An Evening with Paige Taul
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, October 17th, from 6 PM - 8 PM
In her lyrical short films, Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Paige Taul draws on her own personal history to explore, in her words, “Black cultural expression and notions of belonging.” She presents a selection of nine shorts that meditate on family and folk. Assembled from family photographs, interviews, and related footage, they offer a prismatic portrait of her family while forging more abstract connections to kin across time and space.
Biography
Paige Taul is an artist, filmmaker, and assistant professor in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She often uses the experiences of her own family to explore Black identity. Her work has screened widely, including at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Barbican Centre in London, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark in addition to film festivals like Media City Film Festival in Windsor, Ontario and Onion City Film Festival in Chicago, among many others.
Conversations at the Edge
Conversations at the Edge is an ongoing series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists organized by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in partnership with Video Data Bank and the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Tickets
Tickets are free for SAIC students, $5 for SAIC/AIC faculty and staff, $8 students and seniors, and $13 for the general public. Unless otherwise noted, SAIC student tickets are released five days prior to showtime. Tickets must be picked up in person from the Gene Siskel Film Center box office. A student ID is required.
Accessibility
CATE events are presented with real-time captions (CART). The Gene Siskel Film Center is fully ADA accessible and its theaters are equipped with hearing loops. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write cate@saic.edu.
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