Screening and panel discussion featuring filmmaker Sophia Feuer and the short documentary, Space Lady, created with Sundance Collab   Friday, May 6, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. The Block Museum of Art Looking at Listening is a program of short documentary films organized around the themes of electronic music, archival retrieval, and audiovisual experimentation. These four films

With Kate Folb Thursday, April 28, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. In this presentation Kate Folb, Director of Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), will share how the organization works with the entertainment industry to ensure accuracy in depictions of health, safety and security. Clips of popular shows with which HH&S has consulted will be shown and

With private post-show Q&A with playwright Doug Wright Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 7:00pm The Goodman Theatre Anything can happen on live TV. And one night, it did. Emmy Award-winning actor and producer Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) stars as the irrepressible Oscar Levant. It’s 1958, and Jack Paar hosts the hottest late-night talk-show on television.

Co-sponsored by Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts and the MFA in Writing for Screen + Stage Thursday, March 31, 2023 | 7:00pm Block Museum of Art In Night’s End, an anxious shut-in unwittingly moves into a haunted apartment and hires a mysterious stranger to perform an exorcism

Panel Discussion with Nava Mau, Sowjanya Kudva, & Debra Tolchinsky Thursday, April 14, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. Panelists, Nava Mau and Sowjanya Kudva will discuss their experiences with film and television production through the lens of mental health. Moderated by Debra K. Tolchinsky, the panel will explore the stakes of mental health and well-being of production cultures

Discussion with Rebecca Seligman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health about self, agency, and desire. Thursday, Feb 24, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. Cross-cultural research reveals that dissociative experiences are ubiquitous around the world and may take both pathological and non-pathological forms. In the Euro-American context, dissociation is most commonly understood in pathological terms as a

Lecture by Dr. Crystal T. Clark, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine  Thursday, Feb 17, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. Dr. Clark will be using the films Touched with Fire and Modern Love, as well as the TV shows Euphoria and Homeland to explore depictions of women with

In partnership with EPICS and the MFA Writing for the Screen and Stage program… Film screening and in-person filmmaker Q&A: VIOLET written and directed by Justine Bateman Thursday, Feb 3, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. Filmmaker and author Justine Bateman will screen her directorial feature film debut, VIOLET, and discuss the film in-person during a post-screening

In partnership with the MFA Writing for the Screen and Stage program… Performance and Discussion: WHERE’S THE REST OF ME? by David E. Tolchinsky and ANN, FRAN, & MARY ANN by Erin Courtney  Thursday, Jan 27, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. The short play WHERE’S THE REST OF ME? by David E. Tolchinsky. A screenwriter wrestles with

Discussion with Psychoanalyst Dr. Suzanne Rosenfeld Thursday, Jan 20, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. Using the film As Good As It Gets (directed by James L. Brooks and co-written by Brooks and Mark Andrus) as a starting point, psychoanalyst Suzanne Rosenfeld will discuss the symptomology of OCD from a variety of perspectives. The goal is for