Urban Animal
Footage of what appears to be some sort of an “arthouse film” from the 1970’s.
A symposium presented by Media Burn, the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies Department, and Video Data Bank. April 19-21 at the University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall 307 (5811 S. Ellis Ave) When video cameras first became widely available in the late 1960s, a global network of artists, activists, and documentarians quickly had the same realization: video is not merely a new format; video will change EVERYTHING about moving image media. Over the next decade-plus, idealistic videomakers fought to […]
A screening of TVTV’s Four More Years at Block Cinema, with Tom Weinberg and Prof. Heather Hendershot.
A screening of historic videos celebrating Chicago’s Black communities.
A look at the student documentary that provides a touching, honest portrait of life in Chicago’s Cabrini Green.
Artist Larry Rivers’ portrait of his mother, Shirley Grossberg. Also known as “My Mother Shirley.”
Footage and interviews filmed at Creative Concoctions, a workshop and craft store affiliated with Chrysalis, an alternative high school in Chicago.
Home movies of a young Black mother and her son Chris, a toddler, playing outside with a babysitter and neighbors.