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 [...]
Interzone
Thursday, March 6, 6pm | Anne Quirynen in person!
Anne Quirynen, Interzone (2007). Image courtesy of the artist.
Video artist and SAIC faculty member Anne Quirynen has long worked at the intersection of performance and the moving image, collaborating with the likes of choreographers William Forsythe, Thomas Hauert, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on videos, installations, and [...]
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, [...]
Zack Stiglicz: Posthumously Yours
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 6pm
When noted Chicago filmmaker, painter, and SAIC faculty member Zack Stiglicz passed away this fall, he left behind a singular body of work. Originally trained as a political scientist, Stiglicz began a new career in art in the late 1980s. His richly textured films and videos weave together desire, violence, masculinity [...]
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 [...]
The Devil Lives in Hollywood: Amy Lockhart & Friends
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 6pm
Amy Lockhart in person!
Nothing is quite right in animator and SAIC visiting faculty member Amy Lockhart’s hallucinogenic, hyper-colored world. Siamese-hearts pump hamburgers and butterflies, voracious Pac-Men hunt flocks of weeping eyeballs, and frogs belch Smurf-like red-and-white mushrooms. Funny and tragic by turns, Lockhart’s films mix knowingly-naïve hand-drawn characters with pop-culture [...]
Nothing Compares 2 U: Films & Videos by Michael Robinson
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 6pm
Michael Robinson in person!
The films and videos of Michael Robinson are a deft mix of stunning beauty and nervy wit. He combines lush, often optically-printed imagery with the electric fuzz of video-games, old movie footage, and dusty magazine layouts in pop song–scored cine-ballads that are at once cynical and sincere. In [...]
Guerrilla Television
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 6pm
Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, and Chip Lord in person!
The 1970s gave rise to a network of radical video makers who set out to create a feisty alternative to broadcast television. Decades before the so-called media democratization offered by YouTube, cell phone cameras, and hundred-channel cable, these artist-activists turned their Portapaks on [...]
