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THURSDAY, APRIL 13

6pm IMAGE X SOUND: The Short Films of Tatsu Aoki, Part 2
In collaboration with Project A and Conversations at the Edge (CATE)

Celebrating acclaimed Chicago musician and filmmaker (and School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty member), Tatsu Aoki’s 25th year of making films, CATE and the 11th Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase present a two-part retrospective of his extraordinary short diary films. Aoki began keeping a daily film diary of his life in the mid-70s. “I carried Super 8 cameras everywhere I went and my house was surrounded by 13 different cameras, some cameras were on tripods, some with time-exposure, time-lapse, broken cameras, hand cranked cameras… my life was on the roll and on the reel.”

Today, his body of work spans 25 years, archives hundreds of hours, stretches thousands upon thousands of feet (on Super 8, 16mm, and DV), and constitutes over a dozen films.

Part 2 (Thursday, April 13) is part of the Conversations at the Edge series, and features the premiere of Aoki’s latest work, Traveling Spirits (2006, 15 min) along with Decades Passed (2003, 25 min), Shape (1996, 8 min), and Discovery (1991, 28 min). Super 8 and 16mm.

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