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 [...]
I Love Presets
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 6pm | Rob Ray, Jon Satrom, & Jason Soliday in person!
As I Love Presets, Chicago-based sound and new media artists Rob Ray, Jon Satrom, and Jason Soliday do everything wrong the right way. The trio manipulates found sounds and animated GIFs on home-brewed equipment in spectacular live audio/video performances, breaking down, [...]
Outer Ear Festival of Sound: Chris Mann, Danièle Wilmouth, and Morganville
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 8:15pm | Chris Mann, Danièle Wilmouth, Trevor Martin, and Kym Olsen in person!
Danièle Wilmouth, A Heretic’s Primer on Love and Exertion (2007). Image courtesy of the artist.
The Outer Ear Festival of Sound and CATE present a special two-part evening of films, videos, and performances that mine the relationships between [...]
Outer Ear Festival of Sound: The Hysterical Alphabet
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm | Terri Kapsalis, John Corbett, and Danny Thompson in person!
The Hysterical Alphabet (2007). Written by Terri Kapsalis, video by Danny Thompson. Image courtesy of Danny Thompson.
The Outer Ear Festival of Sound and CATE present a special two-part evening of films, videos, and performances that mine the relationships between [...]
Tommy’s Chicago: Newly Preserved Films by Tom Palazzolo
Thursday, September 13, 2007, 6pm
Tom Palazzolo in person!
For over four decades, Chicago legend and SAIC alum Tom Palazzolo (“Tommy Chicago”) has documented the unorthodox rituals of the Windy City with genuine affection and wonder. From frantic deli owners to the unveiling of the Picasso sculpture, Palazzolo’s work is suffused with mischievous humor and an uncanny [...]
SAIC Film, Video & New Media Department Year-End Show
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 6pm
Tonight’s program is a cinematic toast to the semester’s end with a cross-section of current work by students in the department of Film, Video & New Media.
All Stars
Jodie Mack, 2006, 0:24 min, 16mm
Colored acetate + star punch + tape = this mini-movie. (JM)
Bird Song Trilogy, Part 1 & Bird Song Trilogy, [...]
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 [...]
Saul Levine: Notes from the Underground
Thursday, March 8, 2007, 6pm | Saul Levine in person!
Saul Levine, New Left Note (1968-83). Image courtesy of the artist.
“Saul Levine is the foremost dissenting filmmaker in America,” writes critic P. Adams Sitney. “With about thirty-five years of consistent production behind him, and no signs of fatigue, he can show us the shape of a [...]
The Outer Ear Festival Of Sound: Frédéric Moffet & Jean Genet
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 6pm
Frédéric Moffet in person!
CATE and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound team up to present this special screening of Frédéric Moffet’s award-winning video, Jean Genet in Chicago (2006) and Genet’s only film, the queer masterpiece Un Chant d’Amour (1950). Completed at the Experimental Sound Studio (the organization that puts on Outer [...]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Worldly Desires
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 6pm
Called “one of the most creative and unpredictable film artists now working anywhere” by Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader, tonight’s program is a slate of new films and videos by multiple Cannes-winner and SAIC alum Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours), including the dazzling 2005 featurette, Worldly Desires. A musical [...]
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