2022
NOV 9th
First Nations Film and Video Festival: Once upon a time in Huasco Alto
NOV 2nd,
Soft Cage Films Presents: Resistimos
OCT 12th to the 23rd
Chicago International Film Festival After Dark
OCT 26th,
Comfort Film Halloween Presents: Eyes of Fire (1983)
OCT 19th,
Comfort Film Halloween Presents: Animated Forgotten Horror Shorts
OCT 12th,
Comfort Film Presents: The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
OCT 7th,
Rubén Galindro Jr. Frights! Double Feature
OCT 5th,
Comfort Film Halloween: Live-Action Forgotten Horror Shorts
SEP 28th,
Released and Abandoned Forgotten Oddities of the Home Video Era Presents: Hawk Jones (1986)
SEP 21st,
Kino x 3: In the Name of Scheherezade or the First Beer Garden in Tehran
SEP 14th,
Comfort Film Presents: Despiser (2003)
SEP 7th,
Kino x 3: Alexander Kluge – SHORTFILMS FROM 1960 TO 1970
SEP 6th,
First Tuesdays: Provo
AUG 31st,
Silent Film and Loud Music Present: The Cat & the Canary (1927) with a live score by LNR TMB
AUG 24th,
Silent Film and Loud Music Present: A live music score for A Page Of Madness (1926)
AUG 17th,
Comfort Film Silent Films and Loud Music Series Presents: THE BLUE BIRD (1918)
AUG 10th,
Silent Film and Loud Music Present: Mukqs with a live score for An Optical Poem and more.
AUG 3rd,
Silent Film and Loud Music Present: Coupler with a live score of The Bat (1926)
JULY 27th,
Comfort Film Presents: The Unicorn Tales of Nick De Noia
JULY 20th,
Comfort Film: The Alley Cat (2015) by Marie Ullrich
WED JULY 13th,
Comfort Film: Films of Irving Gamboa : Death and Transfiguration
WED JULY 6th,
Comfort Film : James Fotopoulos TIMON (2020)
WED JUN 29th,
Released and Abandoned: Forgotten Oddities of the Home Video Era presents: Nightmare Weekend (1986)
WED JUN 22nd
Comfort Film: Former Prairie: Alternative Views of Chicago on Film
WED JUN 15th
Mezcla Movie Night @ Comfort Station
WED JUN 8,
Comfort Film: DON’T LET THE RIVERBEAST GET YOU! (2012)
TUE JUNE 7,
Midwest Film Festival: CODE OF THE FREAKS
TUE, JUNE 7
Midwest Film Festival: CODE OF THE FREAKS
WED JUN 1,
Comfort Film: The Great Chicago Conspiracy Circus
WED MAY 25,
Released and Abandoned: Forgotten Oddities of the Home Video Era presents: STAR TIME (1992)
WED MAY 18,
Comfort Film: Guest Curator Dena Springer
TUE MAY 3,
MIDWEST FILM FESTIVAL FIRST TUESDAYS: ALTERNATIVE TAKES
TUE APRIL 5,
Midwest Film Festival: RELATIVE (+ Filmmaker Q&A)
FRI MARCH 11,
Violencia & Supervivencia: Lo Que Perdimos
WED MARCH 9,
Trayectos: A Dónde Vamos | Journeys: Where We Go
TUE MARCH 8,
Nostalgia & Memoria: Lo Que Dejamos Atrás | Nostalgia & Memory: What We Leave Behind
TUE MARCH 1,
BEST OF THE MIDWEST SHOWCASE
APRIL 5th,
First Tuesdays: Relative
2021
October 2nd
The Dilemma of Desire, Midwest Film Festival
October 6th
ALTERED STATES part of the Musicbox of Horrors Drive Inn Series.
October 13th to the 24th
After Dark Series. Part of the Chicago International Film Festival 2021 edition.
October 23rd
Unbound Sound: Radical Futures
December 7th
CELEBRATING WOMXN VOICES part of the Midwest Film Festival.
WED, SEP 29, 2021
Solidarity Cinema screening of WORKING GIRLS (1986)
FRI, SEP 24, 2021
Screening: “This Is Indian Land, Okee-Chee’s Vision” by Sharon Okee-Chee Skolnick
FRI, SEP 17, 2021
Art Kills: Movie Marathon & Artist Talk with Sherwin Ovid
WED, SEP 15, 2021
Born & Raised Series Premiere
WED, SEP 8, 2021
Revolutionary Puerto Rican and Chilean NYC Underground Films by Jaime Barrios
WED, AUG 25, 2021
Silent Films and Loud Music: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
WED, AUG 18, 2021
Released and Abandoned: Forgotten Oddities of the Home Video Era presents: Chains (1989)
WED, AUG 11, 2021
Goats and GOATS: A Jumble of Experimental Film (and other surprises!)
WED, AUG 4, 2021
Ethereal_interface Presents: dream_logs A visual album on VHS
WED, JUL 21, 2021
FRANKENTHOLOGIES: THE MOVIES THAT WEREN’T MOVIES
WED, JUL 14, 2021
ASIAN POP-UP CINEMA Presents: SAMURAI MARATHON 1855 ( 2019)
WED, JUL 7, 2021
Chicago Film Society presents: Project Yourself! Greatest Hits
WED, JUN 30, 2021
Silent Films and Loud Music: Faust (1926) with Los Black Dogs
WED, JUN 23, 2021
Released and Abandoned: Forgotten Oddities of the Home Video Era presents: Crime Wave (1985)
WED, JUN 16, 2021
Comfort Film Presents: Church Basement Cinema with Jason Coffman
WED, JUN 9, 2021
Nothing Is Too Small for a Revolution: Anarchist Films by Nick Macdonald w/South Side Projections
WED, JUN 2, 2021
Comfort Film Guest Curator Series: Ritika Kaushik: “Phantoms of the Past”: a program of short films
2020
October 2nd
Comfort Film Halloween: Shakma (1990)
October 9th
Comfort Film Halloween: Blood Lake (1987)
October 16th
Comfort Film Halloween: ALIEN ZONE AKA HOUSE of the DEAD (1978)
October 23rd
Comfort Film Halloween: The Soul Tangler (1987)
November 6th
Ismo ismo ismo : Altered Surfaces: Psychedelia and Abstraction
December 3rd
El Santo Double Feature
May 2020
CHICAGO CINEMA EXCHANGE: MEXICO CITY
August 19th, 2020
Socially Distant Outdoor Film Screenings: The Pink Egg (2017)
August 26, 2020
Socially Distant Outdoor Film Screenings: Big Eat Meater (1982)
September 2nd, 2020
Socially Distant Outdoor Film Screenings: Sombra Verde AKA Untouched (1954)
September 9th, 2020
Socially Distant Outdoor Film Screenings: Crime Wave (1985)
October 13th, 2020
LA LLORONA (1933) screening as part of the Musicbox of Horrors.
2019
JUN 19
Silent Films and Loud Music Series: The Monster (1925)
JUN 26
Silent Films and Loud Music Series: Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923
JUL 2
Church Basement Cinema Presents: Quadrus Films
JUL 10
Nasa Moon Landing 50th anniversary screening.
JUL 17
Los Olvidados (1950) on 16mm film.
July 18th
Walking WITH the limits of gender.
JUL 24
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) on 16mm Film.
August 6th
Cut Short: A mini-mashup video series
August 14th
Damaged Goods Web Series (2019)
August 28th
The Beaver Trilogy (2000)
MADE IN CHICAGO INDIE FILM SERIES
July 8: Women in Film Night
August 12: Chicagoland Shorts Night
September 9: LatinX Shorts Night
2018
April 23rd
Guest Curator Series: Emily Hutchings
April 25th
Guest curator series presents “I’m not sure what you mean?”
May 2nd
Innu Nikamu : Chanter la résistance
May 4th
The Art of Sitting Quietly & Doing Nothing (2018)
May 9th
Guest Curator Series: Hiromi Ueyoshi
May 29th
Screening: Chicagoland Shorts Vol 4 at the MCA Chicago.
May 30th
Released and Abandoned: VHS Trailer-a-rama.
2017
November 1st
November 3rd
Lost Landscapes a night with Rick Prelinger.
November 8th
November 10th
2017 First Nations Film And Video Festival
November 11th
Cimmfest 2017 Shorts Film program at Comfort Film.
November 12th
Cimmfest screening of: David Bowie: The Last Five Years
November 12th
2017 CIMMfest, Student Film Showcase
November 15th
Chicagoland Shorts vol 3 Remix
November 29th
Released and Abandoned: Cleo/Leo (1989)
October 4th
Halloween at Comfort Film: Iced (1988)
October 11th
Halloween at Comfort Film: Project Nightmare (1987)
October 13th
October 17th
The Search for WENG WENG Screening and Book Launch
October 18th
Halloween at Comfort Film: Unmasked: Part 25 (1989)
October 25th
Halloween at Comfort Film: The Brain (1988)
September 27th
Released and Abandon: Shredder Orpheus (1990)
September 22nd
Video! Video! Video Festival Day 2
September 20th
LiMeNites at Comfort Station Present Programmer’s Cut Uncensored
September 13th
Santo y Blue Demon vs Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1973)
September 8th
Group 312 Films: 2017 Annual Report
September 7th
Cuban Experimental Short Films
September 6th
El Santo 100th Anniversary! El Santo vs Las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)
August 30th
Released and Abandoned: Whatever Happened to Susan Jane (1982)
August 23rd
Unearthed Cinema, the Esoteric and Arcane films of Irving Gamboa
August 20th
A retrospective of the Chicago Anarchist Film Festival.
August 16th
Odds and Ends Ephemera. Works on 16mm and 8mm film.
August 9th
Cosmos A Personal Journey on 16mm.
August 4th – 6th
James Fotopoulos: A three day Retrospective.
August 2nd
The Devil & Themselves: films by JB Mabe.
July 27th
July 26th
Echo Haus vs Lorelei live score to 1915 Alice in Wonderland
July 21st
Comfort Film Presents: “official Selection 2016 Censorship & Free Speech”
July 19th
Digital Gnosis live score of A Trip to the Moon (1902)
July 13th
Within Our Gates (1920) with a live score by Paul Giallorenzo
July 11th
Silent Theatre Company live score of LuLu
July 5th
Volcano Radar(Miller/Barilari)Matt Lux/Dan Bitney – L’Inferno
June 28th
June 7th
The POWER Project: ‘Stranded by the State’ Screening
May 31st
Released and Abandoned: WNFU Halloween Special
May 24th
Daily Grindhouse Presents: Lucasploitation
May 17th
Comfort Film presents: Open TV Re-Presents
May 10th
Werewolves, Clowns, Perverts, and Cops
May 3rd
Comfort Film Presents Machinima Report
April 27th 2017
HER ENVIRONMENT
Mantel (part 1)
April 26th
TIPS 4 Tingles a live ASMR experience curated by Hanna M. Owens
Apirl 19th
Released and Abandoned: The Kill-Off (1989)
April 12th
Sinema Obscura presents: Animation Compilation @Comfort Station
April 7th
Comfort Film and Odd Obsession Present: Incall
April 5th
The Greatest House in the World/ La Casa Mas Grande del Mundo
March 31st 2017
Comfort Station Logan Square for Comfort Film
An Evening of Cinematic Works by Layne Marie Williams
March 29th 2017
Comfort Station Logan Square for Comfort Film
Video! Video! Zine! April issue
March 4th 2017
Panelist for Mapping Cinema in the City.
Hosted by Black Cinema House, in conjunction with University of Chicago’s “Chicago Film Cultures” course.
February 11th 2017
Nightingale Cinema
February 10th 2017
Hyde Park Art Center
Comfort Film
Hyde Park Art Center screening of Phantom of the Opera (1925)
2016
October 19th 2016
Nightingale Cinema
Between Worlds
Spirits, Psyhics, Vortex
The 20th Montly Wretched Nobles.
August 25th 2016
Nightingale Cinema
Chicagoland Shorts Vol 2
August 19th 2016
Nightingale Cinema
Chicago called Fire After The Sun.
July of 2016
Acre TV
Vico, Videoclub of Expanded Operation