Thank you to everyone who made this year’s program possible! We are so appreciative of the outstanding artists who shared their works, time, and ideas with us: Renée Green, Lynda Benglis, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pom Bunsermvicha, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Nazli Dinçel, Meriem Bennani, Andy Slater, Dani ReStack, Sheilah ReStack, and Nick Briz, as well as the artists […]
Thursday, April 14, 6:00 p.m. For the last 10 years, new media artist, educator, and organizer Nick Briz has produced an urgent and electrifying body of work that uses the tools of our digital age to illuminate its promises and perils. Taking shape through software, websites, video essays, and lecture series, Briz has examined the […]
Thursday, March 31, 6:00 p.m. The videos of Dani and Sheilah ReStack are radical explorations of queer desire, parenthood, and creative community. Formally and emotionally adjacent to their domestic lives, the Restacks’ works are exhilarating montages of home, artmaking, sex, parenting, wounds, viscera, animals, gardens, and wild open spaces. The two will present the Chicago […]
Thursday, March 10, 6:00 p.m. Andy Slater. Photo: Charlie SimokaitisAndy Slater’s rich and evocative works combine distorted field recordings, alternative texts, and the singular rhythms and sonic colors of vintage accessible technologies. In a program designed especially for the Gene Siskel Film Center’s acoustic capabilities, Slater will present a selection of recent sound-based works inspired […]
Thursday, March 03, 6:00 p.m. In her genre-bending and often absurdly funny videos, Rabat-born, New York–based artist Meriem Bennani fuses the languages of reality television, social media, and 3D animation to explore such weighty topics as biopolitics, virtuality, and globalism. In conjunction with the exhibition of her latest film Life on the CAPS at the Renaissance Society […]
Thursday, February 17, 6:00 p.m. Nazlı Dinçel’s handmade films reflect on experiences of physical and cultural disruption, from intimate states of arousal to Dinçel’s own immigration from Turkey to the United States. By scratching, sewing, letter-punching, and hand-developing, they draw comparisons between the sensuous physicality of film and the body. Dinçel will present a selection […]
Join us for the spring 2022 season of Conversations at the Edge! The series returns to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Gene Siskel Film Center (164 North State Street) for in-person screenings, performances, and presentations with Nazli Dincel (Feb 17), Meriem Bennani (Mar 10), Andy Slater (Mar 31), Dani and Sheilah […]
Thursday, October 28–Thursday, November 04 Recent films by Thai artist and filmmaker Tulapop Saenjaroen. Theatrical Screening A Room with a Coconut View, People on Sunday, Squish!, Notes from the Periphery Thursday, October 28, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings A Room with a Coconut View, People on Sunday October 29–November 4 Gene Siskel […]
Sunday, October 24, 6:00 p.m. Theatrical Screening Gene Siskel Film Center Anocha Suwichakornpong’s third feature, made in collaboration with filmmaker Ben Rivers, is a mischievous and delightfully mysterious portrait of the province of Krabi, a stunningly beautiful region in southwestern Thailand under threat by climate change and growing tourism. Fluidly slipping between documentary and fiction, […]
Saturday, October 23, 5:00 p.m. Theatrical Screening Gene Siskel Film Center The corporeal and the cosmic collide to mesmerizing effect in Anocha Suwichakornpong’s debut feature. Mundane History begins straightforwardly enough, as nurse Pun takes a new job caring for Ake, a paralyzed young man whose angry defiance gradually softens into grudging respect. But as the two men […]
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