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SUMMARY:A Brief History of Chasing Storms
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nProgram 7:30p\nTickets $12[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWe’re delighted to present Curtis Miller’s A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHASING STORMS! The film presents a history of the tornado as both a destructive weather event and an American icon. Local monuments to past tornadoes intertwine with mythologies of settlement and displacement. An amateur storm chaser questions his own agency and fate. The CEO of a Wizard of Oz-themed storm shelter company describes a growing market in a world of increasing weather uncertainty. Unfolding episodically\, questions of memory\, inequality\, colonization\, climate change\, and disaster capitalism arise as the film examines legacies of weather within the region colloquially known as “tornado alley.” Curtis will be present for a conversation following the screening with writer\, editor and arts-worker\, Julia Gunnison. \nCome through! \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \n\nA Brief History of Chasing Storms\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]16mm and 4K video / 70 minutes[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nWatch the conversation between Presenter1\, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Watch” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” align=”center” css_animation=”bounceIn”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”163180″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Curtis Miller is an artist and educator working across film\, video\, photography\, and publication. His work often takes the American Midwest as both site and subject. His films have screened internationally at the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival\, Antimatter\, Chicago International Film Festival\, DMZ Documentary Festival\, EXiS\, IDFA\, Mimesis Documentary Festival\, and Visions du Réel\, as well as the Hyde Park Arts Center\, Indiana University Cinema\, and the Renaissance Society\, among others. Other venues for performance\, printed matter\, and installations include the Chicago Artist Book Fair\, MdW Art Fair\, College Arts Association\, Gallery 400\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and various artist-run projects and spaces throughout the Midwest. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, the City Colleges of Chicago\, and most recently as lecturer for the Department of Art\, Theory\, and Practice at Northwestern University. In 2025\, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”152993″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Julia Gunnison is a writer\, editor\, and arts worker based in Brooklyn\, New York. Her essays\, reviews\, and interviews have appeared in Film Comment\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Reverse Shot\, Screen Slate\, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. Her interests include nonfiction film forms and urban space on screen. \nShe is a 2024–26 UNDO Fellow with UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. Through the fellowship\, she is editing a book of essays in collaboration with filmmaker Courtney Stephens\, to be published later this year. Julia is also an alumna of the 2024 Film at Lincoln Center Critics Academy and the 2023–24 Reverse Shot Emerging Critics Workshop. \nShe is the co-founder and co-editor of Syllabus\, a web publication for nontraditional syllabi that explores how a syllabus can become a creative tool. \nShe has served as a reviewer and juror for the Sundance Institute\, the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School\, the International Documentary Association\, the Miller Foundation\, and the Catapult Film Fund\, among others\, and has moderated Q+A’s at the IFC Center and UnionDocs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_media_grid style=”pagination” items_per_page=”1″ element_width=”12″ arrows_design=”vc_arrow-icon-arrow_01_left” arrows_position=”outside” arrows_color=”white” loop=”yes” item=”136647″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1781535225010-72e1ec06-031f-9″ include=”147747\,147746\,147745″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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