Employees Only is thrilled to present Ben Russell: AGAINST TIME at @facetschicago in partnership with @videodatabank on Tuesday, April 8 at 7pm. Ben Russell in person. Tickets in @employeesonly_cineclub bio.

Russell is on a mini-tour around the US, presenting his latest feature DIRECT ACTION co-directed with Guillaume Cailleau, as well as other features and shorts from his extensive career.

Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in collaboration with composer/laptop-ist Carl Stone. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data.

The evening opens with a solo set by Stone.

Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd, for the premiere of M Woods' feature film DAILIES FROM DUMPLAND.

With support from the Foundation for Contemporary Art and Lightcone, Disassociative Productions presents THE DEATH SPIRAL TOUR 2025 featuring M Woods’ three critically-acclaimed feature films, Dailies From Dumpland, Body Prop, and Commodity Trading. This independently-produced tour is dedicated to the spirit of David Lynch and other radical auteurs who created their own methods of distribution.