Thursday, September 8, 2005, 8pm | Curator Tom Comerford in person! Kartemquin Films, Now We Live on Clifton (1974). Image courtesy of Kartemquin. These experimental and non-fiction films and videos, culled from different decades, all examine the urban landscape of Chicago, but each employs different tactics towards observing the landscape and the forces that transform […]
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Thursday, September 1, 2005, 6pm | Kerry Richardson, Mike Ervin, Salome Chasnoff & The Empowered Fe Fes in person! Kerry Richardson, The Kids Are All Right (2005). Image courtesy of the artist. Just in time for the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon, this program celebrates disability activism and activists, including former Jerry’s Kids, and […]
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Thursday, May 5, 2005, 8pm World premiere! Silvia Malagrino in person! Award winning artist and educator Silvia Malagrino’s career spans over the past 20 years. Conversations At The Edge is proud to present the world premiere of her new documentary, Burnt Oranges. Seeking to unravel the fabric of complex long-term effects and repercussions, personal and social, […]
Thursday, April 28, 2005, 8pm | Thomas Comerford and Bill Brown in person! Thomas Comerford, Land Marked/Marquette (2005). Image courtesy of the artist. Beloved filmmakers (and SAIC faculty and former faculty, respectively) Thomas Comerford and Bill Brown follow-up their 2002 Lo-Fi Landscapes Tour with a new program of films about the space of history and […]
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Thursday, April 21, 2005, 8pm Ruth Leitman in person! Conversations at the Edge is delighted to present this special screening event with acclaimed documentary filmmaker and FVNM faculty member Ruth Leitman and the SAIC premiere of her celebrated documentary about “the Golden Gals of the Mat,” Lipstick & Dynamite. With the success of her former […]
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 8pm Maureen Selwood in person! Revered contemporary animator Maureen Selwood uses distinctive meshes of live footage and hand drawing, blending image and text to create work that is praised for its joyous eroticism and buoyant wit. Tonight’s visual treats include: the experimental reconstructed found-footage narrative Mistaken Identity (2001); lost love humor […]
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 8:15pm Lina Hoshino in person! Lina Hoshino’s award-winning videos, which have screened around the world since 1993, deal directly with grassroots media and art activism. Tonight she shares a diverse group of documentary and animated shorts including: a commentary on Japanese cosmetic aspiration, Beauty and the Crease (1997); Story of Margo […]
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 8pm | Jim Duesing in person! James Duesing, Tender Bodies (2003). Computer animator and video artist James Duesing’s work has been exhibited around the world in venues as diverse as Sundance, PBS, The Berlin Video Festival, MTV, Shanghai Animation Festival, Film Forum and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Tonight […]
Thursday, March 24, 2005, 8pm Yvonne Welbon in person! Yvonne Welbon’s films and videos work to create a stronger media presence for African-American women. Her award-winning biographical (Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100), autobiographical (Remembering Wei Yi Fang, Remembering Myself…) and narrative (Taste of Dirt) films have been screened on cable, public television, at […]
Thursday, March 17, 2005, 8pm Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber in person! Austrian artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have been working in tandem since 1993 on projects addressing urban geographies, architectural representations and related visual politics. Their projects have included “Caracas, Hecho En Venezuela”, “Live like this!” and “CITYtransformer”, most recently, they mounted a […]