Join us as we officially celebrate our 5th annual CFA Media Mixer! CFA’s annual video remix-centric benefit returns with an impressive lineup of video premieres, performances, DJs and raffle prizes. Michelle Puetz and Peter Margasak will be co-masters of ceremonies, with sounds from DJ Benny Backwash. At the heart of this fabulously fun event is the PREMIERE of 3 video collaborations made entirely with footage from CFA.
The way this works: CFA asks three artists to make a short video piece using footage from CFA’s collections and then to turn that piece over to a sound artist/musician who records a score specifically for the piece. In other words:
• CFA footage x 3 filmmakers x 3 audio artists
• Shake them up
• Throw 3 magical sight and sound creations up on the screen
This year’s talented line-up includes (filmmakers listed first):
Melika Bass + Coppice
Jon Cates + Jeff Kolar
Andrew Mausert-Mooney + Bobby Conn
(more on this year’s artists here)
PURCHASE ADVANCE TICKETS HERE
AND so many great raffle and silent auction prizes in store! Raffle tickets will be sold before and during the event and awarded the night of the Media Mixer (you don’t have to be there to win!). Silent Auction entries will only be available at the event.
RAFFLE PRIZES include:
- 2 tickets for Chicago Sinfonietta’s Día de los Muertos concert on Halloween night featuring CFA’s Danse Macabre – 2 winners
- Anatolia Kurdish Kitchen Basket of Baked Goods
- Gift certificates for any DMK restaurants
- Four tickets to Up Comedy Club: Improv and Sketch Comedy
- AMC Movie Theater gift card
- 2 reserved tickets for White Sox games
- 1-year membership to the Music Box Theatre
- Autographed photo of David Ross from the Chicago Cubs
- Two tickets for any show at Bottom Lounge
- Lou Malnati’s gift card
- Four tickets for Second City
- 1-year regular membership to the Art Institute of Chicago
- Gene Siskel Film Center Membership for 2 (one year)
- Cards Against Humanity game – 2 winners
- Ray Ban sunglasses donated by Pearle Vision Old
- Autographed photo of Chicago Bears Pernell McPhee, Jay Cutler, Kyle Long and Kyle Fuller
- Pair of three-day passes to the Pitchfork Music Festival
- Two Bulls tickets + parking pass
- 1 bottle Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon 40th Anniversary
- Whiskey Tasting at Delilah’s
- 2 tickets to see Neko Case/k.d. lang/Laura Veirs at Chicago Theatre (August 7, 2016)
- Early 1980s vintage Fuji bicycle — 60-day warranty and can be exchanged to suit height
SILENT AUCTION PRIZES include:
- Four Cubs tickets (10 rows up from visiting team’s on-deck circle)
- Beautiful hand carved table by Frank Sullivan of Reclaimed Table
All proceeds from the CFA MEDIA MIXER go to benefit the Chicago Film Archives and their efforts to identify, preserve and provide access to the Midwest’s audio-visual heritage. CFA MEDIA MIXER gives CFA fans a chance to support the efforts of both CFA and local artists at the same time!
Endless thanks to our sponsors:
The Hideout, Music Box Theatre, Gene Siskel Film Center, Reclaimed Table, Chicago Sinfonietta, Delilah’s, Chicago Eye Doctors