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Chicago indie filmmaker Allen Ross made seven films with German filmmaker Christian Bauer. Then he vanished without a trace. Four years after his disappearance, angered by the apathy of the police, Bauer returns to America to find out what happened to his friend. His investigations take him on an increasingly disturbing trail from Chicago’s art scene to satanic sects in Waco and Oklahoma City. Also screening is 16mm film by Allen Ross, The Grandfather Trilogy. Comprised of the ?three short films: Papa, Thanksgiving, 1979, and Burials, it is a moving and ?deeply personal portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather.

A new edit from this event by Mary Billyou and Sabine Gruffat last year.

Edited by Alex Mallis

Edited by Colin Beckett

The whole band was there with a packed house for the “Sleepwalking through the Mekong”discussion. Check out some highlights and scenes from the film.

Edited by Alex Mallis.

Some highlights from a great discussion with filmmakers Jeremy and Randy Stulberg, co-directors of Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa about the practice of approaching and documenting a community as unique as the Mesa’s as well as the some of the related risks and ethical considerations of documentary filmmaking:

Also check out photos of the event posted to our Flickr page

For more information on Off the Grid and the screening

Thanks to Standby.org for partnering with us on this event and video!

Still Lost Bird Music performs “French Lessons”
From the album Sargent Egyptian Girl (on iTunes).