FREE STUFFCIMMfest is proud to be a co-producer of the inaugural Lake FX Summit + Expo, a free conferencefor artists, creative professionals and entrepreneurs, April 16-19, <strong>2015</strong>. Lake FX includes a series offree evening showcases in Hyde Park, Pilsen, West Town, Logan Square and Uptown.CIMMfest CURATED EVENTS:•Lake FX Kick-off ShowcasePerformers Next Generation, The Fox & The Hounds and Lili K. with live projections by Liviu Pasare of StoptimeLiveThursday, April 16 at 8 pm, The Mid•Buster Keaton Goes to BollywoodA live score performed by Saraswathi Ranganathan and New Millennium Orchestra’s Dominic Johnson (p 8)Friday, April 17 at 7 pm, 1st Ward•SynergiesA large-scale video installation featuring Chicago-based artists and filmmakers with a live music performanceby Modern Tapes recording artist Froe CharFriday, April 17 at 7 pm, Chicago Art Department•Can’t be SatisfiedIn honor of Muddy Waters’ 100th Birthday, Robert Gordon’s documentary Can’t be Satisfied: The Life andTimes of Muddy Waters (p 15)Friday, April 17 at 7 pm, Harper Theater in Hyde Park•Revenge of The MekonsA documentary chronicling the unlikely story of radical British art students who formed in the first blast of punkrock in 1977! Q&A with director Joe Angio, Jon Langford and Sally Timms follows (p 21)Friday, April 17 at 6:45 pm, Logan Theatre•Sones de México Ensemble ChicagoAn original live score of the 1930s ¡Que Viva México! (p 8)Saturday, April 18 at 7 pm, The National Museum of Mexican Art•Almost ThereKartemquin Films-produced documentary by Aaron Wickenden and Dan Rybicky about “outsider” artist PeterAnton (p 14)Saturday, April 18 at 8:15 pm, Logan TheatreCIMMCON SUMMIT AT LAKE FX•Revenge of The MekonsDirector Joe Angio, musician Jon Langford and Music Box Films’ Brian Andreotti will talk about the making ofthe film and distribution.Friday, April 17 at 1:30 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center•Sound Recording & Scoring for FilmLeslie Ann Jones, Director of Music Recording and Scoring at Skywalker Sound, speaks on her incrediblecareer and shares her expertise on recording orchestras for film as well as scoring for video games.Saturday, April 18 at 12 pm, Gene Siskel Film CenterPresented by38 // CIMMfest.org // CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL MOVIES & MUSIC FESTIVAL
AT CIMMfestCIMMconComfort Station is a multidisciplinary art space whose mission is topresent challenging and stimulating <strong>program</strong>ming that is open andaccessible to everyone. CIMMfest and Comfort Station will present aseries of free films, music videos and music, throughout the festival.Schedule and times will posted @ http://www.comfortstationlogansquare.org/and CIMMfest,org/comfortstationLive from UBLAUREN KNAPP/MONGOLIA/84MINSunday, April 12 / 6 PMComfort Station / FREEA profile of hard rock in Mongolia set in thecapital city, Ulaanbaatar (UB). Live from UBtells the story of how urban Mongolians haveused rock music to overcome the powers ofsoviet-style socialism, Orientalism, and globalizationfor the past three decades. FeaturingAltan Urag, Mohanik, and Nisvanis.YximallooTADHG O’SULLIVAN / IRELAND76 MINFriday, April 4, 17 / 8:00 PMComfort Station / FREENaofumi Yximalloo Ishimaru is an obscure cultmusician from Japan who has spent most of his 57years on the fringes of music and society. This portraitcaptures the extreme dichotomy of a man whobecomes frantic and eccentric when he’s performinghis music, and then a terribly difficult personality inhis private life. Discover Ishimaru and his true masterpiecemusic, and probably the biggest opportunitythe artist has ever had at being discovered.CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL MOVIES & MUSIC FESTIVAL // CIMMfest.org // 39
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