Nancy and Rich Kinder Building Films Week of Monday, September 12, 2022-Sunday, September 18, 2022
Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure Through February 12, 2023
An ensemble of 60 masterpieces highlights Alberto Giacometti’s major achievements of the postwar years. This touring exhibition explores the artist’s creative process and how he came to produce his …
03 Feb Fri / 2023
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Alma’s Rainbow
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Ayoka Chenzira’s feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold, who is entering womanhood and navigating standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies.
04 Feb Sat / 2023
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The African Desperate
3 p.m.—5 p.m.Chaos reigns in the riotously funny debut feature from visual artist Martine Syms. This fantastical day-in-the-life of a Black artist is a rollicking satire of art-world pretensions and a rowdy portrayal of sex and drugs in the Internet age.
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The Watermelon Woman
6:30 p.m.—8:30 p.m.An investigation into film history that doubles as a romantic comedy, The Watermelon Woman is a dazzlingly inventive landmark of the New Queer Cinema.
05 Feb Sun / 2023
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Compensation
5 p.m.—7 p.m.This unique drama presents parallel African American love stories about a deaf woman and a hearing man who live in Chicago, decades apart.
