Aria Dean in Conversation with Bruce Jenkins

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For this in-person conversation, Dean talks with Bruce Jenkins, Professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at SAIC.

Film Studies Center

Discussions, Lectures, Readings, and Talks

<p>For this in-person conversation, Aria Dean talks with Bruce Jenkins, Professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago about how the history of experimental film becomes a kind of “ghost in the machine” in Dean’s new film Abattoir U.S.A!, echoing artists in years past such as Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, and Chantel Akerman.</p>

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