Festival

April 4, 2024

Sound of Silent Film Festival – Chicago

ACM’s popular Sound of Silent Film Festival, now in its 19th year, is a unique event featuring new short silent films in every conceivable genre screened with newly-composed musical scores performed live.

This year’s program features a three comedies, a dramedy, three dramas, three animated films and a wildly inventive dance film, all with new scores performed live. 

  Hours

Thursday, April 4th 
7:30 PM

 

  Location

Music Box Theater
3733 N. Southport Ave.
$25 general, $15 student with ID

 

Total runtime: approximately 90 minutes.

Landmine of Mine by Kevin T. Landry

A man steps on a landmine and pays with his life.

Music by Lynn Bechtold

Marie. Eduardo. Sophie by Thomas Corriveau

A mesmerizing contemplation of moving bodies and painting, with three magnificent performers of contemporary dance from Montreal, Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara and Sophie Corriveau.

Music by Adam Cole

Detektive Thumb and the Infinity House by Preston King

A hard-boiled, chain smoking detective is eaten alive by a house.

Music by Gene Pritsker

Coloring by Francisco Javier Landin Jr.

A young girl finds inspiration on a simple car ride.

Music by Milica Paranosic

#MESSYKIDNAPPING by Greg Emetaz

A curator at the Louvre is convinced her new boyfriend has kidnapped her child. The ransom: The Mona Lisa.

Music by Victoria Malawey

Reciprocity Failure by Ben Westlake

An avant-garde exhibition, that brings the sculptures of artist Aydin Ture to life in cinematic fashion.

Music by Seth Boustead

Heirloom by Marilynne Lamontagne

Etienne confronts the crushing pressure of generational expectations and masculinity of their inheritance home as they seek emancipation in the wilderness. Etienne’s trans identity is an experiential audible journey amidst chaos and spontaneity.

Music by David Saperstein

Rock Pools by Bianca Caniglia

Two clowns begin to understand who they are.
An exploration of femininity and gender performance particularly looking for a nuanced feeling that young queer people might have experienced.

Music by Charles Coleman

Demi-Goddesses by Martin Gerigk

A visual essay about still-dominant dark aspects of our modern society conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment that raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. 

Music by Adam Reifsteck

Inside Looking Out by Cooper Hardin

A gardener fights to keep a “suicidal” house plant alive

Music by Nailah Nombeko

Falling for Greta by Gustavo Arteaga

When love comes knocking, Greta’s world is turned upside down. As her passion grows, complications follow but there is hope in the shape of water.

Music by Ledah Finck

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