As you enter the apartment at 55th and Hyde Park, the projector is on your left. Straight ahead, a canvas covered with what looks like multi-colored sponges hangs on a wall. When I ask about it, Julian Antos urges me…
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Hyde Park & Kenwood
by Tyler Leeds •
Hyde Park and Kenwood are mostly residential and tree-lined, amber and beautiful in the autumn. The lake still reflects each sunrise, sending plumes of fog rolling west in the springtime. Surely more changes will come, but for now this area is a place for schoolchildren and undergraduates, working parents and professors, and of course, the President and those peculiar parakeets.
Word is Out again
by Vriti Jain •
Last Friday, in front of a small but appreciative audience, the University of Chicago’s Doc Films opened a time capsule of LGBT life in the 1970s. “Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives,” the first full-length documentary made…
Behind the Scenes: UofC students’ feature film premieres at Doc Films
by Harry Backlund •
Jack Mayer is nervous. Leaning on a metal desk in the one-room office of Fire Escape Films in the basement of the University of Chicago’s Ida Noyes Hall, surrounded by cameras, cables, and computers, the young film director and fourth-year…
Doc of Love: From Ozu to Grit to WTF, what’s playing this quarter at the University of Chicago
by Rose Schapiro •
Be still my caffeine-addicted, jumpy heart. Spring might not be in the air quite yet, but this quarter brings a new Doc Films calendar to plaster dorm and apartment walls across Hyde Park. And who should be on this quarter’s…
The Life and Death of the RSO: A glimpse into the nature of student organizations
by Rose Schapiro •
College was supposed to be a land of both social and academic opportunity. To a large extent it is, even at a work-intensive school like the University of Chicago. But how exactly these opportunities present themselves, and how ardently we…
What’s up, Doc?: A preview of this quarter’s cinematic offerings
by Elise Biggers •
It’s that time of the year again: the weather is getting warmer, the sun is staying out longer, and the classes are picking up and starting all over. So, what are you going to do? Go outside? Here are a…
Ars Erotica: Doc Films takes stock of sexploitation
by Jassmine Rabii •
In 1933, the Chicago Castle Theatre risked fines of $200 when it attempted to show the controversial film “This Nude World”. In that tradition, Doc Films risks inciting a storm of debate with their new Thursday night “Sexploitation” series that,…
