Oh, The Excitement of the Weekend!

There is much afoot in our fair city this week-end - here are some suggestions:

FRIDAY - SCREENING
Experimental Film Club Presents SANS SOLEIL 7:00 at Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 301 (at U of C) - FREE
One of the true classics of the essay film genre, Chris Marker's travelogue of a trip through the contemporary global society is brimming with a remarkable range of wit, stylistic invention and insight. (1993, 35mm, 100 minutes)

FRIDAY - SCREENING
Experimental Film Club Presents ALTERNATE VIEWPOINTS 9:00 at Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 301 (at U of C) - FREE
Women are the focus, but not the object of Trinh T. Minh-ha's influential first film Reassemblage (1982), a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Minh-ha reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures. Literally and stubbornly a remake - that is a perfect replica in color and in English of Harun Farocki's hugely influential essay film Inextiguishable Fires, What Farocki Taught (Jill Godmilow, 1998) explores the political and formal strategies of Farocki's film about the development of Napalm B by Dow Chemical during the Vietnam War. (16mm, 70 minutes total)

SATURDAY - SCREENING
Roots and Culture Presents MICHAEL ROBINSON 8:00 at Roots and Culture Gallery, 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave (at Noble St.) - FREE
An award-winning local filmmaker (AND UIC MFA GRAD), Robinson's work focuses on "the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience." This screening will feature four of Robinson's films, including "And We All Shine On" and "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," which won the Best International Film prize at the 2006 Images Festival in Toronto. Supplementing these films will be four movies by other filmmakers that Robinson has selected to highlight his influences and interests, including work by Kent Lambert and Lewis Klahr. Michael Robinson's films have screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives. He is a co-founder of Philadelphia's Small Change Film Series, and recently curated and presented a program of American film and video at multiple venues in Moscow and St. Petersburgh. Originally from upstate NY, Michael holds a BFA from Ithaca College, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. More information on his work can be found at his website, www.poisonberries.net
www.rootsandculturecac.org