Monster Lotería Program Synopsis
The Monster Lotería Tour program is a willfully eclectic mix of work from Jim Finn and Arthur Jones, two very different filmmakers who come out of Chicago's small but productive D.I.Y. art community. Jim Finn's films are collages of his home videos, excerpts from TV and Hollywood movies and found footage, and are about love, politics and his pets. His latest series of shorts, entitled "La Lotería," is a group of experimental music videos loosely based on Mexican "Lotería" bingo cards. Also included in the program is his three-minute cult classic "wustenspringmaus" a homage to the most capitalist of rodents, the gerbil. Arthur Jones is touring his newest work, "Monster Team," a 17 minute animation that looks like a standard Saturday morning children's cartoon, but dwells on adult themes like depression, apathy, and emotional paralysis. As a part of the screening Jones will show some of his other animated shorts and personally present an illustrated power point presentation. The evening promises a little something for everyone and the filmmakers will be open for a Q & A afterwards.

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