Land Marked/Marquette (Series)

2005, 16mm sound, b&w/color, 23 mins. Rental: 90.00

Supported, in part, by a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

A series of clear, concisely observed landscape studies of sites and monuments in Chicago connected to 17th century exploration by Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette. In examining the monuments to Marquette, the "stories" the monuments tell, and the relationship of the monuments to their surroundings,the film deploys different audio-visual and stylistic tactics, allowing for the contemplation of both historical representation and the transformation of the land in the passage of time.

AWARDS
• Made in Chicago Award, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2005

Exhibition
• Urban Research on Film, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany, 9-19 February 2006.
• Eye and Ear Clinic, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 19 November 2005.
• Anti-Matter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 15-24 September 2005.
• Chicago Underground Film Festival, Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL, 18-25 August 2005.
• Lo Fi Landscapes: Pictures From the New World, touring program, April-June 2005.
• New York Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY, 9-15 March 2005.

PRESS
• "Document It Yourself," by Brent Coughenour. Article. MetroTimes, Detroit.