. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: ORIANA and GOSILA

Thursday, October 26, 6:00 p.m. Join San Juan–based artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz for the Chicago premiere of her new feature ORIANA. “The videos of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz exhibit a sensibility deeply informed by long and careful looking at the tropical landscape of her native Puerto Rico.”–Erica Dawn Lyle, Art In America “Less a speculative vision about […]

Lawrence Andrews: mythicPotentialities

Thursday, October 12, 6:00 p.m. Enthralling in form and vision, Lawrence Andrews’ works are kaleidoscopic explorations of Blackness through mass media and popular culture. In the genre-defying imageless video mythicPotentialities (2019), Andrews examines the murder of Emmett Till, the trial that followed, and the ways these events have been mediated through artistic and mass media. Focusing on […]

Želimir Žilnik: LOGBOOK SERBISTAN

Saturday, October 7, 1:00 p.m For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director Želimir Žilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia’s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, Žilnik’s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia’s […]

Želimir Žilnik: MARBLE ASS

Friday, October 6, 6:00 p.m. For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director Želimir Žilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia’s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, Žilnik’s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia’s […]

Želimir Žilnik: Short Films

Thursday, October 5, 6:00 p.m. For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director Želimir Žilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia’s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, Žilnik’s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia’s […]