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Art Talks Brianna Heath
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Ayinoluwa Abegunde ('22) & Hyohee Kim ('22)
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Rory Kahiya Tsapayi ('21)
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Margeaux Rocco ('23) & Joely Simon ('21)
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Claire Corridon ('21) & Karan Gowda ('22)
Reverse Image Prints by Enrique Chagoya and Murry DePillars
Dario Robleto: The Art of Scientific Storytelling
Behold Be Held Care and Community Art
Made in Chicagoland
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Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900–1925
CLOWNFLANEUR: MFA Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory & Practice
Eye Contact: Photographic Portraits from the Collection
Blacklisted: William Gropper's Capriccios
Terry Adkins Recital
2022
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A Site of Struggle
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s
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Duvarlar-Mauern-Walls (2000) with director Can Candan in person
Soleil Ô (1970)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) w/ RaMell Ross
Jane: An Abortion Service (1995)
An Opera of the World (2017) w/ Manthia Diawara in Person
Avant Garde Africa: Manthia Diawara
Berlin, Babylon (2001)
The Stepford Wives (1975) in 35mm
Rabbit à la Berlin & Wir bleiben hier (2009/1990)
Technology Transformations: A Feminist History of the Supercut
What Time Is It There? (2001) in 35mm
Made in Chicago: Princess Cyd (2017)
Crime + Punishment (2017) w/ director Stephen Maing in person
Birthright: A War Story (2017) w/ director Civia Tamarkin
Ilo Ilo (2013)
Brûle la mer (Burn the Sea, 2015) in 35mm
Young Soul Rebels (1991) in 35mm
Wings of Desire (1987)
Migrating Berlin: Multinational Perspectives on Germany’s Years of Reunification
Looking for Langston (1989) and The Attendant (1993)
City of Lost Souls (1983)
Dirty Looks LA: Eight Years On
Our Century (1983) and State of Weightlessness (1994)
For All Mankind (1989)
Wanderers of the Desert (1984)
Ishtar (1987) in 35mm
Yeelen (1987)
Waiting for Happiness (2002)
Spell Reel (2017)
The Waldheim Waltz (2018)
Naila and the Uprising (2017)
The Image You Missed (2018)
Auto-Erotic: Female Sexuality in the First Person
...Is Never Done: Films on Gender and Labor
Losing Ground (1982)
Barbara Hammer: Mediated Sensuality
Barbara Hammer: Declarations of Identity
9 to 5 (1980)
A Bread Factory (2018)
The Area (2018)
Rubber Coated Steel (2016) and Watching the Detectives (2017)
Branco Sai, Preto Fica (White Out, Black In, 2014)
NU DOCS Program 1: RETROSPECTIVES (2019)
NU Docs Program 2: TEMPORALITIES (2019)
NU DOCS Program 3: STRUCTURES (2019)
Life Without Death (2000)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
La Politique des Autres: Short Films by Agnès Varda
Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 5
Félicité (2017)
Ism, Ism, Ism: Dialogues with Che
My First Film (2019)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Ism, Ism, Ism: Dreams of Suitcases and a Blue Lobster
Sisters in Cinema: An Evening with Yvonne Welbon
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Ism, Ism, Ism: Countercultures and Undergrounds
One Way or Another (1974/1977)
The Red Light Bandit (1968)
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Ism, Ism Ism: Recycled Cinema
Ism, Ism, Ism: Estrellas de Ayer: Latin Camp
2019 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016)
The Hottest August (2019)
Whose Streets? (2017)
Amazements: Videos by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Andy Warhol's The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
When the Earth Trembled, or The Strength of Love (1913)
2017
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History and Memory & Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice
“The Gay Left”: Homosexuality in the Era of Late Socialism
Japanese Experimental Cinema—Between Protest and Performance, 1960-1975
Dreams Are Colder Than Death
The Cinema Of Chantal Akerman: Time, Borders, Politics
Los Muertos
The Loving Story
Ministry of Light: Experimental State-Sponsored Films from India, 1968-1975
2017 NU Student Film Festival
NU DOCS
Cameraperson with director Kirsten Johnson
If You Remember, I'll Remember
Songs of Innocence and Experience—Visionary Cinema in the 1960s & 70s
New Docs - Fall
Nigeria in Self-Conversation: The Films of Femi Odugbemi
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2017
2020
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Families in Transition
A Night with the Shabistan Film Archive
Interview (1971)
Brick and Mirror (1965)
The Runaway (1958)
Pyaasa (Thirst) (1957)
Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett) (2017) with sound designer Ernst Karel
Compensation (1999)
Online Event - NU Doc Media Thesis Showcase: Doppler Effect - Part 2
Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project: Picturing "The Long Term"
Twice as Nice (1989) with filmmaker Jessie Maple
Three Films by Forugh Farrokhzad and Ebrahim Golestan
Young People’s Race, Power, and Technology: Policing Surveillance
Liberating History: Leila and the Wolves (1984)
Liberating History - Present Futures (Habibi Collective Shorts I)
Gelin (The Bride) (1973)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Liberating History - Inherited Memory (Habibi Collective Shorts II)
Present.Perfect (2019) with filmmaker Shengze Zhu
A Moon For My Father (2019) with filmmaker Mania Akbari
Online Event: Badnam Basti (Alley of Ill Repute) – Screening and Discussion
Online Event – Desktop Cinema Working Group: New Digital Ecologies
Online Event - NU Doc Media Thesis Showcase: Doppler Effect - Part 1
Liberating History: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni
Liberating History: Fatma 75
What does it mean to come from somewhere? - Films by Fox Maxy
Unreal City: Film Essays on London by Ayo Akingbade and Reece Auguiste
2021
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Majdhar (1984) with filmmaker Ahmed Jamal
Voices Across Time
The Loose Ends of Empire: Unforgetting Colonialism
Cinéma Direct Action: 1960s Student Activism in Francophone Documentary
76 Days
The Impasse of Blackness: Interrogating the Possibility of Resolution
Dreaming Rivers, Weaving Collectives
Garrett Bradley: Short Films
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2021 Past Events
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Behold, Be Held: Considering Care and Community Through Art
May 26
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Claire Corridon ('21) & Karan Gowda ('22)
May 7
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Margeaux Rocco ('23) & Joely Simon ('21)
April 23
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Rory Kahiya Tsapayi ('21)
April 9
Dario Robleto: The Art of Scientific Storytelling
April 8
Reverse Image: Prints by Enrique Chagoya and Murry DePillars
March 16
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Ayinoluwa Abegunde ('22) & Hyohee Kim ('22)
March 12
Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue - Brianna Heath ('21)
February 26