. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Exploded States: War, Politics and National Identity

Thursday, October 7, 2004, 8pm Shuji Terayama, Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971). This program is part of the series “JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video 1955-Now” that will screen at the University of Chicago later this fall. In Exploded States, the importance of political and social critique for postwar Japanese experimentation is made apparent.  These experimental […]

Gender at the Edge: Three Films by Mickey Mahoney

Thursday, April 22, 2004, 8pm Mickey Mahoney in person! Sexuality, in its omnivorous complex glory, has rarely been celebrated as wittily as in the works of Mickey Mahoney. Twisty plots, reversals of fortune and identity, and a sharp but generous sense of satire combine seamlessly in these highly entertaining works. A four-minute pick-up is the […]

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 […]

A Body Owner’s Manual: Work by Frédéric Moffet & Daniéle Wilmouth

Thursday, May 8, 2003, 8pm Frédéric Moffet & Daniéle Wilmouth in person! For those of us who need such lessons, Department of Film, Video, and New Media faculty members Frédéric Moffet & Daniéle Wilmouth present five short works that provide technical instruction on the vast possible uses of the human body.  Lesson #1: Movement, Myth […]

The Servant’s Shirt (Nankar Ki Kameez)

Thursday, April 24, 2003, 8pm Mani Kaul in person! Artist-in-Residence Mani Kaul’s third program in our spring Conversations at the Edge series is his deeply compassionate exploration of social issues confronting ordinary Indians, The Servant’s Shirt.  In a small Indian town in the early 1960’s, a young, lower caste couple – Santu and his wife […]

Black Maria Film Festival, Program 2

Friday, February 8, 2002, 6pm The second evening of work will be presented in the screening room of the Department of Film, Video, and New Media, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 1311, 13th floor. Includes: Impossible Love (Jim Jennings, 11 min); Train (Masako Miyazaki, 8 min); Shudder (Michael Gitlin, 3 min); Go/Army (Ruben OMalley, 9 […]

New Media Art by Art Jones

Thursday, October 26, 2001, 6pm 1990-2001, Art Jones, USA, ca 60 min, video Art Jones in person! An evening of film, video, CD-ROM, DVD, Internet… Art Jones has called himself a “media agnostic” and believes in a media practice that crosses the boundaries of form, genre, and discipline. There has never been a better time […]

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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