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Past Events

JackJohson_2 Friday, July 18, 2014 ,  9-10:45PM Movies Under the Stars: THE POETRY OF THE RINGSIDE WARRIOR

This second program of our summer film series looks at two poetic and provocative ringside warriors: Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali
BCHfinal_GBrooks2 Friday, June 27, 2014 ,  9-10:45PM Movies Under the Stars: TEXTURED LIVES

This first program of our summer film series looks at how the spoken and written word can give definition and power to lives

MediaMixer2013_500graphic1 Thursday, June 19, 2014 ,  8PM-12AM 3rd annual CFA MEDIA MIXER

A CFA summer fundraising party featuring video collaborations, music and great raffle prizes!
Screen Shot 2014-04-21 at 1.34.57 PM Monday, May 12, 2014 ,  6-9PM On The Table

The Hideout & Ada Street restaurant invite you to celebrate Chicago Film Archives’ 10th anniversary over dinner at the Hideout
Half-Band-CMYK-1024x576 Sunday, May 11, 2014 ,  4PM STONY ISLAND

CFA’s Executive Director, Nancy Watrous, presents STONY ISLAND (1978) at the Black Cinema House. Director Andy Davis in attendance!

8959_ca_object_representations_media_1153_medium Saturday, May 10, 2014 ,  4PM CAMERA ON CHICAGO with soundtrack by Steve Krakow

South Side Projections presents a CFA film at the 3-day Let’s Get Working festival
Screen Shot 2014-02-25 at 12.48.32 PM Thursday, May 1, 2014 ,  7-8:45PM Out of the Vault 2014: FIRST STEPS

A program that looks at the early years of two distinct Midwest dancers & choreographers…Ruth Page and Sybil Shearer
Screen Shot 2014-04-23 at 3.55.49 PM Sunday, April 27, 2014 ,  2-4PM Chicago Documentaries

3 CFA films screen at the Chicago Cultural Center alongside MOVING PICTURES
YoungFilmmakers_YouandMe.3 April 11-13, 2014 ,  Children and Nontheatrical Media Conference

CFA’s Anne Wells and Andy Uhrich (University of Indiana, Center for Home Movies) head to Scotland to present at the University of Glasgow.

409696_10151040332058259_1705601073_n Wednesday, March 26, 2014 ,  7-9PM Logan Square Home Movie Day (with films by JoAnn Elam!)

a neighborhood-centric Home Movie Day in Chicago’s historic Logan Square neighborhood
Screen shot 2013-09-20 at 2.36.25 PM Sunday, March, 23,2014 ,  3PM MCA Live: STRESS/DE-STRESS (rescheduled!)

Chicago Film Archives and Nightingale Theater join forces to re-mount STRESS/DE-STRESS, a guided meditation and expanded cinema event first held at the Nightingale Theater in July of 2012.
nwloc_3 Sunday, March 16, 2014 ,  7PM VANISHING NEIGHBORHOODS (returns!)

Once again, CFA, Preservation Chicago and Kartemquin Films present three short films documenting demolition and change in 1960s and 1970s Chicago.

Chocolate Cake1 Sunday, March 16, 2014 ,  11AM Feminist & Women’s Media Festival: The “Depression” screening

2 films by JoAnn Elam screen at The Feminist & Women’s Media Festival, held in Providence, RI
Screen Shot 2014-02-07 at 12.33.34 PM Tuesday, February 18, 2014 ,  7:15PM ECinema: In & Out of Japan

A CFA film, SUPER UP (Kenji Kanesaka, 1966), heads overseas to the impressive EYE Film Institute Netherlands
gty_ralph_metcalfe_olympics_lpl_120708_wmain Saturday, February 1, 2014 ,  1PM Black History Month HOME MOVIE DAY

Come out and celebrate African American History Month as the Chicago Public Library presents Home Movie Day, honoring the late Congressman Ralph H. Metcalfe.