
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

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

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

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

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
Last shots of Bill Clinton before he got Presidential.
New Hampshire Primary

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

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

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.