chicagoans
28:32 min I usa/de – 2018/2021
I experimental documentary
Chicago, USA, Metropolitan Area of almost 10 million residents, place of the worlds first skyscraper and once biggest meatpacking district, presents itself as ‘City of Neighborhoods’.
Eight female voices, of early or recent migration to Chicago, in a wide range of age and coming from different cultures and ethnicities.
Their life’s stories, presented in the aural dimension, form echoing patterns of recurring motifs – interwoven through all the distinctive properties of each intonation, rhythm and story.
An urban concretion of abstract structures in monumental and reworked camera takes hovers between the nightmarish and beautiful – with heightened emphatic listening to these female voices of Chicago…