Posts tagged Chicago History Museum
Designed to be Seen: Art and Function in Chicago Mid-Century Film

Designed to be Seen: Art and Function in Chicago Mid-Century Film presents—for the very first time—a series of screenings that reframe the history of cinema in Chicago through various lenses and modes of production. Curated by Michelle Puetz, this four program series illuminates the diverse factors that have shaped the filmic landscape of the region from the mid-century through the 1970s.

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Big Picture: A New Take on Film in Chicago

Flanked by the Hollywood storytelling machine to the West, and the legacy of art cinema and cinéma-vérité documentary to the East, film production in the Chicago metropolis has historically been relegated to the realm of the industrial, commercial, and educational film.

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