. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Catfilms (For Sailor and Oscar)

Thursday, October 30, 2003, 8:30pm Martha Colburn, Cats Amore (2001). Cinematic catnip from filmmakers old and new!  Inspired by Intercat, the late 1960’s-early 1970’s international cat film festival organized by experimental filmmaker Pola Chapelle, Catfilms mixes Intercat gems with contemporary feline flicks in a program at once wild and domestic, standoffish and affectionate.  Meow! Programmed […]

Kino Dance: An Evening of Butoh Dance Films

Thursday, October 23, 2003, 8pm Katsura Kan in person! Emerging in late 1950’s Japan, the dance style known as Butoh is one of that nation’s key contributions to the avant-garde.  The Film Center is proud to host the critically acclaimed Butoh dancer Katsura Kan, who visits from Japan to present a collection of rarely seen […]

Alma

Thursday, October 2, 2003, 8:15pm Ruth Leitman in person! “Everyone I’m related to is some weird, comical pervert,” observes Margie Thorpe of Atlanta, and the rest of this edgy, intimate documentary bears her out, sometimes hilariously, sometimes with horror.  Take mother Alma for instance – a working class Norma Desmond who spins tall tales out […]

Codependence Some More! Contemporary Independent Animation

Thursday, September 18, 2003, 8pm James Duesing, Tender Bodies (2003). Animator and School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor Chris Sullivan has put together a collection of recent work by animators from Chicago and beyond, leaning toward neurosis, relationship dynamics and attraction to disaster. Wild animals confess their sins in Jim Trainor’s work-in-progress Harmony, […]

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 […]

Edward Rankus: Selected Works

Thursday, May 1, 2003, 8pm Edward Rankus in person! Internationally recognized video artist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Edward Rankus will present a selection from his award-winning work, including: the premiere of Go Fall Apart (2003), an erotic […]

Sharon Couzin: New Work

Thursday, February 27, 2003, 8pm Sharon Couzin in person! Professor in the Department of Film, Video & New Media, Sharon Couzin presents premieres of three new works.  Elusive Cha-Cha (2002) is a portrait of performance artist E.J. Sims, with a soundtrack featuring Robert Metrick’s bongo and voice chant punctuating and echoing quick jump cuts.  A […]

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 […]

Myths, Legends and Lies

Thursday, October 24, 2002, 8pm 1925—2002, various directors, USA/Hungary, ca. 105 min, 16mm The mythic imagination runs amok in this program of a dozen animated and live-action films programmed by Jim Trainor, animator and professor of film at the School of the Art Institute.  Includes: Aristophanes on Broadway (1991, Zack Stiglicz), Daumë (2001, Ben Russell), […]

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, […]

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