Calendar
Current & Upcoming Events
February 26 - July 4, 2026
150 N Riverside Plaza Lobby, Chicago, IL — Enter through the Randolph Street entrance
"A Celebration," a new video artwork at 150 Media Stream created by experimental filmmaker Colin Mason, will showcase images from home movies in Chicago Film Archives collections. 150 Media Stream is a large-scale digital art installation spanning a 150 foot LED wall in downtown Chicago curated by Yuge Zhou.
April 12, 2026 at 11am
Bartell Theatre, 113 E Mifflin St, Madison, WI
Five films from CFA's Tom Palazzolo Collection will be highlighted in a program at the 2026 Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison. "Palazzolo sharply, tenderly, and very humorously captures so much of what is beautiful, ugly, and fascinating about America."
April 26, 2026 from 1-4:30pm
329 W 18th St, Suite 610 (sixth floor)
Come the April 2026 Chicago Film Archives Open House!
Past Events
February 26 - July 4, 2026
150 N Riverside Plaza Lobby, Chicago, IL — Enter through the Randolph Street entrance
February 15 - February 21, 2026
Anthology Film Archives
October 17, 2025 at 7pm
Logan Center Screening Room
September 28, 2025 from 1-4:30pm
329 W 18th St, Suite 610 (sixth floor)
December 3, 2024 at 6:30pm
Gene Siskel Film Center
October 11, 2024 at 7pm
Logan Center Screening Room
September 24, 2024 at 7pm
Music Box Theatre (Theater 2)
May 8, 2024 at 6:30pm
Claudia Cassidy Theater
July 28, 2023 at 1:30pm
Northeast Historic Film
March 16, 2023 - March 1, 2026
in the lobby of the CTA Cicero Green Line Station, 4800 W Lake St, Chicago, IL