Conversations at the Edge
Organized by the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at SAIC in association with the Video Data Bank and the Gene Siskel Film Center, Conversations at the Edge is a weekly screening series dedicated to showcasing some of the most exciting work being produced in media today.
Anne Quirynen in person!
INTERZONE
2007, Anne Quirynen, Germany/India/USA, ca. 60 min.
SAIC faculty member Quirynen has long worked at the intersection of moving image and performance. Her latest video, the stunning INTERZONE, was commissioned as an opera by the Berliner Festspiele. Featuring music by Enno Poppe, the piece takes up William S. Burroughs’s novel of the same name, using his cut-up method as a structural guide. Mini-DV video. (Amy Beste)
Thursday, March 6, 6:00 pm
Jane Crawford in person!
Films by Gordon Matta-Clark
1973-77, Gordon Matta-Clark, Belgium/USA, ca. 90 min.
Renowned “anarchitect” Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) converted urban sites into states of mind. Matta-Clark’s widow Jane Crawford will present a selection of his films, including CLOCKSHOWER (1973), CITY SLIVERS (1976), and OFFICE BAROQUE (1977). Presented in conjunction with the Betty Rymer Gallery’s series, “Meta Matta-Clark,” and the MCA’s exhibition, “Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the
Measure” through May 4. Various formats. (Amy Beste)
Reduced admission for MCA Members! Members of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art with valid MCA membership card admitted for $5 to this screening only.
Thursday, March 13, 8:00 pm
Jodie Mack in person!
CameraLESS Films / Movies Without Cameras
1901-2006, Various directors and nations, ca. 60 min.
For over one hundred years, filmmakers have found ways to emancipate themselves from advanced photographic processes and make films without cameras--by drawing, painting, scratching, or adhering objects directly onto filmstrips. Program includes: THE BRAHMIN AND THE BUTTERFLY (Georges Méliès, 1901), DOTS (Norman McLaren, 1940), PARTICLES IN SPACE (Len Lye, 1979), THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage, 1981), ZIG ZAG (Richard Reeves, 1993), and more. Organized by Jodie Mack. Various formats. (Amy Beste)
Thursday, March 27, 6:00 pm
Curators in person!
Falling Out of Time:
New Documentaries from the Former Soviet Europe
2000–07, Various directors and nations, ca. 90 min.
Once the home of state-sponsored social realism, the former Soviet Europe has given rise to a new breed of documentary featuring the observational ambiguities and formal rigor more familiar to experimental cinema. Curated by Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby, the program includes Igor Strembitsky’s 2005 Ukrainian Cannes-winner WAYFARERS, acclaimed Russian director Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting HALT (2000), Oksana Buraja’s Lithuanian MOTHER (2001), and others. Various formats. (Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby)