Dialogue: select filmmakers in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
Saturday, February 7, 6:00 p.m. | This special encore screening invites us to experience films from Chicago’s very own. FROM THE BLOCK brings together a constellation of filmmakers working across documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, whose work reflects everyday life through humor, intimacy, and close observation, shaped by place, memory, labor, and relationships. The program centers work that is specific, local, and lived, moving at the rhythm of daily life and the worlds their makers move through. This screening extends Black Harvest beyond the festival window, creating space to return to the work and sit with it together. Dialogue: select filmmakers in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. Post-event reception hosted by SAIC Office of Campus Enrichment in the Gene Siskel Film Center lobby.
Program
EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING (dir. Kin Marie, 6 min.)
FROM SCRATCH (dirs. Somer Van Benton, Kate Wunderlich, 11 min.)
NYA DOES NOTHING (dirs. Erisa Apantaku, Jenny Casas, 12 min.)
TAKE 290 (dir. Sandrel Nicole Young, 16 min.)
STORE RUN (dir. Dashawna Wright, 14 min.)
SUPERPOWER (dir. Tre King, 8 min.)
BAILEY’S BLUES (dir. Shiloh Tumo Washington, 11 min.)
WE CALL EACH OTHER (dir. Sarah Oberholtzer, 14 mins.)
Related Event: BLACK HARVEST FILM FESTIVAL ENCORE – BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS
FROM THE BLOCK was originally presented as part of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival and continues as part of Black Harvest Film Festival’s year-round programming and ongoing exhibition.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu