American Artist - Artist Talk and Conversation

Join us for a talk and conversation with multidisciplinary new media artist American Artist. Their video BLUE LIFE SEMINAR is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center's virtual cinema October 4–October 10.

Delinda Collier and Leslie Wilson on Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa

Join us for this talk with art historians Delinda Collier and Leslie Wilson about the artists and ideas behind Collier's book MEDIA PRIMITIVISM: TECHNOLOGICAL ART IN AFRICA (Duke University Press, 2020). A related program of films and videos is on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema from October 11–17. 

Ursula Biemann - Artist Talk and Conversation

Join us for a talk with Swiss artist, author, and video essayist Ursula Biemann, whose visionary works focus on the planet’s changing climate and its ecological impact. Her videos DEEP WEATHER (2013), FOREST LAW (2014), SUBATLANTIC (2015), and ACOUSTIC OCEAN (2018), are on view in the Gene Siskel Film Center’s virtual cinema from October 18–24.

Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn - Conversation and Event

Join us for this discussion with net art pioneers and game developers Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn (Tale of Tales).

Alison O'Daniel - Artist Talk and Conversation

Tune in for this in-depth conversation with artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel about her practice.

Conversations at the Edge

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Opening Night: A Black Harvest Feast

Enjoy this feast of talent through five short films that provide a provocative taste of the festival to come.

THE OUTSIDE STORY

Shorts program: Love African American Style

Love can be for better or for worse, and in these five shorts, sometimes it’s worse before it’s better.

UNAPOLOGETIC

Shorts program: Family Matters

Family changes, challenges, and secrets, stirred with love, characterize these four shorts.

THE GATHERING: ROOTS & BRANCHES OF LOS ANGELES JAZZ

BROWN PAPER BAG

Shorts program: Black History: Lost and Found

Shorts program: Voices of Our Time

Shorts program: The Chicago Connection

PIGEON KINGS

Shorts program: Color Me Creative

Shorts program: Tales from Other Shores

RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT

Shorts program: Women of Color

After the death of her husband, Carol is faced with raising her twin daughters alone and navigating the aftermath of tragedy.

LOVE LIKE WINTER

TWO GODS

THUMBS UP FOR MOTHER UNIVERSE: THE LONNIE HOLLEY STORY

Fresh Perspectives

THE KILL HOLE

BHFF

Divine Love

The Weasel's Tale

Panorama Latinx

Shorts: Passages

Through a breathtaking array of styles and perspectives, this program follows the migrations of a family across space and time, reflects on the circularity of life, draws us into a series of mysterious digital encounters, and conjures new realities.

Leave Nothing Behind

An intimate and visceral portrait of the filmmaker’s immigrant mother, her journey to America from Czechoslovakia, and their shared experiences of precariousness living in a motel for thirteen years.

Shorts: Into the Wild

Through personal recollections, dance, and sound, this stunning collection of shorts features stories of feral girls and untethered women, portraits of generational trauma and resilience, and meditations on the relation between the body and the land.

Shorts: Into the Dark

An undercurrent of anxiety runs through this program, which features noir-ish tales of controlling relationships, nefarious characters, and an interrogation of the art world itself through animation, text, and hand-processed film.

Shorts: Becomings

In these provocative and poignant works, themes of social and individual identity, transformation, and self-realization are explored through performance, animation, travel diaries, and home movies.

SELF & other Early Works

Two experimental essays that deconstruct history and the media that documents it.

Questions for Jack

A portrait of a family piecing together the fragmentary history of their father, as his own memories are lost to Alzheimers.

FVNMAS 2020 FEST

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