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 […]
Thursday, September 19, 6:00 p.m. Over the past decade, acclaimed Polish animator and musician Tomek Popakul has established himself as one of the most original voices in contemporary animation. His mesmerizing films, influenced by Japanese woodcuts, Russian fairy tales, ’60s psychedelia, and his own village upbringing, explore the lives of marginalized characters as they navigate […]
Thursday, April 11, 6:00 p.m “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 groundbreaking debut feature, a cyberfeminist eco-thriller, newly restored for its 30th anniversary. Partners Shareen (Sarita Choudhury) and Claire (Erin McMurtry) […]
Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 p.m. 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 corporate surveillance, contagion, sex, and biotechnology. Residents of a city beset by a viral epidemic discover that the pharmaceutical firm GENOM has been harvesting data about […]
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 […]