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January 18, 2009
Chicago in movies, Chicago in photographs: a portfolio
A portfolio of fifty photographs of Chicago that parallel my memories of movies shot there is up at Film in Focus. From the introduction: "Movies, however great or awful, play in present tense. But memories deepen them, like in the most cryptic reaches of dreams. Movies go on location in search of this thisness, for authenticity. If you know a city, or wish you could know it, glimpses of a familiar or iconographic landscape will pull you into yourself. I feel that way thinking of movies set in Chicago. These pictures began as research for an as-yet unproduced screenplay set in the city where I've lived almost all my adult life. The images became a lucid dreaming of sorts, of customary paths and recurrent figures. But as well, they reflect impressions of half-remembered or misremembered movies set on this patch of prairie by the water, working as parallels of mood in mind, if not precisely what you would find slipping a DVD out of its case and into this moment in time." [The portfolio is at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at January 18, 2009 05:57 PM
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