Chicago Doc Screenings, Week of May 6 - May 12

Architecture and Design Film Festival, Siskel and The Wit, Th May 5 - Mon May 9

Week-long

NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY, Music Box
WATTSTAX, Music Box, Fri & Sat midnight
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, continues River East 21, ICON
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, River East 21, Pipers Alley
I AM, Pipers Alley
AFRICAN CATS, continues multiple venues

I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, Siskel

Multiple screenings
MILTON GLASER: TO INFORM AND DELIGHT w/ shorts STEFAN SAGMEISTER: ARTIST SERIES; PAULA SCHER: ARTIST SERIES, Siskel Fri 3:00; theWit Sun 7:30
EYE OVER PRAGUE w/ short WHITE BOX, Siskel: Fri 4:00 & Sat 5:00
MALLS R US w/ shorts BIG BROTHER BRITAIN, CASTRUM, theWit: Fri 5:15 & Sun 5:15
Enduring Icons program: VINCENT SCULLY: AN ART HISTORIAN AMONG ARCHITECTS; KIMBELL MUSEUM, WATER AND SKY; SAVING LIEB HOUSE, Siskel: Fri 5:00 & Sat 1:00
Amped & Revamped shorts program: MY PLAYGROUND, DUMPSTER POOLS, THE ART & SCIENCE OF RENZO PIANO, Siskel, Fri 7:00 & Sat 5:30
Oh Canada! program: CITIZEN LAMBERT: JOAN OF ARCHITECTURE; WILDERNESS UTOPIA; TWICE UPON A GARDEN, theWit Fri 7:15; Siskel Sun 1:00
SPACE, LAND AND TIME: UNDERGROUND ADVENTURES WITH ANT FARM w/ shorts LEFT BEHIND, SUBVERSIVE ARCHITECTS, Siskel: Fri 9:00 & Sun 5:30
VISUAL ACOUSTICS w/ shorts STARLIGHT; LE PETITE MAISON, AN ARCHITECTUAL SEDUCTION, theWit Fri 9:15; Siskel Sun 6:45
CONTEMPORARY DAYS: THE DESIGNS OF LUCIENNE AND ROBIN DAY w/ shorts ONION PINCH BAROQUE COUNTERPOISE; THE ALUMINIUM, Siskel Sat 3:00; theWit Sun 3:15
Down Under & Up program: 43 COLUMNS ON SCENE IN BILBAO; PETER STUTCHBURY, ARCHITECTURE OF PLACE; LE MONDE, CHRISTIAN DE PORTZAMPARC, theWit Sat 3:15; Siskel Sun 3:00
CITIZEN ARCHITECT: SAMUEL MOCKBEE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RURAL STUDIO w/ short HEADSPACE 1, theWit Sat 7:30; Siskel Sun 8:45
Tower Power! program: THE DESERT CASTLE; FLOWER TOWER, EDOUARD FRANCOIS; STUDIO GANG ARCHITECTS: AQUA TOWER, Siseel: Sat 9:00 & Sun 4:45
Thinking Big program: THE MAKING OF THE BIENNALE WITH AARON BETSKY; MONUMENT TO A DREAM; ST. LOUIS CAN SOAR, Siskel: Sun 1:00 & Mon 6:00
STRONGMAN, facets, Wed 11 - Sun 15

Friday
SUMMER OF GOLIATH w/ short INTERVIEW WITH THE EARTH, Chicago Filmmakers, 8:00
Frames + Verities: Non-fiction Works by SAIC Students, Spring 2011, The Nightingale, 7:30
SOUTH OF THE BORDER, DePaul's Daley Building (Loop), 6:00, discussion w/ producer Sulichin follows

Saturday
Milan Redux [furniture slide show], Object Design League, 5:00
Andy Roche program, Roots & Culture, 7:00
Now It's Dark: Experimental Fim Society Edition, The Experimental Film Society, 7:00
Open House Party, Chicago Filmmakers, 8:00

Sunday
Jupiter program, Thalia Hall, 7:30

Monday
Visualize Change Film Forum, Links, Hall, 7:00
The Basic Materials of Film: Ernie Gehr, doc, 7:00
Uman Beings: Experimentations in Film & Video, UIC, 7:00
A JIHAD FOR LOVE, DePaul Student Center (Lincoln Park), 7:00

Tuesday
Sex +++ shorts program: SISTER WIFE; THE LOVE BUREAU; MUSLIMS IN LOVE, Jane Addams Hull House, 7:00 - monthly, year-long program
FORKS OVER KNIVES, Webster Place, panel discussion follows
THE TUBES: LIVE AT THE GREEK, Delilah's, 7:00
OBJECTIFIED, Transistor, 7:30

Wednesday


Thursday
DARK DAYS, doc. 9:00
"Discovering Black Film History: Tracing the Tyler Black Film Collection" talk by Jacqueline Stewart for Chicago Film Seminar, SAIC Flaxman Center, 6:30