Director: João Pombeiro
Duration: 4’
Synopsis:
A palimpsest of history, politics, and art, “Chicago” is an ode to the Midwest’s largest city and its people. This film travels across time periods and neighbourhoods in a poetic collage of community and culture: cutout photographs of children sitting in front of reconstructed streetscapes, animated snippets depict cars from today and decades earlier driving next to each other, and the El runs through the background. Created as a music video for Lance Skiiiwalker, the layered imagery mirrors the composition, which infuses audio clips from civil rights-era speeches, police sirens, and news broadcasts into Skiiwalker’s otherwise soft, jazzy track. Opening on the South Side and travelling downtown, “Chicago” is a profound, nostalgic consideration of the activism, pride, and compassion that have shaped the city.
