OFF CENTER: THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO BUT HERE
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Monday, November 25th, at 6PM
Monday, November 25, 6:00 p.m. | Featuring 16mm prints acquired by the Film Center in the early ‘70s through gifts and grants and now cared for by the SAIC John M. Flaxman Library, this program presents titles representative of the experimental film landscape leading up to the opening of the Film Center in 1972. There is nothing here but Now. There is nothing now but This. Featuring films by James Broughton, Owen Land, Robert Nelson, and Paul Sharits. Screening preceded by audience A&Q.
Program
LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS by Bruce Conner, 3 min, 1967
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G by Paul Sharits, 12 min, 1968
INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY by Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), 5 min, 1969
BLEU SHUT by Robert Nelson, 33 min, 1970
THIS IS IT by James Broughton, 10 min, 1971
Off Center is a monthly experimental screening series, programmed by Michael Wawzenek, that presents a survey of moving-image art and artists operating outside the mainstream. Read more
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 filmcenter@saic.edu
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