. Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

INTERIOR LIVES: Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts

Thursday, September 14, 6:00 p.m. In 1976, an extraordinary group of Black feminist artists organized the first-ever Black women’s film festival: the Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts. Four decades later, a new generation of artists, curators, and scholars have revived the festival. INTERIOR LIVES opens a weekend of events at the Gene Siskel Film […]

Su Friedrich: TODAY

Thursday, September 7, 8:30 p.m. Join renowned filmmaker Su Friedrich for the Chicago premiere of her latest feature TODAY. “Challenges us to look at what’s right in front of us.” – Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic For nearly a half-century, Su Friedrich has played a pivotal role in American queer cinema and autobiographical film with her rich and […]

Tiffany Sia: Do Not Circulate

Thursday, December 01, 6:00 p.m. Join artist, filmmaker, and writer Tiffany Sia for a screening of her urgent and revelatory film/video works Over the last five years, Hong Kong-born, New York-based artist and writer Tiffany Sia has produced a series of urgent works that examine the making, circulation, and collection of images in times of […]

Nazlı Dinçel

Thursday, February 17, 6:00 p.m. Join artist Nazlı Dinçel for a screening of their provocative handmade films. Presented in partnership with SAIC’s Video Data Bank. Nazlı Dinçel’s handmade films reflect on experiences of physical and cultural disruption, from intimate states of arousal to Dinçel’s own immigration from Turkey to the United States. By scratching, sewing, letter-punching, and […]

October 31- Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine

Thursday, October 31, 6 p.m. | Jodie Mack in person! Jodie Mack’s handmade films are vibrant examinations of the decorative detritus that accumulates around us. With cast-off bits of wrapping paper, calico fabrics, and magazine clippings, she crafts exquisite stroboscopic abstractions and poignant fables of the pitfalls of modern materiality. The SAIC alumna returns to Chicago with […]