Projectionists Draw Projectors

A found projector drawing, from a box of film ordered from eBay.

BILL MORROW drew this projector-video-digital workflow at Orphans Midwest in 2013. He runs Footage File, a stock footage and research agency.

JASON STEC is the Film \ Video Technician for the Department of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. This is his drawing of Mathias Poledna's 2013 work IMITATION OF LIFE, currently on display in the Modern Wing. [INFO]

ASIA HARMAN shows films at The Bishop in Bloomington, IN.

STEPHEN PARR runs Oddball Film + Video in San Francisco, CA. He drew this projector at Orphans Midwest.

SKIP ELSHEIMER drew this 16mm projector and this filmstrip projector at Orphans Midwest. He is also the man behind A/V Geeks.

PETER CONHEIM was a projectionist in 4th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, in his basement, and at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM.

BOB BASANICH drew this after a Negativland show at the Empty Bottle. He was a projectionist at the Skyline Drive-In Theater in Shelton, WA and at the Capitol Theater in Olympia, WA.

J B MABE drew this triptych. He has projected at: • The University of South Carolina • The Columbia Museum of Art - Columbia, SC • The Chopin Theatre - Chicago, IL • Heaven Gallery - Chicago, IL • Doc Films - Chicago, IL • Cinema Borealis - Chicago, IL • Nickelodeon Theater - Columbia, SC • Chicago Filmmakers • Wicker Park Arts Center - Chicago, IL • Chicago 8 Fest • The Nightingale - Chicago, IL • Chicago Underground Film Festival • Onion City Film Festival - Chicago, IL • NWA - Chicago, IL ...and only two of them were paying gigs!

DANIEL drew this one. It's taped to the wall of the booth at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL.

LYRA HILL projects at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, IL and runs Brain Frame. She is currently raising funds for a film about "a sleepover, a séance, and the singular aesthetic capabilities of 16mm film."

JEREMIAH JONES has put up some films at locations such as: Olympia backyard art shows, his own bedroom, parking lots, the guggenheim museum, school, Austin Texas, Bushwick art parties, the bathroom, on snow, on an alley wall, on a pile of socks, on naked people, on surfaces that didn't work, the internet.

CHRIS MAY has projected at his house, Bug Theater [Denver, CO], MALBA, and at the Austrian Film Museum.

JEANNINE WOLF used projectors and supervised A/V at Lawson Elementary School, Chicago, IL from 1969-1980.

GEORGE WOLF, SR. was a projectionist at Morton Career Academy in 1967.

ALEX BOHAN has projected at the Portage Theater, the Patio Theater, and at South School Elementary in Chicago.