Student protests have always been a part of the University, and a part of Doc Films…
Friday May 24 at 7:00pm. With a speaker from UCUP and live accompaniment by Christian.
i have been presented with a puzzle. they cut our budget, but want us to have more attendance, but when we stack fri-sun with repeat/big movies, they ask why we have proportionally lower attendance mon-wed, but they dont want us to have more screenings to raise attendance, bc we
We are ecstatic to officially announce that we are playing Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE 1080 BRUXELLES this spring!! 🖤📽️
Playing this spring, AN ARTIST OF INTIMATE INTENT: JAMES BENNING. All on 16mm 🎞️. Sundays at 8pm.
Programmed by Joshua Wagner and Olivia Hunter Willke.
Screen Slate's Favorite First Viewings and Discoveries of 2023, submitted by contributors, filmmakers & friends
Including Isabelle Huppert, Frederick Wiseman, John Wilson, Paul Schrader, Wim Wenders, Samy Burch, Lila Avilés, Illeana Douglas & 200+ more
Thanks to everyone who came to our screening of HIGH LIFE. It was an honor to have Claire Denis attend and to hear her say “Am I dreaming? Do I smell weed?” A true legend.
We are excited to announce that we are hosting the Chicago premiere of Tsai Ming-Liang's LIGHT and YOUR FACE, followed by a panel and Q&A with Tsai Ming-Liang and actor Lee Kang-Sheng, moderated by UChicago Professor Paola Iovene. More details here:
Beyond excited to show this at Doc this summer.
Francisco Rojas’s SEA OF GLASS.
7/25 at 7pm. Preceded by two short films by Javiera Cisterna and Teo Hernández.
Officially done with fall 2023!Thank you for attending our screenings and supporting us. Hope you caught some good movies… we’ll be back soon with more
Playing this fall, OPEN VEINS: POSTCOLONIAL CINEMA OF THE LUSO-HISPANIC WORLD. Sundays at 6:30PM.
Sponsored by the Uchicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression. All screenings will be free.
Our funding group thinks we should do 40 or less screenings per quarter due to the limited funding they can give us.
This fall, we are looking at showing more than 80 unique films. A film (or two) every day of the week. That’s what Doc is all about.
in the spirit of learning and the life of the mind or whatever we should be given proper funding to show things without being restricted to pure profit motives like a damn amc
Doc Films is trying to implement some critical cinema upgrades so we can continue to bring you the unparalleled experience and excitement of cinema.
None of this is possible without your help. Support us this season at !
Doc is partnering with
@ScreenSlate
for a free digital screening of THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR tomorrow at 7p (CST)!
Part of our "Lost Chicago" series, SPOOK returns to the screen in spirit as an "uncompromising cry to organize and fight."
Playing this winter, CONQUISTADOR OF THE USELESS: THE FILMS OF WERNER HERZOG. Wednesdays at 7pm.
Programmed by Cameron Poe. Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Germanic Studies.
one beautiful thing that doc/chicago lacks is the ability to watch a 9:30 screening and then walk down the street to sit outside at a crowded cafe and have drinks and smoke cigs until past midnight. on a tuesday night.
sometimes ur sad, and then u go to doc and see a movie u weren’t planning to see, and have a smoke on ur walk back home. and then ur not so sad anymore. it’s that simple
Thank you all for a great spring quarter and an amazing 2023-24 season. We return with summer programming on June 20th!
(Photo from our DOCUMENTS exhibition.)
ELECTRICAL GAZA (Rosalind Nashashibi, 2015) on 35mm
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5 BROKEN CAMERAS (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011).
🎟️ April 24, 7:00pm. All proceeds from this screening will go to Care for Gaza and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
ELECTRICAL GAZA (Rosalind Nashashibi, 2015) on 35mm
+
5 BROKEN CAMERAS (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011).
🎟️ April 24, 7:00pm. All proceeds from this screening will go to Care for Gaza and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
what a thrilling experience to watch one of my favorite films, and this film in particular, on the big screen in a room full of other people. truly so special …
At Doc this winter:
Todd Haynes’s MAY DECEMBER + Night Owls discussion with Professors
@AgnesCallard
and Arnold Brooks.
1/13 at 6:30PM. Free with UCID.
(Also playing 1/12 at 9:30PM - no Prof. Callard)
The second documentary ever to win the Golden Lion, Laura Poitras’s ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, about photographer and activist Nan Goldin, plays tonight at 8PM
the old man behind me who kept making noises and loudly talking even when hushed by multiple ppl and said, “jump pls” when jeanne was on her terrace and then left before the ending (good riddance) is not welcome back. and wtf was that person who kept turning on their phone light
doc films audiences like to clap and i think it’s very sweet, a collective acknowledgement of a collective experience…
it also makes it funnier when ppl don’t clap for things
no one asked but here are MY 10 favorite first watches of 2022
DEKALOG
TÁR
JOAN OF ARC OF MONGOLIA
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
INDIA SONG
HEAT at
@IFCCenter
L’AVENIR
MEMORIA at
@filmcenter
DECISION TO LEAVE
L’AMI DE MON AMIE at
@Metrograph
also im not trying to bash on big films and be anti-popular things but in my experience doc is at its best when you show up to a movie you hadn’t really known about before and just watch it. hit or miss it’s always interesting and almost always worth it
dear
@dronecoma
can we pls have you at a chicago screening of this film? perhaps a premiere, even? the highest concentration of pavement fans in their 20s exists @ doc films