The City in Which
Film and poetry performance
The City in Which is an expanded cinema project based on Chicago poet Li-Young Lee’s “The City In Which I Love You”.
Joshua Dumas and Christy LeMaster distributed fresh rolls of 16mm film to a dozen experimental filmmakers, asking them to respond to the poem and to their own experience of living and making in Chicago. The resulting footage is spliced into a combined short accompanied by a live reading of the poem by Joshua, a performance built from and informed by the filmmakers’ images.
Shot by: Melika Bass, Jeremy Bessoff, Thomas Comerford, Carolyn Faber, Lori Felker, Scott K. Foley, Jason Halprin, Emily Irvine, Marianna Milhorat, Kate Raney, Jerzy Rose, Danièle Wilmouth