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Persistence of Vision
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 to take it off their hands: “I just hate feeling like my home is... »
Hyde Park & Kenwood
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,... »
Word is Out again
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 about gay and lesbian identity, appeared across the country in theaters and on television... »
Behind the Scenes: UofC students’ feature film premieres at Doc Films
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 college student holds the brim of a tropical print ball cap and stares at... »
Doc of Love: From Ozu to Grit to WTF, what’s playing this quarter at the University of Chicago
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 sepia-toned, oversized broadsheet but Cary Grant, heartthrob? Though Doc calendars are usually relegated to... »
The Life and Death of the RSO: A glimpse into the nature of student organizations
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 protect them and involve ourselves, is a more complicated tale. »
What’s up, Doc?: A preview of this quarter’s cinematic offerings
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 few good reasons why you should be ditching April showers, May flowers, and all-nighters... »
Ars Erotica: Doc Films takes stock of sexploitation
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, according to Doc Films Programming Chair and Sexploitation series creator Kyle Westphal, “delivers the... »
