BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260415T231355CEST-4730WliTD5@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260415T211355Z DESCRIPTION:\n With director Gordon Quinn in person \n \n \n First ever the atrical release of the newly restored film on its 50th anniversary \n\n\n Dirs. Gordon Quinn\, Gerald Temaner. 1968\, 66 mins. Newly restored 16mm p rint. Music by Philip Glass. Two young nuns crisscross Chicago\, approachi ng strangers on the street\, as well as in parking lots\, the Art Institut e\, and churches\, asking the simple question\, “Are you happy?” They meet a lonely girl\, a happy mother\, young lovers\, hippie musicians\, a soci ologist\, and even the actor Lincoln Perry\, better known as Stepin Fetchi t\, now on hard times. The interviewees are sometimes taken aback\, nervou s\, or clamoring to get into view of the camera. Each interview is a compl ete and thoughtful piece of the person’s life\, with no intercutting. The humor and sadness of these honest encounters lift the film beyond its expe rimental conceit into a serious and moving inquiry into contemporary socie ty and the circumstances under which people examine their lives. A fascina ting work of cinema verite by Gordon Quinn and Gerald Temaner\, co-founder s of Kartemquin Films\, Inquiring Nuns also features the first credited fi lm score by Philip Glass. A Kartemquin Films and Argot Pictures release. \n \n \n Preceded by '63 Boycott \;(Dir. Gordon Quinn. 2017\, 30 mins .) On October 22\, 1963\, more than 200\,000 students walked out of the Ch icago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. Many marched through t he city calling for the resignation of School Superintendent Benjamin Will is\, who placed trailers\, dubbed ‘Willis Wagons\,’ on playgrounds and par king lots of overcrowded black schools rather than let them enroll in near by white schools. Blending unseen archival 16mm footage of the march shot by Kartemquin founder Gordon Quinn with the participants’ reflections\, ’6 3 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest northern civi l rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around equity\, education\, and youth activism. \n \n \n “Inquiring Nuns is the closest thing to a ‘ pure’ documentary that I have ever seen.” — William Routt\, Film Quarterly \, 1968 \n \n \n 'A lovely\, weirdly potent time capsule... a single\, po lyphonic ode to late '67 Chicago and what was on the mind of its collectiv e citizenry.' — Michael Phillips\, Chicago Tribune\, 2016 \n \n \n Alongs ide Inquiring Nuns\, the Museum will present other groundbreaking 'man on the street' films from the 1960s: Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's Chronicle o f a Summer (1961) on November 24 and Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's Le J oli Mai (1963) on November 25. \n \n \n Tickets: $15 ($7 Museum members / free for Silver Screen members and above). Order tickets online. (Membe rs may contact members@movingimage.us with questions regarding online rese rvations.) \n \n \n Ticket purchase includes same-day admission to the Museum (see gallery hours). View the Museum’s ticketing policy here. For m ore information on membership and to join online\, visit our membership pa ge. \n \n DTSTART:20181125T150000 DTEND:20181125T163000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room SUMMARY:Inquiring Nuns and '63 Boycott END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR