. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: ORIANA and GOSILA

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 […]

Lawrence Andrews: mythicPotentialities

Thursday, October 12, 6:00 p.m. Enthralling in form and vision, Lawrence Andrews’ works are kaleidoscopic explorations of Blackness through mass media and popular culture. In the genre-defying imageless video mythicPotentialities (2019), Andrews examines the murder of Emmett Till, the trial that followed, and the ways these events have been mediated through artistic and mass media. Focusing on […]

Želimir Žilnik: LOGBOOK SERBISTAN

Saturday, October 7, 1:00 p.m For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director Želimir Žilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia’s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, Žilnik’s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia’s […]

Želimir Žilnik: MARBLE ASS

Friday, October 6, 6:00 p.m. For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director Želimir Žilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia’s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, Žilnik’s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia’s […]

Želimir Žilnik: Short Films

Thursday, October 5, 6:00 p.m. For more than 50 years, renowned Serbian director Želimir Žilnik has produced a body of trailblazing and politically committed films. A key member of Yugoslavia’s rebellious Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and a pioneer of docufiction, Žilnik’s perspective was shaped by atrocity at the hands of Nazis, Yugoslavia’s […]

INTERIOR LIVES: Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts

Thursday, September 14, 6:00 p.m. In 1976, an extraordinary group of Black feminist artists organized the first-ever Black women’s film festival: the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts. Four decades later, a new generation of artists, curators, and scholars have revived the festival. INTERIOR LIVES opens a weekend of events at the Gene Siskel Film […]

Su Friedrich: TODAY

Thursday, September 7, 8:30 p.m. “Challenges us to look at what’s right in front of us.” – Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic For nearly a half-century, Su Friedrich has played a pivotal role in American queer cinema and autobiographical film with her rich and often unflinching explorations of family, kinship, and society. Join us for two screenings featuring […]

Su Friedrich: SINK OR SWIM and RULES OF THE ROAD

Thursday, September 7, 6:00 p.m. “[A] personal chronicle about language, memory, and Dad that strikes hard, and deep.” – Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice “[Friedrich] creates a film like a perfect short story.” – Stuart Klawans, The Nation For nearly a half-century, Su Friedrich has played a pivotal role in American queer cinema and autobiographical film with her […]

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Memoria

Thursday, April 27, 6:00 p.m. “MEMORIA  is one of the greatest movies you’ll see—or hear—in a theater this year.” – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times “An emotionally wrenching and intellectually fulfilling experience.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times Mysterious and transfixing, MEMORIA stars Tilda Swinton as an expat scientist living in Colombia who is suddenly […]

Marwa Arsanios: Who is Afraid of Ideology, Part 3 and Part 4

Thursday, April 20, 6:00 p.m. “A meditation on the relationship of human beings to the natural world, and a reckoning with the authoritative posture of conventional documentary filmmaking. – David Markus, Frieze Since 2017, Beirut and Berlin-based artist Marwa Arsanios has been working on a series of remarkable films collectively titled WHO IS AFRAID OF […]

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