It's another packed week at Facets Cinematheque!The 7th Annual Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival opens tomorrow night. The fest is an eclectic mix of foreign, independent, classic and urban films representing the global Black experience through an extraordinary range of subjects and artistic approaches.
This series features eleven films, including eight Chicago premieres, covering locales as diverse as the USA, Algeria, Cape Verde, and Somalia, Haiti, Cuba, Senegal, Nigeria and Brazil.
The 7th Annual Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival runs Friday, June 12-Thursday, June 18. Visit the Cinematheque online for the complete schedule, further details, tickets and more.
Facets Night School continues this Saturday, June 20 with David Bowie's Codpiece, or: How Girls of the 1980s Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Backlash, Cary Jones Elza's exploration of Labyrinth, Jim Henson's live-action/puppet amalgam starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie.
Cary will map Labyrinth's gender and sexual politics to uncover the way gender is represented in the context of the 1980s; the way memory and spaces are represented; where the film falls in the cycle of fantasy films of the 1980s; and also why Labyrinth is so beloved by women who grew up in the 1980s. Lecture, screening and post-screening discussion--only $5!!
Trip out to the trailer!
Lecture begins at MIDNIGHT!
For info, tickets and more, visit Facets Night School online.
Opening next week: Giant superheroes and monsters run amuck in Big Man Japan!
Enjoy!
-Phil Morehart
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