NEW NIPPON: CONTEMPORARY FILM & VIDEO FROM JAPAN
Thursday, December 3, 6pm
Akino Kondoh, “Ladybirds’ Requiem,” 2005-6. Courtesy the Artist and Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo.
In a nation that is geographically isolated yet always looking outward, rooted in ancient tradition while existing at the forefront of technological innovation, the complexion of contemporary Japanese moving image is like no other. This evening’s program brings together [...]
VARIABLE AREA: HEARING AND SEEING SOUND, 1966–78
Thursday, November 12, 6pm | Art Lange, Guillermo Gregorio and Brian Labycz in person!
Still from The Gypsy Cried (Chris Langdon, 1972). Courtesy the artist.
Experimental Sound Studio’s Outer Ear Festival of Sound and CATE team up once again to present a program of films that investigate the visual and aural possibilities of 16mm optical [...]
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S.
Thursday, April 9, 6pm | Curator Chris Hill in person!
People’s Communications Network, Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison (1973). Image courtesy of the Video Data Bank.
In 1995, the Video Data Bank published “Surveying the First Decade,” a massive, 16-hour anthology of nearly 70 titles from artists and media-makerswho defined the first decade of [...]
The Dance Camera: Locked & Loaded
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6pm | Curator Danièle Wilmouth in person!
Read the Chicago Reader capsule by Andrea Gronvall here.
Miranda Pennell, Tattoo (2001). Image courtesy of the artist.
In an effort to dispel the notion that the dance film is largely a decorative and apolitical genre, The Dance Camera: Locked & Loaded is an international [...]
15 Years of the Chicago Underground Film Festival
Thursday, October 2, 6pm | Festival director Bryan Wendorf and CUFF filmmakers in person!
Roger Ebert once said of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, “What you get for your money is not just admission to the films, but admission to a subculture.” For 15 years, CUFF has exhibited the vibrant media emerging from Chicago’s schools, production [...]
Falling Out of Time: New Documentaries from the Former Soviet Europe
Thursday, April 3, 6pm | Curators Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby in person!
Igor Strembitsky, Wayfarers (2005). Image courtesy of the artist.
Once the home of state-sponsored social realism, the former Soviet Europe has given rise to a new breed of documentary, revising its realist tradition with the observational ambiguities and formal rigor more familiar to experimental [...]
CameraLESS Films / Movies without Cameras
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 6pm | Curator Jodie Mack in person!
Thorsten Fleisch, Kosmos (2004). Image courtesy of the artist.
For over one hundred years, filmmakers have found ways to emancipate themselves from advanced photographic processes and make films without cameras—by drawing, painting, scratching, or adhering figures and objects directly onto filmstrips. Whether produced meticulously frame-by-frame or [...]
Clandestinos! Mapping Cuba’s Digital Audiovisual Landscape
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 6pm | Cristina Venegas in person!
In recent years, Cuba has witnessed an explosion of independent media, ushered in by a dynamic new generation of artists and filmmakers and the increasing availability of digital technologies. Presented as part of a month-long series of Cuban film and video at the Film Center, this [...]
Cinema of Prayoga: Indian Experimental Films
Thursday, September 6, 2007, 6pm
For nearly a century, Indian filmmakers have drawn on the country’s rich aesthetic traditions to craft radically original works. Despite the international popularity of Bollywood, the country’s “Cinema of Prayoga” (which loosely translates as cinema of “experiment” in Sanskrit) remains largely unknown. Curated by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza of [...]
LTTR: The Dead, The Absent and Fictitious
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 6pm
LTTR in person!
LTTR (K8 Hardy, Emily Roysdon, Ulrike Mueller, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi) is a radically vibrant feminist art collective. Post-punk and gender-queer, their exuberant activist practice includes international curatorial projects, community-based workshops, screenings, and an annual self-published arts journal-enthusing a growing community of artists and thinkers. Tonight’s program exemplifies LTTR’s [...]
