Spring 2019
Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists. The program is organized by the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
For more, visit www.saic.edu/cate.
From February 2 through March 3, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents the "29 th Annual Festival of Films from Iran," presenting Chicago premieres of eight films by directors working within and outside of Iran. We open with the U.S. premiere of the documentary MOUTH HARP IN A MINOR KEY: HAMID NAFICY IN/ON EXILE by Maryam Sepehri.
January 25 - May 7
Lecturer: Jonathan Rosenbaum
The groundbreaking best of British theater, straight from the London stage.
We present new digital restorations of two major works by Alain Resnais, a key figure in the development of modernist cinema. Resnais's fluid, fragmentary treatment of time and memory, enhanced by brilliant editing, moved critic Andrew Sarris to call him “the cinema’s most profound mediator on the human mind.”
We inaugurate a new mostly monthly series dedicated to provocative and outré films that have galvanized audiences and critics alike, incited passionate conversation, and inspired devoted cult followings among adventurous cinephiles.
