Events Archive: 2009-2010

Academic Year 2009-2010

My Best Girl and Biograph Shorts

A centenary celebration of Mary Pickford on the Screen

Friday, October 9, 2009 - 7:00pm

Artist on Fire: The Films of Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland shorts: Water Sark (1965), Handtinting (1968), Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 7:00pm

Secrets Behind the Wall

Friday, October 23, 2009 - 7:00pm

Jour de fête/The Big Day

Presented by Assistant Professor Jennifer Wild, Dept of Cinema & Media Studies.

Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 3:30pm

D'Est / From the East

Introduction by Asst Professor Jennifer Wild, Department of Cinema & Media Studies

Friday, November 13, 2009 - 7:00pm

To Give Birth According to Sade and Pasolini's Saló

Lecture by Armando Maggi, Professor of Italian Literature and the Committee on the History of Culture

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 7:00pm

Hôtel du Nord

Part of Ciné en hiver: 2010 French Film Series

Friday, January 8, 2010 - 7:00pm

Au hasard Balthazar

Part of Ciné en hiver: 2010 French Film Series

Friday, January 15, 2010 - 7:00pm

Romance of Astrea and Celadon

Part of Ciné en hiver: 2010 French Film Series

Friday, January 22, 2010 - 7:00pm

Harold Teen

Archival film screening with live piano accompaniment by David Drazin

Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 6:00pm

Quilombo and Utopia: The Aesthetic of Labor in Brazilian Documentary

Lecture by Salomé Skvirsky

Friday, February 19, 2010 - 5:00pm

WHPK Pictures and Sounds

Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 8:00pm

Fire Escape Films Winter Screening

Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 8:00pm

The Connection

Friday, March 12, 2010 - 7:00pm

The Last Happy Day

An Evening with Lynne Sachs

Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 8:00pm

Hacks and Authors: Ben Hecht, the politique des auteurs and scriptwriting in classical Hollywood

Lunch discussion with Giaime Alonge

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 12:30pm

The Purposes of Love: Romance in Two British Films of the Late Silent Period

Lecture by Laura Mulvey

Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 4:30pm

The Grandpa from Brazil ブラジルから来たおじいちゃん

An Evening with Filmmaker Nanako Kurihara

Friday, April 9, 2010 - 7:00pm

Coffee Futures and “Reading the Residues: Fortune Telling Cafés in Istanbul”

Screening with Filmmaker Zeynep Devrim Gürsel and Lecture by Zeynep K. Korkman

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 7:00pm

Mary and Max

Friday, April 16, 2010 - 7:00pm

Radical Politics and Experimental Film in Spain: Los Encuentros de Pamplona (1972)

Lecture by Vicente J. Benet

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 5:00pm

Sifinja: The Iron Bride

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 7:00pm

Photography, Film and Marginality in Italy: Three Case Studies, 1952-2010

Lecture by David Forgacs

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 5:00pm

Representing Chicago: Experimental Video and Television at the Media Burn Archive

Screening and Discussion with Tom Weinberg and Sara Chapman

Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 7:00pm

From Face to Image

Lecture by Noa Steimatsky

Friday, May 14, 2010 - 5:00pm

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: How To Make a Paradise

Work in Progress Talk with Amei Wallach

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 7:00pm

Medium Cool

Screening and discussion with filmmaker Haskell Wexler

Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 7:00pm

Fire Escape Films Spring Film Festival

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 8:30pm