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Bill Stamets

Bill Stamets

Directing

Biography

Chicago-area freelance writer, photographer, and small gauge filmmaker. He has written (and continues to write) for the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times, and wrote the chapter on film in Art in Chicago: 1945-1995. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, University of Chicago, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Born 1953.

Known For

Novo Dextro: Purity and Danger
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Documentary by Bill Stamets about the American Nazi Party's 1982 rally held in Chicago's Lincoln Park in response to the city's annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.

Novo Dextro: Purity and Danger

1982
Stan Brakhage
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This film consists of loosely assembled footage including a confrontation between abortion-rights advocates, abortion-rights opponents and police at Chicago's Daley Center Plaza (likely during the protest on June 17, 1989 which attracted approximately 5,000 attendees), a brief shot of Soldier Field, a double exposure of a moonlit rural countryside, a close-up of a car passenger's typing hands, a ship’s steering wheel, a street intersection, a camera which lays next to a loosely scattered pack of batteries and a portrait shot of Bill Stamets as he peers through a still camera’s viewfinder.

Stan Brakhage

1989
Chi-Nite Ithaca
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An avant-garde home movie featuring Chicago monuments and activities at night and the lyrical rural beauty and architecture of Ithaca, New York.

Chi-Nite Ithaca

1979
Rock Sox Disco Sux
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Super 8mm film documenting "Disco Demolition Night," which took place after game one of a July 12, 1979 doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood.

Rock Sox Disco Sux

1980
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Last shots of Bill Clinton before he got Presidential.

New Hampshire Primary

1992
Pope Visits Chicagoland
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Which depicts Pope John Paul II’s October 1979 visit to Chicago.

Pope Visits Chicagoland

1979
Boy With a Microphone
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In which a child in the Pacific Northwest narrates his world, interviewing people and animals with equal curiosity.

Boy With a Microphone

1985
Harold is Gone
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An examination of public mourning and political ritual shot in the days following the sudden death of Chicago’s Mayor Harold Washington on November 25, 1987.

Harold is Gone