For our April 2024 screening we are inviting experimental documentary submissions on the theme of CUTTING EDGE.
Cutting Edge can describe technological advance or artistic achievements that differ from what has come before. What does cutting edge mean to you? Brand new innovations technology or invention? The sharp edge of fashion or the sharp blades of tools?
VLX5 is the fifth season of VASTLAB's annual showcase of Experimental short Film including an action packed program with local Chicago Artist Amanda Van Valkenburg in person for Q&A as well as local Chicago Musicians & Sound Artists LIVEscoring VLX5 short films.
It’s almost criminal that Narcisa Hirsch isn’t a household name by now, at least in the homes of those passionate about the histories of performance art and cinema. Then again, the 95-year-old Hirsch, who was born in Berlin in 1928 and emigrated to Argentina in 1937, has playfully called herself una famosa cineasta desconocida (a famous unknown filmmaker), acknowledging her own marginalization but also the freedom that comes with some degree of anonymity.
