“A unique cinematic monument.”–Greg de Cuir, Jr. For more than a decade, filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson and historian Claudrena N. Harold have collaborated on a series of poetic films that examine Black life at the University of Virginia (UVA) while also echoing the experiences of Black students and faculty across the United States. Collectively titled Black […]
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Iranian filmmaker Anahita Ghazvinizadeh is celebrated for her finely crafted character studies, which often feature non-professional actors in stories of young people facing uncertainty and change. Ghazvinizadeh presents her short film alongside a selection of works by artists whose approach resonates with her own. Followed by a conversation with Anahita Ghazvinizadeh and Daniel Quiles, Associate […]
Far beyond the confines of the manosphere, Boys and Men traverses the shifting and often treacherous terrain of masculinity through a selection of films by award-winning contemporary animators, including Jean-Jean Arnoux, James Duesing, Sam Gurry, Gabriel Harel, Elizabeth Hobbs, Jinkyu Jeon, Nicolas Keppens, Yuta Masuda, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Featuring an array of techniques—from stop-motion and […]
Thursday, October 31, 6:00 p.m. Award-winning Mozambican filmmaker Inadelso Cossa presents his stunning second feature, a ghost story rooted in Mozambique’s deadly civil war which raged from 1977 to 1992. Cossa returns to his grandmother’s village where former rebels now live among surviving civilians, their shared wounds suppressed by official narratives. Shot largely in the […]
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Wednesday, October 30, 6:00 p.m. In a rare US appearance, Mozambican filmmaker Inadelso Cossa presents his powerful first feature, a film that seeks to redress the gaps and silences in official accounts of Mozambique’s brutal “People’s War” for independence from Portugal (1964–75). Cossa delves into the stories of civilian resistance fighters, political prisoners, and the […]
Thursday, October 24, 6:00 p.m. Working at the crossroads of cinema and new media, artist and video game designer Alan Kwan creates immersive and enigmatic games designed to elicit feelings of heartbreak, anguish, fear, and the sublime. In recent years, he’s subverted the violent tropes of mass market games—war and apocalyptic landscapes—to explore the ways […]
Thursday, October 17, 6:00 p.m. In her lyrical short films, Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Paige Taul draws on her own personal history to explore, in her words, “Black cultural expression and notions of belonging.” She presents a selection of nine shorts that meditate on family and folk. Assembled from family photographs, interviews, and related footage, […]
Thursday, October 10, 6:00 p.m. More Anxious Bodies explores intimacy, power, grief, and the body through the works of eight contemporary women animators: Terril Calder, Carla Melo Gampert, Laura Harrison, Jenny Jokela, Sawako Kabuki, Marie Larrivé, Yoriko Mizushiri, and Cassie Shao. Using watercolors, stop-motion puppetry, and multidimensional collage, these artists craft tales of body-snatching colonizers, […]
Thursday, October 3, 6:00 p.m. Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank. Minax presents a second program of his works at the Leather Archives and Museum on Saturday, October 5. Exhilarating in their emotional and conceptual depth, the films of multidisciplinary artist Angelo Madsen Minax explore queer and trans desire, chosen and biological kinships, landscape, […]
Thursday, September 26, 6:00 p.m. Presented as part of Films By Women/Chicago ’74, a series celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the Film Center’s pioneering women’s film festival, hosted by the Gene Siskel Film Center and The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. A landmark of feminist cinema, Michelle Citron’s staggering Daughter Rite examines […]