Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Bruce Conner's Breakaway (1966), Courtesy Gene Siskel Film Center
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Apr 16, 2009 – Apr 17, 2009
Thursdays & Fridays (6pm)
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$9
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Artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner announced his own death on two occasions, but the real thing had to come eventually (and so it did last summer.) Over consecutive evenings, the Siskel Film Center celebrates the late innovator with a survey of his films, spanning 50 years. Looking at visual culture today, Conner's influence can be felt all over. His 1958 film A Movie, assembled entirely out of scavenged footage, launched a creative method that lives on in recent art and YouTube's remix fever, and in setting his films to a pop music soundtrack he anticipated MTV. Not to be forgotten are Conner's collaborations with musicians like Brian Eno and David Byrne, one of which screens on Thursday.
