Shellie Fleming / Zack Stiglicz
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | October 11, 2001
Thursday, October 11, 2001, 6pm
Michelle Fleming and Zack Stiglicz in person!
An evening of work committed to the exploration of the filmic image. In the long tradition of the American experimental and avant-garde cinema, both Fleming and Stiglicz plumb the photographic image for expression, for meaning and for its photographic beauty. This evening’s program includes Michelle Fleming’s Life/Expectancy (1999), a meditative search for meaning at mid-life. With images of smoke billowing from chimneys, thorny stems twisting, and records spinning, as well as clips from numerous Hollywood films, Life/Expectancy plays out like a psychoanalytic case study.
Rosas danst Rosas and Curtain of Eyes
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | October 4, 2001
Thursday, October 4, 2001, 6pm
ROSAS DANST ROSAS
1997, Thierry De Mey, Belgium, 57 min, 16mm
and
CURTAIN OF EYES
1997, Daniele Wilmouth, USA, 13 min, 16mm
Daniele Wilmouth in person!
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas danst Rosas, a masterpiece of contemporary dance, has been staged all over the world. Filmmaker Thierry De Mey shot the dance in June 1996 at the RITO School in Leuven (Belgium), a building designed by the architect Henry van de Velde. “….De Mey shows a merciless and mathematical virtuosity. Through long moving shots and a fast cut, with many aggressive angle changes, the filmic space explodes. The spectator is swept away and becomes disoriented in an unidentifiable space without identification marks. He not only watches the dance but is caught by the force of movements which causes his own perpetual motion. The rage which this direction expresses is even more impressive since it does not leave a chaotic impression. On the contrary, it seems to have been subjected to systematic rules…”
(Stéphane Bouquet, Cahiers du Cinéma).
Daniele Wilmouth will be present to screen her film/dance collaboration, Curtain of Eyes, along with Rosas danst Rosas.
Tags: Europe > Group Programs > Performance > SAIC Alumni > SAIC Faculty
Persistence
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | September 27, 2001
Thursday, September 27, 2001, 6pm
1997, Daniel Eisenberg, USA, 86 min, 16mm
Daniel Eisenberg in person!
This film meditation expands the scope of avant-garde filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg’s ongoing work of deconstructing history through the film image. Drawn to the landscape in and around Berlin, Eisenberg utilizes the technique of meticulous observation to make seemingly innocuous sites yield up the secret of their witness to past events. In a profound but subtle way, the film centers around the Holocaust yet also calls into question the place of the individual in the flow of history. (Barbara Scharres)
Investigation of a Flame and Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | September 20, 2001
Thursday, September 20, 2001, 6pm
INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME
2001, Lynne Sachs, USA, 45 min, 16mm
and
WHICH WAY IS EAST: NOTEBOOKS FROM VIETNAM
1994, Lynne Sachs and Dana Sachs, USA, 33 min, 16mm
Lynne Sachs in person!
On May 17, 1968, nine Vietnam War protesters walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Investigation of a Flame (2001) is an intimate documentary portrait of this disparate band of resisters. A series of informal yet charged conversations examines this politically and religiously motivated performance, while also becoming an exploration of the revelations and disappointments of aging. Which Way Is East is a travel diary of sisters Lynne and Dana Sachs’ trip to Vietnam. A collection of tourism, city life, culture clash and historic inquiry, Which Way Is East starts as a road trip and flowers into a political discourse.
Lost Sound
Posted by | Conversations at the Edge | Posted on | September 13, 2001
Thursday, September 13, 2001, 6pm
John Smith in person!
A special presentation of works by internationally renowned, London-based film and video artist John Smith. Since 1972, Smith has made over thirty film, video and installation works. The continuing popularity of his work can be explained by his wry sense of humor, his plays on language and the elegance of his visual style. Smith’s films have been widely shown internationally in cinemas, galleries and on television, and have been awarded major prizes at film festivals in Oberhausen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Cork, Palermo, Graz, Uppsala, Bangkok and Chicago. Smith will appear in person to present a selection of his film and video work, including his latest, Lost Sound (2001). Also screening: Associations (1975), Leading Light (1975), The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1986), The Black Tower (1987), Gargantuan (1992), Blight (1996), and The Waste Land (1999). Co-presented by the Video Data Bank (Abina Manning). 1975-2001, John Smith, UK, ca 60 min, video.
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Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists.
CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Video Data Bank.
Programs take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
