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Moya Babushka/My Grandmother

Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Other Sponsor(s): Department of Cinema & Media Studies. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin. Introduction by Yuri Tsivian, Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Franz Kafka meets slapstick in this riotous, scathingly anti-bureaucratic satire — a genuine piece of grotesquerie descended from Gogol and the Soviet Eccentric cinema. Noted for its anarchic styles—which include stop-motion, puppetry, exaggerated camera angles and constructivist sets—the film unspools the foibles and follies that abound when a Georgian paper pusher, modeled after American sil… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, February 10, 2012, 7:00 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 S. Ellis Ave. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—

The exhibition at Experimental Station is open to the public from 6-10pm on Friday, 2/24 and Saturday, 2/25 - no reservations necessary. Building/Room: Experimental Station. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Other Sponsor(s): The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Tom Gunning Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, The Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The Department of Visual Arts, The Department of English Language and Literature, The New Media Workshop, The Mass Culture Workshop, The Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop, The C… Exhibition Title: PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—. Presenter(s): Anthony McCall. Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: none. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms. Experience the subtle poetics of McCall’s rarely exhibited 'Solid Light’ films at a special two-day event at the Uni… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, February 24, 2012, 6:00 PM – Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10:00 PM. Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—

Reservations are required for the Symposium, and may be made at filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu. Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Other Sponsor(s): The University of Chicago Arts Council, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Tom Gunning Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Open Practice Committee, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Department of Cinema and Media Studies, The Department of Visual Arts, The Department of English Language and Literature, The New Media Worksh… Conference Title: PHENOMENOLOGIES OF PROJECTION, AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION: ANTHONY MCCALL 1970-79, 2001—. Open to the Public: Yes. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Using atmospheric haze and film projectors, artist Anthony McCall creates beautiful, visually captivating light sculptures that explore ideas of architecture, duration and embodiment. Invoking comparisons to natural formations like waterfalls and moonlight, McCall’s slowly moving luminous projections invite visitors to step into the light, using their bodies to alter the shimmering forms. Experience the subtle poetics of McCall’s rarely exhibited 'Solid Light’ films at a special two-day event at the Uni… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, February 25, 2012, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Kersten Physics Teaching Center 5720 S. Ellis. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

Pictures and Sounds

Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Other Sponsor(s): WHPK. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Pictures and Sounds, the annual multimedia showcase hosted by WHPK and the Film Studies Center, presents re-imagined and improvised soundtracks to new video work and classics of silent, experimental, and outsider film. Live performances from a selection of artists spanning the spectrum of avant noise and free playing. Performers TBA. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8:00 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 S. Ellis. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.

A Bitter Taste of Freedom: An Evening with Marina Goldovskaya

Building/Room: Cobb 307. Primary Sponsor: Film Studies Center. Contact Name: Film Studies Center. Contact Phone: 773-702-8596. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya presents this soulful homage to her close friend Anna Politkovskaya, the fearless investigative reporter, who was murdered on her doorstep by an unknown assailant in 2006, presumably for her outspoken criticism of the government-sanctioned war in Chechnya. Recipient of an Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, A Bitter Taste of Freedom evades the conventions of reportage, instead weaving contextual archive and in-the-field photos wit… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, March 9, 2012, 7:00 PM. Film Studies Center 5811 S. Ellis. For more info visit filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu.