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Film Tue Nov 11 2008
A Not Too Distant Past: Film & Video from Underground Chicago
A Not Too Distant Past explores radical politics in Chicago by compiling short films created in the 1960s through the present. Spanning a range of perspectives and styles, the collection focuses on responses to seminal Chicago events such as the Haymarket affair and the assassination of Fred Hampton, alongside the sexual politics of traditionally marginalized groups. In so doing, it contextualizes the history of radicalism in the contemporary political discourse.
Still from Gean Jenet in Chicago by Frédéric Moffet [2006, video, 26 min]
A screening of A Not Too Distant Past will be presented along with an introduction by and a discussion with the film's curator, Marc Moscato, during the Select Media Festival. The event will be 7pm Sunday, November 16, at the Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan St.