7/29/21: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Kevin B. Lee
A screening/discussion with filmmaker, media artist and film critic Kevin B. Lee moderated by Allison de Fren.
A screening/discussion with filmmaker, media artist and film critic Kevin B. Lee moderated by Allison de Fren.
A screening/discussion with electronic video pioneer Dan Sandin moderated by Jason Nebergall.
Full event replay available below. Feel the true fervor of 1970s utopian activism! Action-packed and emotionally-charged. 25 young indy filmmakers, with the earliest video cameras, cover the country’s largest civil disobedience peace protests from inside. Featuring Rennie Davis, Dr Benj Spock, Mayday Video pioneer camera journalists, and thousands of brave antiwar protesters, including and especially Vietnam Vets Against the War. Authentic counter-program from the counter-culture. Rated R: Radical politics, Violence, Language. The event included a screening of selections from the MAYDAY […]
On April 15th, 2021, join Media Burn and VDB for a live-only screening of No Hop Sing, No Bruce Lee with director Janice Tanaka and co-director David Gallardo, moderated by Stephen Gong.
On April 1st, 2021, Media Burn presented a screening of excerpts from the upcoming film Walk with Frank. Frank Romeo and filmmakers Ryan and Matt Mayers joined a conversation moderated by Yana Khashper.
On Friday, March 26 the Gene Siskel Film Center hosted a virtual Q&A for THE VASULKA EFFECT (2020, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, Iceland/Czech Republic, 87 mins), a documentary portraying the life and work of pioneers of video art Steina and Woody Vasulka. The Q&A featured director Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, electronic art pioneer Dan Sandin, and Media Burn Archive executive director Sara Chapman. The conversation was be moderated by Amy Beste, director of public programs and senior lecturer in the department of film, video, new media, and animation at the School of […]
March 11: Virtual screening/discussion with Paper Tiger TV founder and Deep Dish Satellite Network co-founder DeeDee Halleck, moderated by Avery LaFlamme from the University of Chicago Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
Feb 25: Virtual screening/discussion with filmmaker and scholar Julia Lesage, moderated by Salomé Skivirsky.