Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, still from All Together Now, 2008, Courtesy Elizabeth Dee, New York
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Thursday Nov 5, 2009 (6pm)
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$10
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Infusing video art with the spark of improv performance, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn make short works that are funny and disarming, absurd and oddly touching, like sketch comedy that hasn't been domesticated or reality TV turned on its head. In last year's Whitney Biennial standout, a Valkyrie with a bloody nose and a plastic Viking helmet wanders Los Angeles, rambling nutso commentary to the cameraman that trails her. In the pair's latest, All Together Now, the barren city sprouts a post-collapse social order of hooded tribes and taciturn foragers. Kahn is a captivating performer, while Dodge wields the camera — which becomes another main character of sorts, a silent but evident interlocutor. The artists join us in person for the screening.
