Thursday, November 7, 2002, 8pm 1972—1989, Eleanor Antin, USA, ca. 90 min, various formats Eleanor Antin in person! The career of pioneering multimedia artist Eleanor Antin spans four decades of film, video, photography, writing, performance and installation. Exploring what she calls “the slippery nature of the self,” Antin invents a unique mixture of real and […]
Thursday, October 31, 2002, 8:15pm 1903—2002, various directors, France/Germany/Spain/USA, ca. 116 min, 16mm Kenneth Anger in person! For Halloween, we present an evening of films from the avant-garde that explore the space between film and the supernatural. The program includes Georges Melies’ The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903), Ferdinand Zeca’s El Espectro Rojo (1903), Hans […]
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 8pm 1925—2002, various directors, USA/Hungary, ca. 105 min, 16mm The mythic imagination runs amok in this program of a dozen animated and live-action films programmed by Jim Trainor, animator and professor of film at the School of the Art Institute. Includes: Aristophanes on Broadway (1991, Zack Stiglicz), Daumë (2001, Ben Russell), […]
Thursday, October 17, 2002, 8pm 1992, Guy Maddin, Canada, 100 min, 35mm Guy Maddin in person! Like Edward Gorey’s mysterious books, Guy Maddin’s films are weirdly, unnervingly funny; one senses a deadly parody even if it is not clear exactly what is being made fun of. In Careful, set in some bogus European mountain country, […]
Thursday, October 10, 2002, 8:15pm Elisabeth Subrin in person! Subrin’s films and videos examine the intersections of history and subjectivity within female biography. Engaging conventions of documentary and personal narrative, the works strategically undermine their own forms, shifting historical periods, genres and characters to explore the residual impact of the 1960s and the hazy boundaries […]
Thursday April 25, 2002, 8pm We honor a living master of the cinema on the occasion of the publication of the Chicago Review’s current issue devoted to Stan Brakhage. This program is part of a three-evening series in conjunction with programs at Chicago Filmmakers (April 26) and the University of Chicago’s Experimental Film Club (April […]
Thursday. April 18, 2002, 6pm Ximena Cuevas in person! “Ximena Cuevas, Mexico’s video artist extraordinaire: half magician, half mermaid, master of all she surveys.” — B. Ruby Rich “Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas is a poet of everyday life, a master of self-portraits and the fairy godmother of a new melodrama. Boldly defying taboo subjects […]
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Thursday, April 11, 2002, 6pm Ernie Gehr in person! Ernie Gehr continues to be one of the most original and unique artists working in media. For over thirty years, Gehr has produced a body of work that is at once formally rigorous, deeply humanistic, and a challenge to the conventional reception of the world’s images. […]
Thursday, April 4, 2002, 6pm Cecelia Dougherty in person! Cecilia Dougherty’s work employs experimental documentary and narrative to explore family interactions, the representation of lesbians in popular culture, outsider psychology, and everyday life. Dougherty will appear in person to present a wide range of her work, from early pieces such as Grapefruit (1989), Coal Miner’s […]
Thursday, March 28, 2002, 6pm | Apichatpong Weerasethakul in person! Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mysterious Object at Noon (2000). “Mr. Weerasethakul’s film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.” Elvis Mitchell, […]
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