Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls
Friday, March 29, 6:00 p.m. Join the iconic filmmaker Lizzie Borden for a screening of Working Girls. “Working Girls is, among its serious splendors, an act of solidarity.” —So Mayer, Current In her groundbreaking third feature, Lizzie Borden looks at gender, race, and labor relations in a Manhattan brothel. Inspired by the experiences of sex […]
Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames
Thursday, March 28, 8:30 p.m. Join the iconic filmmaker Lizzie Borden for a screening of BORN IN FLAMES. “By turns humorous, satirical, and deadly earnest … a still-potent artifact of political commitment.” —LA Weekly “Deserves its legendary status and still has the power to challenge.” —Eric Monder, Film Journal International Lizzie Borden’s legendary second feature […]
Lizzie Borden’s Regroup
Thursday, March 28, 6:00 p.m. Join the iconic filmmaker Lizzie Borden for a screening of REGROUPING. “Combative, entropic, mesmerizing.” —Melissa Anderson, 4Columns Lizzie Borden’s daring first feature is a shapeshifting portrait of a women’s collective and the slippery relationship between a filmmaker and her subjects. When the collective breaks down, the film similarly fragments, with […]
Elisabeth Subrin: Maria Schneider, 1983 and Shulie
Thursday, March 21, 6:00 p.m. Join Elisabeth Surbin for a program of her stunning short films! In her acclaimed “speculative biographies,” filmmaker and SAIC alum Elisabeth Subrin (MFA 1995) explores the absences and erasures of women’s lives in the historic record. She presents two works, produced 26 years apart, that use reenactment to express the […]
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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.
