Films Week of Saturday, December 31, 2022-Friday, January 6, 2023
Jennifer Steinkamp: The Seasons Through February 5, 2023
Three projections from Jennifer Steinkamp’s series Mike Kelleycreate a luminous grove as each tree passes through seasonal cycles, going from bare to tender green; to autumnal incandescence; and back …
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.
