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The Devil Lives in Hollywood: Amy Lockhart & Friends

Posted on October 4, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, October 4, 2007, 6pm Amy Lockhart in person! Nothing is quite right in animator and SAIC visiting faculty member Amy Lockhart’s hallucinogenic, hyper-colored world. Siamese-hearts pump hamburgers and butterflies, voracious Pac-Men hunt flocks of weeping eyeballs, and frogs belch Smurf-like red-and-white mushrooms. Funny and tragic by turns, Lockhart’s films mix knowingly-naïve hand-drawn characters with […]

Nothing Compares 2 U: Films & Videos by Michael Robinson

Posted on September 27, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, September 27, 2007, 6pm Michael Robinson in person! The films and videos of Michael Robinson are a deft mix of stunning beauty and nervy wit. He combines lush, often optically-printed imagery with the electric fuzz of video-games, old movie footage, and dusty magazine layouts in pop song–scored cine-ballads that are at once cynical and […]

Guerrilla Television

Posted on September 20, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, September 20, 2007, 6pm Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, and Chip Lord in person! The 1970s gave rise to a network of radical video makers who set out to create a feisty alternative to broadcast television. Decades before the so-called media democratization offered by YouTube, cell phone cameras, and hundred-channel cable, these artist-activists turned their […]

Tommy’s Chicago: Newly Preserved Films by Tom Palazzolo

Posted on September 13, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, September 13, 2007, 6pm Tom Palazzolo in person! For over four decades, Chicago legend and SAIC alum Tom Palazzolo (“Tommy Chicago”) has documented the unorthodox rituals of the Windy City with genuine affection and wonder. From frantic deli owners to the unveiling of the Picasso sculpture, Palazzolo’s work is suffused with mischievous humor and […]

SAIC Film, Video & New Media Department Year-End Show

Posted on May 3, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, May 3, 2007, 6pm Tonight’s program is a cinematic toast to the semester’s end with a cross-section of current work by students in the department of Film, Video & New Media. All Stars Jodie Mack, 2006, 0:24 min, 16mm Colored acetate + star punch + tape = this mini-movie. (JM) Bird Song Trilogy, Part […]

Pistolary! Films and Videos by Peggy Ahwesh

Posted on April 26, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, April 26, 2007, 6pm | Peggy Ahwesh in person! Peggy Ahwesh, Nocturne (1998). Image courtesy of the Video Data Bank. Since the early 1980s, Peggy Ahwesh has created “a kind of renegade arte povera ethnography of the everyday” (Mark McElhatten). Drawing from horror films, psychoanalysis, and the writings of Bataille, her films and videos […]

Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat

Posted on April 19, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, April 19, 2007, 6pm Sharon Lockhart in person! Los Angeles photographer and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart’s latest project is an exquisite, meditative portrait of youth in Pine Flat, a small community of three hundred in the foothills of central California’s Sierra Nevadas. Shot over the course of two years and made up of twelve ten-minute […]

Jennifer Montgomery: Notes on the Death of Kodachrome

Posted on April 12, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, April 12, 2007, 6pm | Jennifer Montgomery in person! Jennifer Montgomery, Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006). Image courtesy of the artist. At its start, Notes on the Death of Kodachrome pretends to be about the discontinuation of the much-beloved Super-8 film stock, Kodachrome, and with it, the possible demise of small-gauge filmmaking. […]

LTTR: The Dead, The Absent and Fictitious

Posted on April 5, 2007 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 6pm LTTR in person! LTTR (K8 Hardy, Emily Roysdon, Ulrike Mueller, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi) is a radically vibrant feminist art collective. Post-punk and gender-queer, their exuberant activist practice includes international curatorial projects, community-based workshops, screenings, and an annual self-published arts journal-enthusing a growing community of artists and thinkers. Tonight’s program […]

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