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Calendar & Events

cap burden of dreams criterion burdensubtitle Tuesday, May 28, 2013 ,  7:30PM BURDEN OF DREAMS (on 16mm!)

CFA teams up with Logan Square’s Comfort Station to celebrate Les Blank and his most epic feature film
MediaMixer2013_500graphic Thursday, June 6, 2013 ,  8PM-12AM 2nd annual CFA MEDIA MIXER

A CFA summer fundraising party featuring video collaborations, music, dance and great raffle prizes!

Gromer_twins_monkies June 8 & 9, 2013 ,  12PM Bellwether: A Market Happening & Feast

From the producers of the Renegade Craft Fair and The Vintage Bazaar comes a brand new event series: Bellwether.
14378 Saturday, Oct 19, 2013 ,  Chicago HOME MOVIE DAY 2013

Local archivists inspect & project your celluloid home movies. Learn how to care for your films for years to come!

Past Events

Newsletter June 2011 - The Blues May 24 - August 16, 2013 ,  8:30PM MOVIES UNDER THE STARS: An Outdoor Summer Film Series at the Black Cinema House

CFA and The Black Cinema House join forces to bring outdoor film screenings to Chicago’s Grand Crossing neighborhood.

Portraitof2Artists_4 Saturday, April 20, 2013 ,  2:30-4:30 AFRICAN ART DISPERSED

CFA and the Black Cinema House present two films that explore past roots and pathways of black art.

Glove Love #1 000502;14 Sunday, April 7, 2013 ,  3PM Out of the Vault 2013: MEET MORT & MILLIE

A reintroduction to the industrial films of Mort & Millie Goldsholl
preservation_conneely3 Thursday, March 7, 2013 ,  7:30PM MORTON BARTLETT: DOLLMANIA

Margaret Conneely’s MISTER E heads over seas to be part of The Horse Hospital’s Morton Bartlett screening of doll-related oddities and rarities
Facts of Life 002517 Saturday, March 2, 2013 ,  7PM IMAGINATION MUSIC: Dixon and Wright

Chicago Film Archives and the Black Cinema House present two 16mm films about two Chicago artists from decades past
mlk Saturday, February 23, 2013 ,  6PM MLK: An Amazing Grace

Black Cinema House presents CFA’s 16mm print of MARTIN LUTHER KING: AN AMAZING GRACE, the only black-produced documentary on the iconic civil rights leader
10 Thursday, February 21, 2013 ,  7PM NEVER A CITY SO REEL

CFA’s 16mm print of CAUSE WITHOUT A REBEL (Peter Kuttner, 1965) takes part in a Block Cinema screening of short Chicago documentaries. Filmmakers Peter Kuttner and Tom Palazzolo in person!