CINEMA
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
Thursday, March 12, 7 PM, FREE
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Making Waves offers a front-row seat to a revolution in cinematic sound design. The voices of world-famous sound designers (Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, and Gary Rydstrom) and directors (David Lynch, Ryan Coogler, Sofia Coppola) guide viewers through a century of auditory innovation, peeling back the elaborate constructions behind some of film history’s most indelible scenes. For this special screening, Block Cinema welcomes Skywalker Sound designer Tom Myers, whose work on WALL•E, Up, and Toy Story 3 earned Academy Awards in Sound Mixing and Sound Editing, for an in-depth discussion.
In person: Sound designer Tom Myers and Writer/Producer Bobette Buster
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Co-presented by Block Cinema and the Northwestern MA in Sound Arts and Industries. Part of the Block Cinema Series Sonic Signature: Approaches to Film Sound
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LUNCHTIME GALLERY TALK
Modernisms with Maryam Athari
Friday, March 13, 12 PM, FREE
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Take an in-depth look at select works in the Modernisms exhibition during these monthly spotlight gallery talks, led by Northwestern scholars advancing the study of Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art. No RSVP necessary. Maryam Athari is a PhD student researching the dynamics of the global contemporary art world in relation to the region broadly called the Middle East. She is focused on visual arts in contemporary Tehran, Iran.
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CINEMA
Badnam Basti (Alley of Ill Repute) (1971)
Friday, March 13, 7 PM, FREE
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Badnam Basti is considered one of the first Indian films to explore queer relationships. Based on a novel by Hindi writer Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena, it centers on a love triangle between two men and one woman on the margins of society. The film is noted for its adventurous editing, strong performances, neorealist style, and the music by Vijay Raghav Rao, one of postcolonial India’s most innovative composers. Although Badnam Basti was recut and rereleased in 1978, it has since faded into obscurity; until recently, the film was presumed lost. In Hindi with English subtitles.
This screening may be the film’s US debut, in a new digital transfer from the only known 35mm print.
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Courtesy of Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin. Part of Block Cinema series Morning Will Come: Modernity in Indian Cinema.
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BLOCK STORIES
“Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago” sheds new light on Chicago’s rich collections
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The Block Museum is proud to be among the many Chicago collections with work on view in Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Loans from The Block collection to the exhibition include; the abstract painting One (1970) by Sam Gilliam; Monochrome und Feuer (1961); a silkscreen triptych by Yves Klein; and the photograph Untitled (Nomsa Brath with earrings designed by Carolee Prince) (1964) by Kwame Brathwaite.
These loans are among almost 350 works selected by curator Duro Olowu from public and private institutions throughout the city.
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