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Amateur, Avant-Garde, or Underground? Gay Filmmaking at Mid-Century
November 6 @ 7:00 pm
The University of Chicago Film Studies Center presents a three-hour screening of rare and recently rediscovered films made by gay men between 1947 and 1962. The program looks beyond the familiar postwar avant-garde canon to show how home movies and ambitious amateur productions pictured same-sex intimacy, friendship, community, camp, and perseverance in the face of social rejection and legal prosecution.
The six-film lineup is Vallejo (Harold T. O’Neal, 1947), Lafcadio (Jean Béranger, 1948), In dit teken (Jan Lemstra and Piet Henneman, 1949), Camille (Jerett Robert Austin, 1953), Last Spring (François Reichenbach, 1954), and Always on Sunday (James Crabe, 1962). Curator Hugo Ljungbäck introduces the program.
The screening runs Friday, November 6, from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Logan Center Screening Room. The University lists the public among the intended audiences and directs visitors with access questions or reasonable-accommodation requests to contact the event organizer.
Stumblday is an independent local event guide and is not the organizer. Official details: University of Chicago event page.
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Date:
November 6
Time:
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Event Category: film
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https://stumblday.com/events/amateur-avant-garde-or-underground-gay-filmmaking-at-mid-century-logan-center-fo-2026-11-06
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Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St
Chicago,
IL
United States
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