Tuesday, December 12, 6:00 p.m. | The archive, the document, subjective perspective, and conceptual framing entwine to produce unique forms of cinema. Two takes on the archive: past and future...With a particular focus on the historical ethnographic film and photographic surveys, ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS (2020, dir. Sanaz Sohrabi, 45 min.) is a coalescence of infrastructures, images, and archives of oil wherein cinematic time and geological time mobilize different sites, temporalities, and materialities. Using the senses of sight, touch, and sound as the conceptual frame to generate three factory portraits, THE UNSTABLE OBJECT (2011, dir. Daniel Eisenberg, 69 min.) begins a series of films depicting labor at a moment of its extreme instability, and raising the question of value, in all its forms. Sohrabi in conversation via Zoom.

Lecture Series: Our fall Lecture Series celebrates 30 years of essential contributions to moving-image culture that alums from the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation (FVNMA) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) have produced. The series traces a through-line from late 20th century media practices to current modes of production, giving particular emphasis to the ways independent moving image makers have both changed the conventions of filmmaking and adapted to the digital turn of the 21st century. Lecturer: Daniel Eisenberg. View full series.

Member Series Pass: Attend the series at a discounted rate - exclusively for Film Center members. The pass provides access to all 14 screenings with post-film lectures for a special $98 rate. Purchase your pass today!

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