Cinema, Milwaukee, WI, 22 February 2003
• Lo Fi Landscapes: Films by Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford, 26-show touring program, May-June 2002.
• Selections from TIE, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 5 December 2001
• Telluride International Experimental Cinema Exposition, Telluride, CO, 26-28, October 2001
• Chicago Underground Film Festival, Biograph Theatre, Chicago, 16-22 August 2001
• Pinhole Cinema: The Obscure and the Illumined, Northwest Film Forum, Little Theatre, Seattle, WA, 22 August 2001
• Framing the Shadow, New American Films, New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA, 17 April 2001
• Thaw 01, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 29-31 March 2001
• 39th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI, 13-18 March 2001
• Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 2 March 2001
• Pinhole Colloquium, Screening Room, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1 March 2001
• Why Pinhole?, Media Center, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2 February 2001
• Chicago’s Own: Screen Testing, Chicago Filmmakers, IL, 8-9 September 2000
• Flicker #10, Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA, 6 August 2000