The work of Chicago-based artist and activist Mary Patten operates between the realms of poetry and politics, posing expansive questions drawn from a life deeply engaged with social and political movements. In a program wryly titled after a truncated quote by Che Guevara, she presents a selection of readings and videos spanning from the mid-1990s […]
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In 1973, Chicago artist and scientist Dan Sandin debuted the Sandin Image Processor, a groundbreaking analog computer that enabled users to create astonishing video effects in real time. By encouraging other artists to “copy-it-right,” he paved the way for the production of dozens of image processors across the United States, making the machine one of […]
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Winner, New Vision Award, CPH:DOX 2024 Part film essay, part sound experiment, Aura Satz’s electrifying Preemptive Listening is an urgent exploration of the social, political, and sonic dimensions of the siren. Tracing its evolution from shepherd’s bugle to World War II air raid alarm, Satz reflects on the siren’s omnipresence today—from warning systems for environmental and man-made […]
Winner, New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX 2022Winner, Prix Bartók, Jean Rouch International Film Festival 20222022 Whitney Biennial In the visually and sonically stunning What About China?, renowned artist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha revisits Hi8 video footage she shot in rural China in the 1990s to explore the country’s complex and evolving narratives about itself. She draws on […]
“A unique cinematic monument.”–Greg de Cuir, Jr. For more than a decade, filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson and historian Claudrena N. Harold have collaborated on a series of poetic films that examine Black life at the University of Virginia (UVA) while also echoing the experiences of Black students and faculty across the United States. Collectively titled Black […]
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Iranian filmmaker Anahita Ghazvinizadeh is celebrated for her finely crafted character studies, which often feature non-professional actors in stories of young people facing uncertainty and change. Ghazvinizadeh presents her short film alongside a selection of works by artists whose approach resonates with her own. Followed by a conversation with Anahita Ghazvinizadeh and Daniel Quiles, Associate […]
Far beyond the confines of the manosphere, Boys and Men traverses the shifting and often treacherous terrain of masculinity through a selection of films by award-winning contemporary animators, including Jean-Jean Arnoux, James Duesing, Sam Gurry, Gabriel Harel, Elizabeth Hobbs, Jinkyu Jeon, Nicolas Keppens, Yuta Masuda, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Featuring an array of techniques—from stop-motion and […]
Thursday, October 31, 6:00 p.m. Award-winning Mozambican filmmaker Inadelso Cossa presents his stunning second feature, a ghost story rooted in Mozambique’s deadly civil war which raged from 1977 to 1992. Cossa returns to his grandmother’s village where former rebels now live among surviving civilians, their shared wounds suppressed by official narratives. Shot largely in the […]
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Wednesday, October 30, 6:00 p.m. In a rare US appearance, Mozambican filmmaker Inadelso Cossa presents his powerful first feature, a film that seeks to redress the gaps and silences in official accounts of Mozambique’s brutal “People’s War” for independence from Portugal (1964–75). Cossa delves into the stories of civilian resistance fighters, political prisoners, and the […]
Thursday, October 24, 6:00 p.m. Working at the crossroads of cinema and new media, artist and video game designer Alan Kwan creates immersive and enigmatic games designed to elicit feelings of heartbreak, anguish, fear, and the sublime. In recent years, he’s subverted the violent tropes of mass market games—war and apocalyptic landscapes—to explore the ways […]