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During a recent experimental film screening, we tried to count experimental film clichés. We failed: There are way too many. Nudity, oceans, and apartment bathrooms are a very few of the images in this category, and of course, screeching noise heads the list of shit you’ll definitely experience at a student screening. This is all very unfair, though: We love that stuff when it’s done thoughtfully and skillfully. At “Luminous Triptych,” three experimental filmmakers show the high end of the maligned genre. Angelina Krahn’s habit of sewing directly on her images makes her nudity meaningful, for example, while Karen Johannesen’s intense edits grow from her study of quantum physics, and Rick Bahto’s use of his immediate surroundings aptly “suggests the incompleteness of any one image,” as noted by the Chicago Reader. Mr. Bahto appears in person.
Mon., Oct. 12, 8 p.m., 2009