{"id":9672,"date":"2024-10-17T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:02:51","slug":"an-evening-with-paige-taul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2024\/10\/17\/an-evening-with-paige-taul\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Paige Taul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 17, 6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Paige Taul, I am, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In her lyrical short films, Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Paige Taul draws on her own personal history to explore, in her words, \u201cBlack cultural expression and notions of belonging.\u201d She presents a selection of nine shorts that meditate on family and folk. Assembled from family photographs, interviews, and related footage, they offer a prismatic portrait of her family while forging more abstract connections to kin across time and space.<\/span><\/p>\n

2017\u201323, USA, Digital
\n<\/span>50 minutes followed by a talk and conversation with the artist
\n<\/span>In English<\/span><\/p>\n

PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/em>2017, USA, 3 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

An interview with Taul\u2019s mother about her relationships with her family, religion, and Blackness.<\/span><\/p>\n

7-7-94 For my babe
\n<\/em><\/strong>2018, USA, 3 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

A short film based on a polaroid Taul\u2019s father sent to her mother before he was sent to federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the face of god<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/em>2018, USA, 4 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

The story of Taul\u2019s parents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

10:28,30<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/em>2019, USA, 4 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

Meditating on the twin desires to live together and apart, Taul and her twin sister explore their relationship to each other and to their mother.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Promise
\n<\/em><\/strong>2019, USA, 6 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

Taul\u2019s mother tells a story about a near-death experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Too Small to be a Bear<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/em>2020, USA, 5 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

Two generations of women reflect on a profound event in the life of the filmmaker\u2019s grandfather and baseball player Jesse Taul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

71
\n<\/em><\/strong>2022, USA, 19 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

Taul uses William Greave\u2019s influential documentary <\/span>Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class<\/span><\/em> (1968) as a jumping off point for a consideration of Black middle-class life today. Drawing upon the experiences and observations of her aunt and mother, she navigates the temporal gaps in conformity and respectability politics between 1968 and 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/em>2023, USA, 5 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

A collaboration with the musician Olula Negre, <\/span>On Sunday<\/span><\/em> uses archival material from the Chicago Film Archives to meditate on the quotidian joy of family, nature, and kin.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paige Taul is an artist, filmmaker, and assistant professor in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She often uses the experiences of her own family to explore Black identity. Her work has screened widely, including at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Barbican Centre in London, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the HALLE F\u00dcR KUNST Steiermark in addition to film festivals like Media City Film Festival in Windsor, Ontario and Onion City Film Festival in Chicago, among many others.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ACCESSIBILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conversations at the Edge events have live captions (CART). The Gene Siskel Film Center is fully ADA accessible and its theaters are equipped with hearing loops. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu\/access <\/a>or write cate@saic.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 17, 6:00 p.m. In her lyrical short films, Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Paige Taul draws on her own personal history to explore, in her words, \u201cBlack cultural expression and notions of belonging.\u201d She presents a selection of nine shorts that meditate on family and folk. Assembled from family photographs, interviews, and related footage, […]<\/p>\n

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