Magick, Darkness and Devils
Thursday, October 31, 2002, 8:15pm
1903—2002, various directors, France/Germany/Spain/USA, ca. 116 min, 16mm
Kenneth Anger in person!
For Halloween, we present an evening of films from the avant-garde that explore the space between film and the supernatural. The program includes Georges Melies’ The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903), Ferdinand Zeca’s El Espectro Rojo (1903), Hans Richter’s Ghosts Before [...]
Myths, Legends and Lies
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 8pm
1925—2002, various directors, USA/Hungary, ca. 105 min, 16mm
The mythic imagination runs amok in this program of a dozen animated and live-action films programmed by Jim Trainor, animator and professor of film at the School of the Art Institute. Includes: Aristophanes on Broadway (1991, Zack Stiglicz), Daumë (2001, Ben Russell), Everready (ca. [...]
Careful
Thursday, October 17, 2002, 8pm
1992, Guy Maddin, Canada, 100 min, 35mm
Guy Maddin in person!
Like Edward Gorey’s mysterious books, Guy Maddin’s films are weirdly, unnervingly funny; one senses a deadly parody even if it is not clear exactly what is being made fun of. In Careful, set in some bogus European mountain country, characters tiptoe around [...]
Film and Video by Elisabeth Subrin
Thursday, October 10, 2002, 8:15pm
Elisabeth Subrin in person!
Subrin’s films and videos examine the intersections of history and subjectivity within female biography. Engaging conventions of documentary and personal narrative, the works strategically undermine their own forms, shifting historical periods, genres and characters to explore the residual impact of the 1960s and the hazy boundaries between fiction [...]
