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Past Events

27 - Right ONGOING: September 18 - December 9, 2018 ,  Up is Down: Mid-century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio

An exhibition featuring work by Morton and Millie Goldsholl and Goldsholl Design Associates at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
4_Goldsholl_CrescentCardboard_1 Tuesday, December 4, 2018 ,  6pm Designed to be Seen – Form and Function: The Legacy of the Institute of Design

Designed to be Seen is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
AR2-HD_005 Friday, November 30, 2018 ,  7pm AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 screening and panel discussion at Rebuild Foundation – Stony Island Arts Bank

This special presentation of AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 will be followed by a panel discussion with Henry “Poison” Gaddis, Mike James, Hy Thurman, and Jakobi Williams.
MagFirstImpression_HDstill Tuesday, November 27, 2018 ,  6pm Designed to be Seen – Creative Broadcast: Communication, Commercials, and Advertising

Designed to be Seen is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
Capitulation_HDstill Wednesday, November 7, 2018 ,  6pm Designed to be Seen – Personal Legacies: Materiality and Abstraction

Designed to be Seen is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
NewWorldStainless_HDstill Sunday, November 4, 2018 ,  2:30-4pm Designed to be Seen – The New World: Industrial, Corporate and Sponsored Films

Designed to be Seen is part of Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art exploring Chicago’s art and design legacy, with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
HMD18-image Saturday, October 27, 2018 ,  11AM - 3PM Chicago Home Movie Day 2018

Local archivists inspect & project your celluloid home movies. Learn how to care for your films for years to come!
AR2-HD_005 Friday, October 26, 2018 ,  7:45pm AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 premiere – new 35mm preservation print!

Our 2018 preservation project, AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2, will premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center as a brand new 35mm print!
Print Saturday, October 13, 2018 ,  4:30 - 7pm Arlington Heights Home Movie Day

Chicago Film Archives is partnering with the Arlington Heights Memorial Library to help with the presentation of the first Home Movie Day in Arlington Heights!
01_upisdown_goldsholl_facesandfortunes Saturday, October 6, 2018 ,  2pm Up is Down – Exhibition Opening Talk with author Thomas Dyja

Join our colleagues at the Block Museum of Art for the opening celebration of the exhibition Up Is Down: Mid-century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio.
Octavia Tuesday, July 17, 2018 ,  6:30pm US Premiere of the International Media Mixer!

We’re thrilled to announce the Chicago premiere of our International Media Mixer project on July 17, 2018.
Screen Shot 2018-06-29 at 1.51.37 PM Wednesday, July 11 - Sunday, July 15 ,  11am - 9pm (Wednesday - Friday)
10am - 9pm (Saturday - Sunday) CFA at the Taste of Chicago!

CFA invites you to stop by the Petrillo Music Shell—not only for great music—but to see some never-before-seen films from our archives.
SSHMP_Archiving_FeaturedImage Thursday, June 28 ,  6:30-8:30pm Everyday Resistance: Archiving Your Family History Workshop

Archivists from the South Side Home Movie Project, CFA, and Media Burn lead a workshop on caring for your family’s archival materials (film, video, documents, photographs).
CFA_OOTV_June-Gromer_Flowers1 Saturday, June 23, 2018 ,  8pm Out of the Vault: Secrets of Nature

Mixing scientific examination with philosophical meditation, time-lapse photography with experimental animation, and educational with personal, diaristic filmmaking, this program seeks to unveil just a few of the many secrets of nature.
CFA_OOTV_May Saturday, May 26, 2018 ,  8pm Out of the Vault: Personal Perspectives on the Vietnam War

This selection of films highlights personal and individual reflections on the impact of the Vietnam War.