AN EVENING WITH DARA BIRNBAUM
Thursday, February 11, 6pm | Dara Birnbaum in person!
Still from Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (Dara Birnbaum, 1978-79). Courtesy the Video Data Bank.
Thirty years before the ubiquitous YouTube mash-up, artist Dara Birnbaum hijacked television imagery in a series of coolly ironic videos that recontextualized pop cultural icons (Wonder Woman, Kojak, Laverne & Shirley), TV grammar (inserts, [...]
WORLD PREMIERE: THE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE
Thursday, February 4, 6pm | Thomas Comerford in person!
Still from “The Indian Boundary Line,” 2010. Courtesy the Artist.
Over the last eight years, local musician and filmmaker Thomas Comerford has been at work on a series of quietly-observed films that contemplate the entwined social, political, and environmental histories of Chicago (Figures in the Landscape, 2002; [...]
LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY
Thursday, December 10, 6pm | Ben Russell in person!
Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May (2009). Image courtesy of the artist.
Fresh from its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Chicago-based filmmaker and SAIC alumnus Ben Russell’s stunning feature debut is an epic road movie that draws from documentary and ethnography [...]
An Interview with Joost Rekveld
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s F Newsmagazine sits down with Joost Rekveld, Dutch filmmaker and current head of the ArtScience Interfaculty in The Hague. Read the full story in the October edition of F News.
Joost Rekveld, #23.2 Book of Mirrors, 2007.
F News: In terms of the film work, who would you [...]
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 [...]
ALL TOGETHER NOW: VIDEOS BY HARRY DODGE & STANYA KAHN
Thursday, November 5, 6pm | Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn in person!
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, “Can’t Swallow It, Can’t Spit it Out” (2006). Image courtesy of Elizabeth Dee Gallery.
With a biting yet surprisingly tender wit, Los Angeles performance and video artists Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn couch social critique in bizarre, hilarious, [...]
Mike Hoolboom’s MARK
Thursday, October 22, 6pm | Mike Hoolboom in person!
Image: Mike Hoolboom, Mark (2009). Image courtesy of the artist.
“Society is not first of all a milieu for exchange where the essential would be to circulate or to cause to circulate, but rather a socius of inscription where the essential thing is to mark and [...]
More Details on Hollis Frampton’s SOLARIUMAGELANI and Book Signing
Images from Frampton’s Solarumagelani.
Program Details
Summer Solstice (Solariumagelani) (1974, 16mm, color, silent, 32 min.)
“…the operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice–I hope irreparably–from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits of cows, a dairy farm document, or what have you, are finally of a whole lot less concern to me than the following [...]
Hollis Frampton: SOLARIUMAGELANI
Thursday, October 15, 6pm | Frampton scholar Bruce Jenkins in person!
Image: Hollis Frampton filming Winter Solstice. Image courtesy of Anthology Film Archives.
Filmmaker, photographer, and theorist Hollis Frampton (1936–84) is a major figure in the American avant-garde. Ambitious in scope, his films wittily engage with philosophy, mathematics, and science. CATE presents a rare screening of [...]
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