Friday, March 29, 6:00 p.m. “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 workers Borden met while making Born in Flames, Working Girls follows the […]
Thursday, March 28, 8:30 p.m. “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 is a thrillingly provocative tale of female rebellion set in America 10 years […]
Thursday, March 28, 6:00 p.m. “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 the introduction of fictional characters, disjunctive sounds and images, and multi-textual […]
Thursday, March 21, 6:00 p.m. In her acclaimed “speculative biographies,” filmmaker and SAIC alum Elisabeth Subrin (MFA 1995) explores the absences and erasures of women’s lives from the historic record. She presents two works, produced 26 years apart, that use reenactment to express the ways we continue to live with, in Subrin’s words, “the residues […]
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Thursday, February 29, 6:00 p.m. 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 African diasporans and the history and future of the Congo. He often collaborates with other artists […]
Thursday, February 15, 6:00 p.m. 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 a feature film, Blue never existed exclusively in one medium. It was screened in theaters, simulcast […]
Tuesday, November 14, 6:00 p.m. Jacolby Satterwhite discusses his wide-ranging practice with Jada-Amina, artist and lead curator of the Black Harvest Film Festival at SAIC’s Gene Siskel Film Center. This talk takes place at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave. Admission is free and registration is not required. Presented in […]
Read More… from Jacolby Satterwhite in Conversation with Jada-Amina