PUBLIC EVENTS All events free unless otherwise indicated. Reservations recommended (tickets.uchicago.edu, 773.702.ARTS). * = Filmmaker present
(Todd Haynes). These short, personal constructions demonstrate a wide range of formal approaches and subjects that include folk art, birth, hitchhiking, death, nuclear power, gentrification, and migration. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, Renwick’s films share a restless spirit, an interest in outlaw art-making, and an unflagging sense of wanderlust. Free. Presented by the Film Studies Center.
Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too) (see page 5) Through Nov 8, 2015, Logan Center Gallery Agnès de ci de là Varda / Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Episodes 1 and 2* (see page 18) Thu, Oct 8, 5pm, Logan Center Screening Room
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Agnès de ci de là Varda / Agnès Varda: From Here to There, Episodes 3–5* (see page 18) Thu, Oct 8, 7pm, Logan Center Screening Room
Filmmaker Agnès Varda in residence at UChicago Oct 8–15 for weeklong celebration including free public exhibition, talks, and screenings
Renowned French film director and visual artist Agnès Varda will spend Oct 8 to 15 in residence at UChicago as part of a major weeklong celebration of her work, CinéVardaExpo.Agnès Varda in Chicago. CinéVardaExpo includes an opening reception and public lecture by Varda on Oct 9, a conversation between Varda and artist and Department of Visual Art faculty member Jessica Stockholder on Oct 11, and screenings of selected films throughout the week—many attended by Varda herself. As part of the celebration, the Logan Center Gallery will host an exhibition of Varda’s recent work, Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too),” from Sep 11 to Nov 8. “In her work, Agnès Varda displays a powerful talent for weaving together questions of the individual and the collective, the subjective and the objective, the real and the imaginary, and the beautiful and the dismal,” said Dominique Bluher, Lecturer and Director of MA Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and one of the organizers of Varda’s residency. “I love Varda’s poetic wit and intelligence, and the way she anchors the conceptual in the sensual. She is also unafraid of transformation: as she likes to put it, ‘I am an old filmmaker who has become a young visual artist,’” Bluher
My Three Lives: An Artist Talk by Agnès Varda* (see page 18) Fri, Oct 9, 7pm, Logan Center Performance Hall
added. “I am thrilled that Agnès Varda is coming to the University of Chicago to celebrate her work with us.” At 87, Varda is one of the most significant voices in French and European cinema as well as in the world of art. Sometimes called the “grandmother of the French New Wave,” she has created more than 40 short, documentary, and fiction films for both TV and cinema, and staged many exhibitions of photographs and installation pieces. Among her best-known works are Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo From Five To Seven, 1961), Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond, 1985) and Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I, 2000). Her latest feature length film, Les Plages d’Agnès (The Beaches of Agnès, 2008), premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Sep 2009. Since 2003, Varda was invited by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist to show her visual art at the Venice Biennale. Since then, her photography, installations, sculptures, and performance pieces have been exhibited internationally. During her visit, Varda will participate in several events for UChicago students. These include master classes on her work as a director of fiction and documentary films and a gallery talk for graduate students from the Department of Visual Arts, the Department Cinema and Media Studies, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Cinema and Media Studies is offering a mixed undergraduate/ graduate course on Agnès Varda’s work this fall. More information and full event schedule at varda.uchicago.edu.
Playing Colors (see page 18) Sat, Oct 10, 2pm, Logan Center Screening Room Women Reply (see page 18) Sat, Oct 10, 4pm, Logan Center Screening Room Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (see page 18) Sat, Oct 10, 7pm, Logan Center Screening Room Jessica Stockholder and Agnès Varda in Conversation* (see page 19) Sun, Oct 11, 12–1pm, Logan Center Still Photography and Moving Pictures (see page 19) Sun, Oct 11, 2pm, Logan Center Performance Hall Mise-en-scène As Installation / Installation As Mise-en-scène* (see page 19) Sun, Oct 11, 4pm, Logan Center Performance Hall Screening of Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners and I* (see page 19) Mon, Oct 12, 7pm, Black Cinema House (7200 S Kimbark Ave) Screening of Cléo de 5 à 7 / Cléo From Five To Seven* (see page 19) Wed, Oct 14, 7:30pm, Music Box Theatre (3733 N Southport Ave) $12 (musicboxtheatre.com) Les Plages d’Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès* (see page 19) Thu, Oct 15, 6pm, Logan Center Performance Hall Presented by Logan Center Exhibitions, the Logan Center, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago. Additional support provided by the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago Arts Council, Chuck Roven Fund, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, DOVAOpen Practice Committee, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Institut Français in Paris, Norman Wait Harris Fund, Ng Family Visiting Artist Fund, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality’s Counter Cinema/Media Project. Organized by Dominique Bluher, Lecturer and Director of MA Studies, Department of Cinema and Media Studies; Camille Morgan, Logan Center Exhibitions Curatorial Coordinator; Leigh Fagin, Associate Director of University Arts Engagement; Julia Gibbs, Assistant Director, Film Studies Center.
Nosferatu (1922) Mon, Oct 26, 7:30pm Rockefeller Chapel Rockefeller welcomes back theatrical organist Dennis James as silent film organist par excellence! In F. W. Munrau’s archetypal silent horror film on the Dracula legend, which obliterated boundaries between the real and the unreal, the mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains (but we won’t tell you the rest of the story here). 85 mins, no intermission. With live organ accompaniment. General $10, students free. Presented by Rockefeller Chapel and the Smart Museum of Art. Inaugural Miriam Hansen Memorial Lecture: Gertrud Koch Fri, Nov 6, 5pm Logan Center Screening Room The Miriam Hansen Memorial Lecture honors the academic program founder’s scholarship and contributions in the field of cinema studies. Gertrud Koch, Professor in Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin, will be welcomed as the first speaker at this annual event. Free. Sponsored by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.
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Opening Reception for Photographs Get Moving (potatoes and shells, too)* (see page 18) Fri, Oct 9, 5–9pm, Logan Center Gallery
