Hello Everyone! 

Just a friendly reminder that Jean Genet's UN CHANT D'AMOUR has been rescheduled for today, at 4:30pm! Also, the faculty reviews being held today in our usual spot have displaced us to the more intimate room 517. Hope to see you there! 

xoxo,

The Experimental Film Society

RESCHEDULED for 2/22: UN CHANT D'AMOUR

We are all terribly embarrassed about the the screening-that-almost-was on Valentine's day, so let us make it up to you! We've rescheduled Jean Genet's Un Chant D'Amour for this coming Wednesday, the 22nd, at 4:30pm. Give us a second chance... we've missed you. 


22 February 2012, 4:30-5:30 pm
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave., 
Room 1307. Free and open to the public. 

2/28: HOURS FOR JEROME

Please join us for a reverent afternoon during which we will approach, in Nathaniel Dorsky's own words, "a state of prayer." HOURS FOR JEROME (as in a Book of Hours) was shot from 1966 to 1970 and edited over a two year period ending in July 1982. An arrangement of images, energies, and illuminations from daily life, these fragments of light revolve around the four seasons. PART ONE is spring through summer; PART TWO is fall and winter.

Dorsky is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making cinematographically breathtaking films since 1964. He also authored the book DEVOTIONAL CINEMA, in which he writes of the long-standing link between art and health as well as the transformative potential of film viewership to promote more active forms of awareness.

28 February 2012, 4-6 pm
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave.,
Room 1307. Free and open to the public.

2/27: THE DEVIL'S CLEAVAGE

Please note this screening has been rescheduled from tomorrow, the 20th, to next Monday the 27th. 

The Devil's Cleavage (1975) | 122 mins | 16mm

"Restless nurses! Lovesick sheriffs! Sexed-up Girl Scout leaders! Lonely motel managers! And other degenerates populate George Kuchar’s early ’70s mock-Hollywood soap opera, The Devil’s Cleavage." - Light Industry


Kuchar, who passed away in September 2011, became a legend with his lo-fi Super-8 and 16mm melodramas from the 1950s and ‘60s, influencing generations of artists such as Andy Warhol, John Waters, and Todd Solondz.

As a post-script to the "George Kuchar: HotSpell" screening at the Gene Siskel on the 23rd, the Experimental film society will be showing "The Devil's Cleavage" on 16mm on the 27th.

27 February 2012, 4-6 pm
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave.,
Room 1307. Free and open to the public.

"HotSpell" event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/188461807934715/

VALENTINE'S DAY: JEAN GENET'S UN CHANT D'AMOUR

Un Chant D'Amour (1950) | 26 mins | 16mm

"To whom, if not you, to talk about you in order to establish—all the way to mutual downfall, echoes always more muted—a useless dialogue… We hate each other, within ourselves and within each of us. We destroy each other. Our relationship broken, inversion is lived solitarily."  -  Jean Genet, Fragments of the Artwork  

For this first screening of the Spring semester, we offer you a maudit love letter: the only film by controversial queer French novelist, playwright, and essayist, Jean Genet. The arms of two lovers, extending from barred windows, attempt to pass flowers from one to the other: imprisoned side by side, they express their longing for one another while observed by a voyeuristic guard.

14 February 2012, 4:30-5:30 pm

@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago

MacLean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave.,

Room 1307. Free and open to the public.