. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Urban Rural Wild: Chicagoland Gridded/Revised

Thursday, September 8, 2005, 8pm | Curator Tom Comerford in person! Kartemquin Films, Now We Live on Clifton (1974). Image courtesy of Kartemquin. These experimental and non-fiction films and videos, culled from different decades, all examine the urban landscape of Chicago, but each employs different tactics towards observing the landscape and the forces that transform […]

Lo-Fi Landscapes: Pictures from the New World

Thursday, April 28, 2005, 8pm | Thomas Comerford and Bill Brown in person! Thomas Comerford, Land Marked/Marquette (2005). Image courtesy of the artist. Beloved filmmakers (and SAIC faculty and former faculty, respectively) Thomas Comerford and Bill Brown follow-up their 2002 Lo-Fi Landscapes Tour with a new program of films about the space of history and […]

Empathy

Thursday, February 10, 2005, 8pm Amie Siegel in person! Native Chicagoan poet, filmmaker and media artist Amie Siegel has garnered recognition worldwide for her subversive and provocative style in her filmic explorations of voyeurism. Tonight she brings us Empathy, a feature that investigates the tricky intimacy between psychoanalysts and their patients, combining a mosaic of […]

Moses and Aron

Thursday, November 11, 2004, 8pm Possibly Schoenberg’s finest work and certainly one that he held close to his heart, the unfinished opera Moses und Aron represents Schoenberg’s finest attempt at meshing his philosophy with his art. It is a work that can be approached on many different levels: as an exemplar of his twelve-tone system, […]

National Philistine: Videos by Paul Chan

Thursday, March 18, 2004, 8pm | Paul Chan in person! A wry political sensibility informs the work of Paul Chan, a New York-based video and installation artist who returns to Chicago to present three recent works. These include an astonishing new piece shot in Iraq, made while Chan was a member of the Chicago-based, Nobel […]

The Aids Crisis Is Still Beginning: Four Video Works

Thursday, December 4, 2003, 8pm Curator Gregg Bordowitz in person! Introduced by SAIC faculty Gregg Bordowitz, who is himself a person with AIDS and leading figure within the AIDS activist media, this program will show a range of video works addressing the now twenty-year-old AIDS crisis.  Following the screening, Bordowitz will lead a discussion about […]

Still/Here and Perseverance and How to Develop It

Thursday, April 17, 2003, 8pm STILL/HERE 2000, Chris Harris, USA, 60 min, 16mm and PERSEVERANCE AND HOW TO DEVELOP IT 2002, Jenny Perlin, USA, 14 min, 16mm Directors in person! The Department of Film, Video & New Media is pleased to welcome back alumni Chris Harris and Jenny Perlin to present their most recent films.  […]

The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (Die Schöpfer Der Einkaufswelten)

Thursday, April 3, 2003, 8pm Harun Farocki in person! Provocative, political and poignant, acclaimed German filmmaker Harun Farocki has made over 90 films since 1966, in addition to numerous writings, installations and teaching positions around the world.  Conversations at the Edge is honored to present the Chicago premiere of Farocki’s latest feature. In this new […]

Deborah Stratman and Thomas Comerford

Thursday, December 5, 2002, 8pm 1994—2002, USA, ca. 70 min, various formats. Filmmakers in person! Independent film/video makers Deborah Stratman and Thomas Comerford are both instructors in the SAIC Department of Film, Video and New Media. Stratman will present In Order Not To Be Here (2002), a stunning look at security-obsessed suburbia; Untied (2001), about breaking […]

Videos by Cecilia Dougherty

Thursday, April 4, 2002, 6pm Cecelia Dougherty in person! Cecilia Dougherty’s work employs experimental documentary and narrative to explore family interactions, the representation of lesbians in popular culture, outsider psychology, and everyday life. Dougherty will appear in person to present a wide range of her work, from early pieces such as Grapefruit (1989), Coal Miner’s […]

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