1968/2008

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/wrt.html 1968: An International Perspective April 29 – May 14, 2008 “Never mind Funny Girl, Oliver! Or even 2001; if you want a glimpse at this turbulent year in America’s history, check out this program of incendiary dramas, intellectually dense critiques and insightful political docs that looks at the era’s legacy. Burn, baby, burn!” – Time Out New YorkDon’t miss these special events: […]

Retour sur mai 68 at the France Chicago Center, University of Chicago
http://fcc.uchicago.edu/events/mai68.html
See especially:
May 5
4:00 pm
Cobb Hall, #307
5811 S. Ellis
KRISTIN ROSS
(NYU)
“Art is What Makes Life More Interesting than Art: May ‘68 and Militant Cinema”
Immediately following the discussion there will be a roundtable discussion with the participation of Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), […]

The cinema rises
Friday 21 Mars 2008
Years 68
The single place invites the people which miss for Night 68

We do not commemorate 68, us did not know 68. We have only the nostalgia of the future. Happening and total art, insurrectionary militancy and revolutionary homosexual face, black power and radical feminism will compose a cinematographic […]

Out of the Vault 2008

 
 
 
Friday, May 16, 7pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Cassidy Theater
78 E. Washington Street., Chicago
Free
Out of the Vault - Year of Confrontation revisits the turbulent week in August 1968 when the Democratic National Convention turned Chicago into the frontlines of a larger political and social conflict. The world had already experienced the assassinations of […]

L’Esprit 68
 
The Spirit of May ‘68
 
A series of fiction & non-fiction films
 (All films subtitled)
 
Thursday 1st May 2008
From 10.00am to 10.00pm
 
10.00am: “More” by B. Schroeder, 1969, 112 min (Feature film)
 
12.00pm: “Lip, l’imagination au pouvoir” by C. Rouaud, 2006, 118min (Documentary)
 
 Buffet Lunch
 
2.30pm: “Le Fond de […]

April 21
6:00 pm
Rosenwald Hall, University of Chicago campus
Film Screening
Grands soirs et petits matins
William Klein, 1978, 83 minutes
French director William Klein, weaves compelling original footage from various sources (barricades, assemblies, confrontations, etc.) into a compelling visual narrative that captures the spirit of Mai 68. Forty years after the first protests ignited the streets of Paris, this […]

SDS screening: Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin Mon. 4/21 7PM Stuart 105
 
Monday, April 21, 2008, 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave. room 105
UChicago Students for a Democratic Society and the Platypus Affiliated
Society present a film screening-discussion:
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
with John D’Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: the life and […]

The University of Chicago Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) and the Platypus Affiliated Society present a film
screening-discussion on political tasks of labor and community
organizing today in light of problems inherited from the 1960s:
Finally Got the News: the Detroit League of Revolutionary
Black Workers/Revolutionary Union Movement (1970)
Thursday, April 10 7PM
University of Chicago
Stuart Hall room 101
http://platypus.uchicago.edu
FINALLY GOT THE […]

Introducing SDS:
Students for a Democratic Society
Film screening and discussion:
Columbia Revolt 1968
Thursday, March 6 7PM
University of Chicago
Harper Memorial Library room 103
1116 E. 59th St.
Come discuss the tasks for student political
organizing today, in light of the ’60s:
- What role in political and social change can
students play?
- How can students act politically beyond protest,
election campaigns and community service?
A […]