Featuring the digitization projects that were part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to share with our members selected works and moving image materials that were on view during the show. September’s Members Viewing will feature selected archival reels by Jud Yalkut that were presented in Gallery B in the exhibition.

In August, as the promotion of the Video Letter Exchange between artists Nadia Hironaka, Shinpei Takeda, Hikaru Suzuki and Yu Araki continues as part of our Community of Images project, we are thrilled to present to our members two more works from participating artists Shinpei Takeda and Nadia Hironaka, with her collaborator Michael Suib. Both works use video as a means of exploring the ways traumatic histories resonate in the present day.

In July, to coincide with the release of our Video Letter Exchange between artists Nadia Hironaka, Shinpei Takeda, Hikaru Suzuki and Yu Araki as part of our Community of Images project, we are thrilled to present to our members two more works from the participating artists, Yu Araki and Hikaru Suzuki with his collaborator Franca Malfatti. Both works use video as a means of making imagined journeys between remote locations: Araki’s ROAD MOVIE (2014) documents a “road trip” performed with a fast-food menu, while in Suzuki and Malfatti’s video letter, its authors exchange fragments of their outer and inner lives in the year 2020.

This February, as part of our Community of Images series and our Meander program, we are thrilled to present a feature on the screening collective Ground Level Cinema (グラウンドレベルシネマ). The group is comprised of members from both Japan and Taiwan, and the program features contributions from Johan Chang & Masa Kudo, Hsin-Yu Chen and Kenta Yamaguchi.

From November 21 - December 5, we are delighted to present I have no memory of my direction (2005), a feature-length work from Japanese-Canadian filmmaker Midi Onodera, along with a series of shorts. At once narrative, essay film and experimental travelogue, this work explores the layered relationship of the artist to her grandmother’s birthplace of Japan.

This November, we present a fourth offering in our Community of Images series as part of our Meander program. In partnership with curator Elizabeth Jesse, we are thrilled to introduce the work of Kioto Aoki, an active Chicago-based artist, educator, and musician.

Our June membership feature is focused on the underground filmmaker Mari Terashima, with two works from tail-ends of her career that beckon the viewer ‘through the looking glass’ into the territory of dream and desire.