In collaboration with Chicago’s own Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, CFA will be presenting nine films from our collections at Art Basel Miami on Saturday, December 9.

Back for its third year, KINOSONIK is a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut, Experimental Sound Studio, Nightingale Cinema, and Chicago Film Archives.

Chicago Film Archives presents at the Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

CFA teams up with the Chicago International Film Festival to present films at the Chicago Architecture Biennial!

You are cordially invited to help us celebrate another year of preserving Chicago’s rich history and culture on film!

CFA is participating in Chicago Open Archives: Hidden Stories, an event from Chicago Area Archivists (CAA), where local archives, research centers, and cultural institutions in the Chicago area offer special events open to members of the public throughout the month of October.

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

Films by Byron Grush screening in Spain at CINEINFINITO!

Black Cinema House and CFA look back to the turbulent year of 1968 in the last of three evenings of outdoor screenings.

The Black Cinema House and CFA look back to the turbulent year of 1968 in the second of three evenings of outdoor screenings at the Muffler Shop.

The Black Cinema House and CFA look back to the turbulent and transformative year 1968 in the first of three evenings of outdoor screenings at the Muffler Shop.

CFA’s annual video remix fundraiser is BACK for another year of new collaborations and works

CFA’s Amy Belotti will speak at the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works 45th annual conference, hosted in Chicago, Illinois this year.

AMERICAN SHOESHINE screens with SHINEMEN at the Black Cinema House!

CFA’s Nancy Watrous joins archivists and scholars in a workshop on amateur films and the public at the SCMS Conference in Chicago.