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Codependence Some More! Contemporary Independent Animation

Posted on September 18, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, September 18, 2003, 8pm Animator and School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor Chris Sullivan has put together a collection of recent work by animators from Chicago and beyond, leaning toward neurosis, relationship dynamics and attraction to disaster. Wild animals confess their sins in Jim Trainor’s work-in-progress Harmony, here presented with live narration; […]

Dead Birds

Posted on September 11, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, September 11, 2003, 8pm “When I walked away from watching Dead Birds I almost seemed to stagger inside myself. Today I am still jarred by it and still trying to understand the guilty significance of what it tells us about ourselves.” (Robert Lowell) Highly acclaimed yet rarely screened outside of anthropology circles, Dead Birds […]

Anti-Space Suit: The Dirty Future

Posted on September 4, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, September 4, 2003, 9:30pm Curators Ben Russell & Sabine Gruffat in person! UFO’s made of cotton fluff. Cyber-diving rods. Sad robots. Cosmic floating beauty aids. All of this is but a small bit of the detritus that litters our dirty future, a new reality of the always everyday. Media artists Sabine Gruffat and Ben […]

A Body Owner’s Manual: Work by Frédéric Moffet & Daniéle Wilmouth

Posted on May 8, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, May 8, 2003, 8pm Frédéric Moffet & Daniéle Wilmouth in person! For those of us who need such lessons, Department of Film, Video, and New Media faculty members Frédéric Moffet & Daniéle Wilmouth present five short works that provide technical instruction on the vast possible uses of the human body. Lesson #1: Movement, Myth […]

Edward Rankus: Selected Works

Posted on May 1, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, May 1, 2003, 8pm Edward Rankus in person! Internationally recognized video artist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Edward Rankus will present a selection from his award-winning work, including: the premiere of Go Fall Apart (2003), an erotic […]

The Servant’s Shirt (Nankar Ki Kameez)

Posted on April 24, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 8pm Mani Kaul in person! Artist-in-Residence Mani Kaul’s third program in our spring Conversations at the Edge series is his deeply compassionate exploration of social issues confronting ordinary Indians, The Servant’s Shirt. In a small Indian town in the early 1960’s, a young, lower caste couple – Santu and his wife […]

Recent Work by Donigan Cumming

Posted on April 10, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, April 10, 2003, 8pm Donigan Cumming in person! Essentially documentary in nature, Donigan Cumming’s work incorporates photography, sound, video and installation. His work is routinely unsettling and wrought with unexpected turns and complex characters. Cumming has succeeded in establishing a documentary method that breaks away from the illusion of objectivity. In the words of […]

The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (Die Schöpfer Der Einkaufswelten)

Posted on April 3, 2003 (January 10, 2025)

Thursday, April 3, 2003, 8pm Harun Farocki in person! Provocative, political and poignant, acclaimed German filmmaker Harun Farocki has made over 90 films since 1966, in addition to numerous writings, installations and teaching positions around the world. Conversations at the Edge is honored to present the Chicago premiere of Farocki’s latest feature. In this new […]

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