Anxious Bodies
Thursday, October 27, 6:00 p.m. Join us for this striking program of animated films exploring bodies, relationships, and power. Presented in partnership with DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts. Anxious Bodies explores the fraught terrain of bodies, relationships, and power through the work of six award-winning contemporary women animators, including Yoriko Mizushiri, Martina Scarpelli, Shoko […]
Marta Pajek: Impossible Figures and Other Stories
Thursday, October 20, 6:00 p.m. Join acclaimed Polish animator Marta Pajek for a screening of her recently completed trilogy IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES. Presented in partnership with DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts. Marta Pajek is known for unsettling and enigmatic films about dreams, relationships, and women’s lives. Her latest is the award-winning triptych […]
Tsai Ming-Liang
Monday, October 03, 6:00 p.m. Join us in person for a lecture by film director Tsai Ming-Liang followed by an audience Q&A. Screenings of Tsai Ming-Liang’s films GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003), STRAY DOGS (2013), and DAYS (2020) will take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center in September. Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming-Liang […]
About
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.
