An Evening with Angelo Madsen Minax

Thursday, October 3, 6:00 p.m. Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank. Minax presents a second program of his works at the Leather Archives and Museum on Saturday, October 5. Exhilarating in their emotional and conceptual depth, the films of multidisciplinary artist Angelo Madsen Minax explore queer and trans desire, chosen and biological kinships, landscape, […]

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Michelle Citron: DAUGHTER RITE

Thursday, September 26, 6:00 p.m. Presented as part of Films By Women/Chicago ’74, a series celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the Film Center’s pioneering women’s film festival, hosted by the Gene Siskel Film Center and The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. A landmark of feminist cinema, Michelle Citron’s staggering Daughter Rite examines […]

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An Evening with Tomek Popakul

Thursday, September 19, 6:00 p.m. Over the past decade, acclaimed Polish animator and musician Tomek Popakul has established himself as one of the most original voices in contemporary animation. His mesmerizing films, influenced by Japanese woodcuts, Russian fairy tales, ’60s psychedelia, and his own village upbringing, explore the lives of marginalized characters as they navigate […]

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Jacolby Satterwhite in Conversation with Jada-Amina

Tuesday, November 14, 6:00 p.m. Jacolby Satterwhite discusses his wide-ranging practice with Jada-Amina, artist and lead curator of the Black Harvest Film Festival at SAIC’s Gene Siskel Film Center.  This talk takes place at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave. Admission is free and registration is not required. Presented in […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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INTERIOR LIVES: Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts

Thursday, September 14, 6:00 p.m. In 1976, an extraordinary group of Black feminist artists organized the first-ever Black women’s film festival: the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts. Four decades later, a new generation of artists, curators, and scholars have revived the festival. INTERIOR LIVES opens a weekend of events at the Gene Siskel Film […]

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