Lives:Visible—the new film by Chicagoan Michelle Citron that looks at the working-class butch/fem world of pre-Stonewall Chicago, and the film-based snapshot that recorded everyday 20th-century life—will run at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., on Wed., June 28, at 8:15 p.m.
Citron will be at the screening.
The filmmaker, whose 1984 meta-documentary Daughter Rite is a classic of feminist cinema, centers her latest film on a box of more than 2,000 snapshots that had belonged to Norma and Virginia, a lesbian couple who lived together for nearly 50 years in Chicago’s East Rogers Park.
The film will be followed by Leftovers (2014, Michelle Citron, USA, 23 min.), described by Citron as an experimental documentary.
See genesiskelfilmcenter.pfestore.com/capacity/events/1b285c6e-4267-48b7-8ee9-da3fe34eaed0.aspx.