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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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