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 […]
Read More… from Anocha Suwichakornpong: Mundane History and Nightfall
Friday, October 22, 6:00 p.m Virtual Event Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Join Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha for a wide-ranging conversation about their collaborative projects, self-reflexive approach to media, and engagement with the history and politics of Thailand. Moderated by Melika Bass. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Anocha Suwichakornpong is a […]
Read More… from Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha in Conversation
Thursday, October 21–Thursday, October 28 Theatrical Screening with Lemongrass Girl (Pom Bunsermvicha, 2021) Thursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings October 22–October 28 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema 2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand / France / Netherlands / Qatar, DCP, 105 minutes Over the last 15 years, Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong has emerged […]
Read More… from Anocha Suwichakornpong: By the Time It Gets Dark
Thursday, October 21–Thursday, November 04 Theatrical Screening with By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016) Thursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings October 29–November 4 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema According to Thai superstition, a virgin can ward off rain by planting lemongrass upside down underneath an open sky. This […]