Roots and Culture Film and Video Program featuring Soheila Azadi (MFA '15)

9.18.2014
Roots & Culture is thrilled to announce a reboot of our Film & Video Program launching this fall!

Roots & Culture contemporary art center (http://www.rootsandculturecac.org) presents a program of films by artist and filmmaker Soheila Azadi (MFA '15). Soheila is a moving image and performative installation artist, whose works involve observing human social interactions through critical and artistic lenses. Her experiences as a Muslim woman living under a theocracy in Iran and as an immigrant living under a democracy in the US have motivated her to research the separation between the sexes and segregation between races. Through this exploration of separation, she creates spaces and opportunities in which a community can consider its own limitations, contradictions, voices and potential.

This unique screening will be a compilation of Soheila’s work, acombination of documentary, scratch film, animation, experimental videos, performance documentation, and recorded Skype performances. The video runs approximately 50 minutes with plenty of time for discussion. The event takes place at 8:00pm on September 21st at Roots and Culture contemporary art center, 1034 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL.

Started in the winter of 2007 and curated by Alexander Stewart from its onset through fall 2013, our Film & Video Program has featured over 120 film and video makers both locally and internationally based. In 2014, we are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Film & Video curator, Lori Felker! 
 
With the reboot, we are launching two new series of programs: picking up the model of our Zummertapez series, though expanding the season beyond just zummer, we are launching +PLAYLIST, a program which invites filmmakers to present selections of their own work punctuated by source material, works that have influenced them, or just straight up amusements. The second new program expands the model of the gallery's primary visual arts program Double Exposure, which pairs artists with compatible or dynamically relevant practices, creating a conversation between the two artists. We will also continue to showcase solo programs.