. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Shu Lea Cheang’s Fresh Kill

Thursday, April 11, 6:00 p.m Join Shu Lea Cheang for a screening of her acclaimed cyberfeminist eco-thriller FRESH KILL, newly restored for its 30th anniversary. “Shu Lea Cheang’s audacious directorial debut is a lethal comedy swimming through a torrent of toxic multinational treachery.” —Lawrence Chua, BOMB Magazine Renowned media artist Shu Lea Cheang presents her […]

Shu Lea Cheang’s UKI

Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 p.m. Join artist and filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang for the Chicago premiere of UKI (2023), an exhilaratingly queer science-fiction epic of corporate surveillance, contagion, sex, and biotechnology. In her latest feature, pioneering media artist Shu Lea Cheang mixes 3D animation and live action to create an exhilaratingly queer science-fiction epic of […]

Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls

Friday, March 29, 6:00 p.m. Join the iconic filmmaker Lizzie Borden for a screening of Working Girls. “Working Girls is, among its serious splendors, an act of solidarity.” —So Mayer, Current In her groundbreaking third feature, Lizzie Borden looks at gender, race, and labor relations in a Manhattan brothel. Inspired by the experiences of sex […]

Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames

Thursday, March 28, 8:30 p.m. Join the iconic filmmaker Lizzie Borden for a screening of BORN IN FLAMES. “By turns humorous, satirical, and deadly earnest … a still-potent artifact of political commitment.” —LA Weekly “Deserves its legendary status and still has the power to challenge.” —Eric Monder, Film Journal International Lizzie Borden’s legendary second feature […]

Lizzie Borden’s Regroup

Thursday, March 28, 6:00 p.m. Join the iconic filmmaker Lizzie Borden for a screening of REGROUPING. “Combative, entropic, mesmerizing.” —Melissa Anderson, 4Columns  Lizzie Borden’s daring first feature is a shapeshifting portrait of a women’s collective and the slippery relationship between a filmmaker and her subjects. When the collective breaks down, the film similarly fragments, with […]

Elisabeth Subrin: Maria Schneider, 1983 and Shulie

Thursday, March 21, 6:00 p.m. Join Elisabeth Surbin for a program of her stunning short films! In her acclaimed “speculative biographies,” filmmaker and SAIC alum Elisabeth Subrin (MFA 1995) explores the absences and erasures of women’s lives in the historic record. She presents two works, produced 26 years apart, that use reenactment to express the […]

An Evening with Baloji 

Thursday, February 29, 6:00 p.m. Join critically acclaimed Belgian-Congolese artist and musician Baloji for a screening of his stunning short films. Critically acclaimed Belgian-Congolese artist and musician Baloji presents a selection of his stunning short films. Operating in the realms between documentary, magical realism, and social critique, Baloji’s hybrid practice explores the transcultural identities of […]

The Blue Description Project

Thursday, February 15, 6:00 p.m. Artists Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Jones present their elastic, experimental, and expansive THE BLUE DESCRIPTION PROJECT. In 1993, the British artist Derek Jarman released Blue, an epoch-defining account of AIDS, illness, and the experience of disability in a culture of repressive heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness. Despite being referred to as […]