Matinee
Film Identifier: F.2004-02-0087
Part Of: Jack Behrend Collection, 1932-2001
Run Time
0h 13m 37s
0h 13m 37s
Format
16mm
16mm
Color
B&W
B&W
Sound
Optical
Optical
Date Produced
1972
1972
Abstract
A band of mysterious performers show up in small-town Illinois for a magic show with a horrific twist.
Made for a class project at Columbia College Chicago by student Arthur "Buzz" Hirsch, Matinee was shot on location at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. The film gained a cult following within magician circles and was used as a teaching tool about misogyny and the mistreatment of women in the magic community.
A band of mysterious performers show up in small-town Illinois for a magic show with a horrific twist.
Made for a class project at Columbia College Chicago by student Arthur "Buzz" Hirsch, Matinee was shot on location at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. The film gained a cult following within magician circles and was used as a teaching tool about misogyny and the mistreatment of women in the magic community.
Main Credits
Hirsch, Arthur (is director)
Additional Credit
Block, Sam (is editor)
Bourgeois, James (is contributor)
Dybel, Pal (is contributor)
Hirsch, Arthur (is writer)
Hirsch, Arthur (is editor)
Johnson, Don (is lighting director)
Key, Larry (music)
Lyman, Charles (is contributor)
O'Brien, Herb (is contributor)
Rutledge, Robin (is contributor)
Sabas, Lynne (sound)
Sipusich, Tony (sound)
Steeve, Susan (is contributor)
Actors, Performers and Participants
Brown, Florence (is actor)
Erhart, Thomas (is actor)
Haze, Stan (is actor)
Middleton, James (is actor)
Related Place
Illinois (production location of)