. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

13 Films about Animals

Thursday, December 13, 2001, 6pm 1923-2001, various directors, France/Russia/USA, ca 110 min, various formats From the warm-and-fuzzy to the chilly-and-scaly, from the gently lyrical to the grimly pedagogical, these thirteen films feature dogs, cats, bats and bugs and the people who love them, or don’t. Programmed and presented in person by animation artist/professor Jim Trainor, […]

Hybrid

Thursday, November 15, 2001, 6 pm 2000, Montieth McCollum, USA, 92 min, 35mm Montieth McCollum in person! “A tricky and tremendous film that examines what work means to the soul: a topic that is particularly American.” (Elvis Mitchell, New York Times) “Hybrid is the most pleasingly unconventional documentary portrait in recent memory – McCollum with […]

Mortal

Thursday, November 8, 2001, 6pm 1967-2001, various directors, Canada/Sweden/USA, ca 95 min, 16mm In association with the exhibition “Mortal” at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Betty Rymer Gallery, the Film Center presents a selection of independent and experimental works that engage the issues of death and dying. The Hangover (1967, Industrial safety […]

Kadar’s Kiss + Free Fall

Thursday, November 1, 2001, 6pm KADAR’S KISS 1997, Peter Forgács, Hungary, 45 min, 16mm and FREE FALL 1996, Peter Forgács, Hungary, 47 min, 16mm Hungarian filmmaker Peter Forgács is one of the most important independent documentary producers working in Europe today, developing a practice of image archaeology from collected home movie films and collective experience. […]

Investigation of a Flame and Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam

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 […]

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