Dec 13–Dec 29

Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol

Chicago,IL

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Jan 08–Mar 09

Leonardo!

Minneapolis, MN

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Jan 25–Feb 16

The Magic City

Chicago, IL

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Mar 01–Mar 02

The Magic City

Costa Mesa, CA

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Mar 28–Apr 06

Leonardo!

Washington, D.C.

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Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol

A holiday show unlike anything you've ever seen

Iron Wine Dilts 06

Iron & Wine Light Verse Tour

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The Magic City

A contemporary adaptation of Edith Nesbit's 1910 novel

David doorway still

Future Feeling

A Manual Cinema original short film

Leonardo!

Sarah Fornace as Mary Shelley bw by Drew Dir

Frankenstein

An adaptation of Mary Shelley's iconic novel

Countdown

Shadow puppetry by Manual Cinema Wilt Chamberlain hero shot

Goliath

Poetry Out Loud Manual Cinema 3

Poetry Out Loud

Witches 2 Manual Cinema

All of Them Witches

Daniel Robitaille in bonfire

Candyman

Chicago Premiere 2022

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The Forger

New York Times Emmy Award winning short film.

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The End of TV

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City On Fire: Chicago 1871

Emily and Giacomettie wave

Leonardo and Sam* The Film!

*The Terrible Monster and the Most Scaredy-Cat Kid in the Whole World

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Scout's Honor

Comedian Whitmer Thomas remembers the summer he spent at Boy Scout camp

Whitman ladybug

Multitudes

Brooks screen grab

We Real Cool

Dream Delivery Service Artwork

MC 10 Year Anniversary

film, theater, music

Oedipus Show Art

Oedipus Rex

Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure

Mementos Mori 4 Drew Dir

Mementos Mori

When death takes an unexpected holiday

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No Blue Memories

The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

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Move Many (Joints)

Invisibilia

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Lula del Ray

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Ada/Ava

Bereaved of her twin sister Ava, septuagenarian Ada solitarily marks time in the patterns of a life built for two.…

Poem

Three WWI Poems

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Obits

Florida Man

Taken from the true-life news stories that spawned many memes, Florida Man is an animated web short created by Manual…

Chicagoland

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