SAIC Film Video New Media and Animation

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We are less than a month from the start of our Fall 2024 season!

Join us for screenings and appearances by Polish animator Tomek Popakul; artist and filmmaker Michelle Citron (screening her legendary DAUGHTER RITE followed by a conversation with B. Ruby Rich); transdisciplinary artist Angelo Madsen Minax; a program of contemporary animated films on the body, power, s*x, and grief; filmmaker Paige Taul; game designer Alan Kwan; and Mozambican filmmaker Inadelso Cossa with his extraordinary features A MEMORY IN THREE ACTS and the NIGHTS STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER.

More info and tickets at saic.edu/cate

Gratitude to our presenting partners, , , and

Conversations at the Edge is a collaboration between , , and .

Reading from My Orbit of Minor Satellites Creative Life Chronicle,
The Trojan Rabbit (Everyone, put down your pencils) August 10th with these fine folks. Robin Cline- Cecili O’Reilly- Chris Sullivan- Cin Salach Saturday August 10th 7:00 to 8:30 . Woman and Children First. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/beautowncabaret/1299919?

Congratulations to FVNMA graduate student Nitya Mehrotra who is featured in the Chicago Tribune. Nitya discusses her online platform, .by.strangers , that creates a safe space for abuse survivors to anonymously share their struggles and trauma. Mehrotra also collaborates with people who submit their stories to create animations that reflect their individual narratives. .nitya

wonderful opening night of our School of The Art School of the Art Institute of Chicago, FVNMA senior and graduate Thesis film festival. Here is a large but not complete photo of some of my amazing graduating animators . Thank you for all of your wonderful work. and some teachers including me in here too.

SAIC’s 2024 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival concludes tomorrow, Saturday May 11, with five programs of works, including new features by Lin Chen, Kris Liu, and Sloan Klusendorf.

Saturday, May 11

12:00 p.m.

PROGRAM 5

Featuring HIS GARDEN by Yezhou Zheng and SUGAR IN THE WATER (work-in-progress) by Lin Chen



Saturday, May 11

2:15 p.m.

PROGRAM 6

Featuring works by Becka Erin Seifert-O'Connor, Raymond Chen, Kenny Nguyen, Jazmyn Joi, Miles Eden, Spencer Farrell, Ahmed Sharmarke



Saturday, May 11

4:45 p.m.

PROGRAM 7

Featuring SPRING FESTIVAL / 秋枫 (work-in-progress) by Kris Liu



Saturday, May 11

6:30 p.m.

PROGRAM 8

Featuring works by Jordan Alston, Ethan Anderson, Ignacio Arias, AJ Dubler and Carmela Murphy, mads thelin, Bella Raquel Miller, Elle White, Sobe



Saturday, May 11

9:00 p.m.

PROGRAM 9

Featuring MONTAGE OF SLOAN by Sloan Klusendorf

Reserve your tickets at siskelfilmcenter.org/FVNMAS24

More information at sites.saic.edu/gradshow2024

SAIC’s 2024 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival continues tomorrow, Friday May 10 with two more programs of shorts!

Friday, May 10
6:00 p.m.
PROGRAM 3
Works by Matt Alicz, Patrick Offenheiser, Lee, Qinxi Yu, Yuxuan Hu, Zhichao Hu

Friday, May 10
8:30 p.m.
PROGRAM 4
Works by Jane Dunn, Shangyu, Emily Maloney, Bocheng Zhang, Lisette Coles, Ike Peters, Ross Chavez and Ellie Jackson, Sydney Violet Gray, twistw00d

Reserve your tickets at siskelfilmcenter.org/FVNMAS24

More information at sites.saic.edu/gradshow2024

The SAIC Senior Thesis and Graduate film screenings !
At The Siskel Film Center. 164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: (312) 846-2085 (loads of Animation)
Thursday 6:00 10:00 - Friday 6:00 to 10:00
Saturday 12:00 to 8:00. Get tickets there, open to public.

Tomorrow! SAIC’s 2024 Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival begins with two programs of shorts. Held annually each spring at the , the festival showcases the work of more than forty young artists across a wide range of moving-image and sonic genres, forms, and practices. FREE and open to the public. 
 
Thursday, May 9
6:00 p.m.
PROGRAM 1
Works by Riley Brown, Wenwen Zhu, Alex Esin, Emily Mogilner, Martí Madaula Esquirol, Benjamin Montague, Wanlin Xia, and Linds Scott
 
Thursday, May 9
8:30 p.m.
PROGRAM 2
Works by Aida Grace Larson, Clay Mills, Andrea Guillen, Xinyi Zhan, and Grace Kemp
 
Reserve your tickets at siskelfilmcenter.org/FVNMAS24
 
More information at sites.saic.edu/gradshow2024
 

 

This SUNDAY! DOC10 is offering SAIC students and faculty a 10% discount to Johan Grimonprez’s (DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, SHADOW WORLD) astonishing new film SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT.

Sunday, May 5, 2:15 p.m.
The Gene Siskel Film Center
Followed by Zoom Q+A with Johan Grimonprez

SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT exposed the West’s policies of extraction and exploitation in Africa, connecting Cold War intrigue, American racism, European imperialism, the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach, who were all dispatched around the world as players in a larger geopolitical game. The film has already been heralded as “thrilling, galvanizing [and] crackling with energy” (Screen Daily), and “a stunning screed against colonial racism and state-sanctioned violence” (Slant).
Tickets: doc10.org/soundtrack
SAIC faculty and students can use the 10%-off discount code Doc10Partner when purchasing tickets in advance at Doc10.org

submission now opened for fall 2024 Black Harvest FF!

Black Harvest Film Festival | Siskel Film Center 30th ANNUAL BLACK HARVEST FILM FESTIVAL November 8–21, 2024 Submissions for the 2024 festival are now open. Learn more and submit your film here. Entries are due June 30, 2024.

Thursday, April 25, 6:00 pm! Pedro Costa in conversation with Melika Bass , Filmmaker and Associate Professor in Film Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In only his second feature, Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa (HORSE MONEY, IN VANDA'S ROOM) brilliantly reworked Jacques Tourneur’s classic I Walked with a Zombie into a reflection on his country’s colonial legacy. A nurse, Mariana (Inês de Medeiros), accompanies Leão (Isaach de Bankolé) to his home on the volcanic islands of Cape Verde after an accident leaves him in a coma—but he goes unrecognized by fellow denizens, leaving Mariana trapped with and eventually entranced by a mysterious community. Never before released in the U.S. and now beautifully restored, CASA DE LAVA foreshadows the masterful films that would follow, yet is an extraordinary, ravishing work in its own right.

Awards & Nominations
CASA DE LAVA
Winner - Grand Prix, Foreign Film, Entrevues Film Festival
Winner - Special Artistic Achievement, Thessaloniki Film Festival

Presented in collaboration with Block Cinema - Northwestern University's Radiant Shadows: The Films of Pedro Costa program.

The Film Center is ADA-accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email [email protected]

THAT TIME OF THE YEAR! Call for submissions for the 21st edition of Animateka is OPEN.

You can apply your short films for the 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 (short animated films from Central, Southern and Eastern Europe), 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 (international program of short animated films for children), 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 (short student animated films) and 𝐕𝐑@𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐊𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 (international programme of animated VR works).

The films must be completed in 2023 or 2024. Films previously screened at the Animateka festival are not eligible.

👁️ MORE INFO: www.animateka.si
🌪️ ENTRY FORM: https://entry.animateka.si/
📎 REGULATIONS:https://www.animateka.si/assets/Animateka_2024_Regulation.pdf
⏰ DEADLINE: 15 JUL 2024

Looking forward to seeing your films! Good luck. 💋

FVNM 2015: Introduction to Experimental 3D (1122)

Summer 2024, 3 credits, In person
5/28/2024 - 7/5/2024
Anneli Goeller

This class is inspired by Johannes Itten’s radical early twentieth-century basic art course developed for the Weimar Bauhaus School of Art, but here using the Maya 3D software, typically used for commercial productions by the entertainment industry. Students will solve a series of formal problems, introduced in increasing levels of complexity. Moving from the 2-dimensional to the 3-dimensional and ultimately to the four-dimensional or time-based, students will evolve their abilities to utilize aspects of light and dark, form, rhythm, color, proportion and volume but in terms of a post photographic discourse, with the intention of advancing a new virtual cinema.

*Prerequisite: FVNM 2000 or previous digital art experience, email Anneli Goeller at [email protected] with questions or to request a permission number!

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Next week! Join renowned artist, filmmaker, and net art pioneer Shu Lea Cheang for the Chicago premiere of UKI (2023) and a screening of her groundbreaking debut feature FRESH KILL (1994), recently restored for its 30th anniversary.

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Shu Lea Cheang: UKI
Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 p.m.

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Shu Lea Cheang’s latest feature is an exhilaratingly q***r science-fiction epic of corporate surveillance, contagion, s*x, and biotechnology.

Shu Lea Cheang: FRESH KILL
Thursday, April 11, 6:00 p.m.

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“Shu Lea Cheang’s audacious directorial debut is a lethal comedy swimming through a torrent of toxic multinational treachery.” —Lawrence Chua, BOMB Magazine

Presented in partnership with .

Free for SAIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, $6.50 for members and $13 for the general public.

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the . For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write [email protected].





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Next week! Legendary director Lizzie Borden joins us to present three features — REGROUPING (1976), BORN IN FLAMES (1983), and WORKING GIRLS (1986) — all recently restored.

LIZZIE BORDEN: REGROUPING
Thursday, March 28, 6:00 p.m.

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Lizzie Borden’s daring and rarely seen first feature is a shapeshifting portrait of a women’s collective and the slippery relationship between a filmmaker and her subjects. Followed by a conversation with Borden and Beth Capper ().

LIZZIE BORDEN: BORN IN FLAMES
Thursday, March 28, 8:30 p.m.

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Set in a future America, Borden’s second feature is a thrillingly provocative tale of female rebellion. Followed by a conversation with Borden and .

LIZZIE BORDEN: WORKING GIRLS
Thursday, March 28, 6:00 p.m.

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Borden’s groundbreaking third feature dissects gender, race, and labor relations through the experiences of s*x workers in a Manhattan brothel. Followed by a conversation with Borden and Jennifer Brier.

Presented in partnership with and .

Free for SAIC and UIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, $6.50 for members and $13 for the general public.

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the . For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write [email protected].

Job possibility for animators , they are interested in young folks.

SECAC We invite applications for a tenure-track Animation position (At the Assistant or Associate Professor level, pending experience and qualifications) beginning August,1 2024.  The position includes expectation for teaching all levels of Animation and/or Illustration, curriculum development, students ...

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Thursday, March 21! Join artist and filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin for a screening of two award-winning films.

In her acclaimed “speculative biographies,” filmmaker and SAIC alum Elisabeth Subrin (MFA 1995) explores the absences and erasures of women’s lives from the historic record. She presents two films–SHULIE (1997) and MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 (2022)—both of which use reenactment to express the ways we continue to live with, in Subrin’s words, “the residues of the past.”

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Elisabeth Subrin: Maria Schneider, 1983 and Shulie
Thursday, March 21, 6:00 p.m.

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Presented in partnership with .

Free for SAIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, $6.50 for members and $13 for the general public.

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the . For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write [email protected].

Repost from | Thursday, February 29! Join critically acclaimed Belgian-Congolese artist and musician Baloji for a screening of his stunning short films.

Operating in the realms between documentary, magical realism, and social critique, Baloji’s hybrid practice explores the transcultural identities of African diasporans and the history and future of the Congo.

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An Evening with Baloji
Thursday, February 29, 6:00 p.m.

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Presented in partnership with the Gene Siskel Film Center, which premieres Baloji’s debut feature OMEN on Friday, March 1, as part of the European Union Film Festival: Spotlight on Belgium.

Free for SAIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, $6.50 for members and $13 for the general public.

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the . For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write [email protected].

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Artists and present THE BLUE DESCRIPTION PROJECT a work that builds on Derek Jarman’s BLUE (1993)—an epoch-defining account of AIDS, illness, and disability—through newly commissioned and expansive accessibility. The project brings attention to the multifaceted and multisensory nature of BLUE—which existed as a film, CD, television program, radio broadcast, and book—while offering a striking counter to ableist hierarchies in the arts.

Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Jones: The Blue Description Project
Thursday, February 15, 6:00 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.


Sylvestre, Jones, and scholar —director of the Voices in the Gallery project—will join us virtually for an extended conversation about the project after the screening.

Presented in partnership with ’ Department of Art Therapy and Counseling, , and , a multi-institutional program comprised of DCAL; ’s Art and Culture Project, .dcc, UIC’s Program on Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities, and ,

TICKETS

Free for SAIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, $6.50 for members and $13 for the general public.

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ACCESS

CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). This event will also have ASL interpretation. Hearing loops, wheelchair accessibility, and companion seating are also available at the . For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write [email protected].

there 's a new job in town...

Assistant Professor, Art and Technology/Interactive Design | NEIU The Department of Art + Design invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Art and Technology/Interactive Design to begin August 2024. The successful candidate will be expected to guide and implement an Art and Technology/Interactive Design curriculum related to a program that ser...

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We’re just under two weeks from the start of our Spring 2024 season! Join us February 15 for
and ’s THE BLUE DESCRIPTION PROJECT, a work that builds on Derek Jarmen’s epoch-defining BLUE (1993) and its themes of disability and transcendence with new and expansive accessibility.

The season continues with screenings and appearances by Belgian-Congolese musician and filmmaker , critically-acclaimed alum , legendary director Lizzie Borden, and renowned artist Shu Lea Cheang!

Tickets on sale now —> https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/conversations-edge

Gratitude to our many partners and supporters including , , accessliving’s Art and Culture Project, .dcc, uic’s Program on Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities, , , .

Conversations at the Edge is a collaboration between , , and .

another job, tenure track animation. Kansas City Art Institute

Recruitment

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art in Integrated Media The Studio Art Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in Integrated Media Art. Appointment to this position will be for a term of 1 year [2 semesters], beginning fall 2024, and will carry the rank of Visi...

The Gene Siskel Film Center is looking for short videos (15-20 seconds) by SAIC students to include as part of its pre-roll programming! Potential subjects include encouraging patrons to:
visit concessions
turn off cell phones or refrain from talking during screenings
pick up a Film Center Gazette in the lobby
follow us on social media

Selected videos may be played before Film Center screenings of new releases, repertory series, and festival selections, which means they’ll be seen by a wide audience. We’re open to live-action or animated shorts, and are excited to see your vision!

The deadline for consideration is Monday, January 26. Videos can be submitted using the QR code in the post. Selected videos will be awarded $100. Please direct questions to Emily Long at [email protected].

Repost from Jacolby Satterwhite () joins us next Tuesday November 14 for a conversation with Jada-Amina (), lead curator of ’s Black Harvest Film Festival!

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth at on view now through December 2.

Curated by Elizabeth Chodos (), Director of the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University (, the exhibition brings together a wide range of Satterwhite’s works from the past 13 years to map a holistic view of the artist’s multidisciplinary and visionary practice.

Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth
SAIC Galleries
33 East Washington Street
Free and open to the public Monday to Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Public visitors must present a state-issued ID.

Jacolby Satterwhite in Conversation with Jada-Amina
Tuesday, November 14, 6:00 p.m.
Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave
Presented by SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program, Conversations at the Edge, and SAIC Galleries.

snapshots from our FVNMA MFA grads' works during open studio night 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 .d.fung .art