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Inadelso Cossa: The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

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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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Inadelso Cossa: A Memory in Three Acts

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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 […]

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An Evening With Alan Kwan

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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 […]

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An Evening with Paige Taul

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Thursday, October 17, 6:00 p.m. In her lyrical short films, Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Paige Taul draws on her own personal history to explore, in her words, “Black cultural expression and notions of belonging.” She presents a selection of nine shorts that meditate on family and folk. Assembled from family photographs, interviews, and related footage, […]

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More Anxious Bodies

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Thursday, October 10, 6:00 p.m. More Anxious Bodies explores intimacy, power, grief, and the body through the works of eight contemporary women animators: Terril Calder, Carla Melo Gampert, Laura Harrison, Jenny Jokela, Sawako Kabuki, Marie Larrivé, Yoriko Mizushiri, and Cassie Shao. Using watercolors, stop-motion puppetry, and multidimensional collage, these artists craft tales of body-snatching colonizers, […]

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An Evening with Angelo Madsen Minax

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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