July 25 and 26
Bucksport, Maine

Chicago Film Archives presents at the 2008 Northeast Historic Film Symposium
Many Chicagos: Utopian Promises and Urban Ruin in Post-War Chicago

MichellePuetz and Andy Uhrich



October 18

Chicago Home Movie Day

The Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington
Chicago, Illinois 60602

For more information call 773 478 3799





November 12-15
Savannah, Georgia

Chicago Film Archives presents at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference


January 2009

Chicago Film Archives along with The Gene Siskel Film Center and the Chicago Cultural Center present
Howard Alk Retrospective

As part of CFA's initiative to shed light on the many unheralded local filmmakers, CFA is producing a first-ever retrospective of
the life, work, and times of the late Chicago filmmaker Howard Alk. Alk entered the University of Chicago at the age of 14 in 1944, co-founded The Second City in 1956, and went on to become a brilliant and sought after film editor of the counter-culture film scene until his death in 1982. Early in his film career, he became inextricably entwined in the African-American perspective. Alk edited composer Ed Bland's striking avant-garde film The Cry of Jazz in the 50s, and the political documentaries The Murder of Fred Hampton and American Revolution 2 in the '60s. Finding political and social expression within the music scene as well, he directed Janis, a portrait of Janis Joplin, and collaborated with Bob Dylan in Eat the Document, Hard Rain and Renaldo and Clara in the 60s and'70s. This retrospective will not only paint a portrait of Alk's short career, but of those complicated and turbulent times.

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