Image x Sound: The Short Films of Tatsu Aoki
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 6pm
Tatsu Aoki in person!
In celebration of acclaimed Chicago musician and filmmaker (and School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty member) Tatsu Aoki’s 25th year making films, CATE and the 11th Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase present a two-part retrospective of his extraordinary short diary films. Aoki began keeping a daily [...]
Exploded States: War, Politics and National Identity
Thursday, October 7, 2004, 8pm
Shuji Terayama, Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971).
This program is part of the series “JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video 1955-Now” that will screen at the University of Chicago later this fall. In Exploded States, the importance of political and social critique for postwar Japanese experimentation is made apparent. These experimental films and [...]
Sensory Overload: Six Frenetic Films
Thursday, February 18, 2004, 8pm
Paul Sharits, T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968).
From the School of the Art Institute’s collection of landmark structuralist and materialist films, student Zachary Hall has selected six gems to tickle the eye and the imagination: In Passage a l’acte (1993), Martin Arnold transforms a clip from To Kill a Mockingbird into a museum of emotional nuance; [...]
