AnySquared Pop-Up Exhibit & Performance!Sunday November 19th4pm-8:30pm | Performances after 6pm1412 W. 18th Street in Pilsen Thanks @_korkox_ and @wepasteinternational for inviting us to have this showcase in the space! Art, Performances, & Vendors Include:@ahandfullofdrawings • @amoraslucha • @artistically1chubbs • @big_ol_step • @bobaflexx73 • breno t. coutinho • @c.luna_art • @cieloestrella • @driforeal • @drvgee • @dude_itsjm • @emanny71 … Read more
AnySquared’s SkillShare Series! Join us for this free workshop with instructor and talented and adept artist Noa Aleman / @noa_aleman Anatomy for Artists is Friday October 20th 6pm–8pm at AnySquared Studio 2328 N Milwaukee. Supplies Provided, But you are welcome to bring your own. Students will learn essential techniques and gain insights into basic facial … Read more
November 1st Cinema Culture presented their Interstellar Outer-Body screening of sci-fi films. Thanks Amir George for putting together a great lineup of short films, by local filmmakers Nelson Carvajal, Jason Ogawa, and Floyd Webb as well as other excellent selections for our AnySquared Residency.
November 1st Cinema Culture presented their Interstellar Outer-Body screening of sci-fi films at the Hairpin Arts Center. Thanks Amir George for putting together a great lineup of short films, by local filmmakers Nelson Carvajal, Jason Ogawa, and Floyd Webb as well as other excellent selections for our AnySquared Residency.
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AnySquared Projects is grateful to the Hairpin Arts Center for this opportunity to program their space during our residency.
Cinema Minima is now changing format and will be scheduling our future screenings as special events only. Look for our future posts. See everyone later!
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Cinema Culture crash lands into AnySquared at Hairpin for a program presenting sci-fi cinema and performances. “Interstellar Outer-Body” is a celestial experience that explores the transcendence through space and time beyond the cosmos and out of the psyche. Cinema Culture’s Amir George hosts with new works by Jason Ogawa, Floyd Webb, and Nelson Carvajal.
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Image: still from the Stonehart music video by Jason Ogawa.
This event is part of AnySquared’s Residency programming. AnySquared Projects thanks the Hairpin Arts Center for offering us this opportunity to create this event with Cinema Culture at their wonderful space. See our programming this week and through mid-November!
AnySquared is an all-volunteer collaborative artistic network, propelled by a deep sense of cooperation with artists, neighbors and the wider community. Our mission is to support, produce and promote collaborative projects that facilitate arts activities through inclusive participation. Our foundation is built upon the idea that we can do anything as long as we do ourselves and do it together.
An Intimate Reading & Screening: Films by Eliaz Rodriguez & Reading by Beverly Reed Scott (Oye’)
Saturday October 25 Begins promptly at 7pm and ends at 9pm Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N. Milwaukee Event is free.
This special event features AnySquared’s Cinema Minima Residency’s “Best-In-Show” filmmaker Eliaz Rodriguez. He will screen his film “Beverly” — based on Beverly Reed Scott’s essay “I Do But Do He” — and his new rough cut film “Tea Man, Steep!.”
We are also excited to showcase our Cinema Minima essay winner and gifted writer Beverly Reed Scott (Oye’) as she reads from her new memoir “My Perilous Journey #1 Vol. 1.”
Beverly (4:16) Directed, Screenplay & Edited by: Eliaz Rodriguez. Story by: Beverly Scott Synopsis: Beverly is wrapped up in her thoughts as she strives to land the man she deserves. Starring: Wanjiku Kairu, Jeremy Solomon, and Matthew Stromer.
Tea Man, Steep! (Rough-cut, 12:00) Directed & Edited by: Eliaz Rodriguez. Written by: Eliaz Rodriguez & Jeff Phillips Synopsis: Caleb found his passion in life, tea, and he attempts to acquaint his friends and coworkers with this love. Starring: Jeff Phillips, Donny Rodriguez, and John Piotrowski.
Please also see our “Because Art” exhibit at the space before the event – doors open at 6:15pm.
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Eliaz Rodriguez is a self-taught filmmaker from Chicago. In 2008 he co-created the comedy group Wood Sugars and over the next five years produced/directed hundreds of films, web series, podcasts, and live comedy shows. In October of 2013 he made his first solo short film, an adaptation of a true story entitled Beverly, which went on to win Best In Show of the Cinema Minima Residency and Best of Fest of the Indie Incubator Film Fest. Eliaz can also be heard weekly on segments of the podcast he engineers, named CinemaJaw – the greatest movies podcast ever.
Beverly Reed Scott (Oye’) is a gifted writer and fierce activist. Her prose, poetry and messages are conjured from her soul and her rhythmic alignment with nature. She is a natural storyteller, trained in Original Voice Technique by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Jungian Analyst and bestselling author. Her voice is colored by her experiences, having been born, raised in Englewood during the 60’s and 70’s, her coming of age tales are wrought with anguish, joy, love and pain. She is publishing her memoir as a serial and will read from My Perilous Journey #1 Vol. 1.
Synopsis:
‘Eréndira’ is an international co-production Portugese director Ruy Guerra, whose script is the work of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, who adapted his novella ‘The Incredible and Sad Tale of Candida Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother’. Eréndira is a fourteen year old girl used by her greedy grandmother for a life of comfort that was lost when she was widowed. The grandmother forces the girl to perform various chores. One day Erendira has a strange vision, followed by the house catching on fire. Her grandmother blames the girl for the incident and decides to take revenge by prostituting teen. The business is very prosperous for the cruel old woman, all the while, the girl is continues to have magical visions. The intervention of Odysseus, in love with Erendira, changes the fate of the girl.
Sinopsis:
‘Eréndira’ es una coproducción internacional dirigida por el portugués Ruy Guerra, cuyo guión es obra del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, que adaptó su novela corta ‘La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada’. Eréndira es una niña de catorce años a cargo de una abuela codiciosa, acostumbrada a una vida de comodidades que ha perdido al enviudar. La abuela explota a la niña obligándola a realizar distintas tareas domésticas. Un día Eréndira tiene una visión extraña a la que sucede el incendio de la casa. Su abuela la culpa del siniestro y decide vengarse prostituyendo a la adolescente. El negocio resulta muy próspero para la cruel vieja, mientras las niña sigue teniendo visiones mágicas. La intervención de Ulises, enamorado de Eréndira, cambiará el destino de la joven.
