Mondays at Doc Films
Film and AIDS: Early Queer Responses to the AIDS Epidemic
Programmed by Daniel Schultz and Alex Wolfson
Drawing from a range of directors, this series surveys a diversity of aesthetic reactions to the AIDS epidemic, from queer revolt to Hollywood recuperation. The films negotiate the somatic and psychic pressures of the illness by contesting the moral, racial, sexual, and gendered discourses that surround its experience, presenting film as a site of both political intervention and stylistic experimentation. Films include Gregg Araki's The Living End, Derek Jarman's Blue, and Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia.
This series was supported by The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago.
3/6/2017 @ 7:00 PM
Philadelphia
(Jonathan Demme, 1993) · One of the first big budget Hollywood films to treat the AIDS crisis, Philadelphia tells the story of an infected lawyer, Andrew Beckett, who is fired from his high profile law firm. Beckett hires Joe Miller, a homophobic personal injury lawyer, to press his wrongful dismissal case in court. The film humanizes Beckett and transforms Miller as the court case unfolds. A famous opening sequence lovingly captures the city and imbues the film with a liberal sentimentality.
runtime: 125m format: 35mm
Date: March 6, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
See:http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/dev/calendar/2017/winter/mondays.shtml
Date: March 6, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
See:http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/dev/calendar/2017/winter/mondays.shtml