DOC CHICAGO @ Chicago Filmmakers
Doc Chicago is teaming up with Chicago Filmmakers to offer documentary screenings + discussions with an emphasis on regionally produced work alongside national and international releases that are not widely available in theaters or via streaming. Check out past programs here.
For filmmakers: if you'd like us to consider one of your own films for DOC CHICAGO @ Chicago Filmmakers programming, please send us an email. Shorts and features welcome!
For filmmakers: if you'd like us to consider one of your own films for DOC CHICAGO @ Chicago Filmmakers programming, please send us an email. Shorts and features welcome!
Friday, February 6, 7pm
AMERICAN DENDRITE
by Adam Marshall Present
With a vintage Super 8 camera in hand, filmmaker Adam Marshall Present traces the path of water flowing from Chicago all the way to the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. Each person he encounters along the way is asked to share stories, memories, or what they are feeling at that specific moment - with their only prompt being to listen to what the previous person up the river has shared. As this “flow of conversation” takes place alongside the Mississippi River, the result is a living time capsule of this pivotal moment in American history.
A wide range of participants express their personal challenges and reasons for hope, uncovering a shared spirit of what it means to be an American right now. American Dendrite (2025, 78 min) is a leisurely, lush road trip that takes full advantage of the cinematic beauty of analog Super 8 film, while shedding light on how the forces of water, geography, and circumstance bind us together.
Followed by a post-screening discussion with Adam Marshall Present.
This event is co-presented by DOC CHICAGO, Chicago Filmmakers, and Friends of the Chicago River.
Please purchase tickets directly at our venue partner Chicago Filmmakers.
Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Please purchase tickets directly at our venue partner Chicago Filmmakers.
Chicago Filmmakers
1326 W Hollywood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
“AMERICAN DENDRITE is a lush, dreamy, and earnest travelogue (...) There’s a poetic sociology that reveals itself in AMERICAN DENDRITE. Made by a Chicagoan, it feels incredibly reminiscent of the city’s great barstool sociologists like Mike Rokyo and Studs Terkel. And much like Terkel's book Division Street, the film uses a road—or in this case a waterway—as both guide and metaphor for America as a whole and allows the people to use their voices to tell their own stories.”
– Raphael Jose Martinez, CINE-FILE
– Raphael Jose Martinez, CINE-FILE