Patrick Friel, educator and programmer, is very interested in non-narrative and experimental film. Therefore, his five selections totally fit into those designations (well, with one semi-exception), but each of them offer totally different visual experiences and intentions.

Patrick is currently an Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago and has previously taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was also the former Program Director at Chicago Filmmakers and the Festival Director and Programmer of the Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival.

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Films and resources mentioned:

• Little Nemo (1911) - Winsor McCay and J. Stuart Blackton
• I.P. Müller (1911) - Peter Elfelt
• The Carrot Caterpillar (1911) - unknown
• The Two Obadiahs (1911) - unknown
• Technical Color Tests (1911) - Luca Comerio
• Eureka (1979) - Ernie Gehr
• Quo Vadis (1913) - Enrico Quazzoni
• Cabiria (1914) - Giovanni Pastrone
• L’Inferno (1911) - Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, and Adolfo Padovan
• Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) - Winsor McCay
• The Centaurs (1921) - Winsor McCay
• The Municipal Hospital - A Boy with a Seizure (1907) - Peter Elfelt
• I.P. Müller. Mit System (1906) - Peter Elfelt
• Sandow (1894) - William K.L. Dickson
• Olympia (1938) - Leni Riefenstahl
• The Life of a Butterfly (1911) - Roberto Omegna
• Under the Skin (2013) - Jonathan Glazer
• Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (1972) - David Rimmer
• Daisies (1966) - Věra Chytilová
• Timeline of Historical Color