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Friday 5/03
7:00 PM
Cobb Hall (Film Studies Center) – CMS Graduate Student Conference
The Boy Who Liked Deer – Barbara Loden – 1975 – 18 min
16mm from the Chicago Film Society
Screening as part of a multi-format shorts program
7:00 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Selena – Gregory Nava – 1997 – 127 min – 35mm
Saturday 5/04
4:00 PM
Doc Films – Board Picks
Selena – Gregory Nava – 1997 – 127 min – 35mm
9:30 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Bad Education – Pedro Almodovar – 2004 – 106 min – 35mm
Sunday 5/05
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre – Chicago Critics Film Festival
Little Women – 1994 – Gillian Armstrong – 115 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
8:00 PM
Doc Films – An Artist of Intimate Intent: James Benning
American Dreams: Lost and Found – James Benning – 1984 – 55 min
O Panama – James Benning – 1985 – 27 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Tuesday 5/07
7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre – Chicago Critics Film Festival
Bringing Out the Dead – Martin Scorsese – 1999 – 121 min
35mm from Paramount
7:00 PM
Doc Films – Americans in Paris: After the Dance
Trouble Every Day – Claire Denis – 2001 – 101 min – 35mm
Wednesday 5/08
6:30 PM
Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theater)
Chicago Film Archives presents: The World is Watching – Stories From the Front Line
The Right to Dissent: A Press Conference – 1969 – 9 min
Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Ave. – 1969 – 11 min
Law and Order vs Dissent – 1969 – 11 min
Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March – 1969 – 7 min
Films by The Film Group
All 16mm from the Chicago Film Archives
7:00 PM
Doc Films – Programmer’s Picks
Rocco and His Brothers – Luchino Visconti – 1960 – 178 min – 35mm
Thursday 5/09
7:00 PM
Block Cinema – Films of Botanical Motion
Spring Blossoms (John Ott, 1948, 18 min)
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1 -3 (Charlotte Pryce, 2007, 4 min)
I Began to Wish (Julie Murray, 2003, 6 min)
Les Tournesols Colorés (Rose Lowder, 1982, 3 min)
Wasteland 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack, 2021, 5 min)
all 16mm
Part of a longer shorts program
7:00 PM
Film Studies Center – Film Talks: A Touring Program of Experimental Cinema
Candle – Neil Henderson – 2018 – 3 min – 16mm
Arm, Flexion, Extension – Bea Haut – 2011 – 3 min – 16mm
Inflated (Double) Struggle – Jenny Baines – 2018 – 3 min – 16mm
Babbler, Fairy and Thrush – Karel Doing – 2022 – 4 min – 16mm
Four Diamonds – Ute Aurand – 2016 – 5 min – 16mm
Dark Garden – Nick Collins – 2011 – 9 min – 16mm
Yali – Helga Fanderl – 2012 – 2 min – 16mm
Evening Twinkling – Helga Fanderl – 2012 – 1 min – 16mm
Afternoon Light – Helga Fanderl – 2013 – 1 min – 16mm
Persimmon Tree III – Helga Fanderl – 2011 – 3 min – 16mm
Big Waters – Helga Fanderl – 2012 – 3 min – 16mm
Gasometers 3 – Nick Hamlyn – 2015 – 13 min – 16mm
Screening as part of a multi-format shorts program
9:30 PM
Doc Films – Inside Outsider Cinema
Cosmic Ray – Bruce Conner – 1962 – 4 min – 16mm
Fritz the Cat – Ralph Bakshi – 1972 – 78 min – 35mm
Friday 5/10
7:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers – POETIC MOVEMENTS: Selected Films from Adele Friedman & Jean Sousa
[Adele Friedman]
Tony (1979) – 7 Mins
Untitled II (1983) – 7 Mins
Robert’s Place (2004) – 6 Mins
Christian and Michael (2006) – 8 Mins
François: A Place of Time (2015) – 12 Mins
Red Cloud (2016) – 5 Mins
all 16mm
[Jean Sousa]
Pattern Impulse (1979) – 3 Mins
Today is Sunday (1987) – 18 Mins
all 16mm, with additional shorts screening digitally
7:00 PM
Block Cinema – Film Talks – A Touring Program of Experimental Cinema (Program 2)
Not (A) Part – Vicky Smith – 2020 – 6 min – 16mm
Cornish and Faroese Knitting Pattern Series – Jennifer Nightingale – 2016-2017 – 3 min – 16mm
Screening as part of a multi-format shorts program
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