Chicago International Movies & Music Festival  April 14 - 17. 2011

                                                                                        Where Movies & Music Meet 

                                                      Four Days of Movies, Music and Their Unholy Spawn 

Thursday Opening Night at Wicker Park Art Center 

Wrekmeister Harmonies Do Kenneth Anger

Joan of Arc on Joan of Arc

Paul Festa and The Glitter Emergency

Opening the evening will be award-winning filmmaker/musician Paul Festa, who will accompany his short film The Glitter Emergency.

Next, in sound artist J.R. Robinson's latest collaboration, music ensemble  Wrekmeister Harmonies, composed of Trevor deBrau (Pelican), Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors), Mark Shippy (US Maple), Pat Samson (US Maple), Matthew Carson (Miracle Condition), Tamika Reed, David Yow (The Jesus Lizard), John Herndon (Tortoise), will accompany avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger's two masterpieces, Lucifer Rising and Scorpio Rising. The result is a unique hybrid of sound art, music, and moving image.

Finally, at 9:30 pm, Chicago band Joan of Arc will accompany Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc, lending their signature dense, sample-heavy brand of indie rock to create new ways of seeing Dreyer's film.

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Other Venues include Music Box Theatre, Berlin, Heaven Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Big Star, Debonair, Hideout, Nightingale, Shubas Tavern, The Society for the Arts, and Subterranean.