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 [...]
Intelligent Wounds: An Interview with Mike Hoolboom by Abina Manning
Mike Hoolboom at work. Courtesy the artist.
Abina Manning: In October, 2009, you were in Chicago for Conversations at the Edge and showed your latest feature, Mark (2009, 70 minutes). Can you tell us a little about it and your process of making it?
Mike Hoolboom: Mark is a portrait of my friend and former editor [...]
LOOK FOR ME: ANIMATED FILMS BY LAURA HEIT
Thursday, November 19, 6pm | Laura Heit in person!
Image: Laura Heit, The Matchbox Shows (1999-current). Image courtesy of the artist.
Poignant and smart, the animated films of puppet artist and SAIC alumnus Laura Heit employ stop-motion, live action puppetry, hand-drawing, and computer animation. Heit is the co-director of the Experimental Animation department at [...]
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, [...]
Interview with Daniel Eisenberg on Johan van der Keuken’s THE WAY SOUTH (1981)
On the occasion of this Thursday’s forthcoming screening of Johan van der Keuken’s The Way South, CATE interviewed SAIC Film, Video, and New Media Professor Daniel Eisenberg, who will be introducing the film, and who himself is deeply influenced by van der Keuken’s work.
Still from Johan van der Keuken’s “The Way South” courtesy of [...]
THE WAY SOUTH
Thursday, October 29, 6pm | SAIC Professor Daniel Eisenberg in person!
Image: Johan van der Keuken, “The Way South” (1981). Image courtesy of Idéale Audience International.
Prolific Dutch documentarian, author, and photographer Johan van der Keuken produced 55 films and nine books over the course of his career. Influenced by Dutch realist photographers, existential and [...]
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 [...]
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