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Presented by Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio’s The Quarantine Concerts series, Every house has a door screened the two short quarantine films made in Fall and Winter 2020–2021 while under lockdown. Developed from material from our indefinitely postponed live performance series Carnival of the Animals.

Aquarium (13:36) surveys an impossible ecosystem of three endangered sea entities, featuring performances by Bryan Saner as The Lesser Electric Ray, Elise Cowin as The Eyelash Seaweed, and Alex Bradley Cohen as Limestone, and the original Aquarium Song written and performed by Madeleine Aguilar, with lyrics from a poem by Ed Roberson.

Characters with Long Ears (12:06) attunes to sounds outside of the human range of audible frequencies and those characters who hear them, featuring performances by Alex Bradley Cohen, Elise Cowin, Isaac Cresswell, Sky Cubacub, and Bryan Saner, with narration written by Matthew Goulish.

Following the screening, members of the collaborative team reflected on the experience of making the films. They discussed individual creative approaches and experiences of working during the pandemic.