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Legendary British artist-filmmaker John Smith returns to CATE with a career-spanning program of wry, formally exacting films that unsettle the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Curated by Abina Manning, who organized CATE’s inaugural program with Smith in 2001, the evening brings Smith back to the series 25 years after his first appearance.Followed by a conversation with John Smith and Abina Manning and audience Q&A.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
John Smith is a British artist-filmmaker whose slyly humorous and formally rigorous works explore the unstable boundaries between documentary, fiction, representation, and abstraction. Since 1972, Smith has created more than 60 films, videos, and installations, earning major international festival prizes as well as the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2011 and the Jarman Award in 2013. His work is held in collections including Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and FRAC Île-de-France. Smith lives and works in London and Aude, France, and is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at the University of East London.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Abina Manning is a curator and writer who has supported artists’ film and video for more than 40 years. From 2006 to 2021, she served as executive director of Chicago’s Video Data Bank, where she championed the distribution, preservation, and presentation of experimental moving-image work and developed enduring relationships with artists and programmers around the world. Prior to VDB, Manning was director of exhibition at the LUX Centre and director of the inaugural Pandæmonium Festival of Moving Images at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. She lives and works in Berlin.
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CONVERSATIONS AT THE EDGE
For 25 years, SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge (CATE) series has welcomed landmark and emerging artists to Chicago for adventurous screenings, performances, and conversation. Bringing together different forms, traditions, and histories, CATE explores—and expands—our sense of what moving images can do. CATE is made possible through the Film Center’s ongoing collaboration with SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation. Organized by Amy Beste.
TICKETS
Free for SAIC students
$14 General admission
$9 Students, seniors (65+)
$8 SAIC faculty & staff / Art Institute staff
$8 Siskel Film Center members
All CATE programs are free for SAIC students. Unless otherwise noted, SAIC student tickets are released five days before showtime. Tickets must be picked up in person from the Siskel Film Center box office. A valid student ID is required.
ACCESSIBILITY
All CATE events include real-time captioning (CART). The Siskel Film Center is ADA accessible and equipped with hearing loops. For additional accessibility requests, visit saic.edu/access or contact [email protected].
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