To celebrate our 15th year, CUFF’s Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf has worked with former CUFF programmer Amy Beste at the department of Film, Video and New Media at the Art Institute to curate a retrospective of Chicago made films and videos from CUFF past to screen as part of the Conversations At The Edge program at The Gene Siskel Film Center. We ended up with so many great films on our list that we’re doing a second program the following night at The Nightingale. Please join us for a fabulous evening of homegrown film.

CUFF RETRO: PROGRAM ONE (Thursday, October 2 6pm at the Gene Siskel film Center)
1996 – Clit-O-Matic: The Adventures of White Trash Girl (Jennifer Reeder, 1995)
1996 – Velvet Welk (Darren Hacker, 1996)
1998 – Wheels of Fury (Dan & Paul Dinnello w/Amy Sedaris, 1998) Winner Best Short CUFF 1998
1998 – Stuffing (Animal Charm, 1997)
2000 – Depart (Thomas Comerford, 2000)
2000 – Bouncing in the Corner 33DD (Dara Greenwald, 1999)
2001 – Drowning (James Fotopoulos, 2001)
2001 – Receiver (Jon Leone, 2001)
2002 – Wustinspringmaus (Jim Finn, 2002)
2003 – I Am A Conjuror (Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, 2003)
2003 – Security Anthem (Kent Lambert, 2003)
2007 – Black & White Trypps #3 (Ben Russell, 2007) Winner Best Experimental Film CUFF 2007

CUFF RETRO: PROGRAM TWO (Friday, October 3, TBD at the Nightingale)
1999 – The Bats (Jim Trainor)
1999 – Meat Fucker (Shawn Durr)
2000 – The Lester Film (Heather McAdams)
1999 – Dance Habibi Dance (Usama Alshaibi)
2003 – Team (Dan Rank) Winner Best Short CUFF 2003
2006 – How She Slept at Night (Lili Carre) Winner Best Animated Film CUFF 2006
2007 – It will Die Out in the Mind (Deborah Stratman)
2007 – Allá te Alcanzo – (I¹ll See You There) (Luis Sanchez) Made In Chicago Award CUFF 2007