NEÏL BELOUFA HUMANITIES September 14 — November 10, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14, 2024, 4pm — 7pm Artist Talk: 4pm About the exhibition Neïl Beloufa is an artist whose polymorphous practice spans film, sculpture, installations, as well as social and collective experiments. In a constant flirtation with failure, his work insistently interrogates the art […]
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Bresson departs from a run of distinctly contemporary works with Lancelot, possibly the ultimate medieval film, and works from a script he had written twenty years prior. The rhythms of this film are as hypnotizing as ever for Bresson: the clanking of armor, the footsteps of horses, and the ringing out of medieval horn underscore […]
France Chicago Center, Spedidam, International House Chicago, and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel present Thierry Escaich and Quatuor Ellipsos performing music for the organ and saxophone quartet. This performance is part of the Tea & Pipes concert series and the French Music Festival. Composer, organist and improviser Thierry Escaich is a unique figure in contemporary music and […]
France Chicago Center, Spedidam, International House Chicago, and Rockefeller Memorial Chapel present Quatuor Ellipsos, one of today’s most prestigious saxophone quartets. Members Paul-Fathi-Lacombe, Julien-Bréchet , Sylvain-Jarry , and Nicolas-Herrouët celebrate their 21st season with concerts and masterclasses in Belgium, France, Germany, Japan and the USA. This event is open to the public. Please enter through […]
Like Une femme douce, The Devil, Probably begins with an unexplained death and looks backwards in an attempt to make sense of the tragedy. The film is weighed down by all of the troubles of its time with discussion of politics, ecology, and philosophy. It is fitting that a film so charged would be Bresson’s […]