Figures In the Landscape

2002, 16mm sound, color, 12 mins. Rental: 45.00

Supported, in part, by a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

This pinhole film examines the relationship of the human figure to the "new" suburban landscapes of Schaumburg, IL. Found texts provide local (yet generally North American) stories of both human interaction with the landscape and ideas of land development. Part of the "Cinema Obscura" series.

Awards
• 3rd Prize, Film, FLEX Festival, 2004.
• Jury Prize, New York Underground Film Festival, 2004
• Honorable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2003

Exhibitions
• 25 fps Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-25 September, 2005.
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 13 September 2005.
• Recent Experimental City Portraits, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1 September 2005.
• Chicago’s Own: Selected Works, 1996-2005, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL, 5 August 2005.
• FLEX Festival, Gainesville, FL, 28-30 October 2004
• Landscapes of Potential, San Francisco Cinematheque, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 9 May 2004
• New York Underground Film Festival, NY, NY, 10-16 March 2004
• Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 12 March 2004
• The Active Spectator, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, 4 March 2004
• Lo Fi Landscapes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 4 March 2004
• Portland International Film Festival/Cinema Project, Portland, OR, 24 February 2004
• Chicago Filmmakers’ 30th Anniversary Extravaganza, 13 December 2003
• The International Experimental Film Festival, Colorado Springs, CO, 14-16 November 2003
• London Film Festival, London, England, 22 October-6 November 2003
• Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, 8 October 2003
• Moving Intervals, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, 1 October 2003
• Cinematexas, Austin, TX, 16-21 September 2003
• Light> <Image, After Image Productions, Aegina Academy, Greece, 10 May 2003
• Images Festival: Independent Film and Video, Toronto, ON, Canada, 11-20 April 2003
• Thaw/03, Institute for Cinema and Culture, Iowa City, IA, 10-12 April 2003
• Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI, 11-16 March 2003
• Second Sight: New Chicago Films, Ocularis, Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY, 9 February 2003
• Here and Now: Recent Film and Video by Chicago Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, 9 December 2002
• Films by Deborah Stratman and Thomas Comerford, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL, 5 December 2002
• Cinema and Industry, Independent Film Show, 2nd Edition, E-M Arts, Naples Italy, 21 October 2002
• Lo Fi Landscapes: Films by Bill Brown and Thomas Comerford, 26-show touring program, May-June 2002.
• Pinhole Cinema: The Obscure and the Illumined (in-progress), Northwest Film Forum, Little Theatre, Seattle, WA, 22 August 2001

PRESS
• "The Anti-Heroic In Recent American Avante-Garde Film," by Fred Camper. 25 fps catalog essay.
• "Artbreak: ExperiMental," by Noel Black. Article. Colorado Springs Independent.
• "Cinema, Nature and Industry," by Fred Camper. E-M Arts catalog essay.