Film

UChicago’s Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers A dancer in a white bodysuit dances inside a white parachute.

UChicago’s Film Studies Center to preserve groundbreaking work by Black and Filipino filmmakers

Grant funds will restore films by Aarin Burch and 1930s home movies of Chicago’s Filipino community

Sojourner Truth Festival to bring together generations of Black women filmmakers Two black women sit next to each other looking into the distance. The older women in red has her arm around the younger one and is holding a grape. They are surrounded by vegetation and candles. A fruit basket is visible in the foreground.

Sojourner Truth Festival to bring together generations of Black women filmmakers

UChicago symposium to commemorate the original festival held nearly 50 years ago

New documentary reinterprets archives to illuminate trans lives Still frame from ‘Framing Agnes’

New documentary reinterprets archives to illuminate trans lives

Now a feature-length film, ‘Framing Agnes’ connects trans history to current challenges

UChicago scholar seeks to bridge media and legal studies Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky

UChicago scholar seeks to bridge media and legal studies

After studying footage of police, scholar receives awards to support interdisciplinary research

Docuseries takes viewers into the lives and labs of scientists Nate Earnest-Noble interview

Docuseries takes viewers into the lives and labs of scientists

UChicago STAGE lab to release pilot episode of ‘Curiosity’ with discussion June 25

'Purple Rain,' 'Amadeus,' 'Boys Don't Cry,' 'Clerks' Enter National Film Registry

'Purple Rain,' 'Amadeus,' 'Boys Don't Cry,' 'Clerks' Enter National Film Registry


Library of Congress adds record seven female-directed films to national registry

Library of Congress adds record seven female-directed films to national registry


Alum’s directorial debut ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ added to National Film Registry Boys Don’t Cry scene with Brandon Teena (played by Hilary Swank)

Alum’s directorial debut ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ added to National Film Registry

Kimberly Peirce reflects on how UChicago shaped her filmmaking career Kimberly Peirce, AB'90, at Logan Center

Kimberly Peirce reflects on how UChicago shaped her filmmaking career

Humanities Day keynote to examine how home movies represent cultural history Prof. Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Humanities Day keynote to examine how home movies represent cultural history