Thursday, 11 March 2010
Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, Illinois

The screening will take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago, at 6:00 PM on Thursday, March 11. $10 General Public, $7 Students, $5 Film Center Members, $4 SAIC Students, Faculty, Staff and AIC Staff.

In celebration the release of Tran, T. Kim-Trang: The Blindness Series (1992-2006), Video Data Bank welcomes the LA-based Vietnamese/American artist Tran, T. Kim-Trang to Chicago on Thursday, March 11. As part of the ongoing SAIC Department of Film, Video and New Media, VDB and the Gene Siskel Film Center co-sponsored screening series, Conversations at the Edge, Tran will present five works from her expansive, fourteen-years-in-the-making series on blindness and its metaphors. Titles in the lineup include ekleipsis, a documentary on hysterical blindness and the Cambodian civil war, operculum, an essay on cosmetic eyelid surgery, and alexia, a meditation on word blindness, among others.

Tran, T. Kim-Trang was born in Viet Nam and emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing experimental videos since the early 1990s. Her work has been exhibited internationally. In 1999 Tran presented her Blindness Series in a solo screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Two of her videos were included in the Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Blindness Series was featured at the 46th Robert

Flaherty Film Seminar, both in 2000. Her video project, an eight-tape series investigating blindness and its metaphors was completed in 2006. Tran has been nominated for a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts and was named a 2001 Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow. The fellowship has enabled her to develop an experimental narrative feature titled Call Me Sugar, based on the life of her mother.

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