Global:Bronzevillian:Black Perspectives at the Chicago International Film Festival

2 More Global Films from the Black Perspectives category at the Chicago International Film Festival to be shown Monday Oct 17th, 2011..

The Double Steps

Spain

Director: Isaki Lacuesta

Prepare to be taken over by this delightfully enigmatic storyline that traverses centuries, continents and cultures. The “double steps” in question refer to advice left by French artist François Augiéras, who claimed the best way to escape one’s enemies is to walk backwards over your own footprints. Using one of Augiéras’ lost works as the catalyst for the story, filmmaker Isaki Lacuesta and painter Miquel Barceló weave together the structure and iconography of the road movie with African griot storytelling.

Spanish with subtitles, 86 min

Show times : Monday Oct 17, 8:30 pm Tuesday Oct 18, 6:30 pm

AMC River East 21, 322 East Illinois Street, Chicago IL 60611

David is Dying

UK

Director: Stephen Lloyd Jackson

The thin veneer of youth, money, good looks and love are shattered when David is diagnosed with HIV. With his pregnant fiancée kept in the dark, David confronts the realization that he may have infected them as well. Sessions with a therapist become a narrative device that filmmaker Stephen Lloyd Jackson uses to document David’s descent into hedonistic despair. 90 min

Mon Oct 17, 9:00 pm

Director Stephen Lloyd Jackson will be in attendance.