The Women in the Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival, now in its 12th year, highlights shorts as well as features by women, including documentary, animated, narrative, and experimental works. Tickets for individual programs at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont, are $6, $5 for Women In the Director’s Chair members and students and senior citizens with a valid ID; tickets at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson, are $5 for Women in the Director’s Chair members and the general public, $3 for Film Center members; festival passes are also available. For further information call 281-4988.
Let’s Eat
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Five videos and one film. The videos are Sharon Aaron’s A Short Bread (1992), Cheryl Dunye’s The Potluck and the Passion (1992), J. Evan Dunlap and Adriene Jenik’s What’s the Difference Between a Yam and a Sweet Potato? (1992), Joan Boccino’s Mom Makes Lasagna (1992), and Jessica Shamash’s British Pot Boiler (1991). The film is Arlene Hazzan Green’s Canadian Battle of the Bulge (1992). (Chicago Filmmakers, 9:00)
Keeping On
One film and five videos, all made last year. The film is Kate Julia Goodnight’s A Goat Named Tension. The videos are Dawn Suggs’s I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To, Deborah Fort’s Dykeotomy, Melanie Nelson and Catherine Saalfield’s A Bird in the Hand, Jane Cottis’s War on Lesbians, and Mary Morten and Natalie R. Hutchison’s The NIA Project. (Chicago Filmmakers, 7:30)
SUNDAY, MARCH 21
Framing the Family
