{"id":9164,"date":"2021-03-22T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:01:32","slug":"madeleine-hunt-ehrlich-speculative-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/03\/22\/madeleine-hunt-ehrlich-speculative-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Speculative Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monday, March 22<\/span>\u2013<\/strong><\/em>Sunday, March 28<\/strong><\/em>
\n<\/span>Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
\nClosed captions available.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/em>See four recent films by the artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0A Quality of Light<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Footnote to the West<\/em>\u00a0(2020), and\u00a0Outfox the Grave<\/em>\u00a0(2020).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s rich and often surreal works blend narrative and documentary to explore the private worlds of Black women. Rooted in archival and field research, Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s practice uses abstraction as a mode of resistance in depicting subjects deprived of self-autonomy under the exploitative gaze of the colonial camera. In these four films\u2014Spit on the Broom<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0A Quality of Light<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Footnote to the West<\/em>\u00a0(2020), and\u00a0Outfox the Grave<\/em> (2020)\u2014she relays a fragmentary history of the United Order of Tents, the oldest African American women\u2019s group in the United States, established by freed slaves in 1867; looks at her grandmother\u2019s life and musical compositions; interrupts the white gaze of the Western canon; and meditates on a series of anonymous photographs of Black life, speculating on the inner lives of photographers and subjects.<\/p>\n

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 2019-2020, USA, ca 30 minutes, closed captions available<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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RELATED EVENT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Lecture and\u00a0Conversation<\/strong>
\nMarch 25, 7:00 p.m. CT
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
\nLive captions available.<\/em><\/p>\n

Join Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and art historian Romi Crawford, professor in visual and critical studies and liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,\u00a0for\u00a0this look at Hunt-Ehrlich’s\u00a0practice, including her ongoing work with the United Order of Tents; her research into representation, abstraction,\u00a0and the archive; and her feature-in-progress on the French surrealist writer Suzanne C\u00e9saire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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ABOUT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s work\u00a0has screened all over the world, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art\u00a0in New York and in film festivals such as the New Orleans Film Festival, Doclisboa, and BlackStar Film Festival. She has\u00a0been featured in\u00a0Essence<\/em>\u00a0magazine, the Studio Museum in Harlem\u2019s\u00a0Studio<\/em>\u00a0magazine,\u00a0ARC Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0BOMBLOG<\/em>,\u00a0Guernica<\/em>, and\u00a0Small Axe,<\/em>\u00a0among others. She was named as one of\u00a0Filmmaker\u00a0<\/em>magazine’s\u00a0“25 New Faces of Independent Film 2020\u201d and\u00a0is the recipient of a San Francisco International Film Festival 2020 Rainin Grant, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2019 Emerging Artist grant, a 2019 UNDO Fellowship,\u00a0a\u00a02015 TFI\/ESPN Future Filmmaker Award, and a\u00a02014 Princess Grace Award. Her work has been recognized by the Time Inc. Black Girl Magic Emerging Director’s series and the National Magazine Awards, and she has received grants from the National Black Programming Consortium and Glassbreaker Films.\u00a0Hunt-Ehrlich has a degree in film and photography from Hampshire College and an\u00a0MFA in film and media arts from\u00a0Temple University. She is currently an assistant professor in film and television production at Queens College, City University of New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday, March 22\u2013Sunday, March 28 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available. See four recent films by the artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Spit on the Broom\u00a0(2019),\u00a0A Quality of Light\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Footnote to the West\u00a0(2020), and\u00a0Outfox the Grave\u00a0(2020). Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s rich and often surreal works blend narrative and documentary to explore the private worlds of […]<\/p>\n

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