Best annual collaboration between local filmmakers and musicians - Chicago Reader

🎥 Check out the mesmerizing works of art created at the annual Chicago Film Archives Media Mixer, where local filmmakers and musicians collaborate using the Archives' collection of Chicago and Midwest history. | ✍️ Kat Sachs

From Elsewhere by Janelle Vaughn Dowell and Sen Morimoto. Courtesy Chicago Film Archives

Some things may happen annually, but that doesn’t make them any less exciting. The CFA Media Mixer is one such event. Started in 2012, the Media Mixer—put on by Chicago Film Archives —brings together local filmmakers and musicians to make an original work out of footage from the Archives’ immense collection of ephemera concentrated on the history and culture of Chicago and the midwest at large.

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