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Screening Freedom Series: “Remembrance: A Portrait Study”

  • Logan Center | Screening Room 915 East 60th Street Chicago, IL, 60637 United States (map)

A PROGRAM OF LOGAN CENTER’S DIGITAL STORYTELLING INITIATIVE

This film series happens on Sundays, Jul 9-Aug 27, 1-4pm / Screening Room
Seating is limited;
please RSVP


Remembrance: A Portrait Study is a filmic portrait of the artist’s mother, Mildered Owens, and her friends Irene Collins and Nettie Thomas, set to a score of 50s and 60s hit songs. Using Baroque lighting techniques, Owens captures the three women drinking and lounging one evening. -Tate Museum

The afternoon’s screenings also include The Cry Of Jazz (Edward Bland, 1959) and selections from the film vault of the South Side Home Movie Project.

Screening Freedom Schedule
Seating is limited; please RSVP

  • Sun, Jul 9:
    Summer Of Soul (…or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Questlove, 2021) + SSHMP Selections

  • Sun, Jul 16:
    The Cry Of Jazz (Edward Bland, 1959) + Remembrance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens, 1959) + SSHMP Selections

  • Sun, Jul 23:
    The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)

  • Sun, Jul 30:
    As Above, So Below (Larry Clark, 1973)

  • Sun, Aug 6:
    Cane River (Horace B. Jenkins, 1982)

  • Sun, Aug 13:
    Compensation (Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1999)

  • Sun, Aug 20:
    The African Desperate (Martine Syms, 2022)

  • Sun, Aug 27:
    Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1993)

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