This week showing at the showcase:
"Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing"
April 2nd - May 30th
Opening reception, Friday, April 2nd from 6-8pm
Gene Siskel Film Center Café Gallery
A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as wellas some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina's art collectively embraces "ikigai" or the Japanese belief of "a sense of life worth living" and reflects her "postcolonial pop aesthetic" as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South Asian Indian neighborhood in Chicago.
http://www.faaim.org/visual/
OPENING NIGHT FILM: The People I've Slept With
Friday, April 2 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, April 4 @ 5:30pm
2009, Quentin Lee, USA, 86min, Narrative Feature
Director Quentin Lee and actress Karin Anna Cheung in person on Friday!
A sex comedy about a promiscuous young woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and neds to figure out who the baby daddy is...NOW! ... more.
A Village Called Versailles
Saturday, April 3 @ 3:00pm
2009, S. Leo Chiang, USA, 68min, Documentary Feature
Director S. Leo Chiang in person!
An empowering story of how the Versailles people, who have already suffered so much in their lifetime, turn a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change ...more.
Going Home
Saturday, April 3 @ 5:00pm
2009, Jason Hoffman, USA, 73min, Documentary Feature
Jason Hoffmann has always identified himself as being a true New Yorker. Having grown up in liberal Greenwich Village with Jewish parents, he was content with ... more.
God Is D_ad
Saturday, April 3 @ 8:00pm
2009, Abraham Lim, USA, 94min, Narrative Feature
Tim, a comic book store clerk puts an advertisement in the newspaper looking for travel buddies to share an RV with him headed for Chicago. ... more.