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 [...]
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 [...]
VISION IN MOTION: FILMMAKING AT THE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, 1944-70
Thursday, October 1, 2009 and Friday, October 2, 2009 at 6pm
Guests in person!
Image: László Moholy-Nagy & ID students, Design Workshops (1944).
“The illiterates of the future,” the pioneering Hungarian artist and educator László Moholy-Nagy once famously proclaimed, “will be ignorant of the camera and pen alike.” Founded in Chicago in 1937 and modeled after [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Presentation Theme: New & Old Films by Jim Trainor
Thursday, November 20, 6pm | Jim Trainor in person!
Jim Trainor, The Presentation Theme (2008). Image courtesy of the artist.
The work of celebrated Chicago filmmaker and SAIC professor Jim Trainor revels in the world between playfulness and prurience with shaky, line-drawn animations of animals, humans, and their habits. Tonight he presents two new films alongside some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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