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An Evening with Paige Taul
Thursday, October 17, 6:00 p.m. CT
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
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In her lyrical short films, Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Paige Taul draws on her own personal history to explore, in her words, “Black cultural expression and notions of belonging.” She presents a selection of nine shorts that meditate on family and folk. Assembled from family photographs, interviews, and related footage, they offer a prismatic portrait of her family while forging more abstract connections to kin across time and space.
Paige Taul is an artist, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She often uses the experiences of her own family to explore Black identity. Her work has screened widely, including at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Barbican Centre in London, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark in addition to film festivals like Media City in Windsor and Onion City in Chicago, among many others.
Paige Taul’s Films Cohere in a Multifaceted Portrait of Black Identity and Class Mobility [Article]
Maxwell Courtright | Tone Madison | June 8, 2023
Paige Taul Explores Blackness Through Film [Article]
Vocolo Radio | September 22, 2022
Black Cinematic Poetics [Article]*
William Brown | Film Philosophy | October 2023
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