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Screening over two nights, this mixed bag of films from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology showcases experimental works and some noteworthy documentary shorts. The first program (75 min.) is dominated by artifacts from founder Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; excerpts from Design Workshops (1944) promote the school, while Do Not Disturb (1945) marries surrealism with America's nascent youth culture. Most interesting is Wayne Boyer's George & Martha Revisited (1967), a sampling of Mike Nichols's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? that presages DVD fast-forward options. The second program (75 min.) is stronger: Boris Yakovleff's Chicago Morning (1952) celebrates the city's working class roots with vigorously poetic narration by Studs Terkel, and in Millie and Morton Goldsholl’s Night Driving (1969) disembodied headlights and signs bop to a rock 'n' roll track. Various formats. Program one will be followed by a discussion with Moholy-Nagy's daughter, Hattula; Elizabeth Siegel, associate photography curator at the Art Institute of Chicago; and filmmaker Wayne Boyer.
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