THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Driving Force” (Oct 27-Nov 2)

Written By Michael Workman

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Description
Driving Force journeys through the banality of ecocide, circling metaphorical parallels in the capitalist treatment of nature, workers, and women. The gray protagonist ponders impending cataclysm and whether or not to have children.

Runtime: 17 minutes 17 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Joanie Wind
Joanie Wind (b. 1987, she/they) is a painter and video artist from Tucson, Arizona. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Eastern Michigan University in 2015. They now live and teach art in the Detroit area and exhibit their work internationally.

Credits:

Project Type: Animation, Experimental, Short
Runtime: 17 minutes 17 seconds
Completion Date: October 7, 2022
Production Budget: 0 USD
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Shooting Format: digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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