IS THIS THING ON? | April 4, 2025 - 6PM

Tune into Onion City’s sonic program and ask IS THIS THING ON? as ghosts of phone calls, 2000s music videos, and the experimental avant-garde are amplified into a choppy present. The works in this program experiment with falling tones, garbled transmissions, graphic scores, and popping optical tracks. Filmic motion is tempered to the stutters of aural anticipation, harnessing the intensive power of sound in its breakdowns and absences.

Content Warning: flashing light, nudity, some loud noise experiments

TAILWIND | April 5, 2025 - 2:00PM

Pack the trunk and we are hitting the road, baby! This program is a collection of roadtrip memories, travelogues, family movies, and film diaries. There’s a revisit of a historic journey, a daydream in a parking lot, and—remember the solar eclipse last year that passed through the Midwest right after Onion City, on April 8? Filmmakers were not going to miss that good opportunity to make films. They are the star chasers, and their cameras, as we shall say with Jonas Mekas, “The camera is always running!”

VIVID DETAIL | April 5, 2025 - 4:00PM

See through new eyes in VIVID DETAIL with works that explore the outer reaches of mind-body experience under conditions of heightened awareness and temporal contraction. The films in this program chart the visceral potential of augmented perception brought on by medical interventions, brushes with death, and erotic encounter.

Content Warning: flashing light, nudity, discussion of death and/or dying, medical imagery, including some blood