. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Thursday, March 14, 2002, 6:15pm A central but rarely shown film in the history of feminist cinema, Jeanne Dielman follows three days in the life of a middle-class European woman as she does her daily housework, cooks for her teenage son, occasionally engages in prostition, and gradually descends into madness. Using the real-time element of […]

Ear and Eye Control: Films by Paula Froehle

Thursday, March 7, 2002, 6pm Paula Froehle in person! Loosely traversing the boundary between experimental and narrative form, Paula Froehle’s densely layered and poetic films search for new metaphoric relationships to express the realms of the subconscious. This evening provides an overview of her work, from early pieces such as Second Skin (1990), Spitting Image […]

Films by Joseph Cornell from the Flaxman Collection

Thursday, February 28, 2002, 6pm Joseph Cornell’s film work links the tradition of early surrealism with the entire range of work produced by experimental filmmakers in the fifties, sixties & seventies in New York. The enormously influential Rose Hobart (1939) practically launched a movement by itself, after being seen by Jack Smith and Ken Jacobs. […]

A Special Valentine’s Day With Bruce LaBruce

Thursday, February 14, 2002, 6pm Bruce LaBruce in Person! Bruce LaBruce is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer stuck in the gulag otherwise known as Toronto, Canada. He started out as a child, then quickly moved on to the production of homo punk fanzines and super 8 movies. These products helped to launch the so-called Homocore […]

Black Maria Film Festival, Program 1

Thursday, February 7, 2002, 6pm Curator John Columbus in person! John Columbus, founding director of the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, will present the first of two programs of this year’s Festival winners. The Black Maria continues to be one of America’s most important festivals of new experimental work in film and video, showcasing […]

Cybernoia: Suicide Box and Fresh Kill

Thursday, December 6, 2001, 6pm CYBERNOIA:
 SUICIDE BOX 1996, Natalie Jeremijenko, USA, 13 min, video. and FRESH KILL 1994, Shu Lea Cheang, USA, 80 min, 35mm. Technology takes a sinister turn in these works, which alternately satirize and comment darkly upon the omnipresence of electronic telecommunications, surveillance video, and broadcast propaganda in contemporary life. Co-presented […]

Hapax Legomena: Special Effects, Remote Control, Ordinary Matter

Friday, November 30, 2001, 6pm 1971-1972, Hollis Frampton, USA, ca 76 min, 16mm A special presentation of the final three films that make up Hollis Frampton’s Hapax Legomena series: Special Effects (1972); Remote Control (1972); Ordinary Matter (1972).

Hapax Legomena: Nostalgia, Poetic Justice, Critical Mass, Traveling Matte

Thursday, November 29, 2001, 6pm 1971-1972, Hollis Frampton, USA, ca 125 min, 16mm In celebration of the School of the Art Institute’s recent acquisition of Hollis Frampton’s seminal avant-garde film (nostalgia), we are presenting the entire series of films, Hapax Legomena, of which (nostalgia) is only a part. Although (nostalgia) is one of the most […]

Shellie Fleming / Zack Stiglicz

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 […]

Persistence

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 […]

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