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 [...]
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 [...]
Letters, Notes: Films by David Gatten
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 6pm | David Gatten in person!
David Gatten, The Great Art of Knowing (2004). Image courtesy of the artist.
“Influenced equally by Stan Brakhage and Ludwig Wittgenstein.”—Ed Halter, Village Voice
For more than ten years, filmmaker and SAIC alum David Gatten’s serenely beautiful handmade films have employed experimental techniques—cellophane tape ink transfers and [...]
DDR/DDR
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 6pm | Director Amie Siegel in person!
DDR/DDR (Amie Siegel, 2008). Image courtesy of the artist.
The latest feature by artist, filmmaker, and SAIC alum Amie Siegel (Empathy, 2003) is a multi-layered and disarmingly beautiful essay on the German Democratic Republic and its dissolution, which left many of its former citizens adrift in [...]
Sight & Sound: Flingco Sound System
Thursday, February 5, 6pm | Special live performance! Artists in person!
Lisa Slodki & Haptic, The Medium (2007). Image courtesy of the artists.
Flingco Sound System releases “textures in the shape of sound.”–Dublab
Since its 2007 launch, Chicago’s Flingco Sound System label has played host to a slate of musicians who work collaboratively with visual artists to create [...]
Outer Ear Festival of Sound: Recent Films by Deborah Stratman
Thursday, November 13, 6pm | Deborah Stratman in person!
Deborah Stratman, O’er the Land (2008). Image courtesy of the artist.
The Experimental Sound Studio’s Outer Ear Festival of Sound and CATE team up to present a special preview of award-winning filmmaker Deborah Stratman’s latest film, O’er the Land (2008). Completed in part through a residency at ESS, Stratman’s [...]
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 [...]
GLITCH: Creative Problem Creating
Thursday, September 18, 6pm | Curator Jon Satrom in person!
What happens when the creative roadblocks—errors, glitches, accidents—become the building blocks in the art-making process? This program highlights artists who intentionally create problems by corrupting data, hacking signals, and manipulating the medium, often to the point of challenging its own display. Curated by new media artist and SAIC faculty member [...]
You Don’t Remember the Time You Do: Moments in the Lives of Prisoners
Thursday, April 17, 6pm | Laurie Jo Reynolds in person!
Robert Todd, In Loving Memory (2005). Image courtesy of the artist.
Prison has long been a popular setting for motion pictures, from the oft-remade Man in the Iron Mask to recent Oscar-nominated hits Dead Man Walking and The Shawshank Redemption. Rarer is the film that examines the [...]
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 [...]
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