Chicago Institute for the Moving Image
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The Chicago Institute for the Moving Image, or CIMI
, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to including audiences and filmmakers who have been overlooked by mainstream media.
Founded in 2000 by Joshua Flanders
, their first seminar "Intention, Movement, Perception" examined the connection between intention and action in the arts, sciences, and religion. Featured presenters were Paul Sills
, a director and founding member of The Second City
, who presented the Spolin Technique of improvisation, named after his mother Viola Spolin
, and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, author of "This Is For Everyone: Universal Principals of Healing Prayer and the Jewish Mystics".
In 2001, they formed a think tank on the subject of "Deaf Cinema", in order to address the specific needs of deaf audiences at a deaf film festival setting.
In 2002, they founded the Festival for Cinema of the Deaf
and held consecutive festivals and think tanks in 2003 and 2004 in Chicago, as well as festivals in Tampa, Boston and Texas.
WTTW story on CIMI
CIMI
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, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to including audiences and filmmakers who have been overlooked by mainstream media.
Founded in 2000 by Joshua Flanders
Joshua Flanders
Joshua Flanders is the founder of the Chicago Institute for the Moving Image and the Festival for Cinema of the Deaf.-External links:**...
, their first seminar "Intention, Movement, Perception" examined the connection between intention and action in the arts, sciences, and religion. Featured presenters were Paul Sills
Paul Sills
Paul Sills was a director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City.-Biography:...
, a director and founding member of The Second City
The Second City
The Second City is a improvisational comedy enterprise which originated in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.The Second City Theatre opened on December 16, 1959 and has since expanded its presence to several other cities, including Toronto and Los Angeles...
, who presented the Spolin Technique of improvisation, named after his mother Viola Spolin
Viola Spolin
Viola Spolin was an important innovator of the American theater in the 20th century. She created directorial techniques to help actors to be focused in the present moment and to find choices improvisationally, as if in real life...
, and Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, author of "This Is For Everyone: Universal Principals of Healing Prayer and the Jewish Mystics".
In 2001, they formed a think tank on the subject of "Deaf Cinema", in order to address the specific needs of deaf audiences at a deaf film festival setting.
In 2002, they founded the Festival for Cinema of the Deaf
Festival for Cinema of the Deaf
The Festival for Cinema of the Deaf was founded by Joshua Flanders who founded and ran the Chicago Institute for the Moving Image , a not-for-profit film organization, and was the first deaf film festival in North America....
and held consecutive festivals and think tanks in 2003 and 2004 in Chicago, as well as festivals in Tampa, Boston and Texas.
WTTW story on CIMI