Release Date
2025-12-01
Status
Released
Original Title
AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE: KURT HEYL
Runtime
11 min
Original Language
EN
Production Countries
United States of America
Overview
Before Brakhage and Landow, there was Kurt Heyl, a South Side native, musician, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s first film student, who briefly held together that school’s experimental film program with spit, spirit, and stubborn grit. Built from Heyl’s own words and images, this video essay kicks off the Chicago Media Histories Project with a rough-edged tribute to a nearly forgotten chapter in underground cinema.
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