Humanities Division|FSC

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—

2012-02-25T00:00:00Z

Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
Friday, February 24, 6pm – Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10pm

The exhibition at Experimental Station is open to the public from 6-10pm on Friday, 2/24 and Saturday, 2/25 - no reservations necessary.

Building/Room: Experimental Station
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Tom Gunning Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, The Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The Department of Visual Arts, The Department of English Language and Literature, The New Media Workshop, The Mass Culture Workshop, The Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, The Contemporary Art and Its Histories Workshop.
Exhibition Title: PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—
Presenter(s): Anthony McCall
Open to the Public: Yes
Cost: none
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms. Experience the subtle poetics of McCall’s rarely exhibited 'Solid Light’ films at a special two-day event at the University of Chicago, featuring works on both celluloid film and digital media. This exhibition and its related symposium turn a critical spotlight onto key moments in an artistic career that has moved with singular coherence between the aesthetics of an analog and a digital media paradigm., The installation You and I, Horizontal (2005, dv) will open the event at The Experimental Station, a community arts incubator in Hyde Park, Chicago on February 24 & 25, 6-10 p.m. A special screening of Line Describing a Cone (1973, 16mm) will take place on Friday at 8pm, and its digital remake Line Describing a Cone 2.0 (2011, dv) will be presented at 6:30pm on Saturday. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—

2012-02-25T19:00:00Z

Kersten Physics Teaching Center
5720 S. Ellis
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 1 – 5:30pm

Reservations are required for the Symposium, and may be made at filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

Building/Room: Cobb 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Tom Gunning Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Open Practice Committee, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The Department of Visual Arts, The Department of English Language and Literature, The New Media Workshop, The Mass Culture Workshop, The Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, The Contemporary Art and Its Histories Workshop.
Conference Title: PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—
Open to the Public: Yes
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms. Experience the subtle poetics of McCall’s rarely exhibited 'Solid Light’ films at a special two-day event at the University of Chicago, featuring works on both celluloid film and digital media. This exhibition and its related symposium turn a critical spotlight onto key moments in an artistic career that has moved with singular coherence between the aesthetics of an analog and a digital media paradigm., On Saturday, February 25, Anthony McCall will present an artist talk at an afternoon symposium dedicated to his work, then participate in a roundtable with a panel of distinguished curators and scholars:, - Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of America Art, - Tom Gunning, Departments of Cinema and Media Studies and Art History, University of Chicago, - Hamza Walker, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago , - Daniel Morgan, Departments of English, Film and Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Curated by Michelle Menzies, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Language and Literature, as a project of the Film Studies Center Graduate Student Curatorial Program., This event is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Miriam Bratu Hansen (1949-2011).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu…

Pictures and Sounds

2012-03-04T02:00:00Z

Film Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8pm

Building/Room: Cobb 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Other Sponsor(s): WHPK
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Pictures and Sounds, the annual multimedia showcase hosted by WHPK and the Film Studies Center, presents re-imagined and improvised soundtracks to new video work and classics of silent, experimental, and outsider film. Live performances from a selection of artists spanning the spectrum of avant noise and free playing. Performers TBA.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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A Bitter Taste of Freedom: An Evening with Marina Goldovskaya

2012-03-10T01:00:00Z

Film Studies Center
5811 S. Ellis
Friday, March 9, 2012, 7pm

Building/Room: Cobb 307
Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center
Contact Name: Film Studies Center
Contact Phone: 773-702-8596
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya presents this soulful homage to her close friend Anna Politkovskaya, the fearless investigative reporter, who was murdered on her doorstep by an unknown assailant in 2006, presumably for her outspoken criticism of the government-sanctioned war in Chechnya. Recipient of an Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, A Bitter Taste of Freedom evades the conventions of reportage, instead weaving contextual archive and in-the-field photos with diaristic footage the filmmaker shot in Politkovskaya’s home during their many years of intimate conversations, beginning with Goldovskaya’s first portrait of Politkovskaya, A Taste of Freedom (1991)., Marina Goldovskaya’s work, which includes the award-winning films Solovky Power (1987), The House on Arbat Street (1993) and The Prince is Back (1999), has garnered international acclaim since the late 1980s. As an eyewitness to a half-century of Russia’s turbulent history, which she has spent the past 40 years meticulously archiving on celluloid and digital video, Goldovskaya was the first Russian filmmaker to introduce a personal diary style in the documentary genre. She used this style in The Shattered Mirror (1992), which chronicled the emotions of Russians living through the turmoil of perestroika culminating in the putsch of October 1993. Currently head of the documentary program at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, Goldovskaya received a Ph.D. in Fine Arts in the Moscow State Film Institute in 1987, taught documentary in Moscow State University from 1966 to 1995, and wrote numerous articles and six books on documentary filmmaking. Her memoir, Woman with a Movie Camera, was published by U Texas Press in 2006., (Marina Goldovskaya, Sweden/US, 2011, DigiBeta, Russian with English subtitles, 88 min)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
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