Event Details
Date & Time:
Fri October 4, 2024
7 PM
Location:
The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
ATTICA (1974) and I AM SOMEBODY (1970)
(Multiple artists, 1970–1974, 16mm, approx 110 min)
ATTICA has been preserved by the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library with funding from the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television.
I AM SOMEBODY has been preserved by the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
ATTICA is presented courtesy of Cinda Firestone and I AM SOMEBODY courtesy of Icarus Films.
About FILMS BY WOMEN/CHICAGO '74:
In September 1974, at the height of the feminist movement, the Film Center hosted Films By Women/Chicago ’74, a series of screenings, workshops, and discussions, drawing 10,000 patrons to over 70 short and feature films by women filmmakers. Organized by an all-woman collective with support from the Chicago Tribune, the festival offered a global survey of cinema from across its 60-year history. From mainstream Hollywood to activist documentary, arthouse to animation, it was the most diverse and expansive American survey of women’s cinema to date. It was also a watershed moment in Chicago cinema culture: according to committee member B. Ruby Rich, “women, for years after, would come up to me in the street to credit [us]—for jumpstarting their careers, ending their marriages, shaping their friendship.”
This fall, the Gene Siskel Film Center and Northwestern University’s Block Cinema will celebrate the fifty-year anniversary of Films by Women/Chicago ’74. Screening series at both venues. will revisit some of the festival’s most original and daring films and filmmakers, while reflecting on the event’s enduring legacies.
Series:
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu