Shirley Erbacher was a denizen of the Hyde Park Arts Center, a longtime employee of the Chicago Public Library, and a small-gauge filmmaker creating lively and deeply personal work from 1965-1972. Her handcrafted, silent films include portraits of family, children at play, Chicago landscapes, and public art. Join us for a screening of all 14 of her known films on the original 8mm format.
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This programme explores the influence and revisiting of Margaret Tait’s cinema by means of 16-mm filming, carried out by a group of contemporary filmmakers related with her work, such as Ute Aurand, Peter Todd and Luke Fowler. Alex Pirie defined Tait’s work as bricolage of past, present and imagination, which is where this constellation is formed.
In the Waves: Films for Our Grief Screening Program + Q&A with Malo Sutra Fish AgX Film Collective, 144 Moody Street, Building 18, 2nd Floor, Waltham, MA 02453 February 17, 2024 | Doors open at 7pm, program starts at 7:30pm Event website: https://agxfilm.org/events/2024/2/17/in-the-waves
The opening stanza of Derek Walcott's Names slices through waves breaking on the windward side of Barbados, the landing point for the first black slave society: “A sea eagle screams from the rock, and my race began like the osprey, with that cry, that terrible vowel, that I.” Travelling inland from the shore, the narrator of Helen Cammock's essay film—always speaking in the first person, whether as herself or as the embodiment of other voices (from writers to emigrants)—searches for the last vestiges of the sugar trade, a colonial project in freefall.
Series of recent works that reflect on the perception and interaction of images in the contemporary world, both in their impact on everyday life and on landscape and nature. At a time when screens have become omnipresent and created a significant effect on the ecosystem, these films reflect on the collision of the multiple images and viewers that digital devices generate when entering spaces, tinging them blue.
