. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Lawrence Andrews: mythicPotentialities

Thursday, October 12, 6:00 p.m. Enthralling in form and vision, Lawrence Andrews’ works are kaleidoscopic explorations of Blackness through mass media and popular culture. In the genre-defying imageless video mythicPotentialities (2019), Andrews examines the murder of Emmett Till, the trial that followed, and the ways these events have been mediated through artistic and mass media. Focusing on […]

Su Friedrich: SINK OR SWIM and RULES OF THE ROAD

Thursday, September 7, 6:00 p.m. Join legendary filmmaker Su Friedrich for a screening of her contemporary classics SINK OR SWIM  and RULES OF THE ROAD. “[A] personal chronicle about language, memory, and Dad that strikes hard, and deep.” – Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice “[Friedrich] creates a film like a perfect short story.” – Stuart Klawans, The Nation […]

Marwa Arsanios: Who is Afraid of Ideology, Part 3 and Part 4

Thursday, April 20, 6:00 p.m. Join Berlin and Beirut-based artist Marwa Arsanios for her remarkable multi-part project on collectivity, feminism, environmentalism, and resistance, WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY. “A meditation on the relationship of human beings to the natural world, and a reckoning with the authoritative posture of conventional documentary filmmaking. – David Markus, Frieze […]

Marwa Arsanios: Who Is Afraid of Ideology, Part 1 and Part 2

Wednesday, April 19, 6:00 p.m. Join Berlin and Beirut-based artist Marwa Arsanios for her award-winning multi-part project on collectivity, feminism, environmentalism, and resistance, WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY. “A meditation on the relationship of human beings to the natural world, and a reckoning with the authoritative posture of conventional documentary filmmaking. – David Markus, Frieze Since […]

Deborah Stratman: Last Things

Thursday, March 30, 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. Join acclaimed filmmaker Deborah Stratman for the Chicago premiere of her latest film LAST THINGS. Presented in partnership with the 33rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival. “Fuses the heart of a poet with the mind of a scientist.” – Chris Stults, ArtForum Award-winning filmmaker and School of the Art […]

Tiffany Sia: Do Not Circulate

Thursday, December 01, 6:00 p.m. Join artist, filmmaker, and writer Tiffany Sia for a screening of her urgent and revelatory film/video works Over the last five years, Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist and writer Tiffany Sia has produced a series of urgent works that examine the making, circulation, and collection of images in times of […]

Tulapop Saenjaroen: Short Films

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 […]

Ursula Biemann

Thursday, October 22, 2:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m., CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available Join us for a talk with Swiss artist, author, and video essayist Ursula Biemann whose visionary practice focuses on the planet’s changing climate and its ecological impact. Her videos Deep Weather (2013), Forest Law (2014), Subatlantic (2015), and Acoustic Ocean (2018) are on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s […]

American Artist

Thursday, October 08, 7:00 p.m.–8:15 p.m. CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available.Join us for a talk by multidisciplinary new media artist American Artist, whose work examines Black labor and visibility within networked life. Their video, Blue Life Seminar, is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema from October 4–10. American Artist […]