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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Este programa explora la influencia y la revisitación del cine de Margaret Tait que, mediante la filmación en 16 mm, efectúan un conjunto de cineastas contemporáneos afines a su trabajo, como Ute Aurand, Peter Todd y Luke Fowler. Alex Pirie definió la obra de Tait como un bricolaje de pasado, presente e imaginación, y es ahí donde se forma esta constelación.
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
En La Cueva, CDMX: Proyección de cortometrajes del cineasta experimental canadiense Mike Hoolboom (con la presencia del realizador) Lunes 5 de febrero Puertas: 20:00 hr Función: 21:00 hr La Cueva (Serapio Rendón 8, San Rafael, Ciudad de México) Entrada libre
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.
