Programming Experimental Work at Festivals
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | March 27, 2003
Thursday, March 27, 2003, 8pm
Shari Frilot in person!
Shari Frilot joins us for a unique screening and an engaging discussion about the festival process and the challenges of the experimental film programmer. Frilot, who has been a Sundance Film Festival Programmer since 1998, pioneered experimental programming at Outfest: Los Angeles International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. She was also Director of the MIX: New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival and co-founder of the first queer festivals in Latin America: MIX Brasil and MIX México. Frilot is also a filmmaker and will talk about the challenges and nuances of juggling film programming and filmmaking. She will present a program touching on the history of experimental film within a wider festival context, including the Chicago premiere of Frilot’s Strange & Charmed (2003), a love story told from the point of view of two subatomic particles (KJ Mohr). 1990—2003, various directors, USA, ca. 75 min, various formats.
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Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists.
CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Video Data Bank.
Programs take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
