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The 4th Witch
Manual Cinema’s The 4th Witch is a fantastic new tale, inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which a girl…
The Magic City
Leonardo!
Manual Cinema Presents: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster
Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so…
Poetry Out Loud
Future Feeling
The Forger
The Forger is an Emmy Award-winning and Peabody Award-
nominated documentary short, produced by The New York Times.…
Future Feeling
Equal parts haunted-house mystery and climate fiction, Future Feeling tells the story of family who wakes up on a Nantucket beach to find a mysterious house--with no memory of how they got there. As the parents retrace…
The Forger
Emmy Award-winning score and sound design
Frankenstein
Love, loss, and creation merge in unexpected ways as Manual Cinema presents its thrilling version of the classic Gothic tale Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Love, loss, and creation merge in unexpected ways as Manual Cinema presents its thrilling version of the classic Gothic…
Florida Man
We Real Cool
Leonardo and Sam* The Film!
*THE TERRIBLE MONSTER AND THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT KID IN THE WHOLE WORLD, RESPECTIVELY
Lula del Ray
Ada/Ava
Bereaved of her twin sister Ava, septuagenarian Ada solitarily marks time in the patterns of a life built for two.…
No Blue Memories
THE LIFE OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS
No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks brings to life the story of one of Chicago’s most beloved figures. She was an icon, a poet laureate, and a Pulitzer Prize winner—but she was…
My Soul's Shadow
Manual Cinemaʼs adaptation of Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic opera accompanied by a live orchestra and vocalists
Chicagoland
Just A Dog
Just A Dog is a short documentary film directed by Andrea B. Scott, with an original score written, produced, recorded and mixed by Manual Cinema Co-Artistic Directors Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter.
In a nation bristling…