Saturday night’s director event at the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center could have been called a lot of things, not the least accurate being something like “Trakovsky does Tarkovsky,” or “Solaris Changed My Life—Let’s See Who Else Agrees.” But the FSC went with the sufficiently self-evident, “Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky.”
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Sound it out
by Ryan Walach •
With talent drawn from the deliciously obscure Midwestern avant-noise/free music scene, “Pictures and Sounds” revisited the live soundtrack tradition of early silent film.
From Russia with Love
by Rebecca Kilberg •
Acclaimed art critic and film director Amei Wallach stood in front of an audience of about 30 last Thursday at the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center to present clips from her work in progress, “How to Make a Paradise.”…
Chicago Verité: Media Burn video archive preserves Windy City history
by Nausicaa Renner •
Most college students grew up around camcorders and YouTube, but there was a time when no one outside of the major networks was able to inexpensively shoot video or easily broadcast it. On Thursday, May 6th, the Fund for Innovative…
Reckless Inspiration
by Rebecca Kilberg •
First impressions, they say, stay with you permanently. A small audience was reminded of this when they gathered on March 11 in the Film Studies Center of the University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall to attend Fire Escape Films’ Winter Screening…
Nitrate Kisses
by Bonnie Kate Walker •
Homosexual culture has been all but completely omitted from history, and a contrived narrative won’t help in raising awareness. Barbara Hammer makes these messages clear in her film “Nitrate Kisses.” The 1992 film was screened as a part of the…
Light and Magic: WHPK and the Film Studies Center team up for their annual concert
by Harris Setzer •
Most of the time, people never notice the background music that accompanies their movies, focusing instead on the spectacle on the screen. But what happens when music and film are equal partners, the movie theater includes a stage, the movie…
